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Eye Contact

There is a joke about engineers, that you can spot the social ones because they will stare at your feet instead of their own. I thought it was funny because it was true, but then I found out that it was true.

Mainly thanks to Evan I discovered eye contact in an Orlando Steak & Shake late one night. I've since been surprised to find that almost everyone will meet my gaze at least briefly, and a few are willing to make prolonged contact. What a strange new method to connect with other humans--I used to think of myself as so liguisticly abstracted.