STOTD (stray thought of the day)

BillWoodruff

what is a programmer who spends more time debugging their language/framework than debugging their application ? as I said recently in another post: Gist: I miss you chaotic/challenging/wild/inspiring lot ... a lot ! Constraints on my health and time (how dare my body get old !) have meant rationing my CP time. The challenge of creating a new jewelry business where I select and buy gems, design custom rings and pendants, and interact/collaborate with the local (Thai) craftsmen who manufacture using typical by-hand jeweler's bench techniques (not 3d design, printing, etc.), of setting up stores on Etsy, eBay ... has gone from a part-time hobby into a project that takes up most of the 4`5 hours a day of screen time my eyes are good for. No longer time for soaking up the latest/greatest really innovative probes of space-time boundaries by folks like Honey-Witch, Gianni Yiannopoulos, Mehdi Gholam, Marc Clifton, Pete O'Hanlon, and many others. To savor the technical excellence of OriginalGriff, Richard McCutchan, Richard Deeming. No longer time for the daily struggle to teach newbies how to learn what the docs would tell them ... if they looked, if they knew how to look. Well, as Heraclitus said: 'panta rhei;' perhaps, as Kong Fu Tzu (aka Confucius) said: 'They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.' And, keeping in mind Machiavelli's famous dictum: 'There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.' ... as you just saw, the quotation-buffer in my cognitive capabilities is still ... intact at age 78 :)

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch

OriginalGriff

Just bear in mind my friend, that growing old is better than the alternative! :-D

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

Lost User

As long as you have your health and marbles.

OriginalGriff

Aye, when I were young I had a full bag o' marbles ... cat's eyes, aggies, steelies ... I remember them well.

"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

theoldfool

"Nobody wants to live to be 90. Unless they are 89"

>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

Daniel Pfeffer

BillWoodruff wrote:

(how dare my body get old !)

It's better than the alternative... Good luck with your business. Even if your CP activities are curtailed, I hope we keep hearing from you for many years to come.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

MarkTJohnson

Have you tried Windows Narrator? You wouldn't have to focus as much and could listen to the messages. May not be applicable but just trying to be helpful.

I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

BillWoodruff

Thanks Mark, What I do requires ... reading with the eyes. Praise be for audio-books ... they have enabled me to continue my passion for literature. cheers, Bill

«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch