Getting Old
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smokeywolf
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Back in the mid 1990s, an electronics engineer at Sony told me, if you built a computer that had the same capability as the human brain, you would need at least a 9 inch water line with ice-water coming in to cool all the components and out the exhaust would just be steam.
L Ross
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And we take them for granted and abuse them.
And worse - don't use them to capacity.
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I'm not old . . . just about 60. I've learned a lot over the years but dang, these younger generations just ain't got no common sense AT ALL!! I'm totally amazed and perplexed by what I see them doing in the news.
I'm just glad I'm the last of the Boomers and still remember simpler times
I'm just glad I'm the last of the Boomers and still remember simpler times
Lawrence of Arabia, "All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
As long as a person can daydream and act, they are not old.
As long as a person can daydream and act, they are not old.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
One of the smartest men in the first quarter of the 20th Century! If Winston Churchill had listened to him in 1920, we would not have the mess in SW Asia we do now.
Mitty38
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I am only 57.
After my illness I lost a few things.
Lost a lot of peoples names. A few I forgot all together according to conversations with my wife Cause the sepsis got to the brain a bit
For work I even had to get in my notes and look some things up to relearn. Stuff I used to deal with every day.
There are some things I wish I had got wiped. Like the REM Song "Stand", or the "Battle of New Orleans? Know every word.
Or why can I still recite just about every line to the movie " Canon Ball Run" ?
Apple soft basic.
TRS-80 Machine Basic. Heck I still know most of the peeks and pokes.
Why does my mind think I need this stuff. But for the life of me, It won't retain our anniversary, or my sons birthday any more. Or how to drive to certain places I used to go.
Oh and why must I forget a word in the middle of a sentence, Shatneresque pauses. That is a new thing.
The loss of energy and strength is the real bugger. Shoot I went to flip an empty dross pan over at work to get it out of my way, and could not even start to budge it. Had to go get the fork lift. Then back hurt all day.
Plus I find myself constantly taking naps when off work, during the day. Shoot can't get nothing done any more for napping, back, and chest pain.
Plus may as well add, I've become this grumpy old man, who complains about his aches and pains all the time.
After my illness I lost a few things.
Lost a lot of peoples names. A few I forgot all together according to conversations with my wife Cause the sepsis got to the brain a bit
For work I even had to get in my notes and look some things up to relearn. Stuff I used to deal with every day.
There are some things I wish I had got wiped. Like the REM Song "Stand", or the "Battle of New Orleans? Know every word.
Or why can I still recite just about every line to the movie " Canon Ball Run" ?
Apple soft basic.
TRS-80 Machine Basic. Heck I still know most of the peeks and pokes.
Why does my mind think I need this stuff. But for the life of me, It won't retain our anniversary, or my sons birthday any more. Or how to drive to certain places I used to go.
Oh and why must I forget a word in the middle of a sentence, Shatneresque pauses. That is a new thing.
The loss of energy and strength is the real bugger. Shoot I went to flip an empty dross pan over at work to get it out of my way, and could not even start to budge it. Had to go get the fork lift. Then back hurt all day.
Plus I find myself constantly taking naps when off work, during the day. Shoot can't get nothing done any more for napping, back, and chest pain.
Plus may as well add, I've become this grumpy old man, who complains about his aches and pains all the time.
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glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Mitty, you brought back some of my memories!
"TRS-80 Machine Basic. Heck I still know most of the peeks and pokes."
Yep, the good old Trash-80! I was busy playing around with the original Commodore PET. Poke 59468 brought up a built in graphics set on the first Commodore.
As a very long time IT guy, I still remember how to setup an ST412 10mb Seagate 5 1/4 full height hard drive on an original IBM 5150 PC. You had to low lever format first. This was done by booting with a DOS floppy disk, running Debug and accessing the low level routine by typing 'g=c800:5'. After that you could use Fdisk to create a primary DOS partition then high level format.
Kinda wish all that would get out of my head . . . been doing IT for WAAAYYY too long!
Mike
"TRS-80 Machine Basic. Heck I still know most of the peeks and pokes."
Yep, the good old Trash-80! I was busy playing around with the original Commodore PET. Poke 59468 brought up a built in graphics set on the first Commodore.
As a very long time IT guy, I still remember how to setup an ST412 10mb Seagate 5 1/4 full height hard drive on an original IBM 5150 PC. You had to low lever format first. This was done by booting with a DOS floppy disk, running Debug and accessing the low level routine by typing 'g=c800:5'. After that you could use Fdisk to create a primary DOS partition then high level format.
Kinda wish all that would get out of my head . . . been doing IT for WAAAYYY too long!
Mike
Cadillac Jeff
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The aches and pains conversion just gets longer and longer!
And you CAN'T give up if someone else is counting on you.
When you think you can't keep going forward, just lean forward a little bit more. If you fail to react by picking up a foot, it'll just hirt more than it already does. Threat-of-(more)Pain Compliance.
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Yep, warm summer evening sitting in front of the shop . . . with a cat.
glassparman
"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I used to not like cats but as I 'got older', I discovered a fondness for them. This guy here forced me to like him. Just look at him looking at me with love only an animal can show . . .
fiver
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funny you mention the Cannon Ball run Emmett.
i was just watching a documentary on how it got going and the original players, then it morphed on to the police really hassling the players.
the movie is actually a pretty good representation [a little movied up of course, but not too much] of real events.
i was just watching a documentary on how it got going and the original players, then it morphed on to the police really hassling the players.
the movie is actually a pretty good representation [a little movied up of course, but not too much] of real events.