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So fellow olde phartes, how are your brians holding up?


Ralphie

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All things considered mine is holding up fairly well, I really haven't been very kind to it over the years, a few concussions, lots of chemical exposure, maybe a few lifestyle excesses.

My memory still works, it just takes a while; like thinking up the perfect comeback 10 minutes after the fact, but with stuff I should know. I can work out semi complicated stuff, not as complex as I used to be comfortable with, but...

Seem to spend more time remembering the past than dreaming of the future and this bothers me.  

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5 minutes ago, 2Far said:

I filed an extension. . .

Super Ninja.

I couldn't find any written evidence that the Patriot's day extension still exists for NY, so I did mine on the 15th.

Only gotten one extension, and up until the time I filed, it was like an albatross around my neck.

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46 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Thanks, my phone remembers passwords and my computer stays signed in but my iPad sometimes asks for passwords and I have to go look them up. Yahoo won’t accept any of my passwords anymore and always sends me a pass code to my phone. That’s a PITA. 

I've been using it forever.  It's not free, but I love it.

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...yesterday, I walked around the corner in the back yard to get the hand broom and dust pan from where it hangs on the shed wall, and by the time I got back there, I forgot what I had come for. This is a trip of maybe 15 or 20 steps, but you do turn a corner and lose sight of the place you started from.  That's my excuse. 

Luckily, I still have it together enough that I was able to remember how to find my way back to where I started from, even though I could not actually see it.  It's gonna be bad when I can't do that any more. :( 

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17 hours ago, Longjohn said:

I can’t remember passwords.

I starting using words or phases that are not part of the mainstream but that I know very well: like the main chemical compound I synthesized for my master's thesis or a phrase from a book, poem, song, famous document, etc.

For an example I'm not personally using, let's say I use a modified version of the first three words of Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha: "By the shores..." for the password, since I've known the beginning of the poem for over half a century and surely won't forget it unless my mind goes: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,..." etc.

Many sites require upper and lower case letters, a number, and a special character.

The easiest replacements are 5 or $ for "s", 1 for the letters L or I, zero for the letter O, @ for a.

So "By the shores" becomes "Bythe$h0re$"

I usually tack on to the end of the password the first two, lower-case letters of the website for which I'm using it.  So if this was Walmart Online, I'd add "wa" to the end and the password would be "Bythe$h0re$wa"

I keep a file on my computer and phone with hints to my passwords.  So, I would add this listing:  Walmart Password: Longfellow.

That is easy to remember and not easy to crack because meets the at-least-12-characters password requirement for hard to crack.

Other possibilities include "Square Wheels" or "$qu@reWhee1$" where the password hint file could list "Bicycle," and "Derailleur" or "Der@111eur" where the hint could be "chain."

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1 hour ago, MickinMD said:

I starting using words or phases that are not part of the mainstream but that I know very well: like the main chemical compound I synthesized for my master's thesis or a phrase from a book, poem, song, famous document, etc.

For an example I'm not personally using, let's say I use a modified version of the first three words of Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha: "By the shores..." for the password, since I've known the beginning of the poem for over half a century and surely won't forget it unless my mind goes: "By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,..." etc.

Many sites require upper and lower case letters, a number, and a special character.

The easiest replacements are 5 or $ for "s", 1 for the letters L or I, zero for the letter O, @ for a.

So "By the shores" becomes "Bythe$h0re$"

I usually tack on to the end of the password the first two, lower-case letters of the website for which I'm using it.  So if this was Walmart Online, I'd add "wa" to the end and the password would be "Bythe$h0re$wa"

I keep a file on my computer and phone with hints to my passwords.  So, I would add this listing:  Walmart Password: Longfellow.

That is easy to remember and not easy to crack because meets the at-least-12-characters password requirement for hard to crack.

Other possibilities include "Square Wheels" or "$qu@reWhee1$" where the password hint file could list "Bicycle," and "Derailleur" or "Der@111eur" where the hint could be "chain."

I use a similar stragety. Only I use favorite vehicles of mine with the model year. 70Ch@rg3r, maybe. 

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