Geek Habitat

I still pop in to Bob’s Knee Board occcasionally to see how familiar names are doing in their post-op ACL reconstruction recovery and resumption of normal life and activities. There are some regulars on the board who are well beyond their post-op periods but still provide input on the boards; one such person is Michael Frind. His posts are drafted offline and are so packed with technical details that it took me a fair amount of time (and distance from my own post-op period) to really find the value in his posts, beyond their potential as a natural sedative.

Take, for example, Frind’s characteristically long but technically accurate and well-researched post on the pecularities of ACL reconstructed knees — interesting reading, particularly in light of the respect Frind’s posts garner from a bona fide orthopedic M.D. (Dr. Mark, a 21+ year orthopod based in Houston, TX; a relative newcomer to the Board, at least since my daily reads of November 2004-May 2005.) It takes an incredible amount of research and inherent knowledge/understanding of a medical topic, I should think, to be able to have a 21+ year practicing M.D. not pick your post apart on its technical or theoretical merits (or lack thereof).

I just find it interesting. I wish I had that kind of command of my brain to store such arcana. One might say that knowing any programming language, or foreign language (fluently), is similar but I’m neither a master programmer nor fluent or even vaguely so in any foreign tongue… and on most days, not even in my mother tongue (English), as is quite evident in my blog.