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The Moment of Vulnerability

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 6 Oct 2025 05:28:00 -0700

When does a woman become vulnerable? A woman's main quality lies in her ability to easily empathize with the people around her. This simply means that women are generally more sensitive than men, as they are more easily affected by the energies they absorb from their surroundings. However, women have the gift of being extremely attentive and perceptive when it comes to what’s happening around them. While men usually focus on one thing at a time to be more efficient, women have the ability to observe much more at once and quickly form a big-picture perspective. In other words, women are often more curious than men — but this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re more efficient. Very often, women tend to miss the tree for the forest. And this is where their vulnerability comes in. This vulnerability stems from the fact that a woman usually finds it hard to focus on just one detail — and often, one small detail makes all the difference. Even so, we must admit this is precisely why there's chemistry between men and women — not just on a physiological level. What do you think?

Chemistry vs Love? No, They’re Not The Same

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:38:00 -0700

Chemistry = When Sparks Fly! If you hear yourself saying to your friends: ‘We have great chemistry, do not pass go. Instead stop, look and listen. In the last few weeks I have had several conversations with some of my clients (who are single women over 40) about the importance of chemistry with men you meet. If I were to ask you on a scale of 1 to 10, (10 being high) how you would rank chemistry as being important when meeting and dating a guy, what would you say? If you’re like most women you would probably rank it pretty high on the scale. So, what I’m about to tell you may be shocking to some and not acceptable to others. But please keep reading to see if you may want to change your perspective on chemistry.

Chemistry vs Love?

Here is the reality, chemistry is over rated big time. In fact chemistry gets in the way of meeting Mr. Right and can put you on the track to meeting the ‘wrong men’. So Suzy, are you trying to tell me that if a guy is not attractive to me I should not let that stand in the way of dating him? Is that the question that just popped in your mind? My answer is Yes and No. If you are repulsed by a man because he’s obese or has rotten teeth or poor grooming habits and smells or whatever, that’s obviously a No answer, that will not work. However, if you meet a man who is physically acceptable (meaning not repulsive) who treats you with respect, and appears to have values that you respect…and from first blush seems like a nice guy but you don’t feel much chemistry… than the answer is Yes.

Don’t let the lack of chemistry stop you from getting to know this man. Here’s the thing that you must understand. Chemistry is not about love. Chemistry loses its ‘punch’ (so to speak) at some point in any relationship and now you’re left with the reality of who this man is without the chemistry. Most often he’s not the man that is best suited to you; In fact usually he’s the wrong man for you. When you get to know a man first as a friend and you begin to value him as a trustworthy guy who has your back and is a support system to you, it’s at that point you have the beginnings of a ‘real love’ relationship. True authentic love is based on something way better than what you know as chemistry. In the case of true love the attraction factor is a soul to soul connection. This trumps chemistry hands down. It means you both enter into the relationship without needing something from each other to complete you in some way.

You leave your old baggage at the door and show up as a woman who most importantly has self love… which allows you to fully engage in a healthy, loving relationship. That is when you realize you are with your soul mate. True love is about being perfectly okay with your partner’s individuality even when you disagree about something. In a mature relationship you learn to negotiate with each other when you need to come to a mutual decision. You accept him for exactly who he is and he accepts you in the same way. When you are with the man best suited to you, there is total trust that this man has your best interest at heart. It’s a deep love that has the capacity to go through the hard times and in fact it’s those difficult times that actually deepen the relationship. And when you’re with your true love, the good times are magical! You feel more alive and vibrant than you have ever even imagined for yourself. YES, men like this do exist…you just need to learn how and where to find them. To discover the secret to meeting relationship minded men check out Women Dating After 40.

Here’s where the rubber hits the road

If you base a relationship on how much chemistry exists between you and him, than you will be blinded as to the real factors that you must have for a successful relationship. The glue that holds a soulmate based relationship together is the body, mind and soul connection that you have with your partner. That’s the chemistry (so to speak) of authentic love, versus love based on the infatuation that is the result of a chemistry based relationship. So now you know, not only is chemistry over rated, but it is not a good predictor of he’s ‘The One.’ As a woman dating over 40 who is serious about finding your soul mate, remember real love is not an emotion like chemistry, it’s much deeper than that.

