From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.90.74.62] (helo=babel.hpcc.noaa.gov) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15Ypih-0004Vh-00 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:07:59 -0400 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f7KDLTs19974 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:21:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 09:21:29 -0400 (EDT) From: To: Subject: Re: lookin' good In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Scott, if you need any help with C I'd be glad to help. I love teaching that language! 73s Jim WB0TFK On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Scott Howell wrote: > Well, I don't know any programming language, but hope to learn soon. I'm > actually very interested in C, Perl, etc. Gotten pretty fair with Html and > that's been interesting. In any case I digress. I can fully appreciate > dreaming about solutions, but I think mine were kinda nightmarish in > nature. Apt-get install this and that and this and that and on and on and > it was really scary stuff after while.Not to mention before all that it > was partitioning and hacking on reasons why things wouldn't boot and it > was really nuts. I think this is a part of the process for figuring stuff > out. Lastnight it was cooking kernels and I swear I had a dream I was > roasting kernels on the grill or something. Was all insane, but well > whatever works. The mind is a very scary playground or at least mine seems > to be. > > cul > > > > > --- > Scott > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Janina Sajka wrote: > > > Scott: > > > > I can't tell you how often this has worked for me. Particularly, on a > > large programming project many many years ago, it actually became a > > reliable pattern for me. I would find myself stuck sometime late in the > > evening--usually around midnight. I just couldn't figure what was wrong. I > > learned to go to sleep. > > > > Sure enough. Somewhere around maybe 4, maybe 5, I'd jump out of bed having > > awakened with a start. I actually dreamed the solution. Over and over > > again, time after time, I'd run to the computer and make the change. > > Bingo! Everything worked. And, then, it was on to the next problem, and on > > to the next point of frustration and confusion, etc., etc., etc. > > > > PS: Lest you think I lived on 4 hours sleep, that's approximately correct. > > But these were pgrogramming jags of one to three weeks--with weeks off > > inbetween. Meanwhile, I would also take a nap of around half an hour > > somewhere early to mid afternoon. It's the nap that actually kept me going > > on this kind of crazy schedule. > > > > Ah, the days of being free and fancy loose to just write, write, write. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >