lookin' good

[Scott Howell]

Hmmmm, dream, well then I'mm off on some rant about beautiful blonds and
well....um this never seems to work. Damn, that must be my problem.<grin>

I've been told my brain is a horrifying place.




---
Scott 

On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> The human brain is an interesting organ, is it not?
> I've often heard it said that you shouldn't think directly
> at a problem to help you solve it.
> Instead, think around it, and the solution will most likely come to you.
> Dreaming is a good state to think around a problem.
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:31:51PM -0400, 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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> > 				Technology Research and Development
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> > 
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> > 
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