Posted by Ryan
November 27, 2007
You’ll have to go read what I wrote two days ago to know exactly what I’m talking about. I’m not going to bother catching you up. Anyway, I stated two days ago that this idea of directing benevolence far away and malice close by extends beyond benevolence and malice. And then the examples I gave were basically about benevolence and malice. So I figured I’d provide an example that isn’t.
I recently heard a story about a guy visiting the Grand Canyon. This guy was talking to an Arizona resident about the canyon and the resident stated she’d never been to the Grand Canyon. The guy was shocked that, living so close, she’d never seen the Grand Canyon. It is, after all, one of the wonders of the world. The guy then admitted that he could understand it because he’d never been to the Statue of Liberty, and he’s from New York. The girl, as it turned out, had been to the Statue of Liberty.
The moral of the story is, of course, to go see the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty.
No really, the moral is to look closer. Go see cool things in your own state as well as going to see other cool wonders.
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Posted by Ryan
November 26, 2007
There’s some hilarious commentary going on over on my post about ad blocking.
It’s sad how many people really don’t understand the difference between a right and a privilege. And how much they contradict themselves.
So they complain that their bandwidth is wasted. Really? Do these people go around thinking “okay this site right here is going to take approximately 10 KB of my monthly bandwidth. *click* 20KB!? What?!” Yeah right. If that were the case they’d be complaining about a lot more than advertisements. They would disable all images, css, and javascript, or just browse the internet with lynx.
The claim that advertisements waste their hard drive space is even more ridiculous. Hard drive space is super cheap and they control how much cache their browser uses.
I don’t know how these people expect to be taken seriously.
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Posted by Ryan
November 26, 2007
Some time ago I read about the mechanics of sleep and ever since I’ve still slept in a lot.
Apparently you have to do something with knowledge or it’s of no use. Crazy.
No really, it has helped. I don’t remember the article I read, but it was back in July I think. I’ve slept in plenty of mornings since then, but I have noticed that waking up is significantly easier when I set my alarm to go off after 6 hours of sleep instead of 7, 7 1/2 instead of 8, etc.
So today I called a friend at 9:30 AM. He answered almost right away. He said he went to bed at 3:30 AM.
So, a sleep cycle is 90 minutes. 3:30 AM to 9:30 AM was only 6 hours of sleep, but it was right on the 90 minute cycle. He told me he was going to wake up at 10:30, and that I should call him then. Problem is, 10:30 AM was 30 minutes before the next cycle ended, so naturally he’d sleep right through his alarm.
I didn’t actually call at 10:30, but I figure he probably turned off his alarm when it went off and so by 11 when the sleep cycle ended he kept on sleeping. I tried calling several times around 12 PM with no answer. The next cycle should be ending right about now.
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Dang it. No answer after 5 attempts. The sleep cycle can be 90-110 minutes. I’ll try again in a few minutes. This is fun!
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