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My Father’s Garden Full screen highly recommended.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:27:04 -0500

Full screen highly recommended.

jayparkinsonmd: Making health simple: Living in such a...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:33:43 -0500

Making health simple:

Living in such a complicated world can seem so complex. But we’re creatures of habit. Ninety-three percent of our behavior is predictable.

And everyday the media reports on new research that suggests certain things are good or bad for you. It’s all quite confusing. We get so lost and so paralyzed by complicated details, we lose sight of making health simple. Don’t worry about whether or not coffee is good or bad for you. If the “science” of analyzing one substance and its effect on health hasn’t figured it out by now, the implications of that substance is mostly unknown for you as an individual. In fact, even the number one selling drug in America, Lipitor, designed to reduce your cholesterol has very little evidence to suggest it prolongs your life. In reality, our longevity is limited by our genes and our everyday behaviors.

All I ask is that you stop and think about your life today.

We’re all expected to live 82 years or so in the developed world. What do we want out of those years? Do you want to prolong your life at the end? Do you want to live to be 92 instead of 82? Or do you want to feel your best prior to getting old and limited by age? What do you think will give you the most happiness out of life? Living your life optimally as a young person? Or stretching your life out at the end for another decade of life as a slow-moving senior citizen?

Now, think about your everyday. Spend a few minutes and write down how you spend your day. What are you doing? What are you doing that’s probably good for you? What are you doing that’s probably not that great for you? What are you doing too much of? Not enough of? Make a list. It’s actually pretty simple. For everything you identify that’s not so great for you, write a simple way you can change that behavior.

Think about just three things– sleep, food, activity. Changes should be very, very simple. It’s things like taking the stairs instead of the elevator. It could be eating less meat. It could be sleeping 7 hours instead of six. It could be drinking with friends 3 nights a week instead of four. It could be one less hour of sitting in front of your computer.

Life really isn’t about your health. It’s about happiness. Health is just one component of happiness. So take a break every once in a while and sit down and think about a few small everyday things that have huge impact on your happiness.

video portrait of Drew Anderson by me.

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:29:07 -0500

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Pink Terror Hawking on Vimeo

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:26:05 -0500

Pink Terror Hawking on Vimeo

France rocks to 69-year-old DJ

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:09:00 -0500

France rocks to 69-year-old DJ

"We created manpacks to help men eliminate one more thing they always forget to do. We..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:38:20 -0500

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We created manpacks to help men eliminate one more thing they always forget to do.

We believe…

…that most men are fully capable of ensuring they have clean stuff to wear. The task just happens to be low priority.

…in working *with* human nature, rather than fighting against it. Encouraging men to more regularly shop for underwear is not the answer.

…in self-reliance. In this case, it means not waiting for someone else to buy us socks as a gift.

…simplicity is awesome. One measure of success is how much we liberate ourselves from things we don’t like doing. Automation is key.

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- Manpacks - Simplify the basics

lonelysandwich: “Ironing techniques by professional craftsmen...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:33:27 -0500

lonelysandwich:

“Ironing techniques by professional craftsmen (shirt)” - プロの職人によるアイロンがけテクニック(ワイシャツ)

This short instructional film showcases unmatchably masterful ironing technique that we’d all do well to learn from, but it’s also one of the most absorbing, delicious demo videos I’ve ever seen.

via Joel Zimmer, from a series of similarly beautiful instructional videos at Garra.jp (WARNING: ALL-FLASH and Japanese)

"A few years later, during a summer away from school, I got myself a real taste of the profound..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:55:24 -0500

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A few years later, during a summer away from school, I got myself a real taste of the profound changes that the internet would bring to everyone’s lives in the next decade; and Nethack was involved. Somewhere I’d obtained eighty yards of phone wire and an equally long extension cord. I ran the wires out of the house, down the hill, and into the woods. There I set up a tent with a sleeping bag inside, and a pile of snacks, and a phone. I hooked a 1200-baud modem to the ends of the wires and fed that into a splitter, with one wire going into the phone, and the other connected to a WYSE-50 terminal borrowed from my pal Andy (I have absolutely no idea where he got it from).

So for the whole day and night, with the bugs chirping around me and the trees towering above, I played Nethack and slashed my way deep into the mazes, and chatted online with people in different cities, states, and even different countries (shout-outs to my Australian friends on the Undernet IRC network, in channel #dreams!). I was connected to everything - or at least I felt like I was - but at the same time, it was just me in the dark woods, with the glowing green symbols on the WYSE-50 terminal forming a portal to another world. The darkness in the woods outside and the darkness between the WYSE-50 symbols became part of the same space in my imagination and memory.

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- My Nethack YAAP

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Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:48:05 -0500

scout: petervidani / ems: A close-up of Astronaut John...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:12:32 -0500

scout:

petervidani / ems:

A close-up of Astronaut John Grunsfeld shows the reflection of Astronaut Andrew Feustel, perched on the robotic arm and taking the photo. The pair teamed together on three of the five spacewalks during Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [source]

thedailywhat: Multitasking Table of the Day: Georg Bohle’s...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:09:07 -0500

thedailywhat:

Multitasking Table of the Day: Georg Bohle’s “Piano Table” is self-explanatory.

[bornrich.]

jesuisperdu: Andrew Wyeth

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:14:55 -0500

jesuisperdu:

Andrew Wyeth

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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:19:08 -0500

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Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:10:59 -0500

Symphony of Science - The Poetry of Reality (An Anthem for Science) (via melodysheep)

jayparkinsonmd: Sometimes health can seem so simple: How to...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:51:32 -0500

jayparkinsonmd:

Sometimes health can seem so simple: How to live to 100.

Blade Runner - Tears in Rain (in LEGO) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:36:14 -0500

Blade Runner - Tears in Rain (in LEGO) on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

chat roulette on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:27:07 -0500

chat roulette on Vimeo (via Vimeo)

Olympic Bobsledders Shauna Rohbock and Michelle Rzepka; UNLV...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:53:15 -0500

Olympic Bobsledders Shauna Rohbock and Michelle Rzepka; UNLV Beats Texas Christian 78-62; Florida State Beats North Carolina 77-67; Killer Whale Tilikum; Alexander McQueen’s Funeral; Obama’s Health Summit; Toyoda Cries — Photos. - Photo Journal - WSJ

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:42:58 -0500

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature

"Even Streng had to give up on some of the planned experiments, though (bonus dormitat Strengus?)...."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:31:45 -0500

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Even Streng had to give up on some of the planned experiments, though (bonus dormitat Strengus?). Sulfur compounds defeated him, because the thermodynamics were just too titanic. Hydrogen sulfide, for example, reacts with four molecules of FOOF to give sulfur hexafluoride, 2 molecules of HF and four oxygens…and 433 kcal, which is the kind of every-man-for-himself exotherm that you want to avoid at all cost. The sulfur chemistry of FOOF remains unexplored, so if you feel like whipping up a batch of Satan’s kimchi, go right ahead.

So does anyone use dioxygen difluoride for anything? Not as far as I can see. Most of the recent work with the stuff has come from groups at Los Alamos, where it’s been used to prepare national-security substances such as plutonium and neptunium hexafluoride. But I do note that if you run the structure through SciFinder, it comes out with a most unexpected icon that indicates a commercial supplier. That would be the Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this - ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves ‘em right. Morons.

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- Things I won’t Work With