Bob,

Just so you know, Sean, Kat's son, has a form of Asperger's Syndrome. I live with this in my day-to-day existence.

Michael

Ah!

Well think of the condition has being somewhat tune deaf in a musical world. It can be disconcerting but one can adapt to it.

I will get into more detail on how I adapted.

Could you do me a big favor. Could you tell me how to add another entry to the blog. I can't seem to find a new entry button.

As the dyslexic said when he was in trouble -- Pleh, Pleh!

Ba'al Chatzaf

So you must be good at constructing SQL queries eh? I write them everyday at work and sometimes I just write them using my intuition and they work. If someone asked me why they work I honestly could'nt explain since I never had any formal training in it. I intermix them with a lot of PHP code so they don't have to be too sophisticated.

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So you must be good at constructing SQL queries eh? I write them everyday at work and sometimes I just write them using my intuition and they work. If someone asked me why they work I honestly could'nt explain since I never had any formal training in it. I intermix them with a lot of PHP code so they don't have to be too sophisticated.

I invented a variant of SQL independently of Ted Codd. I was a tad disappointed that Codd scooped me but that is the way it goes. Thinking interms of second order predicate logic is like breathing for me. It comes natural. I am a flesh and blood automaton and I pass the Turing test with flying colors. I can even pass for human. Most of my career in software revolved around relational data bases and object oriented data bases. My main Good Trick was constructing data base systems with guardians that prevented badly structured data from being entered in the first place. The best way to keep a data base clean is to prevent it from getting dirty.

Ba'al Chatzaf

I have been doing some investigating and it just might be the case that Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton were Aspies. This must be speculative because neither of these persons are still around to examine. The speculation is based on biographical data which indicates the both Newton and Einstein exhibit non-typical behavior when they were young and exhibited some the the single-mindedness and non-sociability associated with Asperger's Syndrome.

One of my favorite fantasies is that back in the days when Cro-Magnons were settling in Europe there was some Cro-Mag nerd who spent his time busting up flint to see how to make pointy and sharp things pointier and sharper. Was the original Clovis arrow point designer a nerd? Or that nerd in the cave drawing pictures of animals instead of being sociable and gabbing with his mates around the fire. Sort of like software nerds hunkered down before a computer monitor doing their dream-doodles. Hmmmm..... Maybe?

Ba'al Chatzaf