Comments on: false consciousness; true unconsciousness

By: Christian Neukirchen

Christian Neukirchen — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:04:37 +0000

A different approach, that works well for me who is paranoid (or romantic?) about keeping old stuff: http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2006/01/keeping-your-home-clean-with-mess.html

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Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:55:34 +0000

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By: Lee Maguire

Lee Maguire — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:21:27 +0000

“I don’t think I could tell you how I got this program to work, even five minutes after I manhandled it into existence.”

My experience-tempered philosophy here is: if you don’t know how what something does or how it was built, delete it. * All software is destined to break or get deleted, and always at a less convenient juncture.

* (Or rather move it to a directory called something like “delete-after-20081101″).

By: Michael Krelin

Michael Krelin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:46:51 +0000

I don’t think ST helps to wake up. I don’t even remember when was the last time its alarm was triggered by my pattern (as opposed to the deadline). But I like the vibrating alert and the fact that I can connect it to my PC.

Now I wish those modern watch phones had built in accelerometer, then it would be easy to program sleeptracker with this same vibrating alert which also uploads acquired data automatically. And I still would be able to connect it to my PC!

By: Danny O'Brien

Danny O'Brien — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:53:16 +0000

I wish I could nap. I’m happy to think that the Sleeptracker is just a little placebo to get me to be interested in things when I wake up. Today I idly looked over at the chumby — god, I’m really not this gadgety, promise — and saw people talking about Ubiquity and that got me out of bed. I think just having enough crutches to maintain your interest in your own health is good enough, and if that requires foolish hardware that you can nonetheless put your faith in, then why not?

By: Zooko

Zooko — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:27:55 +0000

I owned and used a SleepTracker for a long time — on the order of a year. It was the first model — the one Danny has appears to be newer. It was uh, unremarkable. I can’t remember what happened to it. I remember thinking at the time that it was kind of cool and kind of useful.

Nowadays I have discovered the secret of not being exhausted: I take a 25 minute nap whenever I feel less than alert. I do this between one and three times a day. Scientists will tell you that people who do this score better on all sorts of controlled tests. I haven’t done any controlled tests on myself, but it is so pleasurable not to feel that awful dragged-out zombie feeling any more.

Hint: sleep longer than 25 minutes and you will awaken disoriented and groggy and miserable. Technically this is called “sleep inertia”. If you experience this more than a couple of times then maybe try 20 minutes instead.

By: Rod Begbie

Rod Begbie — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:11:27 +0000

How do you like your SleepTracker? As a continually exhausted sort, the concept tempts me. Curious to know what you think about it.

(I’m also wishing the chaps at Axon Labs would release something. I saw their prototype last year, and it’s a bit more sciency about your sleep patterns than just “you’re moving around a bit”)

Rod.

By: Michael Krelin

Michael Krelin — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:13:15 +0000

The sacred knowledge is about responsibility and having no one else to blame. Like I had no one but myself to blame for the lack of sleeptracker support for linux and to cast the spell and breath life into one. And those who lack the sacred knowledge and don’t take the responsibility are always at someone’s mercy, regardless of the time, place and operating system.

Love,
H