The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Yes, to "The Speed of Dark", plus (so far) the first three parts of "Vatta's War" (which her autistic son, Micheal, also sneaks into).

I liked The Speed of Dark. I'll have to look for Vatta's War.


Found it on Amazon.com and ordered it.

Thank you CC for the Stevie Winwood. If I'm going to have an earworm in my head, I'm better off with tasty R'n'B than with "Beat Box Diversion One" by Art of Noise, which has been infesting my consciousness for the past two days.

Stranger in a Strange Land! I can still recite quite a lot of dialogue from it verbatim! The book I am reading to my boys at bedtime (yes, we still do that ) is Red Thunder by John Varley. He cites Heinlein as a major influence, and it shows. There are little nods to SIASL all through Red Thunder - including a neat reiteration of the scene where journalist Ben Caxton is kidnapped and drugged with sedatives to prevent his breaking an explosive news story.

I first heard of Elizabeth Moon through her collaboration with Anne McCaffrey. And what a fantastic thing it is when an established author with a big readership will lend his or her name to work by a newcomer. Otherwise a worthwhile manuscript may disappear into the slush pile on the SF editor's desk, and never again see the light of day, which is a shame.

Thou art God!

What type of crowds do belly dancers hang out in?

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where do you learn to belly dance?

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What do you call a belly dancer with a sword?

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Merle

Hello to all!
Currently working on several projects. Have nailed my feet to the floor - have promised myself not to start a single other project until I have finished at least one. Hopefully several. If only I could make my mind sit still, but ideas pop in constantly, and I just can't keep up with all of them. I've got unfinished projects in artwork, massage therapy research, children's books, science fiction books, medical bodywork books, medicine, and studies ongoing in neuroscience and genomics, and researching the medical problems of several patients... ...oy. I do not claim to be polymathic - that term would apply to several here. I think I am poly-oops-gotta-stop-working-on-this-because-something-else-just-popped-up-but-I'll-be-back-to-finish-later-ic. I work awfully hard at running in circles. Unfinished work doesn't count, however, and my life won't go on forever....

My "spring/no sleep cycle" has kicked in full swing, so I plan to take advantage of the energy upsurge. Unfortunately, my "spring/no sleep cycle" comes with an urge to engage in non-stop exercise. Hard to paint, carve, sculpt, draw, read, or write while on the go. All I can do while I exercise is think, ...and that just leads to new ideas ...that I also can't get to...

It sounds like you need a personal assistant / executive secretary!

When I'm done raising my kids I'll apply for the position.

I don't have the Aspie brain/focus to be the thinker. But I have good organisational skills!

My Work Experience:
- Executive Secretary to 3 Aspies for a cumulative period of 33 years.

Helen

You poor dear!
You have my sympathy!! !
Also my respect!! !
I appreciate your generous offer,
but would not presume to hold you to it.

I do not want to be responsible for
the inevitable suicide you would commit
after spending 5 minutes with me
and my mismanaged mind.

I need a thinking cap with "transmit" capabilities.
One which transmits thoughts into a transformer
that converts thoughts into material form in real time.
My thoughts stream constantly.
My problem is slow "output".
My cap would also need "thought sorter" capabilities,
as they flow out in no particular order and in no
logically systematic manner, and some are complete thoughts,
while others are mere fragments, or parts or blends of previous thoughts.

Thank you though Helen!! !
Yous a sweetie!! !

...see? My thoughts switched already:
I saw on the news here the wife of New York's Governor Eliot Spitzer "standing by her man" while he apologized for hiring (yet another) prostitute the day before Valentine's Day. I'm thinking that if I were married, and had done such a thing, the blurry image just forming in my dying consciousness would be that of my wife standing over me, smoking gun in hand, saying, "Hey! How do you re-load this thing?"

Perhaps Mrs. Spitzer is an adherent of the Code of Manu (c. 400 B.C. - 200 A.D.), which states (among other things):

"A wife must worship her husband as if he were a god, though he may be without virtue or other good qualities, and seek pleasure with other women."

The Code of Manu contains these other nuggets:

"In childhood a woman must be subjected to her father; in youth to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation."

"A barren wife may be superseded in the eighth year, she whose children all die in the tenth, she who bears only daughters in the eleventh, but she who is quarrelsome, without delay."

Perhaps Mrs. Spitzer does not know that those who tried to enforce the Code of Manu all died horrible unnamed deaths at the (alleged) hands of hordes of pissed-off women (circa 200 A.D.).

It occurs to me that "manure" may be a derivative of "Code of Manu". Just a thought. Ok, ok. ...back to work for me.

Okay, I Googled "Code of Manu". According to the Wikipedia article, less than half of the Code of Manu is actually part of the original code; the rest consists of later additions, modifications, and interpolations. Also, it was only ever followed by a small group of dharmists, who don't seem to have read the Vedic texts. Even the people of India seemed to have thought it was a big ol' load of manu...

So, maybe you're right, Chuck - maybe "manu" really is the Indo-European root of the word "manure"!

I don't know why the quotes (answers) are posting blank.

It's a great and fun way to keep the stomach/abdominal muscles(and the organs beneath) in shape while learning a beautiful and ancient art form.

I joined the Toastmasters to learn how to speak comfortably and effectively before a group of people. I did this because of a job I had where public speaking would be required from time to time. At any rate, I didn't last long because it was too stressful and there was a lot of competition involved in the form of contests. But a teacher from the college I was attending was connected to the group in some way, and every year he had a Christmas party at his home for his friends and students in the Toastmasters. This annual party was a much loved and talked about occasion. The teacher's house was one of those amazing places filled with all kinds of wonderful paintings, sculptures, artifacts and the food was terrific. Each of us had to give an impromptu talk about our favorite memory of Christmas. I stumbled through little speech fairly well, the people were all of the kind and accepting type. But the best part of the party for me was when the teacher announced that he had a little surprise for us. He put on some exotic music and beautiful belly dancer in a red costume (a student of his from Lebanon) descended the stairs and danced all around the room for us. She was exquisite and her dancing was the same. Very artistic without the slightest bit of sleeze.

Highlight the blank spaces near the left margin, CC

Merle

That is so cool.

Lurking and laughing.....

Lil' girl had her assessment yesterday and she is an AS/ADHD mix. So that's 3 out 4.

Lurking