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John Barrowman helped http://www.kaleidoscopetrust.com/ launch a new tolerance campaign with the theme "What if it were illegal for you to be you?" There's a full campaign ad on YouTube at http://youtu.be/z9w-Fug2aCk which is good. Also, there is a picture of John from the roll out of the campaign in Parliament Square, Westminster. He's wearing a t-shirt that says "Blue Eyed Freak." That's good too. I've made an icon from the picture.
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I've only seen two movies this summer. Neither movie was titled The Avengers. Both movies had performances that deserve Oscar nominations that I don't imagine they'll get. Josh Brolin's performance as "Young Agent K" in Men In Black 3 was brilliant. Michael Fassbender's performance as "David" in Prometheus was even better. It's one for the ages. I loved the android he played in the film so much that I've given him a slot in my Top Ten Robots List, and I made myself a couple of David icons.
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My family has a subscription to the Smithsonian Magazine and this month's issue included a piece by Temple Grandin. It cleared up something about the BBC Sherlock and myself for me. The piece is "A New Approach for Thinking About Thinking." In it Grandin talks about there being three types of thinking styles -- visual thinking, pattern thinking, and word thinking. With it I can see why some people reject the thought that Sherlock is autistic. They think of autistics as being visual thinkers, or pattern thinkers. To them Sherlock can't be autistic because he sees words rather than pictures, or he can't be autistic because he doesn't see patterns everywhere. I learned in a course at school that I'm a "verbal" learner rather than a "visual" one. Grandin's piece makes it clear that it's not just a matter of how I learn -- I am quite simply a "word thinker." Sherlock is a word thinker too. He sees words when he looks at the pink lady in "A Study In Pink," and words when he's going through his Mind Palace in "The Hounds of Baskerville." Not to mention how he talks about needing to manage the space on his hard drive. Grandin said word thinkers may have, "a huge memory for facts such as sports statistics or film stars."
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/773
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John Barrowman helped http://www.kaleidoscopetrust.com/ launch a new tolerance campaign with the theme "What if it were illegal for you to be you?" There's a full campaign ad on YouTube at http://youtu.be/z9w-Fug2aCk which is good. Also, there is a picture of John from the roll out of the campaign in Parliament Square, Westminster. He's wearing a t-shirt that says "Blue Eyed Freak." That's good too. I've made an icon from the picture.
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I've only seen two movies this summer. Neither movie was titled The Avengers. Both movies had performances that deserve Oscar nominations that I don't imagine they'll get. Josh Brolin's performance as "Young Agent K" in Men In Black 3 was brilliant. Michael Fassbender's performance as "David" in Prometheus was even better. It's one for the ages. I loved the android he played in the film so much that I've given him a slot in my Top Ten Robots List, and I made myself a couple of David icons.
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My family has a subscription to the Smithsonian Magazine and this month's issue included a piece by Temple Grandin. It cleared up something about the BBC Sherlock and myself for me. The piece is "A New Approach for Thinking About Thinking." In it Grandin talks about there being three types of thinking styles -- visual thinking, pattern thinking, and word thinking. With it I can see why some people reject the thought that Sherlock is autistic. They think of autistics as being visual thinkers, or pattern thinkers. To them Sherlock can't be autistic because he sees words rather than pictures, or he can't be autistic because he doesn't see patterns everywhere. I learned in a course at school that I'm a "verbal" learner rather than a "visual" one. Grandin's piece makes it clear that it's not just a matter of how I learn -- I am quite simply a "word thinker." Sherlock is a word thinker too. He sees words when he looks at the pink lady in "A Study In Pink," and words when he's going through his Mind Palace in "The Hounds of Baskerville." Not to mention how he talks about needing to manage the space on his hard drive. Grandin said word thinkers may have, "a huge memory for facts such as sports statistics or film stars."
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/773
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