Missed Connections are full of that longing and despair we love, but every once in a while, well, they really make us think. Witness this latest one:

It's official, women in Los Angeles dig bad weather.

In the style of the infamous New York Sex Diaries, Naked City is bringing you the day planners of denizens of this here city of angels and demons, chock full of their dreams, neuroses and desires. The Graphic Designer Who Fucks In Public Around Brentwood: female, 28, straight and obsessed with her new hobby of outdoors fucking.

8:34a.m. I wake up to the sounds of the landscapers next door. No need for alarm clocks ever again.

9:00a.m. Breakfast. I cook myself up an omelet, with orange juice and toast. I get a text from the lover asking about my morning. Sweet.

10:15a.m. Grab coffee at Starbucks. Watch the rich locals coming in with their children. Laugh at the 50-something, over-plasticized woman wearing sweatsuit set with rhinestone embellished hat. Too much makeup and terrible facelift. She's trying to be hip. Poor thing.

Guilty.

So you're on a dating site and you're meeting people and things are, well, you know, fairly good. Between weirdos and air heads, you're meeting cool people, going on dates, and so on. And then, a notification from the site unlike the others shows up: "We have the data on your attractiveness," the subject says.

Being a vain person, you click to read the e-mail.

Every few months,an article will come out proclaiming the death of the blog. The death of the blog is almost as popular a topic for tech writers with nothing better to write about as speculating on the health of Steve Jobs.

And then, bam. A blog will hit your radar and convince you that there is still hope. We'd been living on crumbs for a while -- those porn Tumblrs we've come to love.

But today, we have something a little different: My Online Dating Inbox. The secrets of an e-mail inbox of a typical dating site user.

She's 30 and she still hasn't done it. So she did what most of us would when we have something we want to get rid of -- she put an ad on Craigslist. Judge all you want, but we've heard worse ways to go about ditching the V.

You know Chris Gore, that guy on G4's Attack of the Show with the George Clooney hair. He's at Dragon Con, the pop-meets-geek conference. Between curiosities and zombie apocalypse scenarios, his Twitter stream is an all you can eat buffet of geekettes.

Photo by Chris Gore.

"Sure, I've shared plenty of costume wins, but for each amazing outfit, there's some of this."

Yum, yum, business trips make for the best kind of Casual Encounters posts and this one is no different. Burger King may have gone for $4 billion, but this breed of drive-thru has a definite competitive advantage:

Earlier while taking the pulse of the stream, we encountered a compelling statement -- that people think about getting head more than they do sex. We didn't believe it, so we took it upon ourselves to do some field studies.