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May 31, 2006
Dating and Discretion
Do you have one of those friends that feel it’s their obligation to tell you every juicy detail of their private experiences? I do. I have a few who suffer from diarrhea of the mouth, but one guy in particular can’t figure out when he should stop. This guy has been a great friend of mine for many years. We met in high school and our friendship continues a decade later. When he was notching his post back in school, I knew about each and every one of them.
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May 30, 2006
I'm That Guy
What a mean couple of weeks it’s been around here. My laptop—which is my life—went awry, and left my plunking away on a friend’s machine. This is bad enough, but I use it for work. When it crashes, I have to transfer files and setup programs. There’s lost time there. Then add on a much slower machine. Then add emails that begin to pile up in your inbox that you have no time to respond to. Then look around and see the dating disaster that has befallen you—errrr, I mean me?
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May 26, 2006
Seniors and Surfing
There’s so much fuss these days about seniors dating sites. New ones are coming out all the time and writers love to pen about them. It’s no wonder, with the baby boomer generation hitting its peak. There’s a lot of money to be spent and it only makes sense to target the age group just like it was any other niche. The problem I have with sites like this, and any niche dating site, is that unless they have a huge backer, they’re not going to get the media exposure they deserve to get the eyeballs and memberships.
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May 25, 2006
Is Romance Dead?
I was out with friends the other night and we were discussing dating. One of the things we spoke about was how romance is dead. We spoke about things like the fact that very few men bring flowers on the first date. In days gone by, this was certainly more prevalent. There also seems to be a preoccupation with sex. I suppose that theme is timeless, but it’s perhaps more apparent now than ever before. Has it all just become a numbers game? Are we all just letting people roll through our turnstiles without really making the effort to see if a relationship has legs?
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May 23, 2006
Dating the Brain
On the most wonderful things about this world we live in is that there is just so much that’s beautiful! Specifically, when it comes to people, there is a whole kaleidoscope of character traits and physical attributes that make people sexy or attractive to us. Everyone weights the importance of these characteristics differently. Some people are after guys with sculpted abs or women with large breasts. Others find humor to be a big turn-on or social standing. The qualities people admire are practically endless and as people, we often play towards what we feel are our strongest attributes when looking for love online.
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May 17, 2006
Can't Take a Hint?
You know who I feel sorry for? I feel bad for those can’t read signs. I really do. I’m not talking about the blind or dyslexic. I’m talking about people on dating sites. I must admit that I’ve written a long profile, and it’s difficult to get through it all – although you should if you plan on chatting with me.
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May 16, 2006
Loving Troj/Erazer-A
Well, it looks like our love songs are in serious jeopardy. The danger lies in a virus that promises to cripple your computer and lay a beating on certain files. The malicious file is called Troj/Erazer-A. It is seen by some to provide more of a community service than anything else. Those people are largely those who understand the damage peer-to-peer networks have caused.
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May 15, 2006
Dating's Dark Clouds
I wonder what people think when they send you an email and you don’t get back to them right away. I’m in the process of dealing with that right now. I’ve been at a conference for a week and I know there’re emails waiting for me. I popped by to check them but, as per usual, there’s nothing there that requires any immediate attention.
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May 10, 2006
Instant Messaging and Online Dating
Email has had such a profound effect on snail mail, but the same can be said for instant messaging and the telephone. Friends that I once chatted with every couple of days on the phone are now mere contacts on my chat client. Sure, we now touch base more often, but for shorter durations, and the content that is digitally delivered contains less quantity, and more often is of questionable quality, than those discussion we had on the phone.
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May 8, 2006
Dating for Seniors
I was sitting in a restaurant last night, eating dinner with my parents. An uncle had suggested we go as it was one of his favorite spots to grab a quick bite. Now my parents, and uncle, are in their 60’s and this place was packed with people in their age group. Some were in groups of three or four, but the vast majority of them were couples. It was easy to imagine them having lived long lives together—now content to share a quiet meal out on a Sunday evening. Still, the one thing that this said to me that love crosses all age groups.
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May 3, 2006
Surefire Singles Cruises
Type “singles cruise” into Google and you’re bound to get a number of interesting results. I’ve flashed through a bunch with advertisements for packages covering tours of the Mexican Riviera, Baltic Capitals, Greek Isles and the exotic Eastern Caribbean. Now I’ve never been on a cruise for singles, and looking at the websites promoting them, I probably never will.
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May 1, 2006
Sambora (HEARTS) Richards
Love can be found just about anywhere these days and sometimes in the unlikely of ways. Take Charlie Sheen and Heather Locklear. They worked together on Spin City years ago and now they are both going through difficult times in their relationships. Locklear recently split from Bon Jovi’s Richie Sambora after 11 years of marriage. Sheen, too, is in the middle of a terribly messy divorce with actress Denise Richards.
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