[ale] [SEMI-OT] Skills for programmers/engineers?

[Pete Hardie]

Youth and skill are no match for age and treachery.....


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't want a routine that when I'm done, I have more to do than before I
> started.
>
> I take martial arts. If I think about ANYTHING other that what's happening
> around me, I get clobbered.
>
> where else can a 50+ adult punch teenagers and not go to jail?
>
> The kids are faster, stronger and much more flexible than the (all 50+)
> old farts in the class.  But we have had decades in the work force learning
> how to duck when the fan clogs, run faster than co-workers before a
> charging pink-slip bear and are just mean enough to take a hit in order to
> set up a kill.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On 01/29/2014 10:31 AM, JD wrote:
>>
>>> On 01/29/2014 09:23 AM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want the guy who goes to sleep with a problem and wakes up with the
>>>> answer.
>>>> Enters his shower with a problem dries off with an answer.  Goes to the
>>>> gym with
>>>> a problem walks out the gym with the answer.
>>>>
>>> This is me too.  Oddly, baths don't work, just showers.
>>>
>>> Though sometimes the dream solution isn't really the correct answer and
>>> getting
>>> it written down the next morning before forgetting fails completely. ;)
>>>
>>
>> I have two cardio routines.  One allows me to work on stuff and finish
>> the routine with more work to do.  The other I call NDE, near death
>> experience.  It is impossible to think of problems during that one.  My
>> mind is too busy in a for loop printing "this sucks!"
>>
>>
>>
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