Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 19:03:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Rhiannon <rage@cyberwitch.org> To: Pat Lynch <lynch@rush.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, unknown@riverstyx.net, bright@rush.net, hodeleri@seattleu.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905231857380.8108-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905231850110.522-100000@bytor.rush.net>
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ha yeh i can certainly vouch for this bizarre behaviour ...
hmm..i wonder if these afflictions will strike me down after my first solo
install of freeBSD this week ...
nah i'm not a geek i'm not a geek i'm not a geek
L
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how do you know she's a witch ?
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On Sun, 23 May 1999, Pat Lynch wrote:
> yah my girlfriend says that I start breathing heavy, rock back and forth
> and just go completely out for a while. The music becomes backround at
> that point and I don;t think I realize sometimes its even playing or that
> it stopped wehen it did.
>
> -Pat
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
>
> Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net
> Systems Administrator Rush Networking
>
> "Fear is the way to the Dark Side...Fear leads to Anger....
> Anger leads to Hate.....Hate leads to Suffering."
>
> -Yoda, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
>
> "And if my owners let me have some free time some day.....
> With all good intention I would probably run away.....
> clutching the short straw."
>
> -Marillion, "That Time of the Night", _Clutching_at_Straws_
> ___________________________________________________________________________
>
> On Fri, 21 May 1999, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry, but I just don't get this whole thread; how can anyone code
> > at their best while listening to music? The idea that my phone
> > might ring or that someone might show up and demand my attention
> > is enough that I can't get to my deepest level of concentration
> > due to anticipating the mere possibility of interruption. My best
> > work is always achieved at home or in an office with the door closed.
> >
> > Is it just that other people don't concentrate very deeply when
> > coding, or is it that they just don't code very deeply?
> >
> > All of the best coders I have known throughout my career go into
> > semi-autistic funks -- pacing, rocking backward and forward in their
> > chairs, etc. -- while producing their best code.
> >
> > Bill Gates is reputed to rock back and forth in his chair like
> > Dustin Hoffman in "Rain Man" when he is concentrating deeply upon
> > some subject (coding, taking money from little old ladies, whatever).
> >
> >
> > Terry Lambert
> > terry@lambert.org
> > ---
> > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> > or previous employers.
> >
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