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Primes of form n^2 + n + 41.
38th in the "Great Quadratic Prime Series" that was dicovered by Leonhard Euler. 1523 is next.
You might be an Aspie if all your Internet bookmarks are meticulously organized, but your
apartment looks like a disaster area!!

...you've had more than one angry argument with your manager over the poor quality of the white noise they use to "suppress excess noise" in the Help Desk where you work.



...the arguments were because you'd rather have several of those cars with really loud bass speakers drive through the room once in a while than to have to hear that awful hiss all damn day long!



...the first thing you say when they move your department to a new office space is "Well, at least the white noise isn't as loud here."



...you're working on a caller's problem with another technician and he asks you for the user's computer name, and you reel off the 15 character string from memory. Then he asks for the user's name, and you can't recall.



...you can't seem to find work outside Help Desks :-/



...you proof your post for grammar before hitting "Submit."



...you feel real uncomfortable about the fact that the period goes inside the quotation at the end of that last line.



...those emoticons to the left while you're composing this are irritating you because of all the eye contact





Jeff
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http://turtlemoon.org

If you find spelling and typographical errors in the Editor's Column of the newspaper.

If your life energy is sucked out of you because there are multiple fans running in the room at the same time.

If you find yourself telling the police how to better enforce the law.

If watching a s-f movie you realize that a robot is your favourite character from all the movie.

If when you were a teenager stuck in juvie and wanted a rational explanation for every rule they had there and they sent you in isolation to get rid of you, they had to beg you to come out after three days.

If, when the same juvie allowed you to go to college, you get sent back to the maximum security wing for a week because you threw away a note left on your desk by your social worker because of a spelling mistake on the first line.

Then, when asked to spend the week reflecting on your behaviour, you ended up writing a 30 page essay on relativity (the social kind) and when you got punished for that, you assumed it was because your quotations might have been inaccurate since you had no access to your books.

Oh, and if, when you have to write a multiple-choice exam, you need to write a whole paragraph to explain why you are not completely satisfied with the choice of answers. Since they have been using the sheets that are corrected automatically, multiple-choices make you extremely nervous.

You might be Aspie if...
1. Upon seeing the title "Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia" you check the copyright date and are upset that it is 1987.
2. You are too lazy to ever do homework, but will take the time to do extensive research and e-mail Ivy League professors to correct one quetion on a test.
3. Even when your test set the curve (meaning you got a 100% despite some questions wrong because everyone else did worse) you STILL try to argue the answers to several questions "on principle."
4. If given class time for some assignment, you end up having to spend more time helping other students than you have for your own work.
5. You leave an essay blank but still get a perfect 5 on AP US History thanks to owning the multiple choice section with random facts you picked up while browsing Wikipedia.
6. You enjoy browsing Wikipedia.
7. You regularly correct all of your teachers, in every class.
8. You had no friends untill all of your classmates realized that they had no idea what was going on in the class.
9. The abbreviation "LOL" urges you to kill.
10. On a mental health questionaire you are given, you label each section for what disorder it was testing for (A was ADHD, B was antisocial personality disorder... N was Asperger's) and know the textbook answers to every question. Also, when under section N, it inquires whether the same patterns of behavior were present before the age of three, you write an explanation that the hippocampus does not process long-term memory before the age of three and thus you can not answer the question.
11. You refuse to answer a question that is not grammatically correct.
12. You read every Harry Potter book from cover to cover within 24 hours of its release.
13. It bothers you if a class does not go in the order that chapters are arranged in your textbook.
14. You enjoy reading textbooks, and can't understand why other people think that's abnormal.
15. When your school got new biology textbooks and was selling the old ones, you were traumatized about being on the waiting list to get one and when you were called down to get your textbook you carefully examined each one that is left in order to get the one that has been marked up/ had folded pages the least.
16. You actaully read said biology textbook.
17. For your birthday/Christmas you want an encyclopedia set or textbooks.
18. You counted by the powers of two in kindergarten.
19. You were upset at your second-grade teachers inaccurate description of temeperature patterns on Mercury.
20. While taking a multiple choice test you are distraught because you know what answer the teacher wants, but you also know that that answer is wrong.
21. The grading of one of your assignments has been delayed because the teacher can't read your handwriting.
22. Your high school English teacher calls you "Doctor."
23. Your meandering thoughts lead you to bring up topics that seemingly have nothing to do with anything around you or under discussion, thus confusing everyone you tak to.
24. Anytime you try to explain something, you end up on a completely different topic because you felt a need to explain some side issue in better detail before finishing your main explanation.
25. You suddenly remember a joke you heard over ten years ago and can not stop laughing.
26. The first two links on your bookmark bar are wikipedia and thesaurus.com.
27. You pay attention to patterns you see in the different-colored floor tiles in a grocery store.
28. You despise Warner Brothers for their horrible movie adaptations of the Harry Potter books.
29. You can never stand to watch any movie version of a book you have read because the producers ALWAYS leave out some details and you actually recognize which lines are or are not drawn directly from the book.
30. You are proud to reflect that after school on one day you went to Math League, Science Olympiad, AND Chess Team.
31. You take multiple online political quizzes to see if the results correlate, and they don't. At all.
32. You take the same online IQ test repeatedly to check its validity and discover that you can get different scores with the same set of answers given in the same period of time.
33. You are upset that Science Olympiad and Chess Team are scheduled at the same time.
34. You take the ASQ test and are upset that your score (38) is neither prime nor 42.
35. In reading the above, you immediately knew to what I was alluding with the number 42.
36. People whom you have never met walk up and address you by name, and then get mad because you didn''t remember them after being in the same class with them for four years in a row.
37. You add an extra item to your list just to get to a prime number.

