Brad McFall

I'm no Brad expert, nor semi-expert, but: Yes, it is entirely possible. In fact, this very idea came to mind when mark24 attempted to get Brad to put an end to the name dropping in the All about Brad McFall thread. I suspect that the reason Brad uses names instead of a clarification of the process that he associates with it, is that there is simply too many thoughts coming to him in a short time span, like the Russian guy that you describe. Brad may feel like there is no way he can get all of his ideas down on paper, without some shorthand manner of referring to processes, and, evidently, he likes using names.If only Brad actually took mark24’s adviceUnfortunately, now that I think about it, even if Brad did agree to at least attempt to do this, I doubt that he would be successful. In all probability, rereading his own post would generate more ideas in his mind, and what we’d have is simply more name-dropping, and absolutely no clarification. Perhaps the only way to verify this would be to have Brad write up a post, post it, then have him proofread it and post it again. If what we see is even more convoluted than the first (more name dropping, etc.), then it lends a bit more credence to the Brad McFall is like the Russian guy hypothesis.In fact, rereading mark24’s post in that thread (#41, by the way), he raises an important question: I believe that Brad has mentioned that he has two children. Perhaps he’s writing it for them? I get this from post #65 in All about Brad McFall, Who knows, maybe Brad hopes they’ll posses the ability to decipher his posts (maybe it's genetic?) and glean meaning from them. Why he would post his thoughts on a public forum versus writing it down for them in a nice, thick notebook is beyond me, however. Not that his input isn’t appreciated. Just my musings.

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