Completely forgot to plug this! The crisply-edited and entertaining Doctor Who podcast Bridging the Rift had me on as a guest. I had an absolute ball, and I loquaced like no one has loquaced before.

Oh dear, I think I'm hypomanic, and we're watching Warriors Gate. I just delivered a two or three minute largely incoherent speech about randomness. Chaos Theory! Chaos Magic! Quantum forces operating on a macro scale! Altered Walter! Cross Purposes! Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land ( Read more... )

Following up the references in Bury, snagged a couple more books on how men and women communicate, and almost immediately discovered my problem and its solution:"It is also worth noting that aggressively negative questioning often leads people to take up entrenched positions - especially in a public debate - and little cognitive progress is made ( Read more... )

Ask me about any of my icons and/or interests and receive an explanatory burble forthwith.

I need to change how I handle misreadings of my occasional controversial statements. It's not realistic to expect every online visitor to read carefully; such is the nature of the net. Strawmen - clumsy or deliberate misreadings - are a huge red button for me; the injustice of being accused of saying something I didn't galls me. But if my goal is ( Read more... )

1. The term "political correctness".
2. The abusive terms "white trash", "trailer trash", "redneck", "hillbilly", "chav".
3. The lie "I'm sorry, but..."
4. All variations on the abusive term "retard".

Will add more as I think of them. "Let this be a warning - to you!" - Crow T. Robot

( Frequently used words in my LJ )

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