Letters to the Editor
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Derbig
Yeah, I've known for a long time I'm probably somewhere on the Aspie spectrum..
But thanks for your input..
Most folks just think of me as "weird", nice but weird.
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You people need to grow up
Heinlien was a Young Adult author for most of his career. He's often quoted as if he were Jefferson over at Freep, and they don't even get Heinlien, much less Jefferson. But then, they're fucking idiots. You may as well read Rand. The Objectionables do. Great books for teenagers.
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@Derbig Mooser
I didn't read your post until I posted my last comment. Mine pale in comparison to what you just identified. That's why I love the people who read and comment on UT.
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mental states
...mental states and physical states are related...
Yes, they are. And, because they are, I'm heading out on my bike before we get that predicted 6 inches of snow.... with a handful of tootsie rolls in my pocket. Thanks for the reminder GC!
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What about the Constitution, The Bill of Rights, a Police State?
They won't help. A.S.-b-p S. (b-p) must be faced by the individual and his family. I very much doubt the Founding Fathers were even aware of the condition.
Usually, the degree to which an individual is aware of his own condition can be used to gauge the seriousness of an attack.
Achy, if that is true you are a dead duck, a gone goose whose goose is cooked.
Please don't try to ease your suffering with opiates or other drugs! That only leaves less for me, and goddamit, one of us has to survive!
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@ RMP
Mine pale in comparison...
Shit, man, mine just frickin' shrivel and then disappear to somewhere north of my duodenum! Count your blessings, my friend, count your blessings. And besides you're retired, which makes it easier. They won't have Retired Military Patriot to kick around anymore!
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Serious, too serious by half....
Ah, L.W.M., don't be such a stick in the mud. Heinlein was one of those things, like baseball or peanut butter, which kept kids company under the baleful gaze of their parents. I read Podkayne of Mars and 1984 in the same year, and I grew up just fine. Please stop pretending that Eero Saarinen designed all you mental furniture. When we buy a bottle of your snake oil, it will be out of love, not conviction.
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Derbig Mooser
Glad you stopped bye....
Maybe someday the GOPS mentality will me gone...
Yesterday at home there was a discussion about demented "leaders" trying to save-face....
If they don't look inward and deeply, the derangement will be so severe they will grin at each other, sons and daughters, and not recognize their spouse? They will crack-up real soon? OK.
We watch. SAD GOPS.
It is happening now.
Right before our eyes.
Thank Glenn and others.
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RMP
My mental differences made me a pretty good living for a while.
I've specialized in fixing-the-unfixable, expensive equipment that was "orphaned" in that the manufacturers are no longer in business and replacement parts are made from unobtainium.
The fact that I can do what few others can lets me know that the way I see the world may be different from the majority but not necessarily wrong.. Since just about all of the majority-view-folks can't do what I do.
I've usually done better when the economy was not so good and people were keeping old equipment rather than buying new. When the economy is boiling along business usually slowed down for me because people threw out their old equipment and bought new.
To do what I do requires a knowledge of *why* things work the way they do.. Most kids start off in life asking "why" but the great majority stop at some point before adulthood. I never stopped..
I'm still asking that question, why does any given thing act as it does? What I do is very akin to being a detective and indeed Holmes and Poirot were two of my early heroes.
My problem these days is that a lot of the equipment made is made (possibly deliberately?) so that is really impossible or impractical to repair no matter how good you are at it.
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Heinlien was a Young Adult author for most of his career.
An ad hominem argument if I ever heard one..
You seem to specialize in those..
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Regimens
Being moosed has its virtues, truly. Thanks, Derbig. An entirely new angle (angel?) on wit and wisdom is always welcome. H/T
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The World Isn't Fair
WT:
Karl Marx was smart, and his sympathies were impeccable, but he preferred the British Library to the shop floor. As it turned out, that mattered greatly, more even than his brilliance, and are most of the reason why his theories were put to uses which would have appalled him.
"If Marx were living today, he'd be rolling around in his grave"
I love Randy Newman:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3GxNZ4FY_sY
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Respectfully to Aycharrych.
Nature's spider makes a beautiful and intricate web. Have you ever rode a bike into one?
Walked into a web like that?
You feel silly trying to mend?
You can't fix a natural web.
I say ya's got so much info.
LWM will be glad ya's here.
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@ Good Celery
My dearest Celery, (What an unusual name! I remember Capt. Corcoran, (of the Pinafore) who went to his cabin "with Celerity" but I can't recall who played Celerity) now that you have typed my name in a title-bar at Greenwald's, all other ambition can and will be abandoned. After this, any accomplishment will be as ashes in my mouth, sort of like picking bits of charred chicken-skin off the grate the morning after a barbeque I wasn't invited to. Yeah, that really happened. Ya wanna make something out of it?
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@ Aycharaych
My problem these days is that a lot of the equipment made is made (possibly deliberately?) so that is really impossible or impractical to repair no matter how good you are at it.
I got two words for you, pal: Haynes Manuals. They "cannot be beat" I would never be without one.
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@ Derbig Mooser
Thanks. You’re right, it is easier to think and comment when you get out of the rat race. Your wrong about your comments and condition, they don’t shrivel or disappear and your condition has to have been more than slightly alleviated judging from the quality of your comments. Congrats on all the hard work you have done and continue to do to live successfully with your condition. I hope HRH takes your advice and gets help from others who understand what you and he are faced with. Anything is possible when a person takes responsibility for their life and doesn’t fall prey to blaming other people or things.
And HRH, don't take that last comment as aimed at you.