Recent content by mickey

Every time I log into this "forum," there are between 20 and 100 new posts in the Games threads and maybe one or two or NONE in any other thread. This "forum" should be renamed A Lonely Life Arcade and the owners should start charging money per play. Within a year they could buy themselves a...

My wish for Christmas is to wake up on Christmas morning having focused on the same interests for a full 31-day month and not bopped around from temporary fixation to temporary fixation. My other wish is for Disability not to screw up my November and December checks.

It's one of my pet peeves when people edit their posts after those posts have already received replies, even if I used to do that kind of thing myself. :(

Overcast and cold. A miserable morning that signals the start of winter. Boo. :(

Nice to meet you. (I'm not shy but find it a lot easier to relate to people in writing.)

Folger's instant coffee at the rate of one and a half rounded teaspoons of coffee crystals to an 8-oz mug of water. It's heavenly because my father and brother insist on making very weak coffee in the household coffeemaker and get pissed off when I make it stronger. I'm really enjoying a REAL...

Many people who have problems think that finding a girlfriend (or boyfriend) would solve all of those problems. In fact, having a girlfriend creates more problems than you had before you found one. Relationships are a matter of constant compromise and significantly reduce privacy and...

Aww Sol. :( People with Asperger's are human too! :) Back in 2007 I thought I[/i} had Asperger's. That doesn't appear to be the case, but a psychiatrist with a strong interest in adult Asperger's assessed me and said I had "some features" of it. What that appears to mean is that, in social...

I just lost interest in creating music with MuseScore. That interest had lasted five days, during which time I had written five new (substandard) pieces of music and even released some of them on internet radio. Before that I was all hot about learning functional programming languages, mainly...

Hmm. Maybe I'll start reading some old posts in those threads too. And Sol: read some Peter Wessel Zapffe. We're all human and trying hard not to be. :D

...20 threads on this forum that have received replies since I last checked eight hours ago. That's a fairly active forum. But 19 of those threads are already at more than 50 pages. What happens to a thread when it reaches more than two pages is that people stop reading anything that's not on...

CBC Radio 2, online, through my artist account. Their prime time show is classical music with a very good DJ. Today I not only heard some of the best Mendelssohn but learned that Mendelssohn "was born rich and died richer." Now that I know, I can definitely hear his wealth in his music!

A second account created in order to get around a ban is called a "sock puppet" or simply "sock." Among site administrators, sock accounts have been an object of hatred for decades, since before the internet existed and there were only local BBSs. Creating a sock account automatically makes you...

In the social sciences I'm very poorly read, so thanks for the reference. :)

You can still try a trick called retracing your steps. Go to the place you were when you realized the key was missing, then go to the place you were right before then, and so on, working backwards. This trick often works in finding stuff that gets put in a strange place because we get...