Why do girlie girls always get pegged as being idiots?
Today I got a most distressing Myspace message.
i saw you at qxt's the other night. i never saw you dance before; even back in the days when i used to see you at batcave. i still think you're batshit insane and have the mind of a child, but damn, you can sure shake that ass. ohhh yesssss.
Okay...first of allI haven't been to QXT's in close to a year or more. But the thing that really set me off was the "mind of a child" comment. My first thought was that he simply mistook someone else for me. It happens all the time. Unfortunately, it would seem that this person is not the sharpest tool in the shed, so to speak. But then, those who find it necessary to constantly emulate others rarely are. So I politely let him know that he was mistaken and that the person he met could not be me.
This is where it starts getting good.
Wait, hold on. What???
Did someone hack your account or something? You're SqueakMachine. Jill. The only girl who uses 'King Of Prussia' as her locality, even though no one really knows where the hell that is. The chick who raises rats and other small cute animals, shops at ikea and created her own rainbow brite looking bedroom, and helped pioneer the asiatic/industrial clothing style. You have a gear and mouse tattoo which you use as your logo. I seriously don't believe that there's another girl anywhere on the planet who does all this exact same stuff. And since when the hell did you start claiming you had an IQ that was greater than your own body weight, had any interest in ancient asian textiles of all things, and wrote entire novels? I call bullshit!
Ummmm.....yeah.
So he goes on to pretty much list everything that any average wanker could see on my LJ and Myspace profiles in a simple glance....and yet he claims to know me. ?? Hmmm.....
And by the way, I resent the fact that he still seems so skeptical that I could possibly have a high IQ!
I realize of course that I do tend to play the girlie/babydoll card quite a lot. But I'm a geek at heart and I'm never afraid to expose that aspect of myself. And although I may not outright talk about all the historical research I do on Indian textiles, or the fact that I spend about 70% of my time writing novels, novellas, or editing comic scripts, or that out of sheer boredom I will decide to learn a new language or that I spend my vacations up on top of mountains with an 8 inch refractor and a few members of the Chestmont Astronomical Society. I do actually do these things and they are a big part of who I am. And although they may not be blatantly displayed on my Myspace profile, it is who I really am.
Why does it seem so far fetched that I can be this sweet, bubblely fashion-obsessed, multi-colored hair girl as well as the highly intelligent, worldly geek??
Hmmm...well, maybe it is a bit far fetched for most. But in my case, it is 100% true.
But it doesn't end with doubt...he then goes on to accuse me of being a fake!!
Logically, one would assume that you're fronting about all this mistaken identity nonsense to try and divert the idea that you are in fact, fucking crazy. And that's fine, because who isn't. But you're a special kind of crazy if you go to the extent as to claim dopplegangers existing where their only purpose is to try and imitate and impersonate you.
Logically?? Hmmm? Again...is it really so hard to believe that I may in fact just be a very smart and *gasp* pretty girl?? All at the same time no less??
Could William of Ockham actually have been right when he said; ""All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." ????
Does it therefore make more sense that I have elaborately guised myself as Squeak and taken control of all of her internet identities, taken the time to cleverly Photoshop pictures, and even fooled people who are her closest friends?
Or!!!
That maybe...just maybe....Squeak is actually the brainy geeky girl she claims to be??
PS. You spelled doppelgangers wrong.
The madness continues.....
Regardless, the girl I saw had some blonde/blue/green dreads, some pink new rocks (where the hell she got those, I don't know, maybe they were spray painted), a demolition man style dust mask, and tape on her boobs. This occurred on Saturday, Feb 10th at qxt's
I currently have red dreads and I have for months. I'm sure that most of you can attest to that.
Pink New Rocks...yeah...I'm guilty there. I own a pair but I'm sure they aren't the only ones out there.
Dust mask....not unless I'm cleaning rat cages!
Tape on her boobs.......NO FRIGGIN WAY! I would NEVER ever go to a club with just tape across my tits. I love clothes way too much and I'm not trashy.
Oh...and Saturday, Feb 10th I was home....over 50 miles away from QXT's.....Barbie Loves MAC was opening the next day and I was researching the new product line.
The guy then goes on to criticize standardized tests.
I've always found the testing for it do be entirely one sided; that is, the point values and grading always revolves around how much useless nonsense you can retain and spit back, much like standardized IQ tests and other aptitude testing,
Which I can't entirely disagree with but won't completely agree with either. I think it is safe to say, if you are an idiot...you're an idiot...and no test in the world would show otherwise. But I also believe that there are a handful of very intelligent people that score badly because they simply don't test well. These people slip through the cracks and are labeled as "average" when in fact they may actually be quite "above average". But one could also argue that if one was at genius level they would quickly learn to adapt to the test and even if they found fault in the testing, they would still be able to discern what "they would want the answer to be". The 'they' being the testing committee and/or the idealized right and wrongs of testing.
But that is a subject one could debate for good long hours. The only thing that ultimately matters in the end is if you refute standardized tests...what will that change? The answer is nothing. You can argue the fact till you are blue in the face but the simple fact remains is that we DO, as a society, rely on these tests. And a truly smart person would come to that realization and not spend hours futilely debating it.
And I am done ranting for now because I have a script to finish today and a chapter to edit. Oh...and for those of you who have trouble wrapping your little minds around that...you can instead imagine that I am going off to play dress up with furry creatures and bake magical cookies.
So the moral of this story is.....
a) Don't judge a book by its cover
b) Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity
c) Never trust a Klingon
d) all of the above
You guys pick...I'm going to get back to work.
