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

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Ok, I'll take Belize where all the politicans are irrefutably corrupt and everyone admits it instead of here where we think only the other side's politicians are corrupt. And the scientists are getting lots of research money so they can play in a happy aspie way.

First we kill all the lawyers! Hell yes, the Bard knows of what he speaks.

Such character fodder on WrongPlanet. You can use me. Ms. Snippy Blount, raging eccentric who contemplates a polyandrous relationship with a latte boy, who flips off Republicans with her left hand and Dems with her right. Runnaway bestseller....

But they are so much more fun when I pit them against each other in fictitious pages. It's not like they can voice complaints or anything!

Hmmmm I think that you should just let coffee dude bring your coffee. He claims to give good foot rubs, but I don't want him to touch me. He does have touching issues. For instance he's always trying to touch my hands and he once leaned completely over my back to put steamed milk in my coffee. I almost drench us both with steamed milk which wasn't the reaction I think he was going for! He can be quite annoying really. I have the distinct feeling that he is a talker as well. You would need plenty of duct tape.


Things you might want to ponder.


I would go to Venezuela, but I think that despite the fact that Chavez amuses me, we would not get along in the long run. Such problems!

The diving is better in Belize.

I have no political ideology.

Gosh. Tiring weekend (I only exploded once), but nice.

Got hit by a bat this morning. They're pretty good at avoiding people, except when you stand in the middle of them during their first meal of the day... definite feeding frenzy. Two even collided with each other, with the lights on.

Yesterday, I fulfilled one of those ambitions that you usually chicken out of, at the last moment, but this time I didn't. I had a tarantula walk across my hands.

I've done my 6 page, 4.5 hour catchup.

Nobody mentioned to TRUE - if the idiot stalkers arrive here, they will suffer. It would be painful to watch such a person being ridiculed, the way I'm sure we'd manage it. We laugh hard at each other. If our net power were directed at a fool... Hey! Bring 'em in. Anyone for fried fool? Battered? Sliced and diced? Sticks and stones, indeed, may break bones, but it's always words that kill.

It's interesting. All those facts I revealed about myself (43, American, Aspie, autistic daughter, etc), and the lesser reveal in the first post that, since I'm familiar with "Cable & Deadpool", I'm a pretty major comic-book geek - and what everyone focuses on is my unorthodox living arrangement...

It just seemed the logical conclusion. We all get along, I've introduced him to SF (sent him off to Iraq with my copy of Starship Troopers, and it had bloody well better be intact when he brings it back!), he introduced me to deathmatching in Halo (as long as he doesn't put his headphones on, he's distractable, and I stand a chance! ), we're both into role-playing games (and trying to drag our wife back in - she had an unpleasant experience with some people in a Vampire: the Masquerade game, and is now kind of down on the whole thing) - it works for us. It might not have worked if he'd had any other personality type, but then again, if he'd been anyone else but him, she wouldn't have fallen for him. (She's got a thing for guys with brains.)

Of course, there's also the fact that when he's home, at least half the time he's behind his computer, playing EVE and World of Warcraft, sometimes simultaneously. (Apparently in EVE, when you've vectored to a destination quite a few jumps distant, there's not a lot to do while you're flying there, as long as you avoid "low-sec" space, where you might get attacked while in normal space between jump points. That leaves him time to click over to WOW, and check on how his character is doing on some mind-numbingly repetitive task there.) So, some nights, other than the conversations with his corporation friends in EVE, it's almost like he's not even there...

Happy, 1001, Anniversary To You, Happy 1001 Anniversary To You, Happy 1001 ANNIVERSARY DEAR LAU, Haaaaapppy Anniversary TOOOOO YOOOOOOUUU.

DD

My apologies, DeaconBlues, not only for my lack of acknowledging your presence, but also for my fellow dinos' uncharacteristic nosiness.

(My, how formal I sound. Pspspspspsps..... which I intend to represent the sound of a raspberry being blown in the general direction of sidth)

(Ta DD... where's my present?)

Hey. Who put in the bead curtains? I usually don't like them much, but these are really nice... all... shiny, spiny, quite tinkly, and totally "in your mind".

