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Daily tasteeness (2008-02-21)
Rock, Paper, Shotgun » The Soul of The Sims “Well, yeah, it’s some lines of code. But it’s also a precious hint as to how [Will] Wright, a man who’s had a firm hand on PC gaming’s till for decades now, views his own games.” Scratch Beginnings: An Interview with Adam Shepard ∞ Get Rich Slowly “[Nickel and Dimed] is a book that I wanted to like […]. Ehrenreich enters her experiment with the end in mind — failure — and she seems to do everything she can to make this end come to fruition.”
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Snip, snip
My cats got fixed today. Jackie got her full ovariohysterectomy and Greg had his testicles removed. Now the poor things have silly lamp shades on their heads. Jackie — my neurotic cat — is, well, neurotic. She’s lying in the litter box like a bed. I assume it feels cool and a bit soothing, like lying in sand. I’m keeping it meticulously clean, but I can’t keep her out of there — they need easy access to it. She’s very upset by the Elizabethan collar (lamp shade), as she typically grooms rather heavily after the stress of a vet visit. I suppose tomorrow I’ll have to be kind and comb…
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They suck the blood! (Ah, ah, ah!)
Finally, after 7 months of living in Charlotte, I got myself hooked up with the local Red Cross for blood donation. I made an appointment and went in yesterday to give my unit of whole blood. I attempted almost every blood drive in college, although low iron kept me from donating at times. The facilities here in Charlotte are rather amazing. Even accounting for the fact that folks in Indiana were operating as a mobile force, the Charlotte facilities are quite a step up. I was able to make an appointment online in about 5 minutes. I had no wait at all at the office once I arrived. The information…
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Daily tasteeness (2008-02-07)
17 Unbeatable Ways to Create a Peaceful, Relaxed Workday I’m really trying to practice single-tasking. It’s hard, because I like to be busy (weird, yes?), but I really do work much less efficiently and with higher stress levels when I multitask. Trigger List – 43FoldersWiki A trigger list for weekly reviews. Good lord, that’s long. 🙂 How to do a Weekly Review in Under an Hour | Zen Habits The title says it all — I myself slacked on doing weekly reviews because of how long they took. Well, that and poor planning; it’s really something to be done on a Friday morning or Sunday night, rather than a Friday…
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Daily tasteeness (2008-02-06)
ZTD Habit 1: Collect | Zen Habits I like his reasoning for going analog in capturing input. In the last week, I’ve misplaced two styluses for my PDA, rendering it unhelpful in capturing data. A stack of index cards would take up about the same amount of space and be less frustrating. Kids’ how-to-cheat videos – Boing Boing Wow — I never put this much energy into cheating, even when I did cheat back in early high school. I always just cheated out of laziness — I didn’t feel like doing the homework, so I’d copy the work. The discussion after the article is fun, too. The Pros and Cons…