Comments for Perseveration.org http://perseveration.org A difference. Not a disease. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= Comment on Aspie Revelation (cough cough) by Maddy http://perseveration.org/?p=141#comment-906 Maddy Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:57:43 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=141#comment-906 How bizarre is that. I have a similar dilemma every once in a while when one of the children is ill [I'm a stay at home non working mum] The school has strict rules about sending children to school when they're ill/off color and those infections can be pretty rampant. I don't suppose people get mumps any more [thank goodness] but I remember having it when I was little - not fun - but all the attention certainly was. How bizarre is that. I have a similar dilemma every once in a while when one of the children is ill [I’m a stay at home non working mum] The school has strict rules about sending children to school when they’re ill/off color and those infections can be pretty rampant.
I don’t suppose people get mumps any more [thank goodness] but I remember having it when I was little - not fun - but all the attention certainly was.

]]> Comment on Aspie Revelation (cough cough) by Ben http://perseveration.org/?p=141#comment-904 Ben Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:14:38 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=141#comment-904 Here I am, sitting in my room, sick ... and reading this just made my day :) Here I am, sitting in my room, sick … and reading this just made my day :)

]]> Comment on iPad is Here! Me Too! by jeff http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-886 jeff Sun, 02 May 2010 06:59:22 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-886 I love my iPad. My eyes are tired though. I've been on it for about 20 of the last 24 hours. I guess I better sleep now. I love my iPad.

My eyes are tired though. I’ve been on it for about 20 of the last 24 hours.

I guess I better sleep now.

]]> Comment on iPad is Here! Me Too! by jeff http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-885 jeff Sun, 02 May 2010 06:56:30 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-885 Well, I figure it's even. When Apple came out with the first laser printer back in the '80s, they had to sell it for $1000USD. Why? Because Adobe took $700 off the top of each printer for the font license. I doubt Steve Jobs ever forgot that. So, now Apple is big enough to push Adobe around a bit. They'll both get it together eventually. Well, I figure it’s even. When Apple came out with the first laser printer back in the ’80s, they had to sell it for $1000USD. Why? Because Adobe took $700 off the top of each printer for the font license.

I doubt Steve Jobs ever forgot that.

So, now Apple is big enough to push Adobe around a bit. They’ll both get it together eventually.

]]> Comment on iPad is Here! Me Too! by Kent Adams http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-884 Kent Adams Sat, 01 May 2010 23:57:02 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-884 Flash =old and busted Html5 = new hotness Flash's days are numbered. Take a look at this graph http://gizmodo.com/5528936/the-h264-encoding-boom Sent from my iPad Flash =old and busted

Html5 = new hotness

Flash’s days are numbered. Take a look at this graph

http://gizmodo.com/5528936/the-h264-encoding-boom

Sent from my iPad

]]> Comment on iPad is Here! Me Too! by Laurentius Rex http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-883 Laurentius Rex Sat, 01 May 2010 22:54:57 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=139#comment-883 Apple is the new microsoft, unrepentant and arrogant. Wot no Flash ! without Adobe where would apple have been in the graphics world? Don't piss on anyone when you are on the way up because you might meet them on the way down. I hate Apple, I hate Microsoft but these days I hate Apple the most. Apple is the new microsoft, unrepentant and arrogant.

Wot no Flash ! without Adobe where would apple have been in the graphics world?

Don’t piss on anyone when you are on the way up because you might meet them on the way down.

I hate Apple, I hate Microsoft but these days I hate Apple the most.

]]> Comment on On Eye Contact by Actively Listening to your Child | MyGeniusMath.com http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-876 Actively Listening to your Child | MyGeniusMath.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:45:18 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-876 [...] On Eye Contact » Perseveration.org [...] […] On Eye Contact » Perseveration.org […]

]]> Comment on On Eye Contact by Zach Lassiter http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-872 Zach Lassiter Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:23:58 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-872 There is a great video out there on why people with <a href="http://www.aspieweb.net/autistic-dont-look-into-eyes/" rel="nofollow">autism don't look people in the eye</a>. Check it out. There is a great video out there on why people with autism don’t look people in the eye. Check it out.

