| Author |
Message |
Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Retirement -- What to do? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 03 Dec 2022, 3:09 am
|
|
Replies: 18
Views: 1,850
|
| Retirement -- What to do? Farm-work. Hiking. Exploring the jungle out back. Playing music with my neighbors. Writing my memoirs. Et Cetera. I will probably spend the summer mornings gardening. We have it a little easier than most, though -- hook a plow to the tractor and plow the garden with i... |
|
 |
Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Retirement -- What to do? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 03 Dec 2022, 2:43 am
|
|
Replies: 18
Views: 1,850
|
| I retired early and have lots of hobbies. The problem is that they can be expensive and that I get bored with them after a few months or years having spent a small fortune on them. I think this may be a typical problem as Aspies tend to have special interests that last for X amount of time, then we... |
|
|
Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: Retirement -- What to do? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 26 Nov 2022, 7:10 am
|
|
Replies: 18
Views: 1,850
|
| While I would love to keep working until the day before I turn 100, that isn't feasible. Everything tells me that I'll have to retire by the time I'm 70 because of the government's socialistic support for my competitors giving them an enormous competitive advantage over my company. They never could ... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 26 Nov 2022, 7:00 am
|
|
Replies: 3,863
Views: 140,820
|
| One of my occasionally recurring dreams involves civilizations millions of years in the future. Usually, mankind has died out and then individual humans were brought from the past to populate a new civilization in the future. I had such a dream the other day that was to some degree reminiscent of th... |
|
|
Forum: Computers, Math, Science, and Technology Topic: The Electric Car. |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 26 Nov 2022, 6:33 am
|
|
Replies: 13
Views: 1,657
|
| Warmer air is more able to carry more water vapor. A warmer climate will result, overall, in more rain, not less. In specific cases, shifts in weather patterns might reduce rain in some areas, but in other areas, it can increase rain. During the Holocene Climatic Optimum with temperatures somewhat h... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: What made you first wonder if you could be Autistic? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 26 Nov 2022, 6:13 am
|
|
Replies: 51
Views: 3,053
|
| I never thought it was all until I learned about Prosopagnosia and how it is often found among the Autistic. Then one day, the son of someone I knew came by the office and while talking, he asked me if I'm Autistic. I normally wouldn't have even considered the question, but his job was working with ... |
|
|
Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Aphantasia |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 26 Nov 2022, 6:06 am
|
|
Replies: 65
Views: 7,285
|
| I don't know if this is related to aphantasia, but I don't have much of a recollection of what was discussed in a meeting. At one company where I worked, the president of the company would go on a business trip and when he returned, he could describe every meeting and what was discussed in the meeti... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 17 Sep 2022, 4:28 pm
|
|
Replies: 3,863
Views: 140,820
|
| I had a really pleasant dream yesterday. In the dream, I had retired to Molokai in Hawaii and had a sailboat that I used to go to other islands. I had sailed to Honolulu for the day and was coming back that night. Since I'm colorblind, I cannot distinguish the colors of the lights on the buoys marki... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 16 Aug 2022, 11:15 am
|
|
Replies: 7,861
Views: 366,446
|
| I had a very strange dream yesterday. The dream was about video games which is odd since I don't play them. In the dream, there was a very popular set of computer games about some creatures from other planets around other stars. The creatures were not humanoid, but did possess the abilities to work ... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 07 Aug 2022, 6:34 pm
|
|
Replies: 3,863
Views: 140,820
|
| I dreamed that I went to the grocery store and milk was $35 per gallon. |
|
|
Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Polio case in New York |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 22 Jul 2022, 12:55 am
|
|
Replies: 18
Views: 1,206
|
| i hope today's treatments for polio are more than the iron lung. Polio is nearly always very minor. Only a tiny portion of cases would require an iron lung. Before the vaccine, polio was so common that just about everyone would have it by the time they were 6 or 7 years old. In the vast majority of... |
|
|
Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What's the last weirdest dream you had? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 21 Jul 2022, 8:30 am
|
|
Replies: 7,861
Views: 366,446
|
| Not really a weird dream, but I just woke up from a dream (someone called on the phone) in which I hosted an annual trap shoot on the farm. It was known as "Old Trophy Day Trap Shoot". It had an adult division, an under 18 division, and a black powder shotgun division. There were five trop... |
|
|
Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Entertain yourself? Entertained by others? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 7:42 am
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 429
|
| I do, however, like to listen to the radio, too, which I assume would be considered being entertained by others. Unless it's a two-way radio I think it's still entertaining yourself. Just as reading is entertaining yourself even though there was an author involved. I'm kind of in the middle on this... |
|
|
Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why I would never support the Republican Party |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 7:35 am
|
|
Replies: 30
Views: 1,926
|
| I don't feel Trump would win in 2024, if he ran. I feel he might get 50 million votes, which would result in a Democratic landslide. Right now Biden's popularity is well down in the 30s. This portends a Red Wave in this years midterms and state elections. What does the 2020 mid-terms and state elec... |
|
|
Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why I would never support the Republican Party |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 13 Jul 2022, 6:36 pm
|
|
Replies: 30
Views: 1,926
|
| The party of Qanon The party of the anti-lgbt crowd The party of insanely loose gun laws, which lets face it, is a reason for the shooting problem in the US, especially compared to other countries The party of the types of people who think 10 year olds should have to give birth to their rape babies... |
|
|
Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Entertain yourself? Entertained by others? |
| kokopelli |
|
Posted: 13 Jul 2022, 4:19 pm
|
|
Replies: 5
Views: 429
|
| I would assume that most people here are very happy to entertain themselves, but that isn't completely obvious. Even if you are happy to entertain yourself, you may also be happy to be entertained by others. When you entertain yourself, what do you prefer? How about when entertained by others? For m... |
|
|
| Sort by: |
