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

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My first silver drawing:



(hard to take a picture of it - light bounces off it like it does from a mirror)

That is beautiful. Sort of ethereal.

Thanks Hartz! I went to my friend Kara's wedding last year. Later had a dream of her in her veil, and it locked the memory in for me. When I started drawing, I could see this already on the "paper", so I just went with it to see what would happen. I think after I practice a bit I'll be able to do whatever I want. I'd like to try to make a batch of the "paper" in a shade other than white - maybe a lightly mottled brown - like parchment paper color.

Think I'll give this to Kara as a Christmas present.

Deep, deep thought! I have to mull over the ideas I've read here. That's what we do; some of us mull.

I love your painting, Chuck. When you start to market it, I want some. It is so beautiful. I will need an autographed photo of the artist too!

I find it hard to close the thing , once open. But then, I can't imagine anyone wanting to.

Always pleased to see your visits inventor. Even when we don't agree, it's like to me, Now how much have I ever really learned from some one the agrees with me and the answer almost always comes back, not to damn much.

I have scoured the net looking for what, in my mind, is erotica. That sir is beyond words to me. The word erotic and or erotica stand high on the list of words that want to just shout from my lips. I would love to post that with any title you would like for it or none at all, of course give you credit for it. Your method of doing it, the process would be of extreme interest to the small number (and I like it that way) of people that pay my site a visit. I would ask you to consider my request. Copyright of course may be a large consideration and can I buy that?

I have only done one drawing in my life that I thought was close to half way good. I did a pen and ink (white ink on black) of what to me would have been in the older landscape artists of China. It was of a gnarled tree, no known variety ever graced the face of the earth of course. The art teacher slammed it hard, but I over heard him and the music teacher talking and he asked her which in the display she liked and she picked mine. I felt good that day in school, one of the few.

I am way over my head in your discussion on rational thought, Chuck. But is sself awareness a consideration?

You probably have the gift! you should give it another go!
Feel free to post this one if you wish. I'm not sure how copyrights go. I've given away almost everything I've ever done, so I figure whoever owns the pieces get the copyrights. Not sure. I told them it was their's, signed and dated it, and wrote what the dream was about on the back of each piece I've done.
I can't claim full responsibility for drawing this one. I sat down with the full intention of drawing a simple flower. Before I started I invited Michaelangelo to join me. I said, "I'm using your formula, if I understood the process correctly, so if you feel like playing today, feel free to join me. I closed my eyes, opened them, then stared at the "paper". After a moment, I could see Kara there just as plain as day. All I had to do then was draw what was already there.

So it was me and Michaelangelo I believe. If you give credits, be sure to credit his spirit. Don't know if I could do it again. I got to thinking - I'll probably give this to Kara on her first anniversary.

I think I'll title it "A Promise on Her Lips".

That would be a cool wedding anniversary present, for sure.

It is the third Sunday of the month, all the bills are paid and I have worked enough hours to make my next month's
rent payment on one paycheck. So I went out and treated myself to Border's Bookstore. I bought two mags and
"The Official Ubuntu Book". I am thinking about putting together a Linux computer or a network. I've heard nothing
but horror stories about MS Vista. I am presently using XP. Lau and few others have given Ubuntu rave reviews.

What got me thinking about all of this was Alex the parrot.

I was thinking about how Alex said he was hungry, but the trainer said, "We have to do one more thing first. Then you can eat." I noticed that Alex did not pitch a fit, so must have had some concept of the future, and that the food he wanted was coming, just not right this minute. Had he not have had that concept down, surely he would have thrown a fit. He also showed rudimentary math skills.

To my mind, Alex was showing rational thought.

I have read about the intelligence of dolphins and also of octopii. I have seen intelligence in many animals.

I've read that they attribute the spark of man's initial thinking ability to his opposable thumbs and tool making. Clearly, Alex, dolphins and octopii do not have opposable thumbs. I wondered in Alex - did his captivity, which freed him of the need to fend for himself (giving him freedom to think) cause his spark?
I think no, because even in the wild, animals have enough "down time" to think.

So I began to wonder what it was that caused the spark for man to advance? What were the prerequisites? Other animals are clearly thinking - what will spark them to advance? If grasping hands are the requirement, then maybe mice or squirrels or raccoons will gain the ability.

Then my thoughts went a hundred different directions.

Self awareness probably is one of the prerequisites. My brain is so worn out right now I can't think straight.

Richie, that sounds like a plan. You know, I'm doing well just remembering how to hook up my web cam, when I do my kitten-cam thing for our cat shelter. The thought of doing anything more complicated than that with the computer (futzing with the operating system, etc.) just leaves me staring blankly. (Odd, that, as I used to be a mainframe operator. You'd think....) Cool that you can do all that.

We were out for a while today, too. Target is having a heck of a clothes sale. Scrounged around the men's section and got a few Henley shirts for under $10; also got some jeans (in a color other than blue, so I can wear them to work), and a bunch of housewares stuff at half price, and some nice, thick, soft Egyptian cotton bath towels in a lovely deep blue color on clearance for $3.99 each. very thick, very soft. gonna be nice, they are.

Sad to have to shop the men's section for clothes, but they are more sturdily built and of better material over there. The stuff in the women's section is lightweight, and poorly constructed half the time. And, not usually priced as well. Plus, they don't design anything for anyone over 5'5" and who has shoulders, in the women's section! Do have to buy the jeans there (tho the kid buys mens'), since, unfortunately, guys' jeans don't accommodate middle-age-secretary-who-sits-on-it-too-much-each-day problems.

Hope you enjoy your magazines.

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saw a video, once, of a rather large raven-looking bird stealing fish off an ice-fisherman's line. guy would bait the line, then walk away. he'd come back later to check on his lines and find no bait on his hook and no fish on it either, but the flag saying there should be a fish on it flipped up.

they eventually set up a camera, and the camera caught the raven flying up to the hole in the ice after the guy left. it carefully would pull up the line, putting it's foot on the line to hold it while he grabbed more line his beak, so that it would not slip back into the water. over and over and over until he pulled the fish up. he'd then put the hook and line back in the water, and take the fish away.

but he only did it on the ice-holes that the signal flag was up on (the ice fisherman had set it so if something took the bait a little flag went up).

no opposable thumbs there, just a smart bird and a hungry and amazed fisherman.

and the Big Question: are we really advanced, or is it that we just assume we are? or do we go places that there's no real reason to go, just because we do? i mean, the raven was the one with the full belly there....

Ravens, like parrots and their kin, pack a lot of mental ammo, in order to survive they must do a bit of problem solving.

Good question! We attribute higher intelligence to ourselves - rather egocentric. I've often wondered if octopii could have been as advanced in their own way as we feel we are today back in the Ordovician period 460 million years ago. And if they have actually regressed in intelligence over time.

But my brain is blowing again, so I'll stop. I'm getting a headache. Probably need something to eat.

How about, if you're a carnivore, you do better if you can outthink your prey? So, moving from eating berries and fruits to something a little more warm-blooded, perhaps, would require a faster mind. So the ones that were faster got the better prey, which added nutrition that fueled brain development, and it snowballed?

Or maybe not. Or maybe I should go have supper now.