Post #208,789
5/27/05 8:06:45 AM
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Hmmmm.....
There\ufffds something vaguely unsettling about being meticulously reduced to the parts of your sum. At least I got a passing score.
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Post #208,793
5/27/05 8:23:32 AM
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*chuckle* You got way more than a 'passing grade'.
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- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #208,904
5/28/05 4:59:50 AM
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It's a digital thing; think 'IQ'
It's pretty hard to get away from the mercantile habit of assigning stupid fucking Numbers to every -thing and -one. Maybe it's the "when you learn to use a hammer.." syndrome or possibly.. by now, the spreadsheet has done permanent damage to the collective neuronal nexus (?)
[OT: ever look into any of the stuff one Carver Mead (Cal Tech) was doing, trying to synthesize neural networks? Just curious if such material ever gets into the field, actual-workers' territory -- or it's just too surreal..?]
But I think you'll find that most here don't Really 'mean it', y'know?
People who understand how "significant digits" (and their frequent misuse) relate to the precision or probability of some measurement - know better. It's the ones who really Believe that the numbers (never mind their 'units') Mean something re humans : watch out for Those.
But then - you knew that. Right?
(I sure hope that modrin psych or psyche repairfolk don't assign numbers to their charges. Tell me they don't! write stuff like "87.3% paranoid/delusional, 13.26% BPD, ___")
Yours for writing all dossiers in longhand, sans arithmetic - but enough adjectives.
(Ok.. maybe.. a few video clips of the client telling her story. Animatedly.)
PS, re your field - a friend is dealing with a family member who is skirting the territory of bipolar (a term it's difficult ever to use 'with Any precision', I gather from several long-winded essays). She found the book, Stop Walking on Eggshells. It is even in English. Enter: how best to test the pharmchem soups -VS- realizing how little is done ($$ spent) to study the cross-interactions of the many popular soups. Etc.
It is clear that she will be of vastly more importance in any outcome than - the (pridefully way-overbooked) #1 shrink. Fortunately she has also learned tact, the creative evasion of ego-induced testiness. 'Computer Science' is trivial (hell, it's ALL mere logic) compared with This Gig.
Why.. I'd bet it's 87.15% harder than say, designing say, some old Linux kernel?
:-\ufffd
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Post #208,921
5/28/05 10:12:42 AM
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I read what you wrote
and only understood about 1/3 of it. *Groan* Will have to respond back after I've showered and had my coffee and have the brain power to decipher.
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Post #209,028
5/29/05 11:08:57 PM
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Better get used to it.
That's how he ALWAYS speaks. He's like the anti-Box.
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall, aleph-null bottles of beer.
You take one down, you pass it around,
Aleph-null bottles of beer on the wall!
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Post #209,031
5/29/05 11:17:45 PM
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Re: Better get used to it.
Now there's a choice, eh? One who barely writes Engrish and another who's prose looks more like the path of a pinball going for the high score.
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Post #209,034
5/29/05 11:37:41 PM
5/29/05 11:39:59 PM
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Oops - double submit - read other
Edited by broomberg
May 29, 2005, 11:39:59 PM EDT
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Post #209,035
5/29/05 11:38:06 PM
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Close
Remember, Ashton is usually juggling 3 or more concepts at once.
So it's like the pinball game that goes beserk, and puts several balls into play at once.
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Post #209,058
5/30/05 10:48:09 AM
8/21/07 5:42:18 AM
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Balls-A-Poppin was the first of the multi-ball machines IIRC
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
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Post #209,067
5/30/05 12:09:12 PM
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The Batman machine was, imho, just about perfect.
The one that was released to coincide with Burton's film, that is.
Like this: [link|http://www.boomersamusements.com/batman_pinball_machine.htm|http://www.boomersam...nball_machine.htm]
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Post #209,088
5/30/05 6:25:55 PM
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My favorite was the Addam's Family
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