]]> Comment on On Eye Contact by rose http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-871 rose Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:43:46 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-871 Some people have very intense eye contact...others are gentle, and barely intrude. Some people make me nervous as hell, while others set me at ease. I don't know how else to say it. I guess I take eye contact on a case by case basis. While I used Catherine Maurice's book, based on Lovaas's ABA, to teach my son language, I never made him make eye contact or sit (items #2 and #3 in "ya gotta save your child" behaviorism, if I remember right). I guess you could say I never "trained" him, because it just felt wrong. Being shy myself, why would I demand it of him? It was stupid. BUT, it was a great book to cover the basics of language, and allowed me to check off down the line every word I presented visually or kinesthetically to him for over a year of teaching language via pictures and movement. I don't know if it made a difference, but I sure as hell know he didn't pick up language by hearing. I wonder where Ben would be if I hadn't presented thousands of words to him visually/kinesthetically. I'll go to my grave wondering. Some people have very intense eye contact…others are gentle, and barely intrude. Some people make me nervous as hell, while others set me at ease. I don’t know how else to say it. I guess I take eye contact on a case by case basis.

While I used Catherine Maurice’s book, based on Lovaas’s ABA, to teach my son language, I never made him make eye contact or sit (items #2 and #3 in “ya gotta save your child” behaviorism, if I remember right). I guess you could say I never “trained” him, because it just felt wrong. Being shy myself, why would I demand it of him? It was stupid. BUT, it was a great book to cover the basics of language, and allowed me to check off down the line every word I presented visually or kinesthetically to him for over a year of teaching language via pictures and movement.

I don’t know if it made a difference, but I sure as hell know he didn’t pick up language by hearing. I wonder where Ben would be if I hadn’t presented thousands of words to him visually/kinesthetically. I’ll go to my grave wondering.

]]> Comment on On Eye Contact by Mark Ty-Wharton http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-870 Mark Ty-Wharton Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:06:30 +0000 http://perseveration.org/?p=138#comment-870 My experience of eye contact is, I learned to make positive eye contact on an advanced course run by Landmark Education in London. The training involved standing in a room with all the other course participants and staring into their eyes one by one until I had done the whole room of around 150 people. This took several hours. My stories about the eyes being windows to the sould disappeared. Eyes are ocular devices connected to the brain to allow us to see. Until then I used to stare at the floor a lot and didn't make much eye contact. After doing their course, I am very comfortable with eye contact. What I notice about eye contact though, is when I make a lot of eye contact, the person I am speaking to is not always comfortable with it. The other thing I notice is I don't listen to a single word a person is saying when I look at their eyes. What works for me is to look at the floor to minimise distractions and get the context of the conversation entirely from tone of voice. It sometimes helps the person I am communicating with when I tell them this is my communication style. Kind regards Mark My experience of eye contact is, I learned to make positive eye contact on an advanced course run by Landmark Education in London. The training involved standing in a room with all the other course participants and staring into their eyes one by one until I had done the whole room of around 150 people. This took several hours.
My stories about the eyes being windows to the sould disappeared. Eyes are ocular devices connected to the brain to allow us to see.
Until then I used to stare at the floor a lot and didn’t make much eye contact.
After doing their course, I am very comfortable with eye contact.
What I notice about eye contact though, is when I make a lot of eye contact, the person I am speaking to is not always comfortable with it.
The other thing I notice is I don’t listen to a single word a person is saying when I look at their eyes.
What works for me is to look at the floor to minimise distractions and get the context of the conversation entirely from tone of voice.
It sometimes helps the person I am communicating with when I tell them this is my communication style.
Kind regards
Mark

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