After much work after installing Octave, I realized that it wasn’t working for me. Installing the for-Windows package is lame if you already have Cygwin, because it comes with another Cygwin environment, and apparently that can conflict with the first Cygwin environment. Making Octave coexist with my Cygwin environment instead, is not so easy. Specifically, some weird inconsistencies arose between my system at home and at work. Bha !
So I decided to go for Scilab. Scilab is pretty much like Octave and Matlab. The Windows version is actually a whole Windows application.. and that’s about the main feature I was after 8). That done, I proceeded to do some tests to get used to the language and the plotting. That took quite a bit of time, but I’m pretty happy now.

Playing so much time with this stuff has had it’s inevitable effect. I came back late from clubbing and this morning I somewhat dreamt that I was using Scilab to simulate some of my life events.. ouuuu !!

As for the night out… I went out with a couple of friends. I’ve become more and more influenced by a friend that is trying to push me the idea of collecting girls’ phone numbers. So, I socialized, and when the time came.. when the friend of the girl came to take her away, I hesitated and didn’t ask for her number ! That, apparently, was a big mistake. I wasn’t too interested in getting her number, but my friend tells me that I should have done it automatically. The basic idea is that certain reactions have to become instinctive !
The other friend, later on, showed how it’s done: he danced for a while with a girl that came with some less enthusiast friends. At one point they all gathered as to move away. My friend went, and pulled her back to the dancing floor. And that’s basically how it works. One has to act with instinct and determination in order to achieve success 8) This seems to be especially true with Japanese girls, because of their softer characters.
The cheap psychology behind is:
- The girl may or may not like you, it mostly depends on what you do. She doesn’t know you and you have to pursue her to some length. Basically one has to be somewhat pushy.
- When her female friends are around, they’ll try to take her away at some point. The girl will comply because she’s loyal to her friends (unless she really hates you 8). At that point one also has to show some assertiveness and take the burden to pull the girl away from the situation.. and basically excuse her from her friends.

…would be nice to put down a mathematical formula for all this !

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