What was it I was saying in a thread about waiting until the next day before clicking send? I really should listen to myself instead of lecturing others!Leeloo need multipass?
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Catwoman
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I'd like to table a motion ...
Weird story on the local news here today, a couple in an RV drove through a roundabout. The woman tripped, fell towards the door, the door popped open and she fell out of the RV! The RV kept driving and disappeard. When the police got a hold of the guy on the phone, he was almost home and he was very surprised to hear that his wife was not in the RV with him. He didn't notice that she fell out. She's bruised but ok. And I'm guessing that guy is sleeping on the couch for next 6 months.
I write as simply and clearly as I can, but I'm well aware that I'm seldom successful. I can even build working models to illustrate an improvement to a common mechanism and am still met with blank stares. I don't worry about any of the particular failures, I just keep trying, like a salesman who makes slight changes to their pitch, but mostly keeps knocking on doors, looking for more eager customers.Thank you! I knew that comment about Sellers had more than just an identification question!
I have to say, and no malice or anything here, however I come across in my writing, but I find your style of communicating very hard to grasp, in terms of understanding your meaning, where you're coming from, what you're asking, if you see what I mean?
For me, and understand, this has little bearing on you really, it comes across passive aggressive! I don't mean it is, just my perception (which is hardly typical!). It feels you don't like to give much out of yourself, maybe especially to an untrusted stranger like myself, or maybe I just fail to see that in your messages?
Again, that's just how it comes over to me, and I've not reason to expect you to be aware of my sensibilities, but trying to find a way to discover what's going on. So in the interests of friendly discourse, and common understanding, read on ... (?)
My whole life has been a constant battle(?) to understand and be understood (from first school years onwards). The vast majority of the time, not so successful. I'm well aware of a lot of things regarding communication, psychology, minds, learning systems, social contact and inclusion - blah blah, all that stuff. In fact I spend the majority of my free time try to learning more, or just spend hours in introspective thought (don't watch TV or any of the usual pastimes). I can't learn facts and stuff much, but good at learning systems, processes, ideas, concepts. I have no autobiographical memory (or little to speak of - so little sense of time (I could be 30 still and not notice the difference to be 60, as far as my mind is concerned (apart from learning more, but I can't even remember the process even, and I can't go back in my mind to the past, at all), and can't learn or process certain really obvious things very well, but others I seem to have a phenomenal ability to (very carefully) absorb ideas and then my mind just starts to throw answers back at me once I've got enough to understand how something works - I can talk to computers at a low level, coding, all that nerdy rubbish, better than most (it amazes me how little modern IT engineers know about how a computer works!), but I can't talk to a stranger to ask if the bus goes somewhere (or w.h.y.). I have intelligence, but lack the ability to pass on knowledge to people, or get back what they think of things, to add to my database of understanding.
So I've got a lot up in there, but it rarely connects with others because I'm mostly self taught, and I have non of the contexts that most people pick up unconsciously when it comes to social matters (I'm well aware I'm not unique, but I also don't quite fit the same as some others in the spectrum (well, who does, I guess!).
That said I've still learned how to fit in well enough to be able to work with people - I can communicate as long as there's a non-personal aspect to the process. If you're read a few of my posts, you may be able to see that?
e.g. I jump in to some forums, and splurg, but can't make an Intro post, because that's all me, not responding to others. Reactive is the only way I've managed to get on with people.
So mostly I can work out what's going on at a basic level, but I'm clumsy with people, figuratively speaking. I've built a large vocabulary from my own reading, but often can't recall the words I want, or use them badly from other people's perspective.
And yes, definitions of terms, symbols essentially, which words count as for me, ar massively important, not just engineering terms either, all of them! In fact it's a major issue (for me at least)! How can anyone gain common understanding when they don't even define their terms, but instead just brutally assume that everyone has the same definitions, when it's blindingly clear that's not the case at all. Is being 'normal' partly just the ability to pretend we all think the same? (I have to say, that's my observation of others, and personal experience of doing it myself too!)
Sorry, not sure what else I can say that may explain myself, not sure I've done much of a job here anyway? Sorry if I've caused offence, never the intent!
(Oh yeah, and I write and write and write, trying to make it more understandable, adding more context, explaining background, until it becomes unreadable for most (I was about to say 'normal'!) people! You can't have failed to spot that!
P.S. Strangelove is one of the few films I consider totally unique and matchless. So very very funny, so very very real and scary! And the whole production is just, well I have no adequate words, but it's priceless stuff.
Just the scene with Hayden doing his bodily fluids speech! Wow! And Slim Pickins riding a nuke down to ground zero, a whooping an a hollerin' - just great stuff! Just so packed with irony and social comment in every scene. Nothing wasted. (you may get the idea I think it's not too bad!)
By the way, if you like well produced scifi with big streak of humour (not taking itself too seriously) but entertaining and not too jarring (I can't stand films that break the rules of the universe "oh, we'll just go back in time and save the world!" sort of thing), 5th Element is very worth a watch, I don't cotton much to vid media, but this one I loved. But each to their own, y'know!
P.P.S. While contributing to it's length even more in saying this - OMG! I've done it again! Sorry! <head in hands!>
I have watched many clips from "The Big Bang Theory" on YouTube, and I understand that they had a resident physicist on staff, as well as a PhD actress. In 8-2, Sheldon and Howard both confuse the two most basic terms in engineering, strength and stiffness.
I forgot to mention that you didn't see an emoji because they all look like yellow dots to me, but are no longer just smiley faces.
My favourite bit in Strangelove was the line "You can't fight in here, this is the war room!" The messages inserted on behalf of the Air Force that it was just a movie and things couldn't happen like that seemed much more sinister than reassuring. If something similar isn't plausible, there would have been no need for the denial, and there are a million similar possibilities.
I guess the first question that comes to mind, was she in the front, or the back!
I guess the first question that comes to mind, was she in the front, or the back!
I don't know but suddenly she was on the ground, in the middle of the road, outside the RV.
I was thinking, if it was the front, then he's really got something to answer for ...!I don't know but suddenly she was on the ground, in the middle of the road, outside the RV.
But for someone who drives through roundabouts, maybe environmental awareness isn't his big thing?
Pictures rarely evoke much in me, but oddly this one reminds me so much of Christina's World ...
(She had a degenerative illness that by the time this was painted, she couldn't walk, and I believe rejected a wheelchair, preferring to crawl and pull herself around). But it seems it carries that same sort of feeling of being trapped in an open world? Or maybe it's just me?
Regarding the digression disease, one writing professor would often say "Kill your babies!" - choose the best for the final draft and let the rest go. I once had a great exchange going with a famous guitar player who never understood why he used to blow up amplifiers. Unfortunately, he was struggling through the basics of electricity, and I just couldn't resist throwing in a new detail I'd learned that he didn't need, and never got a reply.
Is that a 48 cylinder motorcycle? Seems unusual.
I'm about 103% sure it's more of a sculpture than a working bike, I mean, how long have your arms got to be?
Never mind how those little carbs feed all those cylinders with even a modicum of balance, but it just seemed to me the opposite of the minimalised Agusta Shevek posted (hence the comment I added).
(and as for it's cornering ability ...!
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