I’m just glad that there are people who have the time to read the Times…

by Jeremy—Feb 28, 02:33 PM

Will you get tenure already? I’m tired of you always bitching about your tiiiiimmmmme.

That said, some of those people I linked to, reading the Times is their jobs. For others, it’s their “jobs.”

by greg—Feb 28, 02:44 PM

What’s strange is that IME, Ogged is right—this is totally a gendered thing. I click on the text all the time, highlighting paragraphs as if they’ll disappear if I don’t. K gets onto me frequently enough about it. She doesn’t understand the compuliveness at all. It’s weird.

by greg—Feb 28, 02:53 PM

I’ve never heard of this. Seems a bit weird to me.

by JH—Feb 28, 03:39 PM

Like I said: this is totally a gendered thing.

by greg—Feb 28, 04:03 PM

Your momma.

For reals though, I do have a somewhat female brain, according to this test. So that could explain it, as well as my piss poor spatial reasoning skills.

We need results from another male, but J was too preoccupied belly-aching about his life to disclose whether he does it too.

by JH—Feb 28, 04:23 PM

i tend to click and highlight only when i need a change in background; i do not do this compulsively.

re:1 there is much more to the world my young greg than tenure… and is a 5 hour workday because you take care of you daughter. one day you to might enjoy the benefits of being a father.

by Jeremy—Feb 28, 10:00 PM

Tell me: was that self-righteousness delivered in a package on the eve of E’s second birthday, or did you grow it all by yourself?

by greg—Feb 28, 10:08 PM

well, it’d be worth something if he could spell…

by Jeremy—Feb 28, 10:17 PM

If only. The world would be his oyster.

by greg—Feb 28, 10:21 PM

somebody’s all uptight about my comments recently if he knew that my brain was solidly unman maybe he’d think differently of the words i write

by Jeremy—Feb 28, 10:21 PM

Oh, don’t get your pronouns in such a wad, pops.

by greg—Mar 1, 01:55 AM

I do click randomly, though I don’t highlight—but then according to that quiz (damn you, JH!—I was going to unpack boxes tonight, but instead I find myself taking online quizzes—okay, well, I might have done that anyway), I have a slightly male brain.

by Laura—Mar 1, 09:56 PM

Whaddya know? I’m a quarter womanish!

(Although I was annoyed to see the “men speak 7K words per day while women speak 15K” bunk.)

by greg—Mar 1, 10:43 PM

I’m half-womanish, and I skipped the finger measuring task, having no ruler.

The word production task would seem to be bunk to me, as well. The only reason I give any credibility to this survey at all is that it was made in consultation with Simon Baron Cohen, a brain researcher at Cambridge with a good reputation, and cousin to Sacha, of Ali G, Borat fame.

by JH—Mar 2, 08:03 AM

15 would have been so much better if the first sentence had ended, “having no fingers.”

Why do you think they name their middle sons Baron?

by greg—Mar 2, 08:13 AM

Baron Cohen is the whole surname, like Kendall Ball.

Wait, was that a joke? If so, it wasn’t a good one. Like something my dad would say.

by JH—Mar 2, 08:46 AM

Hmm. I’m half mannish. Do you suppose there’s some unwritten law that one must have characteristics opposite those of your own gender in order to be a Hermit or a Hermit hanger on?

My downfall (in terms of femininity on this quiz, that is) was the recognizing which objects had been rearranged (I am not detail-oriented, or rather I am only oriented to those details that interest me) and the recognizing emotions from eyes. I did far better on the object rotation thing than I would have imagined. Now if only I could put that skill to use in figuring out how to arrange things in my new house. . . .

by Laura—Mar 2, 09:50 PM

Are you suggesting our new slogan should be “Eschewing your gender since 2003”? Because, as much as I like “Let me die with a hammer in my hands,” it could happen.

by greg—Mar 2, 09:59 PM

Ooh, I like it! There really ought to be a page with all your old slogans. I loved the octopus one, but the Wayback Machine has not yet helped me recover it.

by Laura—Mar 3, 09:18 AM

“We were the octopus of mayhem” was good.

by greg—Mar 3, 12:40 PM