Thanks! I just hate that I got up extra-early for work and thus missed out on the sweet, delicious sleep I could have been having instead of being all tense while I watched the backyard for guys with guns.

Because paying the extra dollar isn't his intention. Getting the largest drink is his intention, and the price of that is an extra dollar. The dollar is a side-effect.

I can definitely see it this way, but yeah, the dollar requires some volition. It is not your ultimate goal to pay a dollar, but it doesn't happen without you choosing to do it.

I thought this other example in the paper was helpful: You want to enter your home. You unlock the door to do that. Unlocking the door is a means to an end, but it is also an intentional act -- you had to consciously decide to do it in order to achieve your goal. Like spending a dollar to get your drink. Whereas getting the commemorative cup did not require any extra action on your part.

The Asberger-y way seems more purely logical to me, which I'm sure is their point. It sort of helps me to think of it from the clerk's point of view: Did you ask to get a special cup? No. Did you agree to pay a dollar more? I'd say you did.

This is what was happening in my neighborhood this morning.

That's some scary shit.

Are there any laws about body armor, local or national? And if not, what is the possible justification?

Are there any laws about body armor, local or national? And if not, what is the possible justification?

Going hunting with Dick Cheney?

Holy moly, Cor! Not a pleasant start to the day.

("Serpentine!," I told my 3-year-old on the way to the car, and he rightfully looked at me like I was nuts)

Ha!

I just gave my minion her 3-month review, and she came in all scared because apparently her horoscope said she would get fired this month! What the hell kind of horoscope is that??

I just gave my minion her 3-month review, and she came in all scared because apparently her horoscope said she would get fired this month! What the hell kind of horoscope is that??

You should fire her for believing that sort of nonsense.

My mother would do the same, Corwood, and I turned out...well, never mind.

You should fire her for believing that sort of nonsense.

Heh. I gave her a little bit of a talking-to, but told her things were fine in general.

Now I just want to go home -- I was out at a thing this morning, came in to two meetings, and that just seems like enough.

You should fire her for believing that sort of nonsense.

Or don't fire her, to teach her that horoscopes aren't necessarily true.

Ether way, you face a large responsibility in shaping the way she sees the world.