Just wondering....... - Page 7

RickyMaveety · 06-22-2008, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

Age: 47
1st computer: Vic20
CPAP: Yes
Fan on when sleeping: Yes
Ear bud in one ear while sleeping: Yes, but tuned to music (classical)
Mental age: 14

... just thought I would catch up with the conversation.

Did I miss anything?

Oh, yes. TV: Yes. Mostly the Science channel, History channel, PBS, and anything Star Trek.

Children: No thanks, I had that for lunch.

I like that one. Mine has always been "No thanks, too much fat for my taste, and they go right to my hips"

yvanleterrible · 06-22-2008, 02:05 PM

Well then, I thought I was one of the oldest, I can now say that I'm 51 in experience with the brain of a twelve year old. That means I play soccer every week and suffer the dire physical consequences over the following two days.

I started to read at 8 but only during eternal Canadian winter. Summer was for working the land, my uncle's land. I started to drive the tractor at 5 and when there was time I played with the river in the backyard. I just wish my kids could have had such a magnificent toy.

PS. Starting to read at 8 means having fun at it; reading a novel. My first was Robinson Crusoe.

RWood · 06-22-2008, 03:22 PM

Let's see, I'm 57 going on 17. Started reading before 1st grade. My uncle dropped his GI Bill college textbooks so I had a great library of American & English lit as well as math books to read. My father's books were long gone by then. Lots of baseball and real football (not that soccer stuff) as a kid. We moved a lot, I logged 13 schools across the country in my first 12 years of schooling (with all of High School at the same school.)

Started programming as a teen in the mid 60s when I would go in on the weekends with my father and had the use of demonstrator/test bed machine along with all the 80-column punch cards anyone could want. Learned all of the classic languages like COBOL and FORTRAN.

The first machine I programmed was a Honeywell Series 200. First microcomputer was a Zilog Z80 S-100 bus homebrew running CP/M. First mainstream microcomputer was an Apple ][ with integer BASIC. First PC type machine was an ITT Xtra with a NEC V-10 CPU (8088 clone.)

I can sleep or study through anything. In grad school I lived in a second story walk-up across the alley from an auto repair and body shop. In my younger days I was a rock guitarist and a radio DJ so music is critical. (If your car muffler is drowning out your music it just means that you need a new car stereo.)

RickyMaveety · 06-22-2008, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

PS. Starting to read at 8 means having fun at it; reading a novel. My first was Robinson Crusoe.

Starting to read at any age should mean having fun with it. I started right around the time I turned 2, and never thought of it as anything but fun.

AJ Starr · 06-22-2008, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slayda

If your CPAP is similar to mine, you could attach the ear bud wire to the air tube and voila no more wire problem.

This is a global question to the CPAP users. How do you let the hose drape at night.

I have to stick mine up and over my head. I found my poster bed post keeps it up. I can't take it if it goes down by my chest. (Which answers this quote, the wire would not be more convenient to me attached to the hose. I just stick it inside my PJ top.

[If the powers to be want to make this a separate thread, that's fine. I'm not that versed in blogs yet to do that]

A

AJ Starr · 06-22-2008, 05:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

A tiny little burg (that likes to call itself a "city" .... ummm .... riiiight) called Horseshoe Bay. It's about an hour northwestish of Austin.

I just think of it as "Stepford, Texas."

Thought I'd recognize most Texas towns but you stumped me. I know Austin, used to go camping at Austin City Park, my mother's from Teague/Fairfield, in-laws in Austin and Waco (actually Crawford, he knows where the President lives), but you stumped me with Horseshoe Bay.

"Don't Mess with ....." us !

A

Donnageddon · 06-22-2008, 05:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

This is a global question to the CPAP users. How do you let the hose drape at night.

I have to stick mine up and over my head. I found my poster bed post keeps it up. I can't take it if it goes down by my chest. (Which answers this quote, the wire would not be more convenient to me attached to the hose. I just stick it inside my PJ top.

[If the powers to be want to make this a separate thread, that's fine. I'm not that versed in blogs yet to do that]

A

I sleep on my side, and the CPAP hose just goes directly to the machine on the nightstand. Even if I turn over, it just then flows across the mask and side of my head. Never been a problem.

Unless I had too many children before bedtime. They tend to give me heartburn.

RickyMaveety · 06-22-2008, 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

Thought I'd recognize most Texas towns but you stumped me. I know Austin, used to go camping at Austin City Park, my mother's from Teague/Fairfield, in-laws in Austin and Waco (actually Crawford, he knows where the President lives), but you stumped me with Horseshoe Bay.

"Don't Mess with ....." us !

A

It's out on Lake LBJ, one of the lakes formed by all those dams on the Lower Colorado River. Not too far from the town of Marble Falls.

slayda · 06-22-2008, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AJ Starr

This is a global question to the CPAP users. How do you let the hose drape at night.

I have to stick mine up and over my head. I found my poster bed post keeps it up. I can't take it if it goes down by my chest. (Which answers this quote, the wire would not be more convenient to me attached to the hose. I just stick it inside my PJ top.

