Daniel Spisak on Technology

So I have Omar to thank for the following bit of information below, check this out. A map showing what areas/cities have more single men or women in them. This is pretty crazy, apparently I need to go to Newark/New York to find a woman and import her:

After seeing that map it started the gears turning in my head, and being the naturally curious type I decided to do a little digging myself to come up with some numbers on this. Interestingly enough the California Department of Finance has a Demographics Research division that does a lot of work with Census data and other demographic sources. One of these sources was the “An Overview of Californians” PDF using the Year 2000 Census Bureau data. In that lovely document we find this table:

A more recent document called the “California Population Survey: Extended Report March 2005″ has updated figures shown below:

So overall, there are 1 million more single males in the state of California then single females. Not exactly stellar odds if you ask me. Just how bad are the odds for a single guy in say Los Angeles or Orange counties? Well, looking at the more detailed Year 2000 Census data we have the following data on household composition:

Los Angeles

Orange

But this doesn’t really give us the full picture unfortunately since a woman living alone, or not isn’t necessarily single per se. So while the number of women vs men living alone show that there are more single women households in Orange County and Los Angeles County than men, it doesn’t accurately reflect what percentage of those households are not in some form of current relationship.

And this whole entry is a stunning example of the kind of spare time I now have to blow on looking up census data to explain why its so damn hard for me to find a nice woman.

This is an honest question. Why in the sam hell blazes is it so goddamned hard to date? Especially so in the LA/OC areas it seems? For the last three months I had not really given it much thought or effort because I had to really buckle down on my classes at UC Irvine. Fair enough after all, right?

So I decided to renew my old Yahoo Personals account and see if things had changed on there for the better or not. Well, after messing around on there for a few days I had someone write me back wanting to know how to get in touch with me to talk more. Seemed like a simple enough request and the persons profile seemed absolutely normal to me. So I write them back with one of my email addresses and go back to other things at the time.

Mind you here its worth mentioning why I stopped using Yahoo Personals the last time I tried it out. In a nutshell, at the time I was looking to find someone it was before I was doing my full-time classes for my degree so I had a bit more time on my hands and I still had a fair amount of disposable income, etc. Just wasn’t making much progress finding someone interesting to connect with was all. Anyways, in the entire time I had used Yahoo Personals the first time, the only person who had ever responded back to me turned out to be a female escort who was using the service to look for new clients, not a relationship. Needless to say when I found this out I was both disappointed and upset at the same time since it seemed like a perversion of the intent for the service. Oh well, live and learn or something.

So here we are, a few years later. Has Yahoo Personals gotten any better? Well, their layout and interface is better and some of the features of the site have improved. You can now tell who is looking at your profile which is a nice feature I guess. Back to the person whom I sent my email address to, so she writes me back.

Except, the name she is using isnt the one on her Yahoo Personals profile? WTF? I keep reading the email and attached is a photo of the “person” in question. It is nothing like the photo on the profile (brunette vs blonde, etc). It’s like split personality or something. So I write “them” back with the question “What happened to the person in the profile?”.

Today I got the answer to that question. They sent another email back, it completely ignored the question and directed me to check out “their website” where there were “more photos of me available”.

A spammer.

A fucking spammer.

WHAT

THE

FUCK!?!

Seriously, I am going to become a goddamned motherfucking monk at this rate. I’m never going to find someone to date. EVAR.

Sheesh. I don’t even know why I fucking bother these days.