lookin' good

[Scott Howell]

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




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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.
> 
> 
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