Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

  • Getting Things Done

    There are four basic ways an idea can affect your Worldview: It just Is These are the ideas you grew up with. You don’t remember learning them; they just are. These are also some of the beliefs that new perspectives may challenge and change over the course of your life. Initial Resistance Some new ideas… Continue reading

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  • Getting Things Done

    I've been recommending Getting Things Done�The Art of Stress-Free Productivity to friends, co-workers, and techie mailing lists [see my review]. June 16, 2005 Q & A I also posted a followup discussion with are some of the conversations my recommendation engendered. Continue reading

  • NASA Naps

    NASA is studying one of my favorite activities 😉 Although many astronauts report feeling fully rested after only six hours of sleep, the fact is, sleeplessness can cause irritability, forgetfulness and fatigue–none of which astronauts need to deal with while piloting complicated 'ships that hurtle through space at tens of thousands of miles per hour.… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_22

    The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. — G. K Chesterton Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories… Continue reading

  • Weekly Wrap-up 2005_22

    The weather has been particularly nice this week – warmish and sunny during the day, not too hot, some wind at night. Rich has been working on a software project; he's gotten it to the stage where he can ask other people to try it and give him feedback. The fluorescent lamp we had lighting… Continue reading

  • Riding in the Back of the Bus

    Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, "drove six [school] buses of various ages on a total of 16 runs along actual routes in and around Los Angeles. On about half the runs, the bus windows were open." During the runs, scientists used a nonreactive tracer gas, fed through the exhaust systems, to measure… Continue reading

  • Anti-ghrelin?

    A few months ago I read an article about three obese sisters who had gastric bypass surgery (March 2005, Prevention magazine). One of the interesting points of the article was that people who have this surgery aren't ravenously hungry, even though they are physically able to eat very little. The reason is due to a… Continue reading

  • Sodium Lauryl Sulfate – Not!

    Ever since I was ten or eleven years old, I've suffered mouth ulcers, aka canker sores. I've seen these referred to as "pesky" sores — obviously that description was written by someone who never had one. They aren't pesky. They are acutely, aspirin-swallowing, can't-eat, multi-day painful. I don't get them so much any more. in… Continue reading

  • Treasures 2005_21

    Perception … is a constant communion between ourselves and the living world that encompasses us. — David Abram Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, that make me feel happy or thankful or interested. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words. These are my Treasures for the past week. Purple bougainvillea, red… Continue reading

  • Palm Wireless Keyboard

    I bought one of the very first StowAway keyboards (for my Handspring Visor) back in 2000. It was a way-cool idea — a "full-size" keyboard that folded into a compact little package. Unfortunately, I never liked the way I had to work to "dock" the Visor and I really never used the keyboard 😦 Two… Continue reading