excerpt from a personal response

Sometimes I respond to a personal because I have an urge to make friendly editorial suggestions, which I did in this case. The following snippet came somewhat after the editorial suggestions:

........ Calling me down to earth is probably a stretch, too. I am down to earth in that I know what to do with a handsaw, a milling machine, or a mop. Consider, however, that I was once known as the guy with the million dollar solution to the ten cent problem. The ten cent solutions to the million dollar problems didn't get noticed so much, although you could say that some of them have been used.

P.S. If you found the above useful, I have two requests:
-Do you know anyone who might know anyone who needs a mechanical engineer?
-Do you know a treatment for hypergraphia other than a hammer or missing a medium sized payment to a loan shark?

advice to a friend who has a dx

There are two kinds of people: the diagnosed and the undiagnosed. Surely, when you look at what happens in the world, you don't think most of those people are healthy? The undiagnosed just have problems that are too subtle or confusing for the current state of the art.

to a Southern woman

Excerpt, towards the end, from my longwinded response to a personal by a woman claiming to have a Southern accent. If my housemate finds out about this, I may be dead, though I hope he would laugh instead:

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If you don't think the above sounds promising, you should still meet me, because then you may be able to seduce my housemate. He is a shy, serious, polite, handsome and hardworking boy (ok, he's 30 or something) with an athletic build and a warm Tennessee accent, and he misses how people act at home. It would be like shooting a gar in a barrel, if you had a barrel that long. (And a gar that short.)

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Keep in mind that in the future this kid will be laughing all the way to the bank, while I'll probably be trying to start a fire by rubbing together two francs ancien (or is it ancienne?). Even pennies would be too expensive, let alone a pair of sticks made from real wood.

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(update: It didn't work.)