Scientific proof: your GPS is a woman!

I, too, turn the map around when I'm figuring out which route to take. I'm told that this is a female trait, that males are better at doing something called "spatial rotation" in their heads.Whatever the reason, for just a moment, I was at one with a digital display.

Now I wonder how long it will be before the brains of all those males out there who are using GPS and playing video games (which also turn when one's "character" turns) get in touch with their feminine side?

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Hi LilThe work­shop is Wed,

Hi LilThe workshop is Wed, June 2 at 7:00 pm at Tightrope Books. The date and time used to be on our website but it disappeared! If you're not already registered, please do so that I know how many handouts to prepare.CheersPatty

pattyo more than 13 years ago

Hi Patty
Please let me know

Hi Patty
Please let me know the time of the June 3 short review workshop in Toronto. I couldn't find it on the website. - lil

Lil more than 13 years ago

Perhaps I should have worded

Perhaps I should have worded the last sentence differently. I was wondering if using GPS would eventually mean that human males would lose their ability to spatially rotate things in their heads and start turning the map around too. Just a conjecture about evolution.

pattyo more than 13 years ago

You lost me there when you

You lost me there when you took that left turn from the topic of GPSs and veered into gender generalizations...   :-)Personally I prefer using a sextant, combined with data gleaned from the surrounding terrain: the location of moss on the trunks of trees, the migration paths of birds passing overhead, and the amount (in seconds of arc) by which true north deviates from magnetic north; it never fails.

one-minute-movies more than 13 years ago

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