Running is therapy

I pay all this money for air conditioning and they just want to lay in the sunshine to make themselves warm. It’s like they think they are reptiles.

I just finished reading this article about the smart drug, Provigil.

I find it absolutely fascinating and extremely tempting. Provigil is a drug originally designed to help people with Narcolepsy. Essentially, according to the author of that article, it allows someone, who isn’t a narcoleptic to have intense focus, and effortlessly glide through work.

Think about all the software, sys admin projects bouncing around in your head that you never seem to complete. The code that never gets written, the articles that never get read, the tech talks that never get watched. Imagine getting all that done.

Screw 43 folders, I want 30 pills.

I know it’s tragically crass to want a pill to solve everything. And of course I don’t advocate that we take drugs we don’t know the long term effects of, however, I must say, Provigil and drugs like it are awfully tempting.

What about you? Would you take a pill that allowed the sort of productivity that the author describes? What if we knew there was no long term side-effects? Is it inevitable, as the author suggests, that we will have to take these drugs to compete someday?

Don’t forget kids, we turn the clocks AHEAD next Sunday morning. Yay!

I think I will wait till 6pm to go running next Sunday, just because I can.

I can’t spell, it’s terrible. It’s one of those problems though in modern society that really doesn’t beg to be fixed. Machines take care of it for me for the most part.

Today however I was sending a text message on my phone (on there if I don’t know how to spell something I use a different word, or I turn the word into leet speak so I can fake it) I wanted to use the word startled. I wasn’t sure if I had spelled it right, so I, like I often do, typed it into google before hitting send. This site popped up:

http://www.startled.com/

What the heck.

I just wanted to drop a pointer on here to a new Group Blog I have recently joined. We don’t have a proper domain yet, we are piggy backing on Lon’s domain for the time being, but we are putting up some posts as we iron it all out.

The blog is currently 4 men, some who can cook (the other 3) and 1 (me) who is learning to cook. So far it’s been a lot of fun and I hope we can keep it active.

Drop by and have look see.

If you have an idea for a domain name, drop it in the comments.

It’s not everyday you look at your email client and see this:


Feb 13 Twitter - Barack Obama is now following you on Twitter!                                                                                                  


Maggie always does the ThursdayThirteen…it looked like it might be fun, so I talked Mark into it as well.

Thirteen Things I like about Cats! 1. They are hairy, and that can be warm when you sleep with them. 2. They don’t need you, THEY DON’T NEED ANYBODY! 3. They sometimes miss the target when they jump and act like nothing happened. 4. They will stare right at you and puke on your carpet. 5. They suddenly need to be upstairs. 6. They can open cabinets to look for items of interest. 7. Unlike me, they sleep most comfortably in sinks. 8. When the rapture comes, I will have fur that I am saving on my carpet to make warm clothes. 9. Other cat people will give you the “Crazy Cat Person” handshake…if there were one, which there isn’t. 10. Girls can stay over and bring their cat, because you are already outfitted for it. 11. You don’t have to walk a cat on Saturday morning. 12. How can you not respect a beast that sleeps 18 hours a day. 13. They go to the bathroom indoors, like other civilized animals (see: humans)

I picked up some new glasses.

I also managed to get the built in web cam on my laptop to work via Vmware.

**Edit: I changed the picture to something more flattering.**

Hello constant reader. I wanted to take a moment and wish everyone a happy New Year.

2007 was a crazy ride for me. I am not even going to begin to go over all things in my life that aren’t what was this time last year.

But to all of you from me, Happy New Year. I hope you all find what you are looking for in 2008. And I hope what you are looking for is happiness.

Nathan.