I made the first move in regaining an online social community today. I’ve missed them. I hope they take me back.
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what does it take to stop getting carried away?
Fair warning: there’s a lot of links in this post, and they’re not there to be pretty.
There’s been some discussion on ScienceBlogs of Jonah Lehrer’s recent piece for the NYTimes, a review of depression and rumination and some mildly interesting thoughts on why rumination may confer an evolutionary advantage, thus preserving depression through evolution. [...]
lots of froth, please, for the photo
Prosper is sick of travelling. However, he came home with a lovely consolation prize.
At the start of February, I escaped the second of back-to-back snowstorms with a meandering trip down to Atlanta to see Dad and Ron. The cat came along and stayed with Mik, which Prosper was less than enthused about.
This is [...]
when the kids called him weird he didn’t try to deny it
Found at Autism Street originally.
I love TEDtalks; they are often enlightening, often entertaining, often interesting. This talk is by Aimee Mullins, on the nature of disability, and is well worth your 22 minutes.
In more personal news, the cat and I are back from Hotlanta and pictures will arrive shortly.
between the dust and the debris
I’ll update later today (it’s after midnight, it’s today!) with hair and cat photos, if I don’t completely forget. As you do. It’s snowy snow snowing outside again. Another 4″ on top of the 8″ we had (that, to be fair, had melted down by half at least) over the weekend, with [...]
if you cry
First, SAD. My glasses were sold out when I went to order them. It’s been a long and crappy couple of weeks–the internet was cancelled, my debit card was cancelled (both without warning), so I have only just got it together to purchase them. NOT PLEASED. SHOUTING.
I’ve had a lot [...]
I’m telling you every day
Like most days at work, I’ve been hanging out on the autism hub reading; like very few days, I’m actually responding to something I read.
So, Sarah talked about self-diagnosis and the hate that seems to come with that word (or similar, like self-identifying or self-labelling). Some of what she said I found really meaningful, [...]
When we finally got to speak
I applied to join the hub, but no word yet. It’s been a month and a half and I’m sort of annoyed.
Regardless, I follow the blogs on the hub quite regularly; it’s a good way to pass the time at work, and not allow coworkers who pretty much fail at the comprehension of autism [...]
la da da
Notes to self:
1. Asynchronous development.
2. Top half of map.
contaminated me
Ugh. Hate firefox. Love and hate. Mostly hate right now.
I’ve spent the past five hours trying to bend this stupid program to my will, which ought not be terribly difficult, given that I am a willful creature. It started with huge lags and hangs on startup, then moved to memory leaks [...]