Similarities

[cjsmith]

Here are the users LJ believes are most similar to me in terms of interests.

1 joedecker 15.911
2 aviator 14.377
3 amberskye 11.367
4 quistis 11.111
5 jeremycking 10.142
6 khisanth 9.217
7 bansidhe 9.206
8 devon 9.173
9 jdumars 9.043
10 sebab 8.956

I don't know any of them except Joe. In fact, I don't know anybody in my first hundred except Joe. And that super-high match score there -- 15.911 -- is only after he edited his interests list; he'd forgotten something important, I think. :-) Previously, no match scores were 15 or above.

My next closest bunch of friends appear at 118-122, all tied at 5.809: rampling, gs, mactavish, sinboy, cassidyrose.

Other people are seeing match scores up around 45. Maybe no one out there is even remotely like me. Hmm.

Or maybe I just have a very very short interests list :-)

Comments

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

You have a short interests list. Look at what happens when you run a a search for people near gs. His interest list is tiny, and has no "very common" interests...

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it's just the interest list that's tiny. . . . :)

(Dang, was that my outside voice?)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'd let me measure...

Oops, that was my outside voice too!

[gs.livejournal.com]

Sure. You could measure me in 'hands', like they do horses :-)

The number of hands probably depends on their size. I could say "your mileage may vary", but that would clearly be exaggerating :-)

When I need an ego boost, I measure myself in angstroms. (That's plural, by the way. Please don't let me be misunderstood.)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Let's take six inches as average. Perhaps I will get to measure you later. :-) Six inches would be:

.0000947 miles
.0007576 furlongs
1,524,000,000 angstroms
.000000000001019 a.u.
152.4 millimeters
.00003157 leagues

I am clearly underutilized at my job if I have time to do this.

And, of course, six inches would be one hand full-time and another hand part time. That sounds just about perfect.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hey, he at least gets TWO people scoring greater than 15. Awright. Time to update my interests list... What am I missing? (wandering off to go crib from Joe)

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I think it's all from two very uncommon interets. I'm worth just under 6 points, and I'm guessing that HAI is worth a few more than that.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Hey Joe, for potential higher matches:

dabney hovse = dabney house?
jean-michael jarre = jean-michel jarre?

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

The first one is intentional (the carving on the building uses the Roman orthography where U's are drawn as V's, this turned into a meme where folks will even pronounce "hoves" to sort of rhyme with "mauves". Google shows 30+ hits on "Dabney Hovse", including for the home page of the house. Fixed the second, stupid typo on my part..

Thanks!

[yoak.livejournal.com]

Was it you who was in dabney or Joe? What vintage? I know a ton of people who were there... early to mid-nineties. I've been to dab parties. Oosh.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Joe. Only thing I know about Caltech is that until they meet me, Caltechers only know other Caltechers.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

*spit take* :)

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

'twas me. While I was there from 80-84, I know several people from later years as well, perhaps as late as the early 90s. CJ, being smarter, went to MIT. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*schnork* Nah, I was just from the wrong coast.

[yoak.livejournal.com]

Paul Mineiro, Mike Radford, Dave Benson, Jason Blackader (I think...) Mmm... that's all I know from Dab. Other techers of the same vintage include Alan Low, Alan Chocheran, Myron Ahn, Kate Porter (my fiancee :-)... almost forgot her) Umm... lots of others I guess, but if you know any in that crowd, you'd likely know some of these.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Mike Radford sounds familiar, in point of fact..

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

OK, I cribbed from a few random people. I added biplanes, bisexuality, embedded software, fart jokes, hot tubs, indian food, non-minogamy, Pitts, polyamory, taildraggers, sex positive, wine, zen. Now I recognize four of the people in my top ten: #1 joedecker (29.403), #3 rampling (16.736), #8 sinboy (13.312), and #9 mactavish (12.130).

Embedded software is unique, but fart jokes is not. Hmm. Following some links, I see that ViagAra (note the misspelling) is also not unique. Ah, LJ.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Worse, I had to add "indian food" to my list after I saw it on yours...

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

The presence of "vindaloo" on your list was what gave me the idea.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I'm thrilled that there's a fart joke category so that you don't have to be alone there... :)

[yoak.livejournal.com]

Prithee, what is "non-minogamy?" The more common word begining with the prefix "mono-" for one or singular isn't terribly noteworthy, but the prefix, "min-" implies that you are terribly concerned with size. Tell us more. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

A typo. I did get it right in the actual interests list.

Or I'm just covering up the fact I'm a size queen ;-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Half the people on the polyamory and bisexual communities are "non-monagomous."

[gs.livejournal.com]

In my case, it's not because we don't have common interests, but rather because I haven't felt like informing LiveJournal of them. The one common interest we have that LiveJournal is aware of is joedecker (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=joedecker) :-)

Looking at your interest list, I could probably add another 10 common interests. I suspect that would have an effect.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Which ten? Inquiring minds want to know!

[gs.livejournal.com]

You'll have to make me tell you ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Tempting.

[gs.livejournal.com]

Okay, I added a few (though not as many as I could) and I've made your top 3. Woohoo! You're my #1. (Just thought you'd like to know)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You're my #1.

Oh, how roMANtic! *flutters eyelashes*

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Hey, don't feel *too* unique, girl, my best match only came back with a 9.1! Of course, I don't really *have* any interest ... ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... well, I matched your (original...) list on about three of ten, but on none of the quirky ones... what's valrhona? An Australian chocolate bar?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

A super-multi-licious deep dark chocolate. Mmmmmm. Now I have to meet you so that I can corrupt you to the valrhona side. :-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Deep dark chocolate? (pounds head on table) Ahhh... now I'll be thinking of that for the rest of the afternoon... mmm. Yes, we must meet... besides, then I can try to beg you to fly me in your plane!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ahhh... now I'll be thinking of that for the rest of the afternoon...

My work here is done. :-)

(I don't have a plane any more but I'm itching to get checked out in some rentals so I can get back in the air!)

[elflet.livejournal.com]

Lovely...now I have to add that to my interest list! (To go with the many pounds of valrhona waiting to be made into truffles at home.)

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

(To go with the many pounds of valrhona waiting to be made into truffles at home.)

Ooooh! My ex-partner (and still good friend, and now co-worker) does an annual orgy of truffle making for 4-5 days near Thanksgiving. I wonder if I still have the picture of her balancing her own weight in chocolate...

More importantly, I assume you've found that it's possible to by 3kg "reams" of the different varieties, yes? It's a lot more efficient than trying to buy lots of little bars...

[elflet.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! I routinely order from Gourmail (http://www.gourmail.com/), which has advertised in Chocolatier magazine from the very beginning.

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

Oh good. I've seen people "do it the hard way", and it's just painful. And there's something magical about holding a 3kg lump of chocolate..... *drool*

[joedecker.livejournal.com]

A French manufacturer of fine dark chocolate. (http://www.valrhona.com/)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(slaps forehead) I bought a bar of that once at Trader Joes, at the Pruneyard!

[ambar.livejournal.com]

Nah, my highest match-ups are in the 17.mumble range. And I have a lot of weird interests. (Just not shared by anyone else on LJ. :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ooo, next free moment I should go crib interests from you. :-)

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I just tweaked my list - and the highest I get is about 15, and yet when I read the bios of the top 1-2 people, I don't see that much in common.

Weird.