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Aubrey often describes me as someone who likes "seducing girls" (and apparently quite good at it). I tend to deny it, but I know that she is actually quite correct. What I could not explain, until now, was how could this be true, given that I do not have any intention in giving into extra marital affairs or other such ways of wasting my time ?

Today, while having lunch in a restaurant, I was looking at a group of women, and this is when it hit me. I understood why I like giving into the social activity that is usually interpreted as "seduction of the opposite sex". It is simply that I like hacking stuff :-)

Hacking in the original, geeky, sense of the word: analysing (probing) a system to build a correct mental model of it (its inner working) and then attempt to modify it or attempt to alter its normal behaviour (for instance, to use it in a slightly different way than its original purpose).

In this context, seduction is then very close to "real time mental model building/validation" as well as "reverse engineering" (two activities that I am very good at), so it's no wonder why I like "seducing women". It's probably one of the only activities where my brain is fully up and running and my analytic skills and intelligence actually used to their fullest.



Next time I manage to score with one of those beauties, in the following morning, when they feel asking me whether I love them or if it was just a one night stand, I will reply: "neither darling, to me you are just a big UML diagram".

... priceless! (^.^)

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