brainiac

Has he ever been involved with someone who is not brainiac?

He has no business being involved with a waitress-slash-actress who felt so insecure that she lied to him about finishing community college.

You are asking me to keep a secret? Well, i am sorry, but you have had to express that desire before reveal that secret. so that i could choose whether or not i wanted to accept the covenant of secret keeping.

You can't impose a secret on an ex post facto basis.

Secret keeping is a complicated endeavor (很有技術含量滴!). One has to be concerned not only about one says, but about facial expression. Autonomic reflexes.

When i tried to deceive, i myself have more nerve tics than a lyme disease research facility.

So you are saying friendship contains within it an inherent obligation to maintain confidences?

Rate of speed equals distance over time

... or we can just wing it...

They exploit my complete lack of interest in what you were doing.

Well, let's assume your hypothesis, we went to dinner, we talked, we laughed, we kissed, where could i possibly gone wrong?

Think back, the littlest things can set women off. Like "hay, the waitress is so hot, i bet we could get her come home with us", or "how much does your mom weigh, i want to know what i am getting into".

Yeah! They also don't care for it. if you stare at them and hyperventilate. Sadly that's my home run swing. (我的拿手絕活).

Look, everything went fine, I didn't even have to refer to my impromptu conversation starters.

Let's look at the tape. Look at her reaction to the good night kiss. No change in respiration, pupils un-dilated, no flushing of the chest....

Interesting, her jaws are clinched. No tongue access. Clearly a bad sign amongst mating humans.

We are gambling on our visions

Greek citizens carry the burden of a faltering economy.

American investors are keeping an eye on Greece and their effort to secure their bailout cash. Just a few hours ago, the country wrapped up talks with European Union and International Monetary Fund officials at an summit in Brussels. The focus: Greece's five-year austerity plan as the country works to avoid default.

On Wednesday, Parliament is set to vote on new measures, which include lowering minimum threshold for income tax to just over $11000 a year and a onetime tax between 1 to 5 percent depending on your income. Greece also agrees to impose a minimum tax on the self-employed.

But it's these austerity measures prompted this : protests on the street of Athens. They have been going on for several weeks outside parilament, and next week, the unions say they are going to hold a 48 hour strike.

This time a year ago, when Greece negotiated its first bailout package, we came to this furniture repair shop to find out how the austerity measures affect them. A year later, we're gonna find out what's happened in the meantime.

The boss has had to fire an employee since we last met. The other three work a reduced three-day week. Business is down 80% as demand has fallen away. The country is struggling under the weight of massive debt.

Then there are new taxes, which make everything more expensive.

It's the same story in many of the family-run business, so typical of the Greek private sector.