Yay monochrome!

Did McCain just nominate Laura Roslin to be his VP?

Hurricane alert puts New Orleans on evacuation footing

I’ve realized that I have undiagnosed Dyscalculia for several years now, but I never bothered to do much research on it. I never thought it had anything to do with much other than my very annoying tendency to flip numbers around (makes dialing the phone a pain in the ass sometimes) and my lack of ability to do math in my head. (makes tipping a pain in the ass)

So, poking around Wikipedia last night (not what I’d call the definitive source, but a good enough place to start…), I was amazed to discover that it covers a large number of symptoms, most of which I have to various degrees, many of which I just assumed were little “Julie is weird” quirks. Some highlights:

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So, I had to stop by the grocery store on the way home from work last night, and Will decided to come in with me. No big thing. We’re going down one of the aisles and a woman roughly our age looks at me and (with no irony, and barely a glance at Will) asks me if she can borrow him to get something off a high shelf.

“Well, you could ask him yourself.” I say. Will, being the decent sort, didn’t make too much fun of her. He even got her bottle off the top shelf. He did, however, ask me (mockingly) for permission for everything for the next hour.

Maybe the lady was just trying to be polite, but if the situation were reversed, with a strange man asking Will if I could help him with something instead of asking me directly, it would be creepy. Acknowledging someone’s existence only as an appendage of someone else (instead of as an autonomous entity) is rude, Y/N?

And I do seem to be abusing parenthesis today.

I seem to do summer pics in the winter, and winter pics in the summer. I guess the grass is always greener where one is not.

Did they stop teaching kids that 3ft. = 1 yd. at some point? I’m constantly getting folks who take the statement 100 yds. per roll as a puzzle up there with calculating molecular weight. Sheesh.

While trolling though craigslist, I usually have to employ the BS to English translator. Here’s a sample. (original here)

Filing GURU…I need a MASTER of admin organization!!

Doesn’t look good - gratuitous use of punctuation and capitalization is usually an indicator of someone I want to eviscerate.

I am seeking an efficient master of filing to come to my house and sort through every file, document and piece of paper that I have accumulated over the past years and organize them into an understandable filing system.

Oh, nothing major then. You wouldn’t happen to be a hoarder by any chance? (more…)

I’m finally getting around to watching the remake of The Lion in Winter with Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close. I’m halfway though and it’s phenomenal. That’s tough for me to say. I know (and adore) the original backwards and forwards the way some folks know Shakespeare. My family and friends have been known to quote it at the drop of a hat. (more…)

Toffee Nugget - Few men dare ask the question “What is toffee, exactly?” All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane.
-Luke Burns

Imagining the tenth dimension - from basic geometry to string theory, in ten steps. With music.

The first day on the set, he said to me, “Hey your name is Picardo. It’s so close to Captain Picard. Do the fans make fun of you?” And I said, “Excuse me. Your name is Andy Dick, and you’re going to make fun of mine?”
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