Archives: 2007 January

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
                          GOOD DAY FRIEND,
IT WILL BE A SURPRISE [...]

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 the scam and [...]

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 cold
Then her sweet young face looked old
And [...]

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 [...]

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 to [...]