Posts by 81stcolumn
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I should add that my life's confusion begins with:
Colleague: How Are you ?
81st: [Tries to describe how he is at the same time knowing his colleague doesn't want to know and almost immediately fighting back the question why ask ? Finishing with the introspective rebuke why try to answer......?]
Getting to the end of the corridor at work is still a challenge.
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It’d be an interesting thought experiment – what would happen if we were to conduct all our social interactions with total honesty? Would it be better or worse? My feeling is that it would all turn to custard pretty quickly.
Does my bum look big in this ?
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Äsperger's Sufferers - Mmmm yeah I suppose the world does have to put up with me....
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Jackie Clark,
See your look and raise you a stare. Can make this work on students.
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Problem - I am compelled to avoid the term Aspie because in the new DSM-V (due in 2013) the category will no longer exist. I also question whether Aspies and HFA's share all the same diagnostic criteria. As usual these issues are the matter of some debate.
People's front of Judea vs. Judean Peoples front blah blah blah.....
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Awww c'mon Craig I wasn't being quite that bad.
Changes to a planned cut in business tax on April 1 had not been considered.
Despte the fact that it will cause problems here in the cardboard-cup towers I agree on interest free student loans. They had to change - just a question of when.
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I'm also expecting National to use this as an excuse to accelerate welfare reform/cuts as "We need to save money to pay for Christchurch"..... i am wondering if the EQC insurance scheme will also become a target?
Not exactly welfare but....that'l be working for families and student loans. Bill wouldn't dream of rolling back tax cuts.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10709454
FWIW. Bin the holiday highway for a start....
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Ooooh ‘speriments: Try these on –
There is a shortage of milk.
i) Two piles of milk of the same size; the first pile is in a courtyard surrounded by other people, the second pile is in a room where no one can see you leave or how much you leave with.
ii) Variation - you know that the pile of milk is shared with people you know or with strangers.
iii) Another variation - The milk is presented in a context where a group is under a genuine threat of something that may be alleviated if everyone gets some milk.
Which conditions actually change how much people take and by what amount ?
My point really is the context and how that feeds into dynamic systems models that allow us to differentiate normal (but variable) functioning from sudden rapid changes caused by changes in critical variables. What are those critical variables and by how much do they have to change ? Not all of them are obvious or indeed explicit to humans.
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Maybe John Bolton is a lefty plant.
I much prefer the description noxious weed.
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To the rhyme of pheasnt plucker:
I’m not a f**king cyclist
I’m a cyclist with a son
And I’ll keep of f**king cycling until the drivers understand.