Could You Have Aspergers Syndrome? My score: Your Aspie score: 153 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200 You are very likely an Aspie This is the best online quiz to test for possible AS traits that I’ve found (despite one or two odd questions, such as “Do you like watching rodeo-riders?”; that […]
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I do a lot of online surveys and opinion polls. Some of them pay cash or redeemable points, some give me entries in prize draws. The money isn’t anyone’s idea of a fortune, but it helps. Going through the questions each time, it’s clear to me that most of these surveys reflect some ad agency […]
For months, I’ve been getting steadily more tired and breathless; and I’ve been waking up with a dull, throbbing headache, every single morning without fail. So I took myself along to see Doc G yesterday; he couldn’t find anything obviously wrong, so he booked me in for lots of tests. This morning, I wake up […]
In an earlier post, I related how I got so peed off with the ignorant credulity of the Independent on Sunday’s science writing that I switched to the Observer. Yesterday’s front page story gave me cause to start rethinking my decision: Forensic DNA tests ‘reveal traces of Madeleine’s body on resort beach’. This reported how […]
…my eyes are playing up again. I’d left off putting in the twice-daily eyedrops about a week ago, thinking that maybe the dry eyes thing was just a temporary phase. But it’s not – yesterday I woke up with blurred sight, barely able to read anything. So the day was spent lying on the sofa, […]
Zoo Knudsen has discovered a hitherto undiscovered consequence of Global Warming: Homeopathic Scientist Reveals Oceans May Soon be Diluted to Dangerous Levels
Got my computer back, for the time being. Our super new printer has run out of toner, and it will be a few days before we can get some more. So B can’t do any printing for now. I’ve got a motherboard for B’s computer on order, should be here by the end of the […]
My machine is now inaccessible for me most of the time, owing to B having to print the Elfin Desk Diary on it. One of the last things his motherboard did before popping its clogs was to corrupt the one and only Diary file that he was printing from. (Yes, I know, back up, always […]
B’s computer problems turned out to be a dying motherboard. The HD was fine, and I stuck it in my machine and installed XP and everything else with no problems. So he’s now using my machine for this urgent print job that he’s in the middle of. Which means I don’t have much time to […]