But it does test your ability to take tests. People who re-take IQ tests tend to do better each time. That doesn't necessarily mean that their base level of intelligence is increasing - it just means that they're figuring out how to get better scores. If IQ tests measured something that was immutable, then there…

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Nope, and I agree with you! ;) It just bothers me when I see people talking about "geeks" and "women" as though the categories are mutually exclusive. I think that talking like that disappears geeky women, and that's not right. I understand that some people might prefer partners that don't share the same kinds of…

Men can be geeks, but all geeks are not men. If you'd like, I'll change my terminology to sub-category.

Hey, you know how Omni's story is about how it's hard for geeky men to meet women sometimes? Yeah, this is why.

The default of "geek" is not "male". Men are a subset of geek, just as women are.

I actually first saw it linked here on io9, way back when. I found it again by Googling "You're just jealous of my jetpack." ;)

Whoa. This makes me sad, too. And I think she's causing herself to miss out on some pretty awesome stuff.

Can I....can I live there?

Interesting. So E.T. being a nightmare-inducing walking terror was either an unintended consequence of his design or Spielberg has just never copped to the fact that he wanted to scare the pants off little kids. ;)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH MONSTERS! YAY!

That's terrible. My sympathies to the people who loved him.

Staring at him with their dead eyes....

Thermal bandages. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Mr. Scalzi, I very much enjoyed Redshirts in audiobook form - Wil Wheaton does a fine job.

I second ampersands' comment here. Accuracy in terms is key, particularly when discussing this kind of subject matter.

Because octopuses are introverts. ;)

I wonder why, since you're clearly so open and welcoming to the idea.

AWESOME.

Something that I've been noticing more and more, and I'm not sure if it's just me, is that people with unusual physical conditions or injuries are feeling more free to be open about them, and that the cruel "othering" backlash that you'd think would happen gets stomped out pretty fiercely. Maybe it's just on the…