OT: Today I Turn 33...!

[JoeHill]

Tyler Aviss wrote: 

> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Thomas
> Milne<tbrucemilne-TcoXwbchSccMMYnvST3LeUB+6BGkLq7r at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Michael Lauzon<mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:  
> >> Well, today -- 11/08/09 -- is my 33rdf birthday, I am getting old.  I
> >> haven't had a birthday party or a birthday present in almost 20 years,
> >> sucks to be me.  Anyeverhow, I am now 33 and into my 34th year of
> >> life.  
> >
> > 33!? Please, I would be glad to be 33 again. Enjoy it while you can :-)
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> For those that are older-than-I, it's one thing I've always wondered.
> I know a lot more than I did when I was younger - say in High School -
> but picking up new concepts sometimes seems to take a little longer
> than it did. Perhaps it was just when I was younger I had more free
> time for such things, but I do remember doing some pretty cool
> programming tricks and coming up with rather outrageous ideas (that
> worked, even!), etc, even if it was all very non-standard and rather
> unorthodox.

Experience can actually help with things like that. From what I've been reading
lately (and noticing in myself a little bit), things like intuitive thinking are
greatly improved with experience, so even though there is the tendency to be
more conservative with the 'new ideas', there can be a greater capacity for
creative thinking. Notice I said 'can be'. ;)

> Do you ever feel that the old grey-matter has slowed down a bit? How
> do you keep it in shape?

Don't drink, don't smoke, keep moving. If I had done those things when I was 33
my life would be a lot better now. If you're already doing those things, you
really don't have much to worry about except getting taken out by a bus or
something.

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J
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