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~tetris

I'm sort of in that mindset too -- I still have a highly customized emacs, but I keep most of the defaults just so that I can still mostly use my muscle-memory bindings elsewhere if needed

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

I'm occasionally frighted by how quickly muscle-memory evaporates at my age. Similar for coding language keywords/syntax. I've been out of the game maybe a year, and almost always have to grep previous scripts for how to do this Lua thing or that. And by the time I'm done grinding out another script, I'm typically increasingly convinced I'd have had a more peaceful/joyful life sans software.

Take last night (yes, a touch of the topic-drift, here..) My wife and I performed out on a rooftop overlooking one of the "Great Lakes" (ungodly gorgeous as sunset ensued), and during a break I conversed with another musician about the joy of spoken phrases evoking song memories, and it hit me that long before gazillion streaming music options, people in music-defined "clades" (per a recent post of yours) (except in this case the clades were defined by a rough musical genre, e.g. "top 40", "rock", "country", etc.) all heard the same songs AT THE SAME TIME. In other words, we're talkin' a very real clade/community binding waaaaaaaay above and beyond the happy horseshit claims of internet potential to stoke community. And such took place on a many-times-a-daily basis.

Tying that second paragraph back to the first, we developed the same musical-muscle-memory, and now use the phrases thereof in speech, "bringing it all back" on moments' notices, all winky grins of joy.

And that's amplified all the more for those of us that could retain the non-verbal aspects, i.e. notes and chords. We've become musical muscle memory teases - as in "teasing out" such memories, which further tease out memories of events and surroundings accompanying those songs back in the childhood-through-adolescence day.