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Not As Crazy As We’d Like
I was working on HS just now, in my home office. Every once in a while a chopper would fly overhead.
And again, and again. Low enough to be interesting.
Worrisome even…
A quick tweet – “any idea why there are helicopters flying so low around downtown montreal??”- and back to work.
But then the ambulance sirens started. And [...]
Randomized To-Do Lists
I posted before about how to use geeky dice when you have a large (nearly overwhelming) ToDo list. The idea is that this prevents you from doing only the fun and easy tasks.
More importantly, the process itself is fun!
However, my current list of HabitShaper v2.0 tasks has some items which are clearly higher priority.
Instead of [...]
Spring Resolutions
Long ago, I used to think I could make people move New Year’s to the first day of spring. I thought all I had to do was convince a few people that it was more appropriate. They would then go on and convince others.
And so on…
Hey, I was 6.
I’ve toned that down quite a bit, [...]
Multi-Tasking Is a Waste of Life
Many of us do, or attempt to do, several things at the same time. It has been dubbed a skill, this “ability” to move back and forth between handling e-mails, brewing some Earl Grey, designing a website in one window, tweaking Adwords in another, and reading biophysics papers in a third. All the while working [...]
Tips On Washing Dishes
Washing dishes is something that, in my house, has always been an on-off thing. Either there are no dishes to wash, or there’s a pile.
Being a nerd, I actually gave some thought as to why we went through a dishes/no-dishes cycle. For example, I know that in economics, if you introduce a fixed lag between [...]
On the Labels of Things
When I was 8 years old, I read about lasers in my wonderful illustrated encyclopaedia. The next day I went to my second grade teacher.
“I know what a LASER is!” I said, brimming with enthusiasm.
“Tell me,” he said.
“A Laser is Light Amplified by Stimulated Emission of Radiation!” I said, and smiled.
I am sure he had [...]