18 Aug 09

Despite the old saying “opposites attract,” scholars have found that in almost every way imaginable, people tend to choose mates who look, sound and act as they do.

NYT Zero Introspective Accuracy (via Darklamb:asie)

and to quote john cleese’s character on an episode of cheers i saw back in 1987 (regarding the theory that opposites attract):

“ahhhh … the song of the truly desperate.”

[after doing a little research on this episode it turns out that cleese won an emmy for this cameo, you can see a clip containing the aforementioned scene here (about 6:10 in).]

time dilation