mdlbear | Done yesterday (20110419 Tu) (Reply)

0419 Tu
  * up 6:30; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth, coffee, dishes, light
  @ esr: The Smartphone Wars: Android measured at over 50% U.S. market share
    Nokia and RIM bleeding smartphone share while Android cleans up
    Android is now over 50% in the US and Japan.  Wow!
  @ asexual_fandom | Writing Asexuals in Sex Scenes via ysabetwordsmith 
  @ The Ferrett's Journal - Team Players
  @ Apple's iOS Has Twice the Reach of Android, ComScore Finds
    ...but only if you count the iPod Touch and the iPad
  @ http://www.google.com/webhp gets to google's main page reliably; otherwise
    it remembers whether you were on main or iGoogle last.  Related hacking on
    home.html to add (i)G links to the top line.
  @ Online Alexithymia Questionnaire - G2 -> 145.  Oh.  Right.
    I don't ask what other people would feel in my situation, but should.
    (I'm pretty atypical, though:  high empathy, etc.)
    cf Disaffectation
    Alexithymia
    Alexithymia What is Alexithymia?
  @ Emotional Intelligence good site!
  @ Emotional Processing another good site
  @ Jean-Claude Heudin: Japan asks: Where are our robots? via rowanf
  * requested 2 days vacation for May 0519-23; got it wrong.
  * Avoiding group
    Assertiveness.  Sounds useful.
  * Seattle tix for the weekend after Mother's Day  14th/15th
    purchased using reward tickets.  Thank goodness I double-checked; I nearly
    got the date wrong through having misremembered it.  Idiot bear.
    San Jose, CA to Seattle, WA (05/12/2011 - 05/16/2011)
    Confirmation: WZGI4Z Air Total:$5.00
  @ xkcd: Heaven LOL
  * bed 11ish
  * dreams involved some kind of party in a hotel on a hill, in the snow.  It
    also involved a grocery-shopping expedition afterward.  The family or
    group vehicle was a pickup truck.

Somehow I got the weekend wrong when applying for vacation time for my next trip to Seattle, but fortunately cross-checked before I hit the submit button on my plane tickets. So it'll be the weekend after Mother's Day after all. I will not be going to Norwescon this year.

I ought to get some scratch tracks down before then.

I also got pointed to the Online Alexithymia Questionnaire. You have to download it and read it from your local disk in order to get the scoring javascript code, which I really don't understand. Maybe the blog site strips out javascript? Anyway, I scored 145, so even if some of my answers were marginal or just plain wrong I'd probably still be well above the threshold of 115. I didn't expect it to be quite so clearcut.

Some of the questions suggest that I ought to be asking other people what they would be feeling in a given situation, or what they think I'm feeling. I don't, but that's because I'm also very shy, not because I don't need the feedback.

So two broad classes of links today: the assorted alexithymia links, and some relating to Android measured at over 50% U.S. smartphone market share. Also in Japan. (IOS is still ahead, so far, but only if you count both iPods and iPads.)