Sunday, October 27, 2002
Neuron Speed Studies |6:47 PM| Last night at an early halloween party (I attended as a drowned Icarus) I saw some very interesting bits of human behavior. Attending the party was an attractive woman, about the same age as the males in attendance. She seemed like a nice woman, and I was talking to her for a short while. I asked the party's host for some information about her, and I was told she attended some english classes, that she liked folks who were a little bit strange, that she had a one year old son, that she...
Me: Whoa, wait a second. A kid?
Hostess: Yeah! But he's really cute and...
Me: Hold on.

Turns out, I was the third person to go through this exact same rigamarole. "Who's the attractive chick? [moments later] A KID?!"

I'm fairly certain you could judge a person's base reaction time with how long after the words "1 year old son" it takes their body language to change drastically.

I'm trying to nail down the exact reasons that having a kid is such a firm downcheck. Some pretty cold shit was said that evening, that I want to have no association. I'm not making any judgements about the woman, I'm just curious.

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We need one created for the years, and then the months. The months are the /////tricky ones, since they need their ID to increase more than the years, but since the functions keep referencing ///// the same name system, we have to be careful not to make the years close up when we click on a month. ///Set some Variables $YearMenuID = 1; /////What ID the preceding year link controls. Needs to be same for all the months under a given year. $MonthMenuID= 1; ////What ID the preceding month link controls. Needs to be the same for all the weeks under a given ////Month but not the same as any year, etc. $LastYearUsed = 0; $LastMonthUsed = 0; echo '

'; /////That should be the "Year" div. All the years should be in this one DIV. ///Start the main loop. foreach ($myDateArray as $key => $value) { ////Pulling the year/date. $month = ExtractMonth($value); $year = ExtractYear($value); $YearMenuID = $year; $MonthMenuID = $month; $PrettyMonth = $MyDateArray[$month]; ////Is this a new year? If ($year != $LastYearUsed) ///Then we need to put the year down. No DIV created quite yet. { ///First off, we need to close the preceding year's DIV. Twice if it ain't 2001 if ($year != 2001) { echo '

'; } echo '

$myDateArray[$key]

_HTML2_; ///That creates a DIV for the year (month based links) then the month (week based links). ////Then the first weekly link. ///That should have made a link to the weekly archive file. ///As well as creating the first month link, which is in its own DIV, } Else { ///Okay, it's not a new year. So, we need to check if it's a new month. If($month != $LastMonthUsed) { //So it's a new month. That means we need to put down a link for the month to control the div //that contains the weekly links. //First, though, we need to close up the previous month echo '

$myDateArray[$key]

_HTML3_; } Else /////////So it's not a new month, then we just need to put down the weekly link. { echo '

' . $myDateArray[$key] . '

'; } } $LastMonthUsed = $month; $LastYearUsed = $year; } ECHO '