[If the powers to be want to make this a separate thread, that's fine. I'm not that versed in blogs yet to do that]

A

I do mine similarly. When the hospital showed me the CPAP the first time, I said, "You expect me to sleep with all that hooked to my face?" But I learned. Don't have a formal bed frame but the hose goes up toward the head and then over to the night stand. I tend to roll over a lot at night but it's always the same direction - looking from head to toe it - clockwise.

Sticking anything inside my PJ top would be painful & somewhat bloody. But then I prefer white noise to sleep with. The wife (in the next room) watches TV (or at least keeps it on) until 1am to 2am. The white noise and closed door allow me to sleep except when the AH next door plays loud music until 3am. That's when I insert my swimmers wax earplugs.

nekokami · 06-22-2008, 08:47 PM

It looked for a little while like I was going to end up with a CPAP, but allergy treatments seem to have made it superfluous. Which is good, because I think I would have had a very hard time sleeping with something on my face. Though I suppose one can get used to almost anything....

pshrynk · 06-23-2008, 10:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

I can't remember a time when we didn't have a TV. However, although I loved watching the tube (and still do), I also loved reading. I'll never know if having or not having the TV would have made a difference to me ... but I really doubt it.

The reason I say that is that I learned to do my homework and study in front of the TV. So, it's most often like background noise to me. I mean ... it's not like most of the shows demand much in the way of intellectual effort to watch them. Ever since I was little ... I'd watch a minute or two, then shift back to my book or whatever homework I was doing ... work on that for 20 minutes .... look at the TV for another two or three minutes to see what they were up to now, then back to the book.

When I was studying for my bar exam (California 1988) I watched TV almost constantly while I studied. I can't imagine that it hurt me. However, I also wouldn't recommend it as a method of study for everyone. I guess my way of explaining it is -- if I can be so comfortable with a subject that I can converse about it well, even with the distraction of the TV set, then I guess I've really learned it.

How's that for a rationalization??

Well, as long as you were watching Law and Oder, that's okay, then.

RickyMaveety · 06-23-2008, 10:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Well, as long as you were watching Law and Oder, that's okay, then.

Actually, I did watch a lot of Law & Order, and a ton of legal themed movies as well (such as "The Jagged Edge").

I found myself yelling various objections at the tv set ... it was fun to see if I could spot the objectional questions before the actor-attorney said his/her lines.

GeoffC · 06-23-2008, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

For some reason I remember the machines producing pale pink and purple copies as being called a 'Banda'.

Those were the days...

RickyMaveety · 06-25-2008, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

Age: 47
1st computer: Vic20
CPAP: Yes
Fan on when sleeping: Yes
Ear bud in one ear while sleeping: Yes, but tuned to music (classical)
Mental age: 14

... just thought I would catch up with the conversation.

Did I miss anything?

Oh, yes. TV: Yes. Mostly the Science channel, History channel, PBS, and anything Star Trek.

Children: No thanks, I had that for lunch.

Quote:

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

my new favorite answer to that question (vegetarianism notwithstanding).

Nothing like the perfect t-shirt ....

Falbe Publishing · 06-25-2008, 08:01 PM

I'm 36...and do remember the Commodore 64, but I don't remember it doing ANYTHING.

06-22-2008, 02:05 PM	#92
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Well then, I thought I was one of the oldest, I can now say that I'm 51 in experience with the brain of a twelve year old. That means I play soccer every week and suffer the dire physical consequences over the following two days. I started to read at 8 but only during eternal Canadian winter. Summer was for working the land, my uncle's land. I started to drive the tractor at 5 and when there was time I played with the river in the backyard. I just wish my kids could have had such a magnificent toy. PS. Starting to read at 8 means having fun at it; reading a novel. My first was Robinson Crusoe. Last edited by yvanleterrible; 06-22-2008 at 02:11 PM.

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RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Let's see, I'm 57 going on 17. Started reading before 1st grade. My uncle dropped his GI Bill college textbooks so I had a great library of American & English lit as well as math books to read. My father's books were long gone by then. Lots of baseball and real football (not that soccer stuff) as a kid. We moved a lot, I logged 13 schools across the country in my first 12 years of schooling (with all of High School at the same school.) Started programming as a teen in the mid 60s when I would go in on the weekends with my father and had the use of demonstrator/test bed machine along with all the 80-column punch cards anyone could want. Learned all of the classic languages like COBOL and FORTRAN. The first machine I programmed was a Honeywell Series 200. First microcomputer was a Zilog Z80 S-100 bus homebrew running CP/M. First mainstream microcomputer was an Apple ][ with integer BASIC. First PC type machine was an ITT Xtra with a NEC V-10 CPU (8088 clone.) I can sleep or study through anything. In grad school I lived in a second story walk-up across the alley from an auto repair and body shop. In my younger days I was a rock guitarist and a radio DJ so music is critical. (If your car muffler is drowning out your music it just means that you need a new car stereo.)

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nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	It looked for a little while like I was going to end up with a CPAP, but allergy treatments seem to have made it superfluous. Which is good, because I think I would have had a very hard time sleeping with something on my face. Though I suppose one can get used to almost anything....

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