Here is another Happy Hodgepodge post for you. This one is about a new streaming show I am now thoroughly hooked on. It is on the AcornTV streaming channel and is available for 4 seasons (2015 – 2018). The storylines, … Continue reading 800 Words
Since winter is my most devastating season, cabin fever has been very common to me over the years. Because of my type of deafness, snow and ice are my enemy. I have landed in the hospital on numerous occasions with … Continue reading RetComLife #27 – Cabin Fever
It seems that everyday I get a little more fed up with all the distracting annoyances that are put in my way of seeing my daily news feeds. The advertisements are becoming maddening. On many sites, they pop up over … Continue reading About Inkl
I have all my 20,000+ picture portfolio in the Amazon cloud now, and a neat feature of this new, to me, app is that it gives me memory shots from each day from the past. This one was taken twelve … Continue reading On This Day – 2010
I don’t mind admitting when I am wrong about something. Many times I jump the gun. The website Medium.com was one of those times. On a previous post, I recommended The Medium as a source for unbiased news, but after … Continue reading I Was Wrong…
Have you ever stopped to think about all the great accomplishments in the world are done by strange people? At least, strange by majority standards. If you look at most lists of people who have likely had Asperger’s, you will … Continue reading Strange People Have Done Great Things
I am fascinated with the idea of utopia. It just seems that people ought to be able to live with one another in harmony, instead of constant conflict. That was one of the reasons I am attracted to the words … Continue reading Utopia
“ People become stupid when they do not want to understand, where understanding would cause anxiety or guilt feeling, or would endanger an existing neurotic equilibrium. Deitrich Bonhoeffer This is a short quote from Bonhoeffer, but it speaks volumes about stupidity. I like … Continue reading Understanding Stupidity #4 -Neurotic Equilibrium
No matter how hard the shell is that people build around themselves, there is always a creamy center. At least that is how some of us view things. Getting to that creamy center is not always easy. Narcissists and autocrats … Continue reading There Is Always A Creamy Center…
I am finding that one of the hardest things about living in my retirement community is learning who is who. I’m not certain, but I think there are about 400 of us living here, and after six months I can … Continue reading RetComLive #26 – Who’s Who??
People don’t know what they want until you tell them. Steve Jobs I don’t know if the quote above is exactly accurate, but it gets the message across. In the corporate world, I invented several software tools, now called apps, … Continue reading People Don’t Know What They Want…
I have been trying to figure out a way to let some of my lesser seen creativity loose here on RJsCorner. My creative urges just never seemed to be quenched. Here is the latest idea. A Picture Is Worth… will … Continue reading A Picture Is Worth…
Anomaly is a word that is not frequently used, but I kinda think it needs to be. The definition here is a good one, but I think it can be described a little differently. You might call it “an exception … Continue reading Disorder or Anomaly?
Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion … Continue reading Understanding Stupidity #3 – How To Get The Better Of It.
I have been struggling about six months now, trying to decide whether to call myself autistic. My main trouble with that is that I just don’t relate to what the general population thinks is autistic. To them, there are two … Continue reading I Choose Asperger’s
Welcome to the first post in the new “Happy Hodgepodge” category here on RJsCorner. It’s about things that just don’t fit anywhere else, but makes me happy for one reason or another. Welcome Aboard the Happy Hodgepodge Don’t get me … Continue reading Roasted Asparagus
We are in almost total lockdown at my retirement community now. The dining room is shut down, and they have even stopped chauffeuring people to the local college basketball games. That was the one exemption that was left after last … Continue reading RetComLife #25 – LOCKDOWN!!
A recent study found that the people with higher IQs have more stable interactions between regions of their brain. This seems to back up the general thought among the specialists in studying intelligence agree on. Simply speaking, high intelligence is … Continue reading High Intelligence And Asperger’s
As mentioned in the previous post in this series, I have discovered the hard way that happiness can never happen when you become fixated on your unhappiness. I think this post will be the end of this series, as I … Continue reading Happiness #9 – Conquering Unhappiness
What makes you think that you are not a figment of my imagination?? RJ Walters I have been reading a lot of philosophy stuff lately, and have come to the conclusion that all of this nasty stuff going on today … Continue reading What Makes You Think…
This is a new Special Series here at RJsCorner. It will be ten posts long and cover the things on the poster to the right.. Life’s Rules is about “being” a good person and a world citizen and caretaker. It … Continue reading Life’s Rules #1 – Prepare To Learn
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