DUH!!! One more!
May 22, 2018 06:06:08 #
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May 22, 2018 06:06:58 #
melismus
Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country
I just turned 90, and I promise it will get worse. See? I just double-posted.
May 22, 2018 06:33:29 #
As I got older I too had memory issues, but I’m happy to say I was able to overcome them! I don’t remember how though?
May 22, 2018 06:49:52 #
Don't worry Mark I'm 79 and I've been... now what did I want to say? I'll have to read this thread again. Oh, hell. It's going to be a long day. lol
Thanks for being one of us.
Thanks for being one of us.
May 22, 2018 07:09:42 #
sodapop wrote:
Unfortunately they are endless and sometimes even become prolific with age. I am 80
Either Ann Landers or Dear Abby had an article from a fictitious reader who wrote about all the things they could get away with "because they were 80" that those under 80 had to endure. Apparently those over 80 can say anything they want and get away with it by saying "I'm over 80!" Maybe, if someone lives 80 years their experiences begin to count for something?
May 22, 2018 07:14:26 #
Don't feel so bad Mark. I once walked around the house for a half hour, looking for my glasses. Finally, my wife pointed out to me that I was wearing them!
May 22, 2018 07:33:30 #
Mark, it’s at those moments that we need to laugh at ourselves no matter how easy we should have recognized the problem.
A few years ago after setting up a new telescope, and settling down for a night of star gazing, and planet hopping, I was shocked to see nothing! I checked and rechecked everything, including my settings, lenses, etc. but still pitched black. After complaining to my wife what a piece of crap the scope was she (who knows nothing at all about telescopes) came out and asked me if “is this supposed to be here”? It was the lens cap!
To make matters worse, just the other day after an open house, I looked for my Canon 70-200 IS USM II lens and couldn’t find it, I swore up and down that I was robbed! She turned around and pointed to my work bench and asked me if “is this it”? I’ve lost all credibility with her😂
A few years ago after setting up a new telescope, and settling down for a night of star gazing, and planet hopping, I was shocked to see nothing! I checked and rechecked everything, including my settings, lenses, etc. but still pitched black. After complaining to my wife what a piece of crap the scope was she (who knows nothing at all about telescopes) came out and asked me if “is this supposed to be here”? It was the lens cap!
To make matters worse, just the other day after an open house, I looked for my Canon 70-200 IS USM II lens and couldn’t find it, I swore up and down that I was robbed! She turned around and pointed to my work bench and asked me if “is this it”? I’ve lost all credibility with her😂
May 22, 2018 07:50:03 #
First time poster here.
Been reading & LEARNING from these posts for about 3 mos. You guys are absolute pros!!! No patronization intended!
When my mother was about 75, almost 35 years ago, she used to tell me when she would forget something in short term memory she just had to wait awhile for the disc (meaning record) to spin around for it to come back to her again. It was ironic that about 15 years earlier my part time job in college involved occasionally changing the gigantic disc drive packs in the four table sized hard drives for the IBM 360 computer system that occupied a gigantic 3600 square foot room with four six foot tall tape drives too! LOL
Anyway, from my readings here so far, DUH now means Do Ur Hedgehog (meaning daily)!
Or for the DOH? Datz Our Hedgehog! meaning we will learn more about Murphy's Photography Laws HERE all the time.
One of my old neighborhood buddies had a photographic repair shop for 20 years and I got to visit him often. The stories he told me should have been put into a book or at least an episode of every comedy show for every decade since the start of tv and even a special on youtube! Sometimes the laughs we had were almost numbing!
THANKS!
vdobill (event videographer for ten years a few decades ago). Now toying in IR photo acquisition via two old Panasonic G1's & hoping to convert a Kodak Ektra smartphone shortly.
Been reading & LEARNING from these posts for about 3 mos. You guys are absolute pros!!! No patronization intended!
When my mother was about 75, almost 35 years ago, she used to tell me when she would forget something in short term memory she just had to wait awhile for the disc (meaning record) to spin around for it to come back to her again. It was ironic that about 15 years earlier my part time job in college involved occasionally changing the gigantic disc drive packs in the four table sized hard drives for the IBM 360 computer system that occupied a gigantic 3600 square foot room with four six foot tall tape drives too! LOL
Anyway, from my readings here so far, DUH now means Do Ur Hedgehog (meaning daily)!
Or for the DOH? Datz Our Hedgehog! meaning we will learn more about Murphy's Photography Laws HERE all the time.
One of my old neighborhood buddies had a photographic repair shop for 20 years and I got to visit him often. The stories he told me should have been put into a book or at least an episode of every comedy show for every decade since the start of tv and even a special on youtube! Sometimes the laughs we had were almost numbing!
THANKS!
vdobill (event videographer for ten years a few decades ago). Now toying in IR photo acquisition via two old Panasonic G1's & hoping to convert a Kodak Ektra smartphone shortly.
May 22, 2018 08:11:31 #
Mark you write quite well so there probably isn't much to worry about. We all have what I call brain farts from time to time. It is part of the human condition both at age 21 and age 81. Actually I think you are a pretty sharp gentleman.
May 22, 2018 08:12:46 #
May 22, 2018 08:13:09 #
dragonfist wrote:
Mark you write quite well so there probably isn't much to worry about. We all have what I call brain farts from time to time. It is part of the human condition both at age 21 and age 81. Actually I think you are a pretty sharp gentleman.
May 22, 2018 08:17:04 #
cytafex
Loc: Clarksburg MA
markngolf wrote:
Went to a family birthday party yesterday. Took th... (show quote)
What makes you think the learning process ends with death?
May 22, 2018 08:17:38 #
Peterff wrote:
... You are only as old as you think you are.
I don't remember how old I am, so sometimes I act like I'm about 6.
May 22, 2018 08:22:25 #
2 more DUH moments.......
There is a setting combination on my camera body somehow I keep hitting from time to time that turns on the red-eye reduction for my flash. It is soooo very aggravating to need a flash shot and to have to wait for that stupid infernal slow shutter release to let me know this has been activated. Several years ago, I had an older lens that had a switch on the lens body (you old-timers remember this?) that moved the lens from AE to a manual adjustment for the aperture......I got tired of hitting that switch, so I took some hot-melt glue and glued the switch shut----
There is a setting combination on my camera body somehow I keep hitting from time to time that turns on the red-eye reduction for my flash. It is soooo very aggravating to need a flash shot and to have to wait for that stupid infernal slow shutter release to let me know this has been activated. Several years ago, I had an older lens that had a switch on the lens body (you old-timers remember this?) that moved the lens from AE to a manual adjustment for the aperture......I got tired of hitting that switch, so I took some hot-melt glue and glued the switch shut----
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