OT Questions

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhutto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbrecht at 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