Old Age Sucks
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How many times do you walk into a room, stop dead and think "What did I come in here for?" I too am getting these 'Senior Moments' :confused:
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Dalek Dave wrote:
How many times do you walk into a room, stop dead and think "What did I come in here for?"
Not the ladies room, I hope. :-D
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There are 4 stages of getting old: 1. forget names 2. forget faces 3. forget to zip trousers 4. forget to unzip trousers Oh, s**t, I forget... My only excuse is I'm getting 61 next month :)
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
My memory is failing
They say memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember what the first is. . . :sigh:
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Oakman wrote:
They say memory is the second thing to go. I can't remember what the first is. . .
For me, it is eye sight. But now that my memory is gone, what the good of eye glasses if I keep forgetting where I put them? :-D
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How many times do you walk into a room, stop dead and think "What did I come in here for?" I too am getting these 'Senior Moments' :confused:
------------------------------------ "I want you to imagine I have a blaster in my hand" - Zaphod Beeblebrox. "You DO have a blaster in your hand" - Freighter Pilot "Yeah, so you don't have to tax your imagination too hard" - Zaphod Beeblebrox
I saw a woman in the store last weekend with a T-shirt that read:
I know I came into this room for a reason...
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My memory is failing. I copied some code to a thumb drive this morning intended to bring it to work, and left the damn thing at home. I do this a lot lately. A lot of times, I can't write code, leave it for more than a week, and be able to Pick up where I left off. I also find that I'm adding more comments to my code to help me remember what i was doing when I wrote it. I've also started commenting the hell outa my app.config files for the same reason (they often have more comments than settings). It sucks getting old...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I absolutely 100% believe this is entirely perception and not reality. When people get older they comment regularly on how they forget their keys or what to buy at the store or whatever. They call it senior moments etc. But take a look at any 20 year old, they do all the same stuff, they just don't think or worry about it. In them it's called being distracted or not paying attention or not focusing etc etc. As for code comments, I find my self doing that a *lot* more as well but the simple fact is that the complexity and size of the stuff I'm working on now is easily 100 times greater and my patience with sitting in front of the computer non-stop for 12 consecutive hours is out the window so I'm much more likely to take breaks, work on other things etc and this means I need more notes. Also, what I'm doing is never going to be as novel, new and interesting as it was at the start of my career. When something is new and interesting you remember it easily; when you've done it a million times and things just like it a million more it's easy for it to all wash together and be harder to bring back into mental focus when you step away from it. All the latest research on brain plasticity shows that there really is no limit to an undiseased brain at any age, a brain is always a "young" organ, it's just the weight of our experience that colours our perception of these things. I bet if you could have your memory wiped of all programming knowledge and just the interest left behind you'd find yourself coding just like you did when you first started in no time.
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SK Genius wrote:
Drugs, the solution to all of lifes problems.
I'm fairly certain the pharmaceutical companies are running a TV commercial that says that already ... :rolleyes:
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My memory is failing. I copied some code to a thumb drive this morning intended to bring it to work, and left the damn thing at home. I do this a lot lately. A lot of times, I can't write code, leave it for more than a week, and be able to Pick up where I left off. I also find that I'm adding more comments to my code to help me remember what i was doing when I wrote it. I've also started commenting the hell outa my app.config files for the same reason (they often have more comments than settings). It sucks getting old...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
It sucks getting old...
I am planning on doing a brain dump to Mustafa and worming my way into immortality. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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My memory is failing. I copied some code to a thumb drive this morning intended to bring it to work, and left the damn thing at home. I do this a lot lately. A lot of times, I can't write code, leave it for more than a week, and be able to Pick up where I left off. I also find that I'm adding more comments to my code to help me remember what i was doing when I wrote it. I've also started commenting the hell outa my app.config files for the same reason (they often have more comments than settings). It sucks getting old...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
My memory is failing
Memory is the second thing to go! :sigh:
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I'm not interested in "injections". i think I'll just forget that you even mentioned it. :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I thought it was just getting old for me. Maybe it is... but I recently found out I have severe sleep apnea, and that is most likely why I can never seem to concentrate any more. It's insidious. Sneaks up on you and you don't even realize you have it. I just thought stress, etc. were making me an insomniac. Hopefully I will see an improvement. How well do you sleep? Snore a lot? Wake up multiple times in the night for no reason? (I know... look, the dumb *** has something so now he thinks it is everybody's problem... :~)
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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I haven't had even a sip of alcohol in over 10 years.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001That's impressive. Is there a specific reason to it, or just like that?
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