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« Reply #60 on: April 11, 2008, 11:31:10 pm » |
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You think not?
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INVISIBLE PLOT DEVICE
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« Reply #61 on: April 12, 2008, 04:05:01 am » |
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NOOO! DEY BE TAKING MAI CHEEZ!!!!!!Mmmm, cheese.
<wanders off to the kitchen in search of brie>
Alas, we are out of brie, so I'll have to console myself with some jarlsberg. Or emmental, or haloumi, or.... *runs off to make a cheese sandwich or two*
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*watches his life get devoured like Dread Cthulhu snacking on a yacht*
Snacking, folks, snacking. I don't know where you got any other ideas, and frankly I'm not sure I want to know =)
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Oh...well, darn!
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« Reply #62 on: April 13, 2008, 03:37:02 pm » |
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There can never be too much cheese.
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“All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction”. Michael Chabon
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« Reply #63 on: April 13, 2008, 08:00:40 pm » |
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I have the uncanny ability to find any sore spot, bruise, cut, etc. that my wife has when trying to tap her to get her attention. One of my friends says it's the most annoying superpower EVER!  |
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« Reply #64 on: April 14, 2008, 08:32:56 pm » |
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a. I have supersmelling powers. I can smell anything, wisps of anything, from very, very far away.
b. I have a super high pain tolerance.
c. I can find anything in my house, even things that I wouldn't necessarily know are even here. I just KNOW all of the places things might be. My ex comes over looking for freaking tools I can't NAME and I can find them.
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« Reply #65 on: April 25, 2008, 08:25:35 am » |
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They aren't spectacular superpowers, but I seem to have 2:
1) I never need a dictionary for definitions. I can figure out words purely from context, as long as I have enough context. This even works for words in other languages (provided the context is in english).
2) I have the gift of interrupting my husband at the exact climax of whatever movie, book, or video game he is trying to relax with.
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« Reply #66 on: April 25, 2008, 10:05:03 am » |
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Well, there went another thread.  Maybe that's Chaz's superpower: everything associated with him gets fixated on food. Or maybe the forum is turning beta? Or gamma? My doctor tells me I could do with losing some weight. |
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« Reply #67 on: May 02, 2008, 09:53:51 pm » |
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hey, those of you with parking powers, thanks for sharing the secret! Visualization of the spot worked for me today, at lunchtime in Cambridge, MA.... Just where I whought it would be on Mass Ave in front of Addis Red Sea - near Judy Jetson Hair.... I'd done the loop from Porter almost to Harvard Square before trying the visualization trick.  thanks for sharing the superpower! |
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« Reply #68 on: May 12, 2008, 03:18:15 pm » |
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How many people here are speed-readers, and what's your definition of speed-reading?
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« Reply #69 on: May 12, 2008, 03:37:43 pm » |
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The last Harry Potter book in less than four hours?
Does that count? *g*
I read academic stuff fast, too, but not as fast as brain candy.
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K. E. Gordon - The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Eager, the Innocent and the Doomed
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« Reply #70 on: May 12, 2008, 03:40:09 pm » |
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I used to be able to read a standard-sized novel in about two hours. However, since learning to write, I have become a close reader, and that no longer happens.
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Todd: "See? That's why we're better than all those other law enforcement agencies. Correct use of the subjunctive."
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« Reply #71 on: May 12, 2008, 03:41:46 pm » |
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I don't count myself as a speed reader (which I understand to mean a technique of reading that's largely skimming, and reading quickly when one reaches important bits), but I do read quickly, upwards of 100 pages/hour when i really get going.
(typed while eating a donut)
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glinda_w
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Why, this is Hell, nor are we out of it.
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« Reply #72 on: May 12, 2008, 03:41:56 pm » |
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How many people here are speed-readers, and what's your definition of speed-reading?
Yes, and am not even sure of the definition. The machine-thingy (slide projector? something like that) they used to test us in 6th grade maxed out at 500 wpm, and I was doing that with 100% comprehension. Also, reading a borrowed copy of Michener's The Drifters in about 6 hours, in order to get it back to the owner in a hurry - which rather amazed said owner |
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« Reply #73 on: May 12, 2008, 04:12:58 pm » |
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The last Harry Potter book in less than four hours?
Sounds about normal to me. (Of course, the better a book, the longer I try to make it last. That one was the equivalent of "hold your nose and slam it.") |
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« Reply #74 on: May 12, 2008, 04:18:29 pm » |
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Well, that's one type of speed-reading. There are plenty of others, some of which include what you do. I read upwards of 100 pgs/hr myself -- but mostly only for fiction. Non-fiction, I have to slow down considerably (but I still read pretty fast).
Let me ask a follow-up question: Did you learn to read by the normal phonics-based techniques? I'm self-taught, and I read by gestalt, shape-of-the-word techniques.
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