I often find myself thinking of cool things I could do to improve myself and be generally interesting. In most cases I end up not doing them or just doing a little bit. I justify my behaviour by claiming not to have enough time or that the circumstances are wrong. In my more self-reflective and [...]
I just read a fascinating article at randomwalker’s journal about drinking coffee as a productivity aid (found via The Morning News).
In summary, to maximise productivity in creative, thinking tasks:
Nap briefly after lunch (or when you feel really tired during the day);
Drink coffee early in the morning and just after your nap;
Quit coffee for a week [...]
Kottke implies that people who notify of blog posts on twitter are dicks.
As I’m sure all the people who just clicked on a link in twitter to get to this post realise, my blog posts are automatically tweeted.
Now, as kottke seems like a pretty cool guy, and someone who may speak with a certain authority [...]
I’m playing a game of Scrabble in french on Scrabulous on Facebook. My opponents are a native french speaker and two longtime, fluent speakers. Needless to say, I’m getting well and truly thrashed already, event though we’re only a few moves into the game.
Playing the game is really making me realise how much I rely [...]
Two people (*ahem* Stephanie and Tony *ahem*) have now independently associated me with this xkcd strip. I choose to read that as my love of bacon assuming legendary proportions rather than a commentary on my level of fitness.
On a related note, I have yet to find anyone else who eats bacon worms. Google and Wikipedia [...]
Last night I felt the baby kicking for the first time. It was the most exciting pregnancy moment yet - much more than I would have thought.
There’s been a range of moments that have been pretty exciting, each providing evidence that there is actually a baby: two ultrasounds that have shown little baby features; Stephanie’s [...]
Stephanie and I moved apartment recently. We’ve left Bondi, with it’s mixture of the trendy wealthy elite and drunken Irish backpackers*, and now inhabit the slightly grittier, multicultural mélange that is Sydney’s Inner West. Boringly, we belong to none of those groups - we’re not wealthy, trendy, elite, drunk, Irish, or interestingly multicultural (though we [...]
To amuse myself while doing otherwise boring tasks, I sometimes make up little games. I make up a set of rules or constraints that make the task more challenging. This occupies my brain with something other than imagining all the other things I would rather be doing.
Here are the constraints that I use for washing [...]
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