Wooly Bear Festival End

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 06:01:00 -0700

She didn't say a word, just walked away, and yep you guessed it about an hour later her and her friend had it on a leash walking down the side walk. Idiots! That puppy couldn't have been more then 6 weeks old. Well at least I didn't have anyone looking for a dog to breed with. I did have a few people tell me that the sum between $100 and $200 was way too much money for a dog. My response to both of those people was "Do you know how much it is to get a dog fixed?" they both said yes. I said do you really think $100 is too much for a dog? They both started at me blankly. Oh and this was so funny. We have this super nice dog in the rescue right now named Bo. He is big but so nice. I was taking him out of the crate and he was just walking out like a normal dog. This young girl scream, threw her hands out to the side of her to block her friends and said that is a wild one! I looked straight at her and I said "he is? why do you say that?" "He is going to get us!" She said loudly. I said "No he isn't." Her mom pulled her arms down and I walked away so not exactly sure what all transpired after that. So weird. For the parade all the dogs were dressed in costumes. It seemed everyone like that idea and it got a lot of people in the crowds attention. We will definitely do that again next year.

More on The Wooly Bear Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:01:00 -0700

I even had one kid come into the tent and start grab stuff off the table. Are you kidding me! I grabbed his little arm and walked him out of the tent. Of course the entire time him mom was screaming "Travis come here. Don't go in there. What are you doing Come here" Clearly the kid doesn't listen and or isn't made to listen. Sure scared him when I grabbed his arm and marched him out of the tent. Then I had a girl, probably 12 years old walk over to me and say "Where are the Boy Scouts" I said "I have no idea" her response "Oh come on dude. Your kidding me." stomp her foot and get all mad. I gave her the nastiest look and said "why should I know where they are?" She turned around mumbling something all mad. I looked at my friend in the tent with me and I said did that really just happen? Then this teenage girl came up to the tent. She had this little tiny puppy. I told her to be careful b/c a puppy that little can get sick and die. I told her until after it has all his vaccinations it won't be immune to picking up illness from other dogs. She looked at me like fu. I told her that our dogs are shelter dogs and just because a dog is healthy doesn't mean it isn't carrying something that will make a puppy sick.

Wooly Bear Festival

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 05:55:00 -0700

Sunday 9'th october was the Wooly Bear Festival. It was a huge success. We had a lot of amazing volunteers helping and walking in the parade. Man am I lucky to have such awesome people who have adopted from me and who volunteer. And some are both. A lot of friends and people I know from different times in my life stopped by to say hi! It was nice to see people coming by, really feels like I am supported in my efforts. We all know this year has been one crappy year for me when it comes to people treating me like shit. Oh the stuff I don't even blog about would blow your mind. I try to keep the blogging dog related only. But I must say for every person who has treated me like crap there are 2 more awesome adopters or volunteers or friends who sure help me get through the crap! I will say though, the general public is weird. I had a few strange experiences while at the festival. Well first of all I had a tent set up with tables in the front and dog pens on either side. Clearly the tent was for those manning the tent to be able to stand under and sell items that were on the table. Had the sides blocked pretty well with the dog pens but you better believe every little kid and annoying adult would find one little opening and walk right through the middle of our tent.

