Can I try that again?

In recent days I’ve found myself feeling stupid with alarming frequency. I’ve been asking questions I should have known the answers to, gotten frustrated by problems with simple solutions, and generally felt foolish on too many occasions. On one occasion I discovered that downloading a directory with about 5000 small text files (most around 4k in size) via FTP is a bad idea. After 45 minutes only about half the directory had been downloaded (and yes, I had plenty of bandwidth to play with), so I killed the connection and gave up. That’s when I realized I could have compressed the folder and downloaded the whole thing in about a minute.

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4 Responses to “Can I try that again?”

  1. WillR said
    07/22/05 @ 5:09 pm

    I wonder if it could be all that TV watching ;-)!

  2. jackson said
    07/22/05 @ 7:12 pm

    Hah! I actually haven’t watched TV all week… So maybe it was the TV that was keeping my brain properly working. Probably not though.

  3. Cyrus said
    07/26/05 @ 4:25 pm

    I go through these phases too. I beleive everyone goes through a mental cycle that pretty much mirrors the chemical pahse of the body, but sometimes one focuses on a low too much and then it continues will past when it should. Don’t worry about it, it’ll go away…

  4. jackson said
    07/26/05 @ 10:05 pm

    You may be right. I’ve been a bug fixin’ machine today. There’s nothin like checking a few things off your todo list to make you feel productive again.