That reminds me: friend was telling us last night that one of the requirements to graduate HS where she grew up was a tractor driving test!
Xander: Look who's got a bad case of Dark Prince envy. Dracula: Leave us. Xander: No, we're not going to "Leabbb you." And where'd you get that accent, Sesame Street? "One, Two, Three - three victims! Maw ha ha!"
'Lessons'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Apr 18, 2011 4:27:26 am PDT #3803 of 30001
sumi - Apr 18, 2011 5:01:56 am PDT #3804 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Is it wrong that I read this headline:
Natasha McShane Struggles with Recovery a Year After Bat Attack and thought it meant that a bat(i.e., the flying mammal) had attached her rather than that she was attacked by a person wielding a baseball bat.
I skimmed the article and briefly wondered why people thought that bats were going after Irish Americans and then realized my error.
Gudanov - Apr 18, 2011 5:07:20 am PDT #3805 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
perhaps this was that shout for help that they say can happen.
It probably is. It isn't like him to make a false claim like that, but he may have been legitimately confused over what he actually did. The meds also had Oxycodone so he wasn't super coherent when we took him to the hospital.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 18, 2011 5:11:28 am PDT #3806 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
My thoughts are with your family, Gud.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 18, 2011 5:12:57 am PDT #3807 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
And in a separate comment- I AM SO BORED!!! It is my first day back in the office after a week of theatre, and I want to pluck my eyelashes out one by one.
sara- I also thought it was an animal who attacked the woman, until you mentioned it.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2011 5:19:25 am PDT #3808 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gud, my thoughts are with your family.
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2011 5:21:28 am PDT #3809 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gud, You and yours are in my thoughts.
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2011 5:23:42 am PDT #3810 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A Compelling Theory About Introversion, Extroversion, and Autism
In her master's thesis (read it here) Grimes posits that introversion is not the opposite of extroversion, but that they are two different traits altogether. And she proposes something that has come up here from time to time: That introversion actually is on the autism scale.
Grimes' thesis explains that if you take each of the factors this new model proposes and follow it along a continuum to their most extreme expressions, they correlate with the widely used Baron-Cohen Autism Spectrum Quotient.
Depending on how much we have of each factor (and how they interact with other personality traits), we can be simply introverted or, moving along the continuum, have Asperger's syndrome or, moving further yet, have autism.
Huh.
Jesse - Apr 18, 2011 5:29:09 am PDT #3811 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm pretty sure most kinds of human behavior are on a spectrum that ends with some kind of disorder. I mean, right? There's being sad today and there's clinical depression. There's being effective and there's being manic.
Jessica - Apr 18, 2011 5:35:42 am PDT #3812 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That's interesting because I heard a theory just the other day (on SGU, so I'm sure you did too) that would remove Aspergets from the autism spectrum and stick it on the extreme end of "normal" introversion. (Leaving the autism spectrum intact, but acknowledging that it's a separate developmental disorder of which introversion is only the most visible symptom.)