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Thursday, July 22, 2010 6:23 PM
IREMISST
Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:17 PM
BYTEMITE
Thursday, July 22, 2010 7:25 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:15 AM
LWAVES
Friday, July 23, 2010 11:25 AM
Friday, July 23, 2010 12:03 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Hmmm... You really wanna go there? Are you ready to know the "non-angry" side of me? Okey-dokey! 1. I love architecture and art. My family thinks I'm a freak for that, because I see things out in the world and say things like, "Wow, that garden has a very Kandinsky feel to it!" Or "Ooooh - Saul Bass-ish!" 2. I was horribly uncoordinated from around age 16 'til my late 30s. I grew over 6 inches in my Junior year of high school, and it took me years to ever catch up, inner-ear-wise. :) I can dunk a basketball, but I'll never be a pro! 3. I dream of winning the lottery, so that I could finally have the time and money to go back to school. I always wanted to try law school. When I have the time, I don't have the money, and vice-versa. 4. I collect vintage dishes. I prefer Fiesta Ware™, and have quite a bit of it. I eat off it every day. It cheers me up. I also like some of the other 50s-era stuff, and some Depression-era dishes. I've got a big collection of Jewel Tea dishes, and quite a bit of Harlequin and Riviera Ware. 5. I also collect French poster art from the late 1800s, from artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Cheret, and Alphonse Mucha (my favorite). I have decorated entire rooms around favorite pieces of art. Here's a bonus one: my wife's sister (the diagnostician for the school system) is convinced that I have a high-functioning form of Asperger's Syndrome. She gave me a test for it, and I scored off the charts. It didn't help that I told her that three of the questions were repeated in the test, and one of them was repeated TWICE, and then told her which question numbers they were... She's very excited about "finally finding one", as she put it. :) Of course, it also didn't help when I told her I spotted the pattern of the questions about three questions in, and kinda pushed my answers a li'l bit to tweak her!
Friday, July 23, 2010 12:12 PM
Friday, July 23, 2010 1:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Iremisst: Ok, Lwaves... Have permanently downloaded the association JohnWavesHi into my frontal cortex! Good Luck with your weight loss endeavor and please let us know if you succeed. The key is to ease your way in to any lifestyle changes and make them a part of your daily routine. Watch out for the self-sabotaging "eh, what's a little bit of this gonna hurt?" The answer is "A lot, in the long run..."
Friday, July 23, 2010 1:15 PM
Quote: Was wondering why you seemed...familiar... Am pretty sure my significant other has Aspergers. He fits every qualifier to a tee. Once I figured it out our marraige got lots better. I have found creative ways to work with him and around him. Understanding why he does a thing sure takes the angry out of "Why the hell are you doing that?" He, too, is a very angry guy, but better now that we work on it... That and the 85% divorce rate scares the hell out of him. Prozac helps, but he still hates the thought of it. Give your wife an extra hug tonight and tell her... I sympathize
Friday, July 23, 2010 1:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko Yup. It's not any kind of big deal, really - it didn't hit me like a thunderclap when I heard someone listing off symptoms and behaviors that point to AS; it hit me as a RELIEF! I was like, "Well, THAT explains a lot! Thank goodness for that, now I don't have to wonder..." And yes, the things I do, I need to do a certain way, even the most mundane of things. When I make a sandwich, I don't care so much whether it's mayo or mustard, but I will not eat it if the cheese isn't against the mayo or mustard. The meat can't be right next to the condiment - it has to be the cheese. Changes the whole sandwich, for me. Yeah. Weird little stuff like that.
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:00 PM
MAL4PREZ
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:49 PM
Quote:Originally posted by mal4prez: 2. I have a tendency to OCD, in an odd way. I get addicted to hobbies and spend insane amounts of time and money pursuing them wildly. But just until I start getting good at whatever it is. Then I lose interest. Hence the unfinished fic (I'm trying), and the abandoned kiln and wheel and a few $1000 worth of clay and glaze chemicals sitting lonely at my old house.
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:58 PM
PENGUIN
Friday, July 23, 2010 4:03 PM
Friday, July 23, 2010 4:06 PM
Friday, July 23, 2010 4:25 PM
CHRISISALL
Friday, July 23, 2010 4:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Penguin: Cows, corn, and the Field of Dreams! King of the Mythical Land that is Iowa
Friday, July 23, 2010 4:44 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Iremisst: Awwww, no fair. You have all that and you no use it? I have always wanted to pick it back up.... it's sooo soothing. Too expensive for us, it's "fix the electrical and pay for soccer or support mommie's fix"-No contest there... Not much profit in it these days,anyway ... but it's fun just the same. Why create when you can Corell and use the same dishes for 100,000 years?. Some days technology totally kills creativity...
Saturday, July 24, 2010 3:54 AM
Quote:Originally posted by mal4prez: Location is also a problem. I really want to do more raku, but it's not so easy to do smokey outdoor firings in my neighborhood.
Saturday, July 24, 2010 4:02 AM
Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: 1. My real first name is John. I use two usernames, 'lwaves' and 'wideload' (see No3). I class myself as English not British and always fill that 'other' category in on official forms.
Saturday, July 24, 2010 10:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Iremisst: Quote:Originally posted by lwaves: 1. My real first name is John. I use two usernames, 'lwaves' and 'wideload' (see No3). I class myself as English not British and always fill that 'other' category in on official forms. Did you see the other day something about England made it where you can't blog things anonymously? What the hell is up with>> that? That's half the fun of the internet!
Monday, July 26, 2010 11:09 AM
Monday, July 26, 2010 11:58 AM
THESOMNAMBULIST
Monday, July 26, 2010 5:09 PM
Quote:Originally posted by TheSomnambulist: • My username is NOT from the Angel episode 'The Somnambulist' - it is actually from the character of the Somnambulist from my favourite silent film "The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari". • I am half English half Grenadian and although both countrys speak English, my first language was actually Spanish/Guarani as I grew up in Paraguay in South America.
Monday, July 26, 2010 11:32 PM
Quote:I'm sad to say the only reference to Paraguay I have is from Willy Wonka... Were you the one that fabricated that fifth golden ticket? God, I'ma gonna die in this corn-growin' hellhole without knowin' anything of the rest of the world, aren't I?
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:27 AM
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:29 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Penguin: Cows, corn, and the Field of Dreams!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:05 PM
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