Mystic Mom

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Tue, 6 Sep 2016 05:51:00 -0700

Laughter of Resistance

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Tue, 1 Dec 2015 01:34:00 -0800

Think about this, the people the United States government fears the most are not terrorists, they fear the peace activists. The strange truth here is the United States government supports terrorism, as fear supports this administration. My position is very clear on this matter, first the administration is a Terrorist based organization that uses fear, torture and terror as means to maintain their vision of America. Secondly, I don't believe in resistance nor do I promote fighting. I advocate instead that each person needs to be themselves one hundred percent. If the action of being yourself goes against society, then so be it. You are not society, society is dictated by your actions. Be free, by not living in fear of being yourself. So lets get back to that original email. To protect the identity of my new friend I will call her Joe. Tricky, tricky, is Joe a he or she? You will never know now, I feel like I am in a spy novel now. I responded to Joe in a one page email which I will summarize here, It's not that western life is bad. It's just that corporations and a greedy wealthy few have subverted freedom to mean totalitarian economic policy. Eventually this will change. All dictators fall, All. If you want to resist these problems. Then learn how to laugh about how silly western society is. Laughter is the most powerful from of resistance. Laughter is the key as strange as this may sound.

Garfield Whump

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 3 Aug 2015 01:30:00 -0700

Out of Food

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 01:29:00 -0700

We're Doomed

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:29:00 -0700

Google Solution

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Fri, 3 Jul 2015 01:26:00 -0700

Perhaps there is a Google god after all. I never use forums. I always get tangled up in them, but given I was desperate, and a reader sent me the link to Google's help forum, I tried. Talk about quick. Instantly I received a quick reply. Isabelle from Weight Shapes has posted an answer to the question "Blogger sometimes freezes and will not allow readers to comment". We've raised this with Google Engineering. Until it is fixed I would suggest settings your comments to either Full-Screen or Pop-Up rather than Embed. The problem does not happen with Google Chrome, so you should switch to using Google Chrome in the meantime. Hopefully Google will announce when the issues are fixed. I'm impressed. I immediately went to settings and changed the comments to pop-up and was able to read your comments. Now about Google Chrome, what is that? Something new for me to learn I suppose. I'm probably the only one in the world not using it. I try to stay on top of all this digital stuff but sometimes you just wear out and need a break. This is what happens when you take a break.

Geech

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 00:48:00 -0700

IlluxCon Memories

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 05:42:00 -0700

The educational opportunities abound. The funny thing is that often learn the most when I'm on the panel myself! This year, I spent most of the Live Art Critic in stunned silence as I watched the experts offer up brilliant critiques, technique advice, and some quick paint-overs to make a point. I wish we could have continued for hours. Next time I'll bring a laser pointer so I can talk about composition more, without the "software mastery" envy I had watching folks like Dan Dos Santos, Robh Ruppel, and Patrick Jones as they flew through photoshop. It was also a blast listening to Mark Nelson describe his concepting experiences and walk through his process in the "creature design by committee". I do a lot of concepting, but I learned a ton by being part of his class. There were a tone of other workshops that I would have loved to attend, but I was so busy I had to skip some of the ones I was aching to attend. I need more hours in the day!

Matthew Starbuck

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Tue, 8 Jul 2014 03:27:00 -0700

The rendering on this is really strong. It took me a minute to realize that the left front leg was down and the left rear leg was back... the perspective puts that grounded front leg right in line with the right back leg / wing, so it felt very much like the two were intended to be bilaterally symmetrical rear legs. The head reads well, though I’m back and forth on the neck. The surface texture reads beautifully (as it does throughout the piece), but the structure reads like a puffy coat or wingback chair with deep upholstery. It almost feels inflated. If you can reign that puffiness in I think it’ll read better.

Rent-a-car Benefits

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:16:00 -0700

Renting a car may represent a very high benefit to the individuals who are bound to travel a lot from one country to another and to also relocate a lot inside such countries. You can reach your destination by train or by plane as to not exhaust yourself driving and to not lose much time, and then, renting a car is the perfect answer to a comfortable and well-timed relocation, anywhere you need it. Renting a car is convenient not just in the case of business travels but also in other cases such as: in vacation, when you can reach your destination by plane, which is very cost-effective in terms of time, and there, you can rent a car to take a ride and acquaint yourself with the surroundings; if you have many rides to take in your own town or outside it and your personal car is in service or you have sold it and it takes a while to buy another.

