Re: DTV antennas?

krw wrote:
In article <il32845mvhphnckk1c5sr1mqc391s91t49@xxxxxxx>, jeffl@xxxxxxxxxx says...
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:11:09 -0400, krw <krw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kinda reminds of a project manager that could only communicate via
written (or emailed) memos. In person, he was a disaster.

He had time to compose thoughts and didn't panic?

Far too much time. That was the problem. If you asked him a
question, he would retreat to his office, consider the problem, and
reply with a memo. He didn't believe in snap decisions. As I vaguely
recall, he was quite good at making decisions and keeping the project
going in the right direction. He just couldn't do it in person or in
real time. As long as he wasn't asked to give a presentation, or
verbally defend his decisions, he was just fine.

Sounds like the brain panicking when challenged. Given time to collect the story, everything functions properly. IOW< he wasn't a bullshitter. ;-)

Sounds like a perfectly good project manager then as far as making sound decisions is concerned. Far better that than someone who flips and flops making rash decisions depending only on who they last talked to (or were lobbied by). I have seen some pretty bad project managers as well as good ones. US companies always seem to want to "do something NOW" whereas in Japan they spend more time figuring out the right thing to do before acting (sometimes too long for me). UK is somewhere inbetween.
Stuttering implied a learning impairment too? I thought stuttering was a problem with the brain "panic" issue like above. I thought this was quite treatable.

There are various forms of stuttering. Only some are treatable.
There's no learning impairment involved. <http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/stutter.asp>
The tech writer was highly intelligent, but had difficulties
expressing himself. Communications is a bi-directional process. I
learned that the hard way when my father had a stroke. He couldn't
speak or even gesture effectively, but apparently understood
everything that was happening. One direction of the processor had
failed, but the other was still functional. It's like that with
speech impairments. The output channel is having a problem, but the
input channel is unaffected.

Other than stroke (physical damage) I always considered such things under the "learning impairment" category.

Stuttering can just be a problem with the auditory feedback loop. Many normal people will stutter if their ears are electronically moved by a delay line (or catherdral echo) to be the wrong distance from their mouth. Reading aloud is usually enough to tip a few more over the edge. The right delay can actually help some stutterers be fluent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_fluency_devices

One of the best astronomical programmers on the planet stutters, but his understanding of the details of everything from solar system dynamics to GR is not and never was in doubt. You just have to be patient holding a converstaion with him or if you know him well enough fill in the odd stalled word. You would never know from his written work or software.

Regards,
Martin Brown
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