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I was a fake geek girl.
When I was in college, my only concern was finding a peer group that would accept me. I had never found a peer group that had accepted me. I lived in a dorm that had suites organized around certain interests, so I decided to live in the Sci-Fi suite my sophomore year.
I didn’t really have too much in common with most of the other people there. I ( Read more... ) -
some thinky thoughts about the Sally Anne test
In case you're wondering what the Sally Anne test is...For some reason I started thinking about this at work, and realized it was actually a thinly disguised logic/programming problem. This becomes obvious if you represent Sally, Anne, and the location of the marble as variables, and Anne hiding Sally's marble as a function of which the variable " ( Read more... ) -
I'm a superior person to you because of my innate superiorness*
* Note: I don't actually believe that.
I've been noticing as I analyze human behavior that an awful lot of it seems to revolve around the acquisition and preservation of status. And this leads in many cases to people engaging in contests of oneupmanship.
Exhibit A:
Hapless n00b: What's the best Linux distro?
Basement dweller #1: Slackware! Guis ( Read more... ) -
I want to know how the sausage is made.
The sausage being video games. These are the things I want to know ( Read more... ) -
oh today was awful
I was in a crappy mood, and I had a dentist appointment that I nearly didn't get to because the bus was being stupid. I mean, nothing horrible happened, it was just all stupid and stressful. I hate dentist appointments because they mess with my daily routine and throw everything off and that makes me all out of sorts ( Read more... ) -
the illusion of individualism
I like individualism in the fact that allows for the tolerance of eccentricity and difference. However, I'm thinking more and more that the idea that a person can make individual, personal choices and be 100% responsible for them because they are free choices is in fact, a myth ( Read more... ) -
I want to write a best-selling "how to succeed in your career book"...
and call it Bend Over.
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I know I've been really spamming LJ lately but...
and this is terribly unoriginal of me. But I'm really finding the whole typical American middle class ideal of "success" to be a pretty empty thing. To me success is being happy and having time to do the things you really want to do, rather than only being able to do the things you have to do in order to live. -
this video is interesting
I never actually understood what Donna Williams was talking about before when she talked about "exposure anxiety." Her books, other than Temple Grandin's, were probably the first "autie-biographies" I read and I found them near-incomprehensible at the time. Though here it seems pretty clear she's talking about defenses people put up when they're ( Read more... )
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