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“pickup artists” AKA PUA
Pickup artists (PUA), self-identified as dating coach, seduction community, or pickup community, is a movement of men whose goal is seduction and sexual success with women. The community exists through Internet newsletters and blogs, marketing (e.g. banner ads, seminars, one-on-one coaching), forums and groups, as well as over a hundred local clubs, known as “lairs”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artistI was on my way in public transport a couple of weeks ago, with a (male) friend (that I am not attracted to erotically) (“Jens”) on my way back from our duty Wednesday evening talking round. After Jens saw me interacting verbally with another passenger, that we both had not known before, he brought up the term PUA (actually he identified me as PUA with rather some admiration). I had never come across that term in my life, and I almost forgot it. Only today I looked the thing up, and here we are.
Should I make “people” (likely to be in danger) aware of the fact? I actually don’t think I am on a very high level of proficiency yet. But then that may result from a bad self-assessment.
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my occasional motor problems, my MacBook, my accidental macOS upgrade, time machine
Last night my occasional motor problems regarding my fingers made me supposedly type some keyboard shortcut, that caused to colour scheme flip to something I wasn’t able to reverse without restarting the MacBook. I sort of hated that. But I did so. During the shutdown process macOS asked me, whether I would agree to include the OS update, and I did so. But it did not say, what that would be. But when it finally turned out take a little longer, I knew exactly, I was in the Catalina upgrade trap again. My Fink software has hindered me for a while to “welcome” that upgrade, even to fall back to Mojave once. And as it turned out, I was upgrading to Catalina (now unwillingly) once again. Luckily enough after the last time I had properly set up Time Machine on this MacBook, and after connecting the MacBook to the network via Ethernet instead of WiFi it was an easy piece of cake. Going through the experience took my a couple of hours, but apparently I am fine right now. I am quite grateful.
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I am not a sloth – I am hyperactive – I can hardly sit still for 5 minutes – and yes, I do sort of like myself
but yes, sometimes my wrist watch tells me, I should finally move again – apparently I did not move for an hour or so. but that does not happen too often.
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how to create a series letter in 2019
you want to create letters from a “contacts database” sitting in a Google spreadsheet (or similar), right?! (because that looks sexy, right?!)
that’s called “series letter”. for decades people have been doing that using software.
what I want to tell you is this: do not get anybody to write software for you to do that. that already exists – do not create software, that already exists, don’t be stubborn and create something that suits your needs just a little / “far” better than the implementations, that already exist. that is called “not invented here”:don’t do it like that!!! this is “the right way”:
- create a “list” for the group / set of people, that you want to address,
- put them all on “BCC” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_carbon_copy) (that’s really important – most of the time they must not see each other),
- address yourself as “To”,
- and write an e-mail as you would “in the first place”!
how to create that list?
Google Mail:- create “yet another” “label” in your Google Contacts,
- use that label for each of them,
- go to that label,
- select “all of them”,
- select “send e-mail”,
- move “them all” to BCC,
- …
too simple? too inexpensive? alright, buy me a pizza or two! you need to spend more money?
too difficult? let’s go through all the steps together next time we meet!
uuuuuuh, you don’t want to “give Google” all those valuable addresses? alright, what about Posteo?
do you know anybody with a Posteo address? go and ask them! create you address book there!
don’t keep your address book as spreadsheet, that’s old-school, that causes lots of work, that causes pain, that is just not the way to do it, “That’s (not) the way to do it!“