For this precise reason, the rent-a-car companies have developed, they adjust to any kind of request and they are available to anyone, with any model of car and for any period, independently if it is about a few days or a few weeks. The purpose of a rent-a-car companie is to increase the comfort and to fast satisfy the needs of all prospects, from the most pretentious to the simplest. In any of these cases, a rent-a-car company may be helpful, by providing you a solution at hand, convenient and advantageous. To the very varied offer of models of cars of the rent-a-car centers, a generous offer regarding the car facilities is also added, in such way that you are able to choose from the simplest car to a car with additional facilities so that you feel comfortable and be able to meet your duties, whatever these are.

In Russia

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:30:00 -0800

To Remember is an Act of Choice

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:12:00 -0800

To remember is an act of choice... and not merely an experience. Xan at Corrente chooses to remember the “independence day of our second american revolution”, and the debt all of us owe to those of us who paid the highest price possible for liberty, as well as the debt all of us owe to those of us that carry the conscience and memory of this nation. Today I want to remember my ancestor who fought many battles for the union army, and was imprisoned at andersonville and lived to tell the tale. Besides the fact that the only reason I am here today (along with many others of his descendants) is because the all-father did not call him to Valhalla from the battlefield, I feel that in many ways I owe him my understanding of freedom, and what it means to sacrifice everything for the sake of future generations. What sort of country would this be if the union had fragmented and slavery still practiced in the south? Some say that it would have ended on its own eventually - but how many would have had to suffer and die in chains?

Some say that the opportunistic north wanted to keep slavery for themselves and not for the south - that it was a war of economic competition. I don’t think that the historical record bears this out particularly, but I fear that for some it is an argument that is attractive in that it bestows upon them the righteousness of victimhood that is undeserved. Some that were there state that abolition was merely the strongest political argument for war, but from Lincoln’s point of view it was to preserve the union, and defend the constitution that the north waged war upon the south. I find this argument to be somewhat more supported by the historical record, but as I’m only an amateur at history I’d have to get back to you on that. I feel that what my ancestor would want me to think about and remember on this day is that the union as it stands, and the constitution which we are sworn to defend, is something that many men died to preserve, and so we oughtn’t to let it be bandied about lightly by vain and servile men without honor, who deem it “just a goddamned piece of paper“.

Over The Hedge

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:15:00 -0700

When Sword Swallowing Does Not Impress

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:50:00 -0700

To fill a box somewhere in the universe / multi-verse. Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. Involuntary, consistent, and memorable. Branded a Graphemeie because she mentioned the letter A, from the English alphabet, is likely to be red. She had been unaware this experience was unusual until she realized other people did not have them. Singled out, she felt, for the wrong reason, she scoffed it as associative learning from playing with colored refrigerator magnets. The human condition is such this. Saying what we are trying to mean and answering what we don't want anyone to hear. And all the while hoping we won’t carry any regrets and others will read between the lines. It does become so much easier to run when we believe something is chasing us. Woven memories over time, graceful acceptance of reality. From: The paper doll stories: life profiles & confessions. Note: Cabinet of Couriosities show will be coming down in two weeks. If you are in Denver Co. come by the show, check out the Museum of Outdoor Arts and introduce yourself to Lonnie Hanzon. There is a 'punch' on the main blog.

Cry and Let Slip the Dogs of War - Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:42:00 -0700

The owner, puzzled at first, then visibly frightened, has no answer. He does not know whether the hard drive inside the laptop is yours or not. You are puzzled. Why switch out the hard drives when he could just as easy make a disc image of your hard drive and transfer the data that way? But of course, what is easy and sensible is not always most profitable for him. He begs you to give him some time to work out what has happened to your data, but, he says, he is confident that whatever the status of your hard drive, he should be able to restore everything to the way it was. Skeptical, you leave the store. Your wife has already decided that you are screwed, but you are attempting to remain dispassionate. Apparently, the laptop has experienced some travel over the weekend. its one shortcoming in matching up to your old system is an inferior model optical drive. It was sent to the facility on the other side of town to have one installed.

