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Topic 82: Mikki Halpin - The Geek Handbook

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permalink #101 of 113: Benjamin Brewer (bbrewer) Fri 25 Aug 00 12:01

    
As·per·ger's syndrome
n. 
A developmental disorder characterized by impaired social and
occupational skills, by normal language and cognitive development, and
by restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior,
interests, and activities often with above average performance in a
narrow field against a general background of deficient functioning
called also Asperger's disorder

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permalink #102 of 113: Linda Castellani (castle) Fri 25 Aug 00 14:06

    

Thank you, bbrewer.  I was wondering.

I'm not the expert here, but that only marginally sounds like the geeks I
know.

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permalink #103 of 113: Delyn Simons (delyn) Fri 25 Aug 00 15:54

    
my favorite geeks have not (yet) been diagnosed with asperger's
syndrome. or bite the head's off of chickens.

nytimes magazine had a great story about asperger's about a month ago.
more common in little boys than girls, about 5-to-1 i think.

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permalink #104 of 113: Gail Williams (gail) Fri 25 Aug 00 17:21

    
Wow, I just noticed that Mikki's reading is number one on MP3Lit now!

> http://www.mp3lit.com/nonfiction/halpin.html

The top ten are:  1. Mikki Halpin 2. Bill Hicks 3. J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Al Franken 5. J.K. Rowling 6. Noam Chomsky 7. David Sedaris
8. Dennis Miller 9. Molly Ivins 10. Anais Nin

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permalink #105 of 113: Linda Castellani (castle) Fri 25 Aug 00 18:14

    

Mikki!

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permalink #106 of 113: snarly (obizuth) Fri 25 Aug 00 19:50

    
WHOOO!

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permalink #107 of 113: stupid historical TITS! ON TV!! (fsquared) Fri 25 Aug 00 20:33

    
Mikki beats out both David Sedaris and Molly Ivins!

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permalink #108 of 113: doing 'n somethingness (jleft) Fri 25 Aug 00 21:46

    
Any day in my book!

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permalink #109 of 113: Angus MacDonald (angus) Sat 26 Aug 00 05:07

    
And Bill Hicks is dead.

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permalink #110 of 113: Tanya Neil-Tanaka (tnt-tokyo) Sat 26 Aug 00 09:55

    
mikki: the perfect number one.

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permalink #111 of 113: Mikki Halpin (filmmag) Sat 26 Aug 00 18:23

    

sorry I havent been here. tomorrow: free day and I will talk abotu the
aspergeer and all this stuff. gail, thanks for the mp3 post! other people
who noticed
1, my mom
2. my agent

,
y

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permalink #112 of 113: Emily J. Gertz (emilyg) Tue 29 Aug 00 13:19

    

As well they should!

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permalink #113 of 113: The stars starts to splatter in the sky (sd) Wed 30 Aug 00 12:51

    
look for mikki's debut on monday night football since she edged out dennis
miller

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