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Old age is not for sissies.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Quote: "Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so." Jorge Borges, essay: "On Blindness."
You're in good company, Brother Stoneyowl2; I'm lucky enough to have survived a major cancer 13 years ago with no recurrence; one leg has some permanent nerve damage from being multiply fractured by a hit-and-run driver 14 years ago; one eye is unusable, and, can't be repaired. Tinnitus is something I've learned to live with.
Those existential "facts" seldom weigh my spirit down; when they do, I meditate, and look around me at people who are suffering more than I can imagine to try and "adjust my perspective."
At age 76, my memory is actually keener than it was pre-cancer, my ability to concentrate greater. Loss of my taste buds due to radiation treatment has led to a divorce from food and weight loss that I am convinced has partially enabled increased mental facilities ... I used to spend a lot of time on food !
I feel fortunate that I can delight in 12 or more hours per day of intense mental activity, using the net to explore the latest in linguistics, neuropsychology, physics, archaeology (ancient trade routes, artifacts, Buddhist iconography in SE Asia), and literature, programming, and, of course, manifesting here 
Truth be told: I could not have imagined, before age 65, how satisfying the life I have lived since then: is. How satisfying it is to need less, and find more delight in the dance with that elusive "miraculous in ordinary's" shape-shifting presence 
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I'm 64 and I'm gonna print that out and post it on my fridge.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Borges would be happy to see his words on your fridge !
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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This year I reached 60. I have survived 60 years and am still trying to pay off my mortgage.
I plan to live to be at least 256 years old just so I can see all the computers that hold age in a single byte get very confused that a 0-year old exists!
So far, so good...
However, by then I expect to be a solid lump of arthritis that I look at nostalgically now and then from my young and healthy replacement android body.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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When we wake from this finite dream, perhaps we'll have an infinite moment when we see we were always eternal ... just before the next dream begins ?
Meanwhile, enjoy the best of the many best years of your life to come.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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~
no oars here fit my fingers,
winds, tides, don't move me:
where's the boat going
memory rocks me,
side to side, and keel to prow;
which moves: boat or clouds
i remember salt
in your long dusk kiss,
lasting until stars came out
this is age: i'm half-submerged,
half eyeless, afloat
on half-perfect grace
now, i'm spending as much time
bailing as i am rowing !
~
"the boat of age," a sonnet: published under the terms of CPOPL (Code Project Open Poetic License) © 2019, Bill Woodruff
an experiment in using 'modified haiku' form in a sonnet where each stanza contains one line of seven syllables, and two lines of five syllables. the final couplet composed of two seven syllable lines
i set myself the challenge, of making the seven-syllable line move sequentially in the order of the stanzas, beginning in line one of the first stanza, and, finally, reappearing as line one in the last (fourth) stanza ... just for fun
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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There's a story by Poul Andreson, The Boat of a Million Years, that deals with immortality and immortals. Did you ever read it?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Hi, Daniel,
I haven't read sci-fi in so many years; although the name rings a bell, I can't remember ... maybe when the tide goes out ...
There is a "psychic" influence on this poem from the late Agha Shahid Ali's masterpiece , "Farewell:"Quote: excerpt:
I am being rowed through Paradise in a river of Hell:
Exquisite ghost, it is night.
The paddle is a heart; it breaks the porcelain waves.
It is still night. The paddle is a lotus.
I am rowed- as it withers-toward the breeze which is soft as
if it had pity on me.
Agha Shahid Ali (1949 ~ 2001)
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Actually it was 55 mins ago but I'm not sure of the time because my phone is still installing it.
xkcd: Compiling
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I went super quickly on my 8+.
A quick look at changes ...
The App store does not have a tab for app updates (replaced with the new Arcade?) ?
The Mail app, there's no way to directly move a mail to a mailbox ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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but 13.1 beta 4 ...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I love the alerts. I just got an emergency alert about floodinbghere untuil 3 PM. It was at 4 PM, but I gues I haven't drowned yet!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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My article on the subject 'Generated Columns in PostgreSQL' has been deleted because it allegedly plagiarized official PostgreSQL doc on the subject. I had copied some content from the article and rephrased it and had mentioned the official link as one of the references in the article. Is it still considered plagiarism? Can I dispute it?
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Yes you can. We'll look into it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks Chris. This is the link to the article: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5246207/Generated-Columns-in-PostgreSQL
Please look into this, I don't see any links to reply in the notification email.
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Additionally you might want to have a look to CodeProject Plagiarism FAQ[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That is a very good FAQ. I think I will use it on my site! 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes it is... and yet too ignored 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 19-Sep-19 14:48pm.
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Thank you for the really useful link.
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Do pirate children ask "Arrrrr we there yet?"
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They probably just parrot their parents on avast number of such terms.
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