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It’s “sitting disease”.

This video can change your life, maybe even save it.  20-30 minutes of activity a day can have HUGE impact on your health and both quality ( Read more... )

The funny thing about procrastination is that it has nothing to do, it seems, with how I feel about the task at hand. Rather, it’s a dread of starting the task.

Example:
Going to the gym is hard. Being at the gym is fun.

I am such an advanced procrastinator that I can even procrastinate on both the start and the finish of something.

Example:
Start ( Read more... )

December 8th is pretend to be a time traveler day. The link includes some options and ideas for those who are interested (found via the community steamfashion).

In other non-related news, until the end of the month I can bring anyone with me to the gym for free. Weeeeeee! One guest per visit. Nice! If you're interested, let me know.

Tonight, I met Gary, the check out clerk at Safeway ( Read more... )

I watched Star Wars: Episode III last night with vash_167 for the first time since I've seen it in theatres. I don't know if I noticed this before, or it was something new, but now I'm being nagged by a thought, a theme within the movie ( Read more... )

There is an interesting article I just read called "The Chrononauts: An Interview with Jenny Randles" who is the author of "Breaking the Time Barrier." I can't find the article anywhere online, but I really don't want to buy issue #39 of PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader either. Oh the shame. And now I'm posting about it on the internet, which ( Read more... )

1.) Read this scene from 2001's Waking Life, (actually, go see the whole movie if you haven't already).

2.) Read "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" by Philip K. Dick from 1978.
My fascination with "time" is simultaneously, symbioticly a fascination with perception and reality. Time is just a function of perception. ( Read more... )

"There is no future. The past only exists in memory. The present is eternal..." - Michael Ayers

"There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity." - Richard Linklater

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead ( Read more... )

After a long, reflective private post, I'm going to bed. I just wanted to share because I'm actually proud of myself. Have you seen the time? It's 11 PM! Even if I lie there awake, at least I've done the best I can. Just because we see something going wrong in an apparently inevitable way doesn't mean we shouldn't fight, shouldn't do our part ( Read more... )

If things are predetermined, then can we be responsible for them? If things are not predetermined, then is it chaos that guides us? We could argue it is the will, but what is the will? If our character and source of our will is innate from our birth, it is predetermined. If it is shaped by chaos, then choices are random. If our choices are ( Read more... )