Today I got a most distressing Myspace message.
i saw you at qxt's the other night. i never saw you dance before; even back in the days when i used to see you at batcave. i still think you're batshit insane and have the mind of a child, but damn, you can sure shake that ass. ohhh yesssss.
Okay...first of allI haven't been to QXT's in close to a year or more. But the thing that really set me off was the "mind of a child" comment. My first thought was that he simply mistook someone else for me. It happens all the time. Unfortunately, it would seem that this person is not the sharpest tool in the shed, so to speak. But then, those who find it necessary to constantly emulate others rarely are. So I politely let him know that he was mistaken and that the person he met could not be me.
This is where it starts getting good.
Wait, hold on. What???
Did someone hack your account or something? You're SqueakMachine. Jill. The only girl who uses 'King Of Prussia' as her locality, even though no one really knows where the hell that is. The chick who raises rats and other small cute animals, shops at ikea and created her own rainbow brite looking bedroom, and helped pioneer the asiatic/industrial clothing style. You have a gear and mouse tattoo which you use as your logo. I seriously don't believe that there's another girl anywhere on the planet who does all this exact same stuff. And since when the hell did you start claiming you had an IQ that was greater than your own body weight, had any interest in ancient asian textiles of all things, and wrote entire novels? I call bullshit!
Ummmm.....yeah.
So he goes on to pretty much list everything that any average wanker could see on my LJ and Myspace profiles in a simple glance....and yet he claims to know me. ?? Hmmm.....
And by the way, I resent the fact that he still seems so skeptical that I could possibly have a high IQ!
I realize of course that I do tend to play the girlie/babydoll card quite a lot. But I'm a geek at heart and I'm never afraid to expose that aspect of myself. And although I may not outright talk about all the historical research I do on Indian textiles, or the fact that I spend about 70% of my time writing novels, novellas, or editing comic scripts, or that out of sheer boredom I will decide to learn a new language or that I spend my vacations up on top of mountains with an 8 inch refractor and a few members of the Chestmont Astronomical Society. I do actually do these things and they are a big part of who I am. And although they may not be blatantly displayed on my Myspace profile, it is who I really am.
Why does it seem so far fetched that I can be this sweet, bubblely fashion-obsessed, multi-colored hair girl as well as the highly intelligent, worldly geek??
Hmmm...well, maybe it is a bit far fetched for most. But in my case, it is 100% true.
But it doesn't end with doubt...he then goes on to accuse me of being a fake!!
Logically, one would assume that you're fronting about all this mistaken identity nonsense to try and divert the idea that you are in fact, fucking crazy. And that's fine, because who isn't. But you're a special kind of crazy if you go to the extent as to claim dopplegangers existing where their only purpose is to try and imitate and impersonate you.
Logically?? Hmmm? Again...is it really so hard to believe that I may in fact just be a very smart and *gasp* pretty girl?? All at the same time no less??
Could William of Ockham actually have been right when he said; ""All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." ????
Does it therefore make more sense that I have elaborately guised myself as Squeak and taken control of all of her internet identities, taken the time to cleverly Photoshop pictures, and even fooled people who are her closest friends?
Or!!!
That maybe...just maybe....Squeak is actually the brainy geeky girl she claims to be??
PS. You spelled doppelgangers wrong.
The madness continues.....
Regardless, the girl I saw had some blonde/blue/green dreads, some pink new rocks (where the hell she got those, I don't know, maybe they were spray painted), a demolition man style dust mask, and tape on her boobs. This occurred on Saturday, Feb 10th at qxt's
I currently have red dreads and I have for months. I'm sure that most of you can attest to that.
Pink New Rocks...yeah...I'm guilty there. I own a pair but I'm sure they aren't the only ones out there.
Dust mask....not unless I'm cleaning rat cages!
Tape on her boobs.......NO FRIGGIN WAY! I would NEVER ever go to a club with just tape across my tits. I love clothes way too much and I'm not trashy.
Oh...and Saturday, Feb 10th I was home....over 50 miles away from QXT's.....Barbie Loves MAC was opening the next day and I was researching the new product line.
The guy then goes on to criticize standardized tests.
I've always found the testing for it do be entirely one sided; that is, the point values and grading always revolves around how much useless nonsense you can retain and spit back, much like standardized IQ tests and other aptitude testing,
Which I can't entirely disagree with but won't completely agree with either. I think it is safe to say, if you are an idiot...you're an idiot...and no test in the world would show otherwise. But I also believe that there are a handful of very intelligent people that score badly because they simply don't test well. These people slip through the cracks and are labeled as "average" when in fact they may actually be quite "above average". But one could also argue that if one was at genius level they would quickly learn to adapt to the test and even if they found fault in the testing, they would still be able to discern what "they would want the answer to be". The 'they' being the testing committee and/or the idealized right and wrongs of testing.
But that is a subject one could debate for good long hours. The only thing that ultimately matters in the end is if you refute standardized tests...what will that change? The answer is nothing. You can argue the fact till you are blue in the face but the simple fact remains is that we DO, as a society, rely on these tests. And a truly smart person would come to that realization and not spend hours futilely debating it.
And I am done ranting for now because I have a script to finish today and a chapter to edit. Oh...and for those of you who have trouble wrapping your little minds around that...you can instead imagine that I am going off to play dress up with furry creatures and bake magical cookies.
So the moral of this story is.....
a) Don't judge a book by its cover
b) Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity
c) Never trust a Klingon
d) all of the above
You guys pick...I'm going to get back to work.
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Piss off the sexy chick? That's a good way to get some attention...
Sad, sad, sad.
You're one of my favorite geeky pretty girls, Honey Honey.... (and that's not just me trying to insinuate artificial intimacy...