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serynI should probably drop one of the DW news notifications, because as interesting as the progress is (and it is interesting to me), I don't need 3 copies.
The cable works just dandy now. The magic serial cable channel changer does just work. I really have no idea why they would ship the boxes with that setting borked on purpose without it being a big section in the help and without the customer service people mentioning it.
The TiVo successfully recorded the season intro to House. I didn't like it. I found it extremely depressing. I didn't understand it either because the point seemed to be that House was defective because he is isolated from people emotionally and socially. But House is supposed to be this genius doctor, so most people are mentally inferior to him. Why would he want to interact with them? I don't understand it.
But then again, my doctor asked me why I struggle with things and I said, "I don't like people very much." This got a visible reaction of surprise and shock. Doctors have to be extroverted. They deal with the public day in and day out. They have to listen to strangers and touch people's flesh. So I should probably guess that my doctor thinks of introversion as non-treatment-indicated delusion.
That makes me surprised House made it to the pinnacle of success his career indicated because dramatic license would not assuage the requirement for the character's extroversion. But the smart doctors who like people generally all seem like they're less talented medically. I certainly believe that extroverts are less talented intellectually than introverts. They must be because so much time is wasted Hail Fellowing and because so many unqualified people get jobs via modern nepotism [they call it "networking" but it's really institutionalized discrimination] that extroverts would have no need to actually be talented.
I'm reading What A Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken. I am liking it except it keeps head-hopping and everyone has [ridiculous string of consonants like someone's gotten beyond-the-stereotype Welsh confused with [ancient Norse]] names that all look the same. The main characters are called Dagmar and Gwen(something). Want to guess which is the woman? Yeah, Dagwood's the woman and GwenStefani is the dragon-man. Next we're going to meet the rest of Dagwood's useless family of morons, but shockingly they're not the Harlem Black Girls, they have [more shake a bingo-ball tumbler full of letters] names! Though Dagwood's father does fully admit he can't be arsed to remember his son's names. I definitely missed something by starting with book 3.
The cable works just dandy now. The magic serial cable channel changer does just work. I really have no idea why they would ship the boxes with that setting borked on purpose without it being a big section in the help and without the customer service people mentioning it.
The TiVo successfully recorded the season intro to House. I didn't like it. I found it extremely depressing. I didn't understand it either because the point seemed to be that House was defective because he is isolated from people emotionally and socially. But House is supposed to be this genius doctor, so most people are mentally inferior to him. Why would he want to interact with them? I don't understand it.
But then again, my doctor asked me why I struggle with things and I said, "I don't like people very much." This got a visible reaction of surprise and shock. Doctors have to be extroverted. They deal with the public day in and day out. They have to listen to strangers and touch people's flesh. So I should probably guess that my doctor thinks of introversion as non-treatment-indicated delusion.
That makes me surprised House made it to the pinnacle of success his career indicated because dramatic license would not assuage the requirement for the character's extroversion. But the smart doctors who like people generally all seem like they're less talented medically. I certainly believe that extroverts are less talented intellectually than introverts. They must be because so much time is wasted Hail Fellowing and because so many unqualified people get jobs via modern nepotism [they call it "networking" but it's really institutionalized discrimination] that extroverts would have no need to actually be talented.
I'm reading What A Dragon Should Know by G.A. Aiken. I am liking it except it keeps head-hopping and everyone has [ridiculous string of consonants like someone's gotten beyond-the-stereotype Welsh confused with [ancient Norse]] names that all look the same. The main characters are called Dagmar and Gwen(something). Want to guess which is the woman? Yeah, Dagwood's the woman and GwenStefani is the dragon-man. Next we're going to meet the rest of Dagwood's useless family of morons, but shockingly they're not the Harlem Black Girls, they have [more shake a bingo-ball tumbler full of letters] names! Though Dagwood's father does fully admit he can't be arsed to remember his son's names. I definitely missed something by starting with book 3.
