Whiplash: An injury to the neck caused by an abrupt jerking motion of the head, either backward or forward; And in the case of writing or speaking, can be caused by a rapid change of topic without prior notice.
Whiplash! – “M” mm. How is it he is never lacking for ideas?
I love mysteries. When someone is looking for something and asks me for help, I love to be on the chase. I like reading mysteries also. Mysteries are probably one of my top favorite genres after, science fiction and fantasy. Give me a good mystery to read or watch and you will lose me for a while.
Math problem solving was always fun for me too. I loved logic problems. Those were all mysteries for me to solve. My favorite technique for solving mysteries was to look for patterns. There are times when I see patterns that no one else sees. That means I get the correct answer a unique way or I get an incorrect answer with some creative logic to back it up. Either way, I love to solve mysteries.
When was young I made up these pretend IDs with my friends as members of a detective agency based on the TV program, “77 Sunset Strip”. When my son was young we would pretend to be famous detectives of an imaginary agency. He was Inspector Shaunk and I was his assistant Hinches. You can never be too old to love a good mystery.
Whiplash!
You should strive hard to never make a mistake! Whoever thought or said that made a big mistake. Albert Einstein is attributed to saying, “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” For that matter, anyone who has never made a mistake hasn’t learned anything new. Making mistakes is a fact of life. What we do with those mistakes determines what we learn or don’t learn (if we make the same mistakes over and over again.)
Most of the knowledge that I have about technology and computers comes from me being willing to make mistakes. By being willing, I am taking risks and accepting the fact that even if I lose all my data, I have learned what not to do in the future. Note that I also back everything up multiple times and to multiple places as a sort of insurance against me making a mistake. How did I learn that? During my first year of computer
use, I was doing report cards on an Apple //e using the program Apple Writer. The program was on an unprotected 5-¼ inch floppy disk. You put the program in the drive, loaded the program then switched out the Apple disk and put in a blank 5-¼ inch floppy data disk which needed to be formatted (erased) so you could store the report cards that you were working on. That doesn’t work very well if you forget to swap the disks and end up erasing the Apple Writer program disk, which is still in the drive.
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Memory…What a wonderful thing to have. If I could only remember what I was going to write about it.
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So what mysteries have you had to solve lately? If you could be any famous detective either real or fictional, who would you choose? What is the most important thing you ever learned from a mistake? If you happen to remember what I was going to write about for memory, feel free to let me know in the comments, as old age keeps creeping up on me!
We’ll meet, don’t know where, oh yes “N”
