Autism vs. Poetry (2011/05/31)
I am not great with poetry. Some of this, I think, is from people misexplaining it. See, when you use the phrase “the meaning of the poem”, you communicate, to me anyway, that the poem has exactly one meaning. Which you propose to identify and explain.
[read more...]Setting idea, free to good home (2011/05/31)
So, sometimes in fantasy settings, we find the occasional charlatan. Crazy thought; what if everyone were faking it? Okay, now, make it a high fantasy setting. Mighty wizards, priests who impose the will of gods, vampires, werewolves, stuff like that.
[read more...]Am I people? I tend to think so... (2011/05/30)
So, someone wrote recently to thank me for the blog postings, reminding me that I was doing them. My correspondant commented about people seeing the diagnosis, but not seeing that there’s a person in there.
[read more...]Eating candy. FOR SCIENCE (2011/05/29)
Unsorted M&Ms taste the same.
[read more...]Who does Lady Gaga sound like? (2011/05/28)
Everybody.
[read more...]Hoover support: It sucks. Not in a good way. (2011/05/24)
I got a new vacuum cleaner, a Hoover “multi-cyclonic”, model number SH40060.
[read more...]I sorta wonder whether I could hold down a job... (2011/05/22)
Yeah, I know. I have one. It works out, they seem happy, I’m happy.
[read more...]An open letter to my psychologist of Way Back When (2011/05/21)
Hello, David. Long time no see. I got to thinking about our conversations some years ago, and something’s bugging me.
[read more...]But what if wire mother let you stay up an hour later? (2011/05/18)
There was some fairly famous (and extremely disturbing) research on non-human primate babies raised by various substitutes for a mother, such as a wire frame shapped roughly like a monkey, one covered with cheap fake fur, and so on.
[read more...]You can play WoW in any MMO. (2011/05/07)
There’s an old saying among programmers: You can write FORTRAN in any language. What this means is that, while many languages allow you to write much clearer and more expressive code than is typically produced in FORTRAN, none of them force code to be better. Even the ones that claim they do. It just can’t happen. You can’t make a bad writer good.
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