Archive for January, 2007

Nigerian 419 scam

January 30, 2007

As I was saying, here is a sample of the kind of 419 Nigerian spam that I regularly find in my inbox. Did you know that some are saying the scam is the third-largest industry in Nigeria?    FROM:MR. HASAN  KUDE AFRICAN DEVLOPEMENT BANK ACCOUNTS & AUDITING DEPT  (ADB) OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO. WEST     AFRICA                                                                                           Assalamualaikum                           [...]

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True believer syndrome and Nigerian scam

January 28, 2007

Wanted to write a post about magical thinking and found such wonderful info about it on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking Will get back to it later. But it led me to a link on True Believer Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-believer_syndrome and from there, a link to John W. Worley, renowned psychiatrist, and victim of a 419 scam. Along with [...]

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Sometimes Love is only Sleeping and Anorexic Demons

January 13, 2007

She looked at me And the emptiness in her eyes was cruel to see Then she turned away and said, Once I loved, but love is dead And I whispered, sometimes love is only sleeping She said, I cannot cry And I cannot give or feel or even try And her voice was hard and [...]

Posted in angel, anorexia, black dog, inner demons, music, the monkees, whirling dervish, winston churchill No Comments »

Penmanship, Handwriting is a vanishing skill

January 9, 2007

Found this article by Josh Freed in our Montreal Saturday Gazette, and just had to post it. I could have just linked to it, but I fear in a few months time, or even earlier, it may be removed from the Gazette site. So here it is, in its entirety.  Here too is a copy of the [...]

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WrongPlanet Asperger’s and the Cheshire Cat

January 2, 2007

WrongPlanet.net – my birthday is for everyone else. http://www.wrongplanet.net/article350.html The person making the post, and many of the people commenting, are ranting about not being party animals. Hate to break the news to these guys, but I don’t think it’s exclusively an aspie problem. Wonder if they even are aspie, considering all the parties they’re being invited to that they don’t want [...]

Posted in aspergers, aspie, autism spectrum, cheshire cat, humour, jared blackburn, psychiatry and labels, psychiatry disorder 2 Comments »