While mowing the grass, my brain wanders and I get ideas. Something about the drone of the engine and the mindlessness of the task frees my mind up to thinking. While mowing recently, there are three things that came to mind that stun me.
. Musicians
. Multilingual speakers
. Coders
Some Sunday thoughts on these three things follow.
Musicians
Whenever I get dragged into a social get-together involving lots of people, cocktails, and live music, the musicians simply amaze me. I sit and listen and watch. How someone can look at paper sheet music, then turn it into organic, kinesthetic movement to create beautiful sounds...well, that's something I can't comprehend. To do it without sheet music is even more crazy to me, something I'm simply not hard-wired in my DNA to understand.
People have asked, "Do you play an instrument?" "Yes," I say, "I play the radio." That's the extent of my musical skill.
post | playlist) last Christmas. I submitted my, ahem, song, "The Christmas Puppy (3Speak | other formats). My song didn't make the cut, and no hard feelings here. Listening to the other submissions that actually were by talented people, it's understandable and it's all good. But, my song does kind of illustrate my musical nonskill. Anyway, it was fun to make!The Pizza crew and @thebeardflex put together a neat Christmas album (
Just realized, it's almost "Christmas in July" (some folks celebrate that), just in time to check out the music above. :)
Multilingual folks
My guess is that anyone who is bilingual or multilingual, especially anyone who grew up in a multilingual environment, you won't understand this...effortlessly flipping between languages amazes me and confuses me.
I can, to a very, very small degree, decode some non-English languages when I read them. Listening...nope, it's just sounds. If I can see the words and syntax, maybe I can pick up a small bit.
Again, DNA is at play here, along with having grown up in an almost exclusively English-only environment. You bilinguals are like demi-gods with donkey ears, hearing other voices from afar that we mortals cannot here.
Coders
This is really not far different from language, I think. And likely it's not far different from musicians, I think. But, there are some people so innately gifted, skilled and so well-trained, that they can glance at a block of code (which looks like a phone book that has been randomized to the rest of us), and those people can spot errors or fixes with little effort. It stuns me.
These people can type letters and symbols and numbers into text files, do magic, then create something that the rest of us use everyday (with no idea of how these things work).
My only comparison is reading, in English. I think I'm a pretty good reader, my eyes scan the text, my brain picks up the thoughts conveyed. Errors, like spelling, syntax, grammar, usage, etc. tend to get seen and picked up if I'm not reading too fast. Yet, to do this while reading code...amazing to me.
Summary
I'm not sure what my point was here beyond sharing my thoughts. But, summed, these folks amaze me:
- Musicians
- Multilingual folks
- Coders
Maybe my point is to thank a musician, or that person who interpreted for you, or a coder.
Have a great Sunday. :)
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We're doing it again this year! I hope you submit another track!
I may be frustrating you, but I fall into the 3 categories that you state.
I am a coder. That, I think everyone on Hive knows.
I'm also a musician. I started playing guitar when I was young, tried piano then switched to the more complex diatonic accordion.
To me, playing it is just moving from my computer keyboard to another one.
Finally, I consider myself quite multilingual. Although I have studied 8 of them (9 if you include latin), I will not claim to speak them all fluently, let alone read or write them when it comes to Chinese, Russian or Greek, but I can pretend I can easily have a conversation with 3 of them.
I'm not saying this to brag or pretend I'm amazing. I had the chance to be passionate about these disciplines and find it fun to develop them, sometimes with the help of good teachers who were smart enough to share their passion too. Just to say that learning things is a process that drives me rather than discourages me.
That being said, mowing times are very important to me too. As for you, they are moments of "meditation" where I organize my ideas and often find solutions.
Unfortunately, while being an accessible practice for everyone, it doesn't amaze anyone. 😢
You're more impressive than I thought! Any arcange tracks out there? :)
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.
!LUV
Nope. I'm pretty discreet about it
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 💪😁
(2/4) gave you LUV.
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