It's on the counter, Lau. Right next to the plate of fried spam and kippers.

It's a lovely old-fashioned, three-layer buttercream-frosted cake. Light the sparklers on top when you are ready, Lau. (Might wait until PostP is paying attention since he will like the shinies on top). It's chocolate, but I've got a vanilla one in the fridge for any (perish the thought) choco-phobes.

Cheers!

DD

Well, I have disinhibited social skills and am unapologetic. I find the concept of polyandry interseting.

I find Karl Rove boring. He would be more interesting if he were in a polyandrous relationship.

Plate tectonics are more interesting than Karl Rove.

Absolutely. What is a "Karl Rove" anyway? I've certainly haven't got one, I don't think, as I know most of my bits down to whatever level you like. (I did, for a while , get confused about the "Isles of Langerhans", until I corrected myself - they're "Islets", according to the literature, although I gather he just called them "Islands").

Back to plate tectonics. I was impressed at how well they now have been integrated with ancient evolution. It's nice to know just how few major differences in opinion remain, right back to unicellular life and beyond. The details will of course prove to be wrong in many cases, but the broad gist of it all works. I get quite amused by India's peregrination. It also feel odd to be sat on another dollop of land that has traveled a somewhat atypical route.

I just had a peek on Wikipedia, and they have a picture of current global plate motion. Australia seems in a hurry to get to the equator.

(DD, I'm looking for some way to light the sparklers. I think I may have to leave it until tomorrow. I think the "use by" date on virtual cake is three centuries? I've tried a slice anyway, delicious. Thanks.)

haha, young person posting in 40+ thread

More interesting than plate techtonics is the reversal of the magnetic pole(s).

Over the course of a few hundred year (I think) our magnetic pole will split up into five poles which will slowly drift down and combine back into one magnetic pole with a reversed polarity.

Anything within a certain radius will be exposed with a hightened solar radiation and there will be auroras around as the solar particle collide with the atmosphere. Of course, it won't be inhospitable to us, as we will still have the atmosphere for protection.

Karl Rove is some kind of a marketer, an advisor to President Bush. Apparently, someone is brokenhearted because he doesn't support more research into global warming.

I can't dig global warming because it is too hyped. I'm not into popular politically-charged topics because at heart I am a non-conformist. It seems that everyone is more worried about the earth than about the people who inhabit it. It's like people have become gangrene and need to be expurgated.

The entire concept of earthquake faults and plate tectonics are overlooked by the popular press. The city of Boston is sitting on a massive fault and one day, you won't be able to park you car in Harvard Yard because it will become a scarp. I'm here on the New Mardrid fault and can see evidence of a quake that made the Mississippi River run backwards and caused many thousands of acres to sink into a flood plain. Shouldn't we be thinking about these things as much as minute rises in temperature? Does anyone care that Tuvalu is sinking? Why do we care what Karl Rove thinks about global warming when Salt Lake City is sitting on the brink of disaster.

Australia has very interesting geology as well as flora and fauna. I'm going there probably next year.

Why is politics so fascinating? I can't seem to get worked up into a moral indignation over politics.

Wouldn't you be?

Honestly, I don't mind the questions - I was just amused that that's considered to be the most interesting thing about me. I mean, from my POV, it's been - wow, five years already? Where does the time go? Anyway, aside from some hurt feelings caused when she had a miscarriage while he was at sea in the Navy (had to change services last year), and his email reply to the situation inadvertently left out a VERY important comma, one that changed the entire meaning of a central sentence in his email, things have gone so swimmingly it's just normal life around here. (Thank heavens, I was able to logically interpolate the comma and smooth things out, as without the comma the statement would have been ridiculously out of character for him - J's a really nice guy, not given to hardhearted phrases like that.)

I had my best friend send them in. You don't think I'd actually go shopping and decorate do you? She always has all that hippy stuff. She's stuck in the 60's. Has been since we met. I guess it's one of her obsessions.

Okay so we secretly find out Karl is in a polyandrous relationship. Then, in an experiment on plate techtonics, Serious and I take him to the San Andreas fault and when it opens up in an Earthquake, we drop him in to study the effects.