From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 23 16: 4:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032EA1514B for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 16:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rage@cyberwitch.org) Received: from localhost (rage@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA17281; Sun, 23 May 1999 19:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 19:03:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Rhiannon X-Sender: rage@bytor.rush.net To: Pat Lynch Cc: Terry Lambert , unknown@riverstyx.net, bright@rush.net, hodeleri@seattleu.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Music to code by In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ how do you know she's a witch ? * * * rage@cyberwitch.org rage@rush.net rage@free.bsdunix.net 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. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message