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DRG
PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2024 5:25 pm 
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BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
I've been messing with computer junk for nearly 55 years and am still learning.

That's impressive. I'm no spring chicken myself either, and I don't subscribe to the "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" mentality as I'm always willing to learn something new - even at my age. Maybe it just doesn't stick the first (or second!) time around.
The way I look at it is that this knowledge I'm gaining from the forum is a different kind of investment for my retirement. :)
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 11, 2024 8:07 pm 
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DRG wrote:
BigDumbDinosaur wrote:
I've been messing with computer junk for nearly 55 years and am still learning.

That's impressive. I'm no spring chicken myself either, and I don't subscribe to the "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" mentality as I'm always willing to learn something new - even at my age. Maybe it just doesn't stick the first (or second!) time around.
The way I look at it is that this knowledge I'm gaining from the forum is a different kind of investment for my retirement. :)

My wife often wonders why I still mess with this stuff at my “advanced” age.  My explanation invariably is it is good for my mental health, which then starts a mutual insult session about my and her mental states.  :D

More seriously, there is some scientific conjecture that the deep thinking needed to do such things as write a book or compose music may be doing for the brain what aerobic physical exercise does for the heart and lungs.  If that is the case, the thinking and planning needed to design and build a home-brew computer and write software for it should keep one’s brain as fit as a fiddle as old age creeps up.

In my case, however, my brain is only as fit as a viola.  :shock:

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