OT: Today I Turn 33...!

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> Now it makes me lughting when someone says that he is 33 or something, and 
> things that he is old. At 36 I took bicycle and drive from Winnipeg to 
> Toronto, with no food, no money, with nothing. Well, now I would probably

I didn't mean to suggest I was old at 36 but I can certainly notice a 
physical difference from 26 (or 21).  I used to get by on scant sleep in 
my 20s.  Now I just can't :)

> would not do that - thats age difference. But I am still able to do crazy 
> things - I come from Canada to Russia for living ;) Most of you would never 
> ever be able to do such a thing regardless of your age ;)

I migrated to Canada at 30.  I reflected that it would have been more 
difficult the older I got as I would have been more settled in my home 
country.

> Right, mind changes with age. Reactions and thoughts become less spontaneous.

True but you gain a lot with experience.  So far I think the trade off has 
been worth it.

> Certainly, if life opportunities contribute into that, one gets wiser with 
> age. That sort of wisdom does contribute into creativity. Sure, I could not 
> be Einstein anymore (who made his most important works in his early 
> twenties).

Almost all scientists make their major contributions in their first 10 
years of professional research.

While I'm not a scientist I work towards the advancement of my profession 
(system administration) with original work.  I like to think I have many 
more contributions to make yet.

I'm currently developing a site where I am releasing much of my work on 
system administration as a single body of work for the first time.  Up to 
this time it has been released piecemeal, often on mailing lists.  The 
site is actually online but I've refrained from announcing it until it is 
'beta' quality.  People drop in via search engines from time to time 
though.

Cheers,

Rob

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