Clumsy programmers
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
Nope. :)
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
Not the particular problems you mention... but I often find myself misplacing things. Scissors, pens, pencils, and my car seem to be the most likely items to get lost... :~ An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I am no Wilkinson on the sports field but I sure as heck am no kl....... *msg: connection time out* *prb: user tripped over power cord* *res: reinstall user*
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I think it is because our eyes have a focal length of about 16" (after years of staring at our screens)....:rolleyes: Steve
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
With a black belt and almost testing for my2nd degree, I can't say that Iam a klutz. Of course like Navin, I do misplace things, but I have better things on my mind and a wife that can find things quickly. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I'm not exactly graceful, but I'm not very clumsy either. I started taking kickboxing recently, so hopefully that will start me leaning more towards the graceful side of the spectrum. BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
Nope. I can't remember the last time I tripped and didn't catch myself before going splat. I'm also one of those who catch the objects that fall off the dashboard/table/whatever before they hit the ground. Doesn't mean I don't knock stuff around, but I usually catch them first. -- Joel Lucsy
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
Being a former athlete I have to say that I am not to clumsy. Was a basketball (point guard) and football (wide reciever/corner back) player growing up. Like some of you, I can not spell at all and I tend to forget where I place things.
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. We shouldn't assume something's debugged just because everyone in the whole world has access to the source code.
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I tend to treat my body as some sort of a built-in bumper car a good deal of the time, walking into walls, doorframes, trees, that sort of thing. But no-one can truely say i'm clumsy until they've seen me try to dance...
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I'm not clumsy. . . . I just happen to be thinking about something else.:sigh: Jim
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!
I find that clumsyness is a result of me being lazy and not physically active. When my activity-level increases and doing more physicaly active things, my trips and falls decrease. But, if I'm going though a lazy period when I'm work->school->home->sleep and not doinng much, I'll start falling overmyself like its the next hottest fad. But, when I keep up with the gym, go out dancing, etc, my cordination quicly improves and my klutz tendancies fall to the wayside. Mind you, my spelling and grammer are horrible and I have a tendancy to always misspalce things. Or, I know where everything is, until I clean, then in which case I cant find anything. I have an easier time remebering "that report is under the binder next to my bed under the pile of dirty laundry" then "the report is in the filing cab...." where it should be is always the last place I look
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Not the particular problems you mention... but I often find myself misplacing things. Scissors, pens, pencils, and my car seem to be the most likely items to get lost... :~ An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Its espically bad when you misplace things in your own hand (behind your ear, in you pocket, etc...).:doh:
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This is a quick poll - I'm a programmer, and I'm also incredibly clumsy (forever walking into things, dropping things and knocking other things over.) I happen to know lots of other programmers who are also incredibly clumsy. Does this apply to you to? Is there something about being a programmer that makes you more likely to be an utter klutz? Did you, like me, spend enough of your childhood tripping over your own feet to realise that outdoor sporty persuits were far too unsafe, and it was far better staying in the safety of your own home? -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Phoenix Paint - back from DPaint's ashes!