Monthly Archives: October 2014

I just ate half a pound of beef and immediately got an erection. This is a good sign and a bad sign- I’ve got the right idea, but my testosterone has gone poopy. These last few weeks have not been … Continue reading →

Is it so hard to believe that people do bad things on purpose? H-1B records that are critical to research and take up a small amount of storage are set for deletion. “In a notice posted last week, the U.S. … Continue reading →

Simply incredible. That’s how you do satire. If you’re not up to speed, this is a superversion of Rachel Swirsky’s If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love, which won the Short Story Nebula award and was nominated for a Hugo. … Continue reading →

We marginal types tend to have similar cognitive profiles and knowledge bases: better-than-average general knowledge and general intelligence (which isn’t saying much), and disproportionately high knowledge and genius within our obsessive niche fields (possibly the common causal factor in all … Continue reading →

When I first discovered MBTI, I read and reread these different type descriptions obsessively until I could quote them. After that, I was able to simply tell people (whom I knew well) which type they were, because in my head … Continue reading →

This is a class of off days that I’ve noticed (off days are those I don’t work). Today is merely an example. Here’s some vocab for reference: Bipolar II. Since I’ve been saying “manic” a lot lately, I should clarify … Continue reading →

I’m far less certain about this one, but it would be easier and may deserve it’s own test run. Anyway, we’ve probably all seen paragraphs like this one: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr … Continue reading →

This caught my eye because I may have mistakenly identified myself as psychological profiling “savant” in the NH aspergoid inventory of traits. This deserves investigation. A savant is someone who is or appears to be exceptionally good at one or … Continue reading →

I’m going on a small trip, followed by a few days off. I’m not sure how I’m going to spend those days off, but one of my ideas is to do everything on my to-do list, and write off anything … Continue reading →

Ref: http://www.paulcooijmans.com/genius/associative_horizon.html I had suggested the possibility of reading this out of whatever effects are left over from the conscientiousness indicator (achievement vs. intelligence), but I think that’s probably stretching the statistics a little too far for purposes of prediction. … Continue reading →