Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by trichobezoar

We're gonna start a MENSAS Y MENSAS group at UNM. It'll be equivalent to MENSA International (the Exceptionally High IQ society), but we won't have to take tests, study or anything. All we have to do is a bunch of pendejadas, hang out, stuff like that. We're in the talking stages right now... It looks like I'm the only one who wants to join.

So, no relationship at all with Mensa International? Not a national Mensa?

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Never met an pendejadas before. But I have met a lot of pendejados. . .

Pendejos

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

Pendejos

Si, Sennora. (No tengo Tilde.)

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by stuartjmz

Living as I do in one of the few countries without snakes(not even zoos here are allowed them), this is a point I often make about us versus our neighbours on the penal side of the Tasman

But you don't know excitement until you seine out a Water Moccasin with a 3 meter minnow in turbid water. . . .

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

But you don't know excitement until you seine out a Water Moccasin with a 3 meter minnow in turbid water. . . .

So it's true what they say - ignorance IS bliss

[trichobezoar]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Si, Sennora. (No tengo Tilde.)

Si, senor. Pendejos, pendejas, pendejadas and... at least in NM, pendejados, such as (clicky) the ART (Albuquerque Rapid Transit) project.

[Bilbo1967]

Doing some washing in preparation for packing tomorrow. We're off to Budapest for a four night break on Monday

[trichobezoar]

That's cool, Bilbo1967!

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

So, no relationship at all with Mensa International? Not a national Mensa?

I'm sorry, I just saw this question... No, no connection with MENSA International at all, except I could've been in MENSA at 16 after I took an IQ test. I scored so high... The teacher kept congratulating me, following me around and congratulating me.

One other person at university wants to be in the group--the President of Student Veterans of UNM. She's very smart. She doesn't know her IQ score, but she has a semi-photographic memory. She strikes me as a very intelligent person. *nods*

There are many people in the Lower Working Class/Poor and Lower Middle Class socio-economic stratums who could've been in MENSA. But they were never given the tools necessary to succeed scholastically. They often don't have the cultural capital (i.e., knowledge of middle class norms and folkways) and/or practical intelligence (i.e., social skills, common sense, good judgement) needed to succeed in academia or the scientific community. We, as human beings, are creatures of habit and creatures of our environments after all. Environment and habits shape us--shape our minds, hearts and bodies to a large degree.

Location, location, location. Location, access to gatekeepers and habits are... almost everything.

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by trichobezoar

That's cool, Bilbo1967!



I'm sorry, I just saw this question... No, no connection with MENSA International at all, except I could've been in MENSA at 16 after I took an IQ test. I scored so high... The teacher kept congratulating me, following me around and congratulating me.

One other person at university wants to be in the group--the President of Student Veterans of UNM. She's very smart. She doesn't know her IQ score, but she has a semi-photographic memory. She strikes me as a very intelligent person. *nods*

There are many people in the Lower Working Class/Poor and Lower Middle Class socio-economic stratums who could've been in MENSA. But they were never given the tools necessary to succeed scholastically. They often don't have the cultural capital (i.e., knowledge of middle class norms and folkways) and/or practical intelligence (i.e., social skills, common sense, good judgement) needed to succeed in academia or the scientific community. We, as human beings, are creatures of habit and creatures of our environments after all. Environment and habits shape us--shape our minds, hearts and bodies to a large degree.

Location, location, location. Location, access to gatekeepers and habits are... almost everything.

We have great similarities. I was raised in the 2nd poorest school district in Texas (K thru 12. Actually 11, as I went to night school on crutches to get out a year early. Nobody followed me around, I and my high school interacted under the MAD doctrine. . . )

My 1978 MCAT put me in the top 16% percentile of the population that took the test (The MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) was already a highly skewed bell curve to start with. More than enough for MENSA, if I had bothered.

After the Bakke decision, I became a computer programmer. I refused to "grovel for grants". (And I studied the stock market, which I still do today. There is always a way out, with enough smarts and dedication.)

Just an old blonde-hair, blue-eyed, pachucho. . .

[Bilbo1967]

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

[trichobezoar]

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.

What are the odds? I just watched that episode--At Last the 1948 Show--today! And I didn't ever see this post!!

Oh my gosh, serendipity... or synchonicity... Same thing.

[Rumpelteazer]

I'm preparing for a busy day. We first have to drop the car off at the garage and pick up a loaner car. Then we go to a supplier nearby the garage. It's a really old fashioned supplier; you're allowed to walk through the aisles in their warehouse and pick out what you need yourself. Hopefully by the time we're done the car's ready for pick up. After that my father will drop me off at the craft store whilst he visits one of our suppliers next door, followed by a visit to yet another supplier. And finally we're going to the supermarket for a couple of things.

Meanwhile I have to restrain myself from pre-ordering the new Paperwhite; I just saw I can do that from the German Amazon website. My Voyage is still working fine, except for a couple of pinpricks of light. Plus Kindles are somewhat notorious for have problems when they first come out. So I'm going to try and wait for the reviews to come in and see if it's worth the upgrade. It might be a good Christmas gift for my mother; she's always complaining about dirt between the bezel and screen.

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by trichobezoar

What are the odds? I just watched that episode--At Last the 1948 Show--today! And I didn't ever see this post!!

Oh my gosh, serendipity... or synchonicity... Same thing.

You know, I saw you mention the show and I did wonder if you'd seen my post and sought it out. Small world

Right now, I'm sitting on the balcony of our apartment in Budapest sipping a glass of wine.

[John K]

I don't know about anyone else but I could use an update on what Luna and Maru have been up to.

[Rumpelteazer]

Originally Posted by John K

I don't know about anyone else but I could use an update on what Luna and Maru have been up to.

Their doing great. It's been so busy that I haven't been able to take any good pictures. At night they sleep and in the low lighting it looks like a black blob rather than a cat.

Maru, who's now playing with my curtains, seems to sense when I start waking up in the morning. Each morning she comes into my room and walks over my chest, purring loudly until we have properly cuddled. This morning I acted as if I was asleep too long and she jumped on me from half way up the stairs next to my bed.

Luna is still the bold one, trying out new things first and after her dinner she wants to have access to my lap for a while. They're now also allowed in my parents bedroom at night and they do behave well, mostly. Most of the night they sleep on their bed.