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RE: Three things that stun me

in Proof of Brain3 years ago

You're more impressive than I thought! Any arcange tracks out there? :)

they are moments of "meditation" where I organize my ideas and often find solutions.

I can understand this. Another task I've come to actually enjoy is scraping and painting my wooden home. I do a little bit each year, just cycle around. It takes no brain power, allows my mind to wander, and at the day's end I can stand back and admire visible, tangible results. Same with mowing.

I was going to add one more idea, but forgot...folks who can play music, understand languages, they know code, to me you guys have antennae that extended higher than folks like me. They pick up things I cannot, like dog ears and high pitches.

I tried to think of something I'm good at, something I know, something I pick up that others might not. May sound odd, but I was going to write about baseball. I feel I know baseball, there's a lot of secrets underneath, how-to tricks and unwritten rules. I think to most people watching a game, they might not perceive certain things. Quick example....suppose a batter grounds out to firstbase. He needs to run back to his dugout which is now diagonal to where he is. He takes the shortest distance and crosses the pitcher's mound. Seems innocuous, but that's a problem. The pitcher may intentionally hit that batter with a pitch the next time up. A brawl will likely then start between both teams. That batter had invaded the pitchers turf,a baseball no no. I think the casual fan would not see this. This shows my case with music, languages, code. My antennae don't receive those signals.
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Any arcange tracks out there?

Nope. I'm pretty discreet about it

... about baseball.

Although I know the basics of the game and played it a little in school, everything you describe is completely unknown to me. But I'm sure I could stay for hours listening to you to learn more.

Understood about keeping it discreet. I sometimes sing in the shower...haven't recorded and broadcast any tracks though. I'm guessing our reasons for discretion are different here though! :)

Thought you might get a kick out of this...

Yesterday, I'm mowing again. I'd been stumped and disgruntled over a code issue. I know we both mentioned this, but doing physical things with little mental exercise seems, at least for me, to loosen the mind's bowels somehow.

When I was literally on the last stripe of mowing, it suddenly occurred to me, "In my testing, I changed my bot to allow for only posting to one's OWN account (to cut out spam), rather than to another user's account." I had been doing it wrong all day while testing and I was frustrated. So, I'd decided take it out of the grass. After this ephiphany, I finished mowing, walked back inside, fired up things, it worked. I knew it would because I knew what dumb thing I'd done wrong. Funny business this is. :)

The mowing power is with you 💪😁