From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 21 23:45:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FF8A154CF for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 23:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA13735; Sat, 22 May 1999 00:45:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990522003715.04610340@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 00:45:43 -0600 To: Terry Lambert From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Music to code by Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905212147.OAA04190@usr07.primenet.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:47 PM 5/21/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >Sorry, but I just don't get this whole thread; how can anyone code >at their best while listening to music? What I *really* can't understand is that some people I know -- including the CEO of a relatively well known software company -- claim that they code best when under the influence of marijuana. Considering the documented effects of marijuana on short term memory, and on the transfer of information from short term to long term memory, I am truly amazed that they can even code adequately under such conditions. (The ONLY activity I could imagine that might benefit from the effects of marijuana is musical performance, where one can't dwell on mistakes or even on what happened a few seconds before. One must reproduce material that has already been committed to long term memory while at the same time living entirely in the moment, reacting instantly to one's fellow musicians.) Different strokes, I suppose.... --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message