March 8, 2010
Really excited about this program…….
Ligth at night is screwing up our society more than you could ever imagine. The average person around the early 1900′s would get about 9-10 hours of restorative, healthy sleep a night………What do we get now?
A measly 6-7 hours on average.
For all you late night computer hounds, this thing is a life-saver. F.Lux is a program that automatically tailors the light coming out of your computer screen to keep your eyes happy no matter when you’ve got the screen on. More importantly, it’ll change the way your hormones react to the light. Melatonin and growth hormone (DHEA) need darkness to be able to complete all their tasks in the body at night. Photoreceptors in the skin and eyes determine whether its day or night, and act accordingly; hormonally speaking. If the body thinks its the daytime, it’s not going to be putting out the highly restorative, and anti-inflammatory melatonin.
If you’re staring at a bright screen that’s built to look like natural daylight, you could be curtailing your ability to sleep well, repair damaged tissue, and feel healthy and happy in general. I’ve screwed around with the program on at night, and I can’t tell you how much I like it. No more feeling wiry and burned out at after looking at the computer screen.
Obviously, the thing to do is to just shut off the computer at night, but even if it’s 6-7-8 pm, you’ll still gain benefits from having F.lux running in the background.
It takes a grand total of five minutes to install, and takes a tiny amount of your available RAM.
Give it a shot!
March 1, 2010
So what if you actually stepped over the line?
If you’re already sick, you don’t need people telling you what went wrong, or how you shouldn’t have shook that person’s hand, or whatever……You just need to put out the fire and get back to your life.
So how do you do that?
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February 26, 2010
It’s always surprising to hear how many people are always sick. You hear the chitter-chatter of how different viruses and colds are ‘coming around’ or how it’s now the flu season and how we all need to stay away from germs and on down the line.
Well………I haven’t bought into any of this nonsense for years.
Why? because if you maintain some simple lifestyle habits, you don’t…..ever…..get……sick. It’s really that simple. I get sick now, around once every few years. Among some of my peers, this is considered way more than necessary.
If you’re sick more than once ever few years…..then its’ time to rethink things.
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February 2, 2010
Skip the ‘bucks………..And go with the good guys.
Generally speaking, I only shop at independent retailers. It doesn’t stem from any riffs about big business, because it CAN be done right if the intention is there, it’s just that the quality typically goes down as a function of the size of a business.
Starbucks, if you want to serve me the same charco-broiled espresso wherever I go, I’m not going to support your business (not that I do with any frequency anyway). Quality is important to me. Having repeatable precision represents a good business model, but not if its based on a poor quality products to start with. Keep reading →
