And they were not intended as good-night-stories.

No, that is just the biggest state.

Yep. One guy in my class had an exchange student from Texas. Absolute biggest asshole. A real advertisement for Texas: “Never go to a state where they breed idiots like that.”

FTFY: the biggest usable (mentally) unstable state.

Wrong OS.

Having a number of phone numbers in my private PBX available, I set one as an “audio note” system. I can call that number, there is no prompt but the beep, I can leave a message, and get it in my mail as an mp3.

Yep, you re right.

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I’ve already read more than half of those.

I am lucky that I have learned to deal with the issues. One key issue is face blindness. I am completely unable to read faces, and it is extremely difficult to identify someone by just their faces.

Yes, I probably am in the top percent. But as it is an autism based ability, it also comes with it’s number of problems. You probably would not want to switch with me.

I indeed have a faster reading speed. I intentionally switched to English for reading (not my native language) to slow down the reading speed.

But I rarely read novellas or plays - I prefer proper books. When I was a kid, of course I read childrens books which were absolute quickies. But I did not include them in my count.

I can easily read The Lord of the Rings between lunch and dinner, and still enjoy Tolkiens play with languages, or tell you where to find a specific scene.

Still off. I’m faster, and I’m older.

Lucky me has been a speed reader basically from the start. I cannot imagine how painfully slow 238 words per minute must feel. The brain has probably forgotten half of the story when the reader reaches the end of a book weeks later. As a teenager, I already read about five books a day. Autism has its advantages…

Some people read a hundred books in their lifetime and keep 30. The 10k books on those shelves only represent a small part of what I have read in my lifetime.

When we moved in, the neighbors daughter was curious about the “new ones”, and asked if she could help.

I told her that I would be putting the books on the shelves the next day, and she promised to come over.

I don’t know what she expected (when we visited them, I never saw a book in their place), but she was shocked when she saw a large pile of boxes. I had just finished installing the first wall of shelves, and told her that we would have to sort the boxes out, only about 10k books were for the living room, the other would go up into the studio…

It lacks predictability and reproduceability. At least to a certain extend. As long as every diagnosis is “this most likely is” or even “could be”, it is not science.

But you can still look down on economists, who are somewhere between crystal ball readers or tea leaf interpreters and random number generators on that behalf.

Nope. Thats why I gifted it to my son, who studies math.

Oh, you use the MediaWiki engine, too? The documentation is always a few versions behind, and between there and now they broke the interface three times…

Indeed. There is a reason I gifted my son, who studies math, Euclids book ‘Elements’. It is still relevant.