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Great. He can do an 'Origami School' for his grandchildren...
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I would think he doesn't need you to figure out what he should do.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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You mean he is married and already has someone to make his decisions? 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Indeed and why would you add to that.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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I wouldn't dare!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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When my father retired and boredom started to hit, he also bought a PC.
One of his projects was digitizing his vinyl records collection. Some of the older 78 rpm ones may very well be 'last specimens'.
Another, transferring old VCR family/vacation/wedding movies to CDs, while adding subtitles and transitions in the process.
A third project was scanning photo albums, and digitally retouching cracks. Of all possible graphic software choices, he uses MS Paint.
In a short time he was also using Skype to communicate with friends and relatives, and Google+ to share pictures.
Best hopes for your father,
Pablo.
"Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899).
"You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence" (Rex Stout, "In the Best Families", 1950).
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Digital photography?
It will involve physical exercise, intellectual exercise (have you ever used Gimp?   ), and artistic endeavour. Exercise the body and both sides of the brain in a single activity.
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At the age of 65, my mother started creating websites... I didn't suggest it, but she wanted to put some contents on the web (photos, text). After reaching her goal (thanks Google), she enjoyed it, and started doing it for her friends!
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Don't get him Windows 8.
That was made for kids who stare all day like zombies at facebook.
It will make your Dad wonder why you don't love him anymore.
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Hi,
I would give him this text that was hanging on the walls of [General Mac Arthur's ]headquarter:
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YOUTH
YOUTH is not a time of life-it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of ripe cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
YOUTH means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love or ease. This often exists in a man of fifty or more than in a boy of twenty.
NOBODY grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust , fear and despair - these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
WHEATER seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement of the stars and the starlike things and thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events; the unfailoing child-like appetite for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
YOU are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
IN the central part of hour heart there is a wireless situation; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage, grandeur and power from the earth, from men and from infinite, so long you are young.
WHEN the wires are all down and the central place of your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynism, then you are grown old indeed and may God have mercy on your soul.
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Simply ask him if he is in for a new adventure and figure out together what that could be 
With friendly greetings,
Eric Goedhart
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Carpentering is a great physical and mental exercise.
All you need is an empty room and some relatively inexpensive equipment.
Amr Abdel Majeed
Senior Software Developer
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Maybe writing would be his thing, he obviously spent many years doing something maybe he could blog about it or write a series of tutorials?
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When I'm 60, in a little over eight years, I'd like my kids to teach me what the tides are in Hawaii. Then again, they're asking me to teach them the same thing.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: ...nearly 60 years ago he got away with a thinner right arm only.
You got him a laptop? Buy him a mouse. Pushing that around a desk all day will build up his right arm muscles.
At least that is what I tell my mom.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Are his fingers fully operational? If so, learning to play an instrument is a great thing. There are relatively simple ones, like a recorder -- 8 holes to master and you can buy it for $5.
Greetings - Jacek
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My condolences to your to your father. Most people in the West have never seen the effects of that miserable disease. My father was stricken by it before I was born, but I know how it has affected his life. He would never wear short pants because of the disfigurement to his left leg. Now at 85 years old, his doctor shows him to younger doctors so that they can see the effects of a disease that hopefully none of them will never have to treat.
I would think that the best thing that you could teach him is that he still has much to contribute. So instead of teaching an old dog a new trick, how about getting him involved in teaching young pups that they are not as smart as their mommies tell them. Granted this will really depend a lot on your father's personality, but I found most elder people really enjoy passing on knowledge. If he does not have the temperament to deal with young kids, them maybe he could teach adults. There are many options to consider from this business knowledge to possibly adult literacy classes.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: He's retiring against his will.
Some reason he can't get another job?
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Are you looking for only mental exercises? If yes, I guess he is old enough to choose. For physical exercises, take a look at this.[^]
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Anything! Whatever interests him is what he should do!
At 65 my dad started studying watch making and spent lots of time going to parks and the beach on Mondays with his metal detector. You'd be surprised at what people lost during the weekend.
At 60 I went back to grad school. I'm now 63 and finishing my PhD.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: What would you teach your 60 year old daddy?
Nothing, he can probably teach you a thing or two!
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...am I allowed to be? And how stupid is my son?
So, wife had her birthday on Boxing Day, the FIL the day after and the next day he dies (it weren't unexpected).
Today, after I finish a bit of sub contracted PC fixing I stop off to deposit payments into a bank. To do this I park next to a bottle shop and being New Years Eve I had to get something. So decide to get a large bottle of Bundy OP (AUD$78.00) for the Missus birthday (yes, it is her favourite drop). So come home and place it on the dining table.
I then walk outside to help bring in snacks and drinks for the daughters 14th birthday party when I hear her (the wife) pull up. She looks up and exclaims "your Father's home" when I walk out the front door. This is the first she knows of it even though she just parked next to my car out the front of the house.
So my son (Captain Moron) decides he needs to hide the bottle of Rum (Note that this is considerably smaller than the car she couldn't notice right next to hers and as far from the front door as possible. Also note it is in a paper bag, so effectively invisible to her). So he picks it up, and drops it before he has taken 2 steps. Glass everywhere, rum through my built but not setup NAS and all through my laptop bag, soaked through the bag to the inside. Covers all up about 12-16 square metres.
I scream obscenities and walk up the road for a bit, the wife stupidly abuses the boy (who is a moron) cause she thinks this is what I want (it is what I want, along with a solid smack to the head, but all I will achieve is getting neck deep in the sh*t) then abuses me cause she abused him.
Now I'm being told it is an accident and not to worry she didn't need the Rum. She can't understand that I would prefer to burn the AUD$80.00 as I am still out of pocket but didn't have to view the trauma of 1.125 litres of OP Rum all over the floor and then the 20+ miniutes of cleaning it up and the remainder of the night walking around bare foot to find the glass they missed.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: view the trauma of 1.125 litres of OP Rum all over the floor
Run away before Nagy reads this.
Michael Martin wrote: walking around bare foot to find the glass they missed
You sure deserve a Darwin award.
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