August 3, 2010 | 
Author A study, published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology, found that 60 percent of people had lied at least once during the 10-minute conversation, saying an average of 2.92 inaccurate things. In less vague terms, people lie an average of 3 times every ten minutes.
I know this not because I am some kind of human lie detector, but because I dislike most people and nothing surprises me about how low the human condition can dip. Plus I naturally distrust EVERYONE. In my opinion, if you are talking to me, chances are you are lying to me.
Lots of people lie. Most people lie. Everyone lies. Being human means having to lie. Everyday. Every minute. To support not only the perceptions of others, but also our perceptions of ourselves.
Many animals engage in deception, or deliberately misleading another, but only humans are hard wired to deceive both themselves and others, researchers say. In essence, we are so engrossed in managing other people’s perceptions, that eventually it becomes nearly impossible to separate fact from fiction.
I like to tell people I am brutally honest, but that isn’t the same thing as saying I don’t lie. It is impossible to go through life without telling lies. I am including lies through omission as well (those are the lies that occur when we don’t tell the WHOLE truth). I actually tried living a life completely free of deception and discovered that people really didn’t want me around much and so, I learned to only speak the whole truth when asked for it. At all other times I am as honest as i can be and still have friends and family.
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I’ve worked with computers for a long time, long before there was a commercial application of the internet to be exact. I’ve seen my fair share of interesting things and have participated in some interesting online conversations. In all that time I’ve maybe had a handful of of people threaten to kick my ass. When I was living in San Francisco, I actually had someone stalk me to my home and threaten to kick my ass… and up until I walked down stairs (after they rung my bell to tell me to come out so they could kick my ass), I truly believed I had experienced everything the internet had to offer. I can honestly say I’m still not overly worried when someone makes threats, veiled or overt, to kick my ass. So far its Internets 0, me 2 and perhaps that number will change someday. I’m not really afraid to meet people I become acquainted with on the internet. Heck, I dated a girl for a few years after I originally met her online.
Course, I’m not your average nerd. I’m not afraid of most things, and certainly am not afraid of those few internet trolls who think that I’m gonna change my mind if faced with someone in real life. How I behave online is pretty much how I act in real life… this isn’t a persona I adopted in order to live vicariously. What you see is what you get and what you read here is really how I am. And what I say here and elsewhere isn’t just shit I say to be controversial. If I write it, I mean it.
So for any of you big strong internet tough guys who want to kick my ass, feel free to find me in real life. It isn’t as if I try very hard to hide my identity and once you have that, you can find where I live.
Going forward, when someone tells me that I’m mean, I’ll simply direct them to this. Comparatively speaking, I’m not THAT mean.
I don’t get excited easily when it comes to my home town sports teams. I mean, sure, the chargers are a perennial playoff team, the padres have made consistent pushes deep into october a handful of times in the last 25 years, but I don’t really get too worked up because I know that San Diego teams tend to fold like card tables in a wind storm eventually.
Last year the Chargers pooped on live TV against the Jets. At home. After a bye. During the playoffs.
Last year the padres lost over 100 games.
This year the padres are in first place, 19 games over .500 for the first time since 1998, but it is only July. I’ll check the standings again in September.
The Chargers this year? They’re starting out in a hole. Arguably two of the most important offensive players are sitting out at least 10 games each in a contract dispute. Their number 1 draft pick is still unsigned 3 days before the start of camp, and their star linebacker is considering an extended vacation well into training camp.
Yeah… I don’t get too excited about sports, especially when being a San Diego sports fans means learning to look forward to next year.
I’ve been knee deep in two projects for the last week or so. If you noticed my failure to launch these last few days, that’s pretty much why. I don’t mind being busy, but sometimes, when I get really overwhelmed by work, I tend to listen to…
