I can't take talking to physicists about their dating life anymore

[Nathan]

I gots to get me a physicist.

Well good luck with that. It's not everyone who is socially weird. Maybe about 60% or so are in some way clearly abnormal.

And yeah, I was as surprised as you are to find out all physicists aren't in fact asexual. I suspect a lot of them are though.

Heather - Say the word and I'll fix it up. Where do you live? People move all over the world all the time in academia I might know a grad student or postdoc near you. I know some normal ones. I actually know one guy who is 33 and just got his PhD. He just got hired at Princeton and is an awesome guy. Funny, not weird, in good shape (he's into rock climbing and kayaking), and not by any means bad looking. Just not having good luck dating these days. I can't remember where Princeton is though.

 

[swole]

omg samoth in 171...170...

 

[the_clockwork]

169...168...167....

 

[Nathan]

Where the fuck is he?

 

[the_clockwork]

it hasn't reached 0 yet

166....165.....164.....

 

[samoth]

Lotta truth in this thread.

Except I know lots of normal, social, and even hot math majors. I don't think they're the type to move on to grad school, though.

 

[Nathan]

Lotta truth in this thread.

Except I know lots of normal, social, and even hot math majors. I don't think they're the type to move on to grad school, though.

Yeah, I'm seriously starting to have my doubts about this whole grad school thing.

 

[heatherrae]

Well good luck with that. It's not everyone who is socially weird. Maybe about 60% or so are in some way clearly abnormal.

And yeah, I was as surprised as you are to find out all physicists aren't in fact asexual. I suspect a lot of them are though.

Heather - Say the word and I'll fix it up. Where do you live? People move all over the world all the time in academia I might know a grad student or postdoc near you. I know some normal ones. I actually know one guy who is 33 and just got his PhD. He just got hired at Princeton and is an awesome guy. Funny, not weird, in good shape (he's into rock climbing and kayaking), and not by any means bad looking. Just not having good luck dating these days. I can't remember where Princeton is though.

Oh, he sounds nice. I can tolerate social retardation...lol. Alas, I'm too far away, though. Always the bridesmaid and never the bride.

 

[Nathan]

Actually, he's not socially retarded - he's normal just happens to be good at programming. If you are open to socially retarded dudes, the pool just got a whole lot bigger. The aforementioned bachelor is about the only single, normal, non-ugly human being in physics or astronomy that I know. There might be one other I'd have to really think about it.

 

[redguru]

Actual formula for the beer goggles effect.

An = number of units of alcohol consumed
S = smokiness of the room (graded from 0-10, where 0 clear air; 10 extremely smoky)
L = luminance of ‘person of interest’ (candelas per square metre; typically 1 pitch black; 150 as seen in normal room lighting)
Vo = Snellen visual acuity (6/6 normal; 6/12 just meets driving standard)
d = distance from ‘person of interest’ (metres; 0.5 to 3 metres)

They all add up to make the aesthetically-challenged more attractive, according to the formula.