*winces in pain*

I've got a wisdom tooth coming in. Fortunately, it's coming in right where I had an adult tooth removed when I was ten. Unfortunately, those four teeth were removed because my jaw was too small to accomodate them. Also unfortunately, it HURTS. A LOT. Now I understand why babies scream, because teething is really, really, really painful, especially when you're trying to sleep.

So, guess who's 1. buying some oragel, stat and 2. going to the dentist? Hm. Haven't been to the dentist in a while, so I guess this is a blessing in disguise. Maybe.

*screams*

I think he may be denser than Mr. God-is-not-a-cause, at least where it comes to the principles of logical arguments.

People sure are stupid about physics.

We're going over the Laws of Motion (especially gravity). Everybody understands that acceleration due to gravity, on earth, is pretty much a constant (9.8 m/s², give or take .001 if you're on a very high mountain). We all understand that heavy objects really don't fall faster than lighter ones (as demonstrated by crumpling up paper and dropping it, noting that once there's no significant air resistance it falls like a rock). He demonstrates the fact that a ball thrown horizontally will hit the ground in the same amount of time as one dropped from the same height.

But that's not good enough. Now the questions have to start. What if it's a gun? What if it's going really fast, say 5000 m/s? You can't say that'd land at the same time!

Um, yes, yes I can. Because it's true. After one second, it'll drop 4.9 meters. After two, it'll have dropped nearly 20. You can't defeat the universal law of gravity simply by running faster. This isn't a roadrunner cartoon, it's real life.

Honestly, I don't know where people get these ideas from.

Oh, and the orajel thing? I ended up with the adult orajel. Bad idea. It's a liquid, and there's NO way to apply it without it sloshing all over your mouf. Weehwee. It's like I've been chewing on ice, here! Which would've been helpful, now that I think of it... Anyway, I should've stuck with children's orajel, teething formula. That doesn't taste nearly as nasty, and it's in a GEL. It goes where you put it.

*cracks up*

Courtesy, of course, of theferrett. Well worth it, trust me.

OOH!

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This must've happened last night. Look at the pretty numbers!

This is an asperger related post.

I think all the maintainers are on my friends list. If not, I'm sure one of the ones that are will poke me.

It's true, we need some sort of standard of rules. I don't want to clog up the comm itself with that, I hate email, and this is about the only place to find me right now, so I thought I'd post it here. I just don't want to have the classic "whine to another mod" thing that happens sometimes when people don't like what one mod does. Or so I'm told. It's never happened mihi.

*sits and waits*

*thinks*

Incidentally, could we all just go ahead and put some contact information (like our usernames) on the info there? It's irritated at least one person.

(edit) And predictably, I got so caught up in this I forgot the matter at hand. Sorry moggy (I assume).

*laughs*

Remember synapticknob? Posted some borderline offensive things about homosexuality in asperger? Also can't spell?

Yeah. Somebody suggested, since it's come up lately, that "gender" be put into the interests for that comm. And Synaptic threw a fit. So one of the mods deleted his comment. So he *reposted it* as an entry, whining about freedom of speech. And got his sorry ass banned, thank you very much.

At which point he 1. went to harass the offending mod in her journal, and 2. REAPPLIED FOR MEMBERSHIP. It's right in my email! He didn't even switch to a different username.

Ho-hum.

I went ahead and made my test comm. While I do, technically, have ample comms to play around with, I'm mostly afraid to fuck too much with the settings. But I don't anticipate this ever being large or active.

Anyway, mod-people of asperger, I think that we just need a nice place to 1. make sure we're not working with two different sets of rules and 2. make sure we know who's not getting back in, because it'd be a crying shame if synapticknob's plan had worked simply because somebody was ignorant. Just a place to post "hey, this person is banned" is useful. So I think I invited everyone to aspiemodcomm. The invite would be here.

That is all.