More thoughts about books: How expectation affects reading (2011/06/22)
I have recently been re-reading the Ethshar books, by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I was first introduced to these many many years ago, when someone lent me a copy of The Misenchanted Sword, telling me it was a “very funny” book. I read it, enjoyed it, and kept an eye out for more books by the same author.
[read more...]I am... not surprised. (2011/06/22)
So, a bit of background. A while back, I found a series of books… somewhere. I don’t even remember. It’s a trilogy of books, the first being Starrigger, by John DeChancie. (The other two are Paradox Alley and Red Limit Freeway.)
[read more...]What to do with your friend, the electrical engineer (2011/06/17)
A friend of mine is an electrical engineer. An electrical engineer who is… sometimes bored.
[read more...]Well, it's true. (2011/06/16)
“That depends on who is wearing the moose costume and who is determining hilarity levels.”
[read more...]Push the kitten (2011/06/15)
For some reason, cats seem to insinuate themselves into the brains of cat people. If I am hearing music, and there is a kitty, I tend to get loose bits of lyrics which have somehow become cat-themed.
[read more...]Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. (2011/06/09)
This socket is rated for at most a 60W lightbulb. But wait! What about compact fluorescent lightbulbs, where 60W would be some kind of major flood light, and 26W or so gets you more light than a 100W incandescent?
[read more...]Ask a smart guy without empathy! (2011/06/04)
Okay, here’s a little experiment. One of the problems I have is that my default answers to questions are often Unacceptable in ways that I have a hard time understanding. Why? Because I’m not empathic. When people ask me how to fix problems, I tend to give answers that are… well, too correct but not friendly enough.
[read more...]So you think I'm wrong...? (2011/06/04)
Okay, this keeps coming up. People think other people are wrong. Then… they do things that cannot possibly help.
[read more...]Player vs. Player... FOR SCIENCE! (2011/06/03)
So. I hate PvP. I hate it because for some reason, for me, being attacked by other players is intrinsically antifun. This is not restricted to video games; I can’t spar, and I can’t play a lot of competitive board games. (I can play games of competing to reach a goal, but not games of preventing other people from reaching a goal. Except Robo Rally which I play as a single-player game of moving across the board so fast that I’m not in contact with other players anyway.)
[read more...]Good days, bad days (2011/06/01)
So, I have my good days and my bad days. This is true of both autism issues and ADHD issues… and they are not on the same cycles. This means that the variance between my good days and my bad days is huge. No, huger than that. I run the range from “I can’t feed myself” to “I just put in six hours and did something that was expected to take three to four weeks”.
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