YMBAAI You read Orwell's list above and see:
"27. You pay attention to patterns you see in the different-colored floor tiles in a grocery store." -And you get a sudden feeling of deja-vu:

from: http://www.xkcd.com/c245.html

Ramsus wrote:

I sort of got a double dose of the pattern thing, what with also being left handed. Generally, left handed people process images differantly and notice patterns others don't. Couple this with aspergers and.. ugh!

I tend to see patterns and pictures in just about anything, that is why similarities tend to stand out more
than differences.
Recently on two other threads patterns and tilings came up for discussion:

richie wrote:

Flow wrote:

If you find "stupid" things fascinating.

This came from a different thread:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... 9&start=15
Floor Tilings.
YMBAAI You post 12 (count 'em) links that deal with tiling!! !!

richie wrote:

poopylungstuffing wrote:

always always always

I love weird patterns...that is also why i like quilts so much....unfortunately i lack the attention span to make really elaborate patterns....I only make bizarre absrtact crazy quilts....but i get mesmerised by staring at the complex patterned ones...

um....oh yeah..and I painted my kitchen ceiling tiles in this nutzo pattern...pink black yellow black blue black pink black yellow black blue black..


and whenever my notebooks were confiscated I would zone out on the ceiling tiles in class...

If you have time on your hands, get some colored pencils and graph paper, and try these out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentominoes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pentomino_sol.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexomino
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyiamond
If you are into weird tilngs, patterns, and geometric art
check out M.C. Escher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercycle_%28geometry%29
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... it_III.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ane_21.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ane_42.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ane_70.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ane_72.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.C._Escher

http://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/wallpaper/seventeen.htmlhttp://www.clarku.edu/~djoyce/wallp ... nteen.html

richie wrote:

Flow wrote:

If you look for patterns in the designs of wallpaper.

Goes with the tiling post on previous page (64):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group

lau wrote:

richie wrote:

Flow wrote:

If you look for patterns in the designs of wallpaper.

Goes with the tiling post on previous page (64):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group

Ah! But richie, you haven't listed "Penrose tiling"! (At the bottom of which, there's a picture of a Penrose tiled real floor!)

You may be an Aspie if:

You can't even stand to read your disaster of a local newspaper because of all of the spelling and grammatical errors.

You were told, when you worked as a proofreader at aforementioned newspaper that you cannot correct a date on a timeline because, "this is about spelling and grammar, not a history lesson." (I believe proofreading is fact checking as well as spelling and grammar checking.)

You might be an aspie if you neatly organise your iTunes library in prestine order and disallow 1 hit wonders, and HAVE to get a WHOLE album, rather than a single.

...

Like me.