Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

  • Uphill or Down?

    According to a study done by the Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment (Austria), there's a difference in the effect of uphill vs downhill exercise. Hiking on a mountainside gives the heart a health-promoting challenge, but the nature of the benefit depends on whether one is climbing or descending. A study conducted on an… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_24

    Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time. — Arnold Bennett Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated… Continue reading

  • Sugar Shock

    Soft drinks have overtaken white bread as the main source of calories in the U.S. diet… [Soft Drinks as Top Calorie Culprit, ScienceNews Week of June 18, 2005; Vol. 167, No. 25 Ugh. Odilia Bermudez, from Tufts University, studied data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000, for nearly 1000 adults. She discovered… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_24

    The weather has been variable this week, from blue and pretty early in the week to another late-season rain storm on Thursday. I've started using Mighty Mouse, a cursor customization program from Unsanity software. I like my new cursors. I am using a combination of cursors from three sets: most of a set called "large… Continue reading

  • Blogger Meet-up (and I missed it!)

    Is the "traditional media" doing anything like this where you are? The personal media revolution came to the KRON 4 studios Saturday [June 11] when more than 100 members of the Bay Area blogger community accepted [an] invitation for a meet-up. [ Bay Area Blogger Meet-up ] KRON 4 ("The Bay Area's News Station") is… Continue reading

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  • GTD – Q&A

    I’ve been recommending Getting Things Done—The Art of Stress-Free Productivity to friends, co-workers, and techie mailing lists [see my review]. The following are some of the conversations my recommendation engendered. Same Old? My reaction to Vicki’s quick overview of the book – it sounded like a typical time management system. Interesting comment. Interesting to me,… Continue reading

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  • Yellow Arrow – More Urban High Tech / Low Tech

    Yellow Arrow calls itself "the global public art project of local experiences", its purpose being "to leave and discover messages pointing out what counts." In simple terms, Yellow Arrow encourages people to attach (with proper permission) yellow, arrow-shaped stickies to physical places – walls, buildings, park benches… even people (there are "yellow arrow t-shirts"). Each… Continue reading

  • Grafedia – Grafitti meets the WWW

    It's certainly nothing I would have thought of. Words written in blue, underlined, painted on a wall. Use your cell phone or computer to send email or a text message to that blue word "@grafedia.net" and get back an image or sound file by return mail. It's hyperlinking in the physical world. It's weird. It's… Continue reading

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  • Treasures 2005_23

    Stop and listen to the heart, the wind outside, to one another, to the changing patterns of this mysterious life. It comes moment after moment, out of nothing, and disappears into nothing. Live with less grasping and more appreciation and caring. — Jack Kornfield Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_23

    It was an interesting week, weather-wise. There were several nice, almost warm days, followed by one full day of unexpected rain, then two days of thick fog. On Sunday night, we drove into the City and had dinner with Rich's co-author on a Mac OS X book (still in progress). Said co-author was in town… Continue reading