Strangely, some unnamed employee (who, we are assured, has been summarily fired) has taken it upon himself to format the hard drive, assuming perhaps that this is a recycle job, although there are no such instructions on the work order. Your precious memories... your irreplaceable documents, business contacts, music collected over four years... all of it gone. And why? Because you were stupid enough to take a computer repair service at its word that it would respect your data, what would seem to be the absolute bottom line expectation of any repair service from here to karachi, that in simply repairing your monitor they not reformat your hard drive. Or that they would keep a backup in case of this sort of rare error. By the end of the work day, meaning today, if i do not have satisfaction, I will publish the name of this store here and everywhere else possible. I will additionally take legal action. I will additionally construct a voodoo doll and commence needle insertion.

Cry and Let Slip the Dogs of War

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 08:38:00 -0700

I’ma bout to get medieval on somebody’s ass. So imagine that your 4 year old laptop, it is a good laptop, it is an expensive laptop, it is a laptop with a shitload of storage capacity; it is a laptop which contains your baby’s birth pictures, her first halloween costume, countless email addresses, in short, the veritable substance of your life, has a non-working monitor. For some time now you have had it hooked up to the once-standard desktop monitor of the 4,000 pound behemoth variety, loaned for free by a work associate. However, time has come to set accounts to right by your faithful laptop, and so you bring it to an allegedly reputable repair facility. You explain to them in great detail what they are to do and not to do with your monitor. You offer to pay extra for a full-system backup before they endeavor to do any repair work (you thinking, naturally, that since their aim is not to in any way touch your hard drive, any actual touching of the hard drive will perforce be accidental and therefore destructive), but they assure you that this is standard practice on every laptop they take in, free of charge.

You take a deep breath, and you hand over the equipment. Over the course of the next several weeks, reports come in intermittently: 1. It’s the inverter. needs to be ordered, week to ten days. Cost: about $150 plus or minus, parts and labor. You say, make it so. 2. It’s not the inverter. Maybe it’s the LCD backlight. Needs to be ordered. another week to ten days. Cost: unknown, unlikely to be greater than original estimate. You say, after a pause, make it so. 3. It’s not the LCD backlight. It’s a little widget on the motherboard that regulates power from the battery pack to the monitor, which cannot be modularly replaced, the entire motherboard would have to be replaced. You sigh. Estimate the cost, you say, and we will then consider the best course.

4. Replacing the motherboard would cost more than for us to sell you a new laptop we just happen to have on hand of exactly the same model, with a couple of mods required to bring it up to spec. Cost of the new laptop will be $400. You put your head in your hands. You contemplate taking back the laptop and running for your life. You need a new system functioning as much like the old one as possible. You say, “okay”. 5. You go away for a weekend trip. No messages when you return. You call the shop. They scramble around, and then say “your laptop is ready, come pick it up any time.” You are relieved. You arrive at the shop. The owner proudly places your new laptop, remarkably familiar except for the noted absence of a few toddler’s stickers here and there, and asks you to boot it up and see that all is in order. You do so. The computer seems to function as it should. Except that your data is gone. “Why is my data gone?”. To be continued tomorrow...

Interesting Solar Projects

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 8 Jul 2013 07:50:00 -0700

We invite you to browse through 21 interesting mini solar projects, solar system kits and circuits that use the sun power to energize devices. Solar power is basically the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics or indirectly using concentrated solar power. CPS systems (concentrating solar power) system use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. More than that, solar power systems represent after all, clean electricity from the sun. Solar energy is the greenest and cleanest source of renewable energy. This generated electricity is available to help power houses, businesses or community building. The most important element is that this type of energy is nowadays the cheapest. Electroschematics.com represents your source of information and we invite you to also discover interesting solar projects with all the needed specifications and guidelines. Our project will definitely fulfill your requirement in terms of technical details, information, ideas and most of all innovation.

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Vintage Romance

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 07:57:00 -0700

What does Romance mean to you? It could mean a world of things to me, long lost love to long lost books, I find it romantic to find things of the past and think of who these things belonged to, these latest finds are no exception. I love these photo I found, the book is about a couple who were living very far apart, but kept their love ever growing! This is probably my favorite find, Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermeres. I wanted to try a little something new which is why I started to read this book. Thank you for your well-wishes, I am feeling a lot better, just tired, but that is why my current best friend is coffee now. Wishing you all a lovely day ahead!

