A Glossary of Alternative Reality  #1


If you analyse deliberate disinformation deeply - and manage to retain your sanity - you tend to observe some fascinating nuances and psychological tricks.

A bonus in such analyses is the discovery of things which - expressed in deliberately non-scientific terms - are quite amusing.

In an alternate reality, you might find definitions like mine in a dictionary or glossary.

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Speed camera

        A scientific instrument for detecting the difference between

        30.000 000 m.p.h.    

I?  Robot?

Okay, so I got the logicman handle for being a bit like Mr. Spock.

But I am not a robot.


I used to get called professor at school because I was so absent-minded.

But I am not an absent-minded robot.


So why does Google News offer me this advice?

Understanding Depression

I suffer from depression. 

One day I may write more fully about how it affects me, and how I cope.  But not just yet.

If you have never suffered from depression you may be mistaken in your ideas about the problem.  For me, depression is a 'pressing down', an energy-sapping burden.  I have to fight to summon up the mental energy to do anything at all.  Even sitting at my keyboard writing articles is very tiring.

The other side of depression can be a bonus.  I get strong creative urges from time to time which so inspire me to write that I can do little else.  I am an obsessive-compulsive creative writer.