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    #11
    Originally posted by AtW View Post
    Didn't he (allegedly) donate his brain some years ago?
    Lets face in, in IT you really don't need to use your brain anymore. Most contracts I've had for the last 15+ years I've solved between the interview and the weekend, most often on the drive home. Sometimes have problems remembering the solution before the grind the handle part of the contract starts.
    Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
    threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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      #12
      Originally posted by threaded View Post
      Lets face in, in IT you really don't need to use your brain anymore. Most contracts I've had for the last 15+ years I've solved between the interview and the weekend, most often on the drive home. Sometimes have problems remembering the solution before the grind the handle part of the contract starts.

      Gosh Threaded, you're so jolly clever.

      I wish we could all be like you.
      Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

      C.S. Lewis

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        #13
        Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
        Gosh Threaded, you're so jolly clever.

        I wish we could all be like you.
        Are you saying you really need to think on the job? I find recently I spend most of my time doing word analysis on Agatha Christie novels.
        Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
        threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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          #14
          Originally posted by threaded View Post
          Are you saying you really need to think on the job? I find recently I spend most of my time doing word analysis on Agatha Christie novels.
          Absolutely. It's called "concentration".

          I'd rather the pilot of the airliner do that than ponder if Agatha Christie was a closet Messiah who wrote in Bible Code, wouldn't you ?

          Sorry if I disappoint you, but I'm just a mere mortal who pales in your obviously Divine Shadow.
          Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

          C.S. Lewis

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            #15
            Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
            Absolutely. It's called "concentration".

            I'd rather the pilot of the airliner do that than ponder if Agatha Christie was a closet Messiah who wrote in Bible Code, wouldn't you ?

            Sorry if I disappoint you, but I'm just a mere mortal who pales in your obviously Divine Shadow.
            Yeah, there's concentration, and then there's thinking. I'm not saying there is no work to be done, but, really, do you need to 'think' to do it?
            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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              #16
              Originally posted by threaded View Post
              Yeah, there's concentration, and then there's thinking. I'm not saying there is no work to be done, but, really, do you need to 'think' to do it?
              Yes, because the day you switch off and do it on "automatic" is the day complacency bites you on the behind to teach you a valuable lesson.

              Regardless of whether I have solved a problem 1001 times, if the same problem occurs, I go through a mental checklist for thoroughness each time. On the occasions I haven't, I've missed something.
              Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

              C.S. Lewis

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                #17
                Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
                Yes, because the day you switch off and do it on "automatic" is the day complacency bites you on the behind to teach you a valuable lesson.

                Regardless of whether I have solved a problem 1001 times, if the same problem occurs, I go through a mental checklist for thoroughness each time. On the occasions I haven't, I've missed something.
                I'm just saying that stage doesn't take the entire contract, and I manage it before I even know if I've got the contract..
                Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by threaded View Post
                  I'm just saying that stage doesn't take the entire contract, and I manage it before I even know if I've got the contract..
                  Jolly good then. Have a virtual cookie on me.

                  Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

                  C.S. Lewis

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
                    Jolly good then. Have a virtual cookie on me.



                    pie

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post
                      Jolly good then. Have a virtual very large pie on me.

                      There, fixed that fer ya.
                      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
                      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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