aspergers & computers (was: Re: [thechat] Whisky Question)

[Erika Meyer]

Andrew writes:
>>>Perhaps I suffer more from this than I thought:
>>>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html

*erika blathers incessantly in response*

Andrew retorts:
>I don't think I was being quite as serious as all that -- more 
>observing how sometimes when something apparently off-the-wall hits 
>a subject I really want to know how it relates.

duh!

as if that should stop me from going off on a tangent.

Must be my ADD.  (No I'm not quite joking, I keep meaning to get 
myself tested... but then I forget all about it...)

>The article, I thought, was well balanced and I found especially 
>interesting the relationship drawn between many generations of 
>professors and academics with today's growing communities of 
>out-and-out geeks.

very nice, yes.  so what if you're an academic AND a geek?

Erika
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