On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I can't ascertain what your strengths are as I don't work with you on a >> daily basis (one of the many benefits of working with people smarter than >> you ;)). > > Doubt that, unless they have 160+ I.Q.'s(been seeing psychiatrists > since I was 13). I'm very secure in my childlike intellectualism.
A high IQ just proves ability to score well on IQ tests. On the whole, your statement strikes me as reminiscent of Sheldon Cooper's insistence that "I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested!". Personally, I've never taken an IQ test, so I don't know how well I'd score. But I'm a school dropout, never went to college/uni/TAFE/etc/etc, don't have any certifications of any sort. I'm a pretty uneducated fella, according to my résum&htmlentitiesdontworkhere; (that's "resume" when folded into ASCII). So according to how most people think about intelligence, I probably have a sub-par IQ. On the flip side, I'm a professional programmer, I run a server where people play Dungeons and Dragons, and I'm a well-respected wordsmith as Dungeon Master. Plus, I work in theatre (in fact, at the moment I'm posting from the bio box, sitting next to the follow spot that I'll be operating for the next two weeks). So I think I have enough muscle upstairs to get through life... But Dwight (and I'll continue to address you as such until you change your mail headers), a LOT of what you're saying is coming across as over-inflated ego. Maybe you are a majorly interdisciplinary learner; but boasting that you're "the most interdisciplinary learner [we] might have ever encountered" just comes across poorly. One thing I've learned from various groups is that, no matter how X you are, there's someone else who's even more X - for any X. Maybe it isn't true somewhere, maybe you really are the peak - but more than likely you aren't, and it's much more pleasant to be proved better than your claim than to be proved worse. (There are exceptions, of course. I have absolutely no doubt that I am the person most familiar with the RosMud++ code and thus the person best positioned to maintain that project. This is because I wrote it. But I am not claiming to be the best C++ programmer in the world, because there are a lot of other C++ programmers among the seven billion here.) ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
