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Recent content by Shevek

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    Exercise and sports (preferably endurance sports) as a hobby/interest. Anybody else?

    I'm still riding a bike almost daily, but I'm definitely slowing down. I'm pleasantly surprised that riding still feels good even though I'm now using to waste energy instead of save it, having nowhere to go that isn't either a ten minute walk at most, or an hour or more of driving. Sometimes...
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    Do we have way more computer power than we need?

    For years I lusted after a computer powerful enough for CAD. Now, I have far more capacity than I even dreamed of then, but most of it, and my 'net traffic, is to support advertising, and keep it from slowing the desired content down too badly. Overall, I think it would be cheaper, and far...
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    Signs of Spring (post them here)

    Stands of trees are slightly more opaque, and my nearest lake is about half open water now. Ducks and Geese are claiming nesting territory. The floods are well past peak with no problems, and I found my first Moose tracks in my yard. Also, I'm shopping for tires without studs.
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    Rainman

    That movie would seem far more plausible if the aspie, who had only known institutional life, had about a month to recover between those wild new adventures.
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    *Little* Things That Annoy You (Pet Peeves)

    When my computer pops up a message about setting up some data-mining scheme I don't want, the choices are "do it now" or "remind me later" but never "forget it."
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    Maybe too meticulous?

    When I wired a small theatre, I put in a custom circuit and two different size light bulbs in the EXIT signs. When the house lighting went down, you could put those lights in series, so the one at the rear was dimmer, and the one beside the stage was still easily visible, but never distracting...
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    Can you please tell me fun facts about spiders?

    In Europe, it is common to have a spider ladder dangling into a bathtub, for the spiders who get trapped there with no line out. The original spider, with just one dangling sticky thread, is still making a living. We can't farm spider fiber the way we can get silk, because spiders are cannibals.
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    Driving Challenges

    Perhaps you are not trusting your automatic reflexes. We usually don't need to consciously think about how to walk and balance on two legs, how to put on clothes, or how to wash a dish. We decide to do those things, and a subconscious "body memory" does the work. Driving should be the same...
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    Empathy for non-living things

    Museums and heritage buildings are about people's reverence for things. Around here, farms often display the machine that first made them prosperous. Old cars sometimes sell for more than they cost new. "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song about some sailors salvaging a fishing boat because she...
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    Can you please tell me fun facts about spiders?

    A spider's web has strong radial threads as a framework to walk on and support the thinner, sticky threads that catch other insects. Each radial thread has a different length and tension, so when something is caught, the frequency of the vibration tells the spider which direction to find it in.
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    Can you please tell me fun facts about spiders?

    My friends saw a spider web in an upper corner of their bathroom, so they started taking all the dead flies, etc, that they found there, and really fattened the spinner up. One time, I swept the toe space under my kitchen cabinets, and noticed a fly flying in an erratic, tight pattern in the...
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    Empathy for non-living things

    Any chance you can make a new "skin" for that dishwasher to keep you both happy? Or, sell it cheap to someone who will continue to appreciate it? I'll be sad if I can't find someone to continue happily using my tools and other gear. Of course, they won't have the happy memories of how a lot of...
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    Addressing double standards in dating/love/sex

    Ever since Ma Nature invented gender, every critter has had to determine two things before reacting to another critter: 1: It it my species? 2: If yes, which gender? I first found out about double standards around age two. My mother was usually meticulously fair. If she was visiting...
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    What do you wish your parents had done differently?

    I didn't find out about AS until I was 57, but I still think it is relevant that my parents never listened to me, they were only concerned with being considered good parents without spending much time on it.
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    I Want To Hope Again

    Around here, the health care would collapse if not for the front line people who care about the patients, while the administration just tries to maximize billing. In most group efforts, there are skilled people carrying more than their share. You might want to do some volunteer work to meet...
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