[ExI] far future

[William Flynn Wallace]

Anders is right.  Selecting for a more introverted personality pays several
dividends:  I (introverts) can focus longer, are less distracted (see
research on IRP - involuntary rest pauses - sometimes called brain
hiccups), and just generally are more serious people, in addition to being
smarter.  Extroverts (E) are the opposite.  Furthermore they tend to be the
ones jumping off things. NoDarwin's Awards for Is.  Extreme Es are out of
my far future gene pool.

Remember Time Bandits?  The scene with Napoleon:  "I just love seeing
little people running around and hitting one another."  This gene cluster
is gone.  Along with the one that gives us people who like Grand Theft
Auto.   bill




On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Spike claimed:
>
> "... so she turns right pi/2 ..."
>
> Spike, NOBODY turns right pi/2  :D
>
>
> "If Mrs. Claus travels 4 km north, then 3 km east, what is the maximum
> distance she can be from the igloo?"
>
> 5km, because east is 90 deg. from north, and the ground is flat over such
> short distances, and if she started out less than 4km from the north pole,
> she'd get stuck there, according to those directions, because once you get
> to it, you can't go any farther north.
>
> Ha!  Take that, maths-boy!
>
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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