Professional Asperger’s
I’ve worked with quite a few folks who exhibit what I’ll call Professional Asperger’s. See if this sounds familiar: You stop by their office to ask a question. They look up with their lips pursed, give you a one-word answer, then return their attention to their computer. Consistently. In a meeting, a co-worker admits to making a mistake. This person literally boggles, and with a clipped tone reprimands […]
Another Science Fiction
Megan Prelingerhas done society a great service: by publishing a book of commercial space advertisements from the 1950’s and 1960’s. These are the great old illustrations of rockets, moon bases, and astronauts, each reproduced in full color on glossy paper in this book that would look perfect on a coffee table. Each illustration bursts with optimism. This was the era where we would go to the moon, we would establish bases, and we […]