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How to Deal With an Aging Brain?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm sure this is something all older Slashdotters are aware of: as I get older my once-sharp brain is, well, getting worse. In particular, I'm not able to remember things as well as I once did. As a geek my capacity in this area was always what defined me as a geek. Nowadays things seem to go in OK, but then leak out. A few weeks later I've mostly forgotten. So, I ask Slashdot: how do you cope with your mind getting older? What's your trick? Fish-oil? Brain Training on the DS? Exercise? Or just trying harder to remember things?"
I think I'll take over the spaceship and kill all the astronauts.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Isn't there a firmware upgrade that fixes this yet?
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law - Aleister Crowley
Why did I click "Read More" again? Back I go, retrace the steps...
It is guaranteed to help you gain a photographic memory. You'll never forget anything again! The secret to this amazing breakthrough is...Dammit, I can't remember.
Stop using M$ crap ... I'm 47
> Really helped in that area.
And still, you forgot to post anonymously.
10: do
20: Eat, Drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!
30: Heh, an aging brain implies you are still alive.
40: enddo
Sheesh.. some people!
The state you are in while your HEAD is detached... - wait, what?
You're spalling is a cleer endorshment of your opinonion.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
and I've started making efforts to use external memory as much as possible: calendars, phonebooks, todo lists. All the things I didn't need 10 years ago.
i've been told that a good diet and exercise can help, but it's not THAT bad yet.
i forget people's names right after they introduce themselves. i lose my car keys every morning.
my daughter (8) is taking advantage of this; "daddy, remember you told me you'd take me to a movie." shit, maybe I did.
I have to remember all kinds of shit now so the wife doesn't find out. I figure my memorization capacity has quadrupled since...er....what were we talking about again?
At the last performance evaluation, he told me that the quality of my work was borderline due to the fact that I simply could not remember things. We worked out a plan that if I "qualify" for termination in the next layoff, then I will simply pull out the gun and blow my brains out.
If I cannot survive in the competitive American market place, then I should not live. Most Americans support the concept that a nation is a free-market place. If you cannot compete, then you deserve to die. Hence, America does not have national health insurance: losers should die.
Since I choose to live in America, I (and my manager) accept the rules of the free market.
you must be one horny hairy sports luv'n chick.
Back in the day, a simple GOTO was ok.
Get off'a my lawn!
Frisco-style: "Eat, Drink, and be Mary..."
Table-ized A.I.
No, he is just a Eunuchs user, like many of us.
Ezekiel 23:20
Ye flipping gods! I've never been so glad GNU is Not Unix.
Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough.
There's the solution! Turn whatever you want to remember into a really lame song et voila.
Something about using memory training software that the author forgot to update doesn't sit right with me.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
When you stack them (Piracetam + Aniracetam) they work synergistically and you get an even stronger effect.
The use of "synergistically" in a serious manner automatically disqualifies everything else one says.
I personally can't wait for Alzheimer's given all of the stuff (plus an ex) that I'd love to forget about.
"a lot of the "older guy's" tend to migrate into roles where they don't need to keep mountains of info bouncing around their head all the time."
Hello! Welcome to Wal-Mart.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
A lot of inappropriate moderation is the result of Slashdot's use of pulldown lists. People select the moderation, then use the mouse wheel to scroll further down the page to the 'Moderate' button without realizing that the pulldown list still has the focus. They then click on the page to set the focus properly, without noticing that 'Insightful' got turned into 'Troll.'
Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be blamed on bad UI design.
Or ... has she told you the same story before, but you had forgotten about it.
... Aside from the body hair, do you really see this as a problem? ;)
You're absolutely right, which is why I do my best to NOT manage like that. I have some very talented staff who are doing amazing things. All I do anymore is sit back in my chair and say "make it so" and die a little more inside.
The internet helps you remember things. I call it a pornographic memory.
FLR
I had an elective castration....
I voted Republican; I feel pretty emasculated as well.
Alcohol kills memory MUCH faster and more extensively than pot does.
I don't know about that. I often drink until I black out, and figure if I'm not using my long-term storage I must be saving it from wearing out.
Right?
Quite frankly, it sounds more as though you've archived it to secondary storage and have to read the tape back in.
Good, inexpensive web hosting
I had an elective castration
Congratulations on your recent marriage.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Unfortunately since we're not to that point yet, I've started using Notefrog on a flashdrive.
....Don't forget nutrition...
In general, any food "...ated" or "...ized" should be minimized. Refined sugar, white bread and especially high fructose corn syrup, such as found in most soft drinks should be mostly stricken from your diet. Live as much as possible on minimally processed, natural food.
Of course, you'll no longer WANT to be able to process or remember your joyless hell of a life, But you'll suffer it for a good and long time ;)
I can't remember the last time I forgot something.
The only drawback (or perhaps the main advantage) of this method is that nobody will be able to tell if you're senile or just stoned.
My father went to lawchool at 46...
Please note, spelling proficiency appears to decrease prior to age 39.
One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere.
Like that time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.
Now where were we?
Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
only if your definition of junk food includes things like pasteurized milk...
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All I do anymore is sit back in my chair and say "make it so" and die a little more inside.
Let me work for you!
I'll even wear a communications pin!
I went to a comprehensive you insensitive clod.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
"At least you know what you will be doing when you reach that age..."
You're just jealous that MY career path won't be outsourced! 8-P
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."