Back on Track

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Thu, 6 Jun 2013 01:59:00 -0700

Hello everyone! How are you all? Can you believe we're already in October? Ok, enough rambling, I'm back! Well kinda. Pretty much more half back. My computer is still on repair and I still don't know what's up with it (the guy at Apple told me it could be a major system failure, a hard drive problem or a motherboard problem which I already suspected). I don't know when I'll get my computer back but awaiting it, my sister could fix the internet connexion on my second laptop so I can be there. And I'm here! My old laptop is painfully slow making it a real challenge to edit even disney princess coloring pictures for my little niece and even be on the internet (it drives me crazy) but it's better than nothing. I missed blogging. Thank you to all those who sticked by me... One week off blogging was weird. You know, when I don't post I usually always work for my blog (making photo, editing them, writing). I work all the time. But that time I couldn't really continue as all my photos / text are on my ill computer and I wasn't just in the mood to start everything from scratch.

The laptop I'm currently using is the one I had before the ill one, it's 8 years old, tough although it has suffered a hard drive crash in 2010 (I changed the hard drive and did data retrieval myself, a real challenge) and it's kind of outdated. It has reconverted now as my "travel computer" (because it's small sized and really convenient) as well as "emergency computer" (always there when the other has a problem). It's practically empty since the new hard drive and doesn't feel like home like the other. I feel a bit estranged on here. Weird how our computer is like a familiar room. It's my will to keep it clean and empty but as I knew I would have to use it for a little while, I did some necessary change, calibrating the screen, asking my sister to fix the connexion, etc. So it's better now. As blogging was minor, I took the opportunity to make something I hadn't done in ages: music! All my samples (all the ambient sounds I collected) are on my other laptop, but I could start a couple of tracks anyway. I can't be without having a creative outlet it seems! Anyway, all this to tell that I'm back, not quite like I used to be yet but things should go back to normal anytime soon and awaiting this, I can at least show you some beautiful polishes I've shooted again. Ok, I should stop talking and finish the edition of my pics. But it's so good to be back that I had to say hello!

Do I Need to Work in Another Art Style?

noreply@blogger.com (Stefan Valin) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:22:00 -0800

I recently received an email from Laura, a member of our community, concerning a recent portfolio review... "I recently had my portfolio reviewed by an art director. She liked my work but mentioned it was all in the same style, and recommended I diversify a little. After slinking away, I've been trying to break out in media and subject matter, but it's difficult to not use the style I've been developing exclusively for six or seven years. Do you have any tips on rounding out a portfolio without losing my artistic voice?" Laura, let me start out my response by saying that I'm a little dumb-founded by this art directors response. I just can't imagine looking at Brom's book and telling him "all your work is in the same style. You should consider diversifying." That would be just ridiculous. So I figure there has to be more to this conversation... I took a moment to wander over to your site, and took a look at your work to try and get a better understanding of what the AD might have been talking about. Your work is very centered around childrens illustration, primarily the girls flavor at that. I'll be straight. I don't know a lot about that market, but let's see if we can make a few assumptions.

I'm going to make the assumption that the ad you were talking to doesn't use your style in their current line of work. That is the only reason I can understand why someone would say that. Actually, that isn't true, the other reason would be when an artist is mimicking another artists style and that's a whole different issue. I will often review portfolios from folks that work in styles that are not very D&D-like in their presentation style. There certainly isn't a crime in that. The first thing I'll do in a review is ask someone who they want to work for, and why they are visiting me. That way I can ascertain if they are seeing me just because I'm available, or if they are really trying to work for me. 99% of the time I'm seeing their book because "I'm available". That's okay too. I will take a few minutes and try to speak to their work if I have any experience with the industry they are trying to work in, try to point them towards someone that might be more relevant, or suggest ways to hook up with a publisher that would be a better fit.