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Crusader
You are right, the definition is both interesting & funny
Good point Vin! I write my posts and always re read the entire post over to check for typos. All I see are I's and me's all over the place. I remove as many as I can and replace them with more general terms such as "one" might think" instead of "I might think" or "people tend to" instead of "I tend to".
I am a good story teller but my life is fairly nondescript, nothing special has happened. Take a person such as Mark Twain, a GREAT story teller whose life is full of achievement such as writing classic novels and other achievements in the Western United States during the Gold Rush and Silver mining days. He is entitled to use a lot of I's and me's in his writings.
HOW INCREDIBLE GOOGLE IS!! I went to check out Erich Hausholder or Householder on Google last night immediately after posting my story. There is nothing on Google about him or his son except one reference and that reference refers to this page on the ABOARD THE APOLLO - 1973 THREAD. Within minutes of writing my post, the story was headlined on Google. How amazing is that?
I KNOW MY STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FROM ACTUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS GIVEN ME AT UCLA WHEN I WAS 19. I was at UCLA Engineering School at age 19 and it was too boring for me. I was flunking out and went to see a School Counselor and got an incredible one named Scheitzach. I told him that I entered engineering school because my strongest subjects were Math and Physics but I am interested in many other areas as well.
He tested my aptitude and the result I got was remarkable and forever redefined my life. He told me my aptitude for Math and Physics was as follows:
In the overalll US population I was in the 99th percentile.
For incoming UCLA Freshmen I was in the 85th percentile.
For incoming Math and Physics majors at an elite schools such as Stanford, I was in the 49th percentile.
That was so revealing. I took it as a win and not a loss! Even at an elite school such as Stanford, with only their Math and Pysics majors being considered, I was still right in the middle of the pack.
Now Vinaire, he was probably in the 99th percentile at MIT, a Stanford level school. Not only that but he was raised as a Hindu and is extremely well versed in Vedic religions.
I feel that participation on the various forums on ESMB, etc. has sharpened my skills and also, when my ex wife went through law school in the early 1990's she was learning critical thinking skills and she would bounce her homework assignments off of me and get my help in writing her papers and creating her legal analysis. This helped me improve my critical thinking schools immensely.
I feel that the incoming classes at the Universities probably have declined in the last 50 years as regards their test scores while my scores probably would have gone up through improving my critical thinking skills. I ended up working in Aerospace as a scientific applications Computer Programmer and I had to ineract with the high powered Cal Tech and MIT boys! I was very successful at doing that. I could duplicate their thoughts, follow their equatiions and understand what they wanted done on the computer. Everyone of them respected me and thought of me as their colleague. I designed their programs, put their equations into computer language (FORTRAN in those old days) and ran all their theories through computer simulatioins using random number generating techniques. We designed graphic print outs to give pictorial representations of their answers. They would tweak the input data, try various constants and varieables and adjust them to see what would happen. I did not have the talent to design the equations myself but could only bring the equations they designed to life.
I threw all this away in the fall of 1971 to join the Sea Org for $10 a week and have an 18 year immature girl made my boss because somebody did not put a roll of toilet paper into the rest room and a celebrity entered the rest room to find no toilet paper present. The real culprit responsible for this was left undisciplined while my head was put on a pike and I was shunned by top management for over 6 months.
Vin, I would say that sometimes it is okay to use a lot of I's and me's in print if the object is not to agrandize oneself but rather to entertain others and also so that others may learn from your mistakes. Furthermore, with Google immediately making one's writings known world wide, I might move from being nondescript to being celebrated - just like that famous celebrated jumpling frog from Calaveras Country which Mark Twain made famous.
Lakey
Good point Vin! I write my posts and always re read the entire post over to check for typos. All I see are I's and me's all over the place. I remove as many as I can and replace them with more general terms such as "one" might think" instead of "I might think" or "people tend to" instead of "I tend to".
I am a good story teller but my life is fairly nondescript, nothing special has happened. Take a person such as Mark Twain, a GREAT story teller whose life is full of achievement such as writing classic novels and other achievements in the Western United States during the Gold Rush and Silver mining days. He is entitled to use a lot of I's and me's in his writings.
HOW INCREDIBLE GOOGLE IS!! I went to check out Erich Hausholder or Householder on Google last night immediately after posting my story. There is nothing on Google about him or his son except one reference and that reference refers to this page on the ABOARD THE APOLLO - 1973 THREAD. Within minutes of writing my post, the story was headlined on Google. How amazing is that?
I KNOW MY STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES FROM ACTUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS GIVEN ME AT UCLA WHEN I WAS 19. I was at UCLA Engineering School at age 19 and it was too boring for me. I was flunking out and went to see a School Counselor and got an incredible one named Scheitzach. I told him that I entered engineering school because my strongest subjects were Math and Physics but I am interested in many other areas as well.
He tested my aptitude and the result I got was remarkable and forever redefined my life. He told me my aptitude for Math and Physics was as follows:
In the overalll US population I was in the 99th percentile.
For incoming UCLA Freshmen I was in the 85th percentile.
For incoming Math and Physics majors at an elite schools such as Stanford, I was in the 49th percentile.
That was so revealing. I took it as a win and not a loss! Even at an elite school such as Stanford, with only their Math and Pysics majors being considered, I was still right in the middle of the pack.
Now Vinaire, he was probably in the 99th percentile at MIT, a Stanford level school. Not only that but he was raised as a Hindu and is extremely well versed in Vedic religions.
I feel that participation on the various forums on ESMB, etc. has sharpened my skills and also, when my ex wife went through law school in the early 1990's she was learning critical thinking skills and she would bounce her homework assignments off of me and get my help in writing her papers and creating her legal analysis. This helped me improve my critical thinking schools immensely.
I feel that the incoming classes at the Universities probably have declined in the last 50 years as regards their test scores while my scores probably would have gone up through improving my critical thinking skills. I ended up working in Aerospace as a scientific applications Computer Programmer and I had to ineract with the high powered Cal Tech and MIT boys! I was very successful at doing that. I could duplicate their thoughts, follow their equatiions and understand what they wanted done on the computer. Everyone of them respected me and thought of me as their colleague. I designed their programs, put their equations into computer language (FORTRAN in those old days) and ran all their theories through computer simulatioins using random number generating techniques. We designed graphic print outs to give pictorial representations of their answers. They would tweak the input data, try various constants and varieables and adjust them to see what would happen. I did not have the talent to design the equations myself but could only bring the equations they designed to life.
I threw all this away in the fall of 1971 to join the Sea Org for $10 a week and have an 18 year immature girl made my boss because somebody did not put a roll of toilet paper into the rest room and a celebrity entered the rest room to find no toilet paper present. The real culprit responsible for this was left undisciplined while my head was put on a pike and I was shunned by top management for over 6 months.
Vin, I would say that sometimes it is okay to use a lot of I's and me's in print if the object is not to agrandize oneself but rather to entertain others and also so that others may learn from your mistakes. Furthermore, with Google immediately making one's writings known world wide, I might move from being nondescript to being celebrated - just like that famous celebrated jumpling frog from Calaveras Country which Mark Twain made famous.
Lakey
