Dan Ariely, who writes my favorite biweekly Wall Street Journal advice column (he doesn't have much competition in that narrowly defined niche), offered some advice that some of the commenters suggested may be illegal. Here's the question, followed by Dan's answer: _________________________________ Many of my friends and co-workers say they care about voting, but their spotty … Continue reading Did Dan Ariely Just Suggest Breaking the Law?
I've listened to and read about people who claim that they can get by on just a few hours (4-6) of sleep per night. Something about those claims never seemed quite right to me. I knew on those occasions when I got that kind of sleep I was kind of dragging most of the day. But … Continue reading Think You Can Thrive on 4-5 Hours of Sleep? You Can’t
The winner of the Great American Read as America's best-loved novel was no surprise. Once I saw the list come out several months ago, I predicted that it would be the number one book. Despite that prediction, it's not the book I chose as America's best-loved novel. The winner was To Kill a Mockingbird, and it … Continue reading And the Winner of America’s Best-Loved Novel Is…
The Wall Street Journal did a feature story this week on "5 Total-Body Workout Machines That Put Your Treadmill to Shame". While all of the products were intriguing, the one that really captured my attention was the ICAROS Home product. From the WSJ: Launched in August, ICAROS looks like something you’d find in a NASA … Continue reading Is This the Future of Exercise?
My oldest son told me about a funny Snickers Halloween commercial he had watched this past week, and so I couldn't wait to watch it to see if it was B.W. (Blog-Worthy). Well, I'm happy to report that it is. My son gave a pretty good description of the video, and as I was searching … Continue reading Why I’ll Be Giving Out the Good Stuff This Halloween
Slate, the daily web magazine, recently asked critics, musicians, and industry professionals to predict which tracks from the past 25 years we’ll still be dancing and singing along to for the next 100 years. When I first saw the headline for the results of the Slate survey, I started thinking of some songs I thought would … Continue reading Music Monday – These Are the Songs We’ll Remember??
I've written before about how Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), President Obama, and Steve Jobs (Apple) used to essentially wear the same outfit every day (not the same one among them). Zuckerberg wore the same gray t-shirt every day, Obama wore only blue or gray suits, and Jobs wore black mock turtlenecks, Levi’s, and New Balance sneakers … Continue reading These Are My Kind of Teachers
I was driving down one of our local roads (Route 30) yesterday with my son and a neighbor. The road is a four-lane "highway", with a speed limit of 25 miles per hour for significant portions of the road. As I've written about before, I'm kind of anal about speed limits, and always use a … Continue reading Sometimes Life Works Just Like You Hope It Should
William Faulkner is one of the most celebrated American authors, having won the Nobel Prize in 1949. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. But it seems that if you had met him as a teenager, you would have never … Continue reading From Post Office Failure to Nobel Prize Winner
Situation Number One: Planet Fitness, today. I'm waiting for a guy to finish hogging the pull-up machine so I can do my one set and move on to the next exercise. I'm standing 10 feet from the machine, trying to make it obvious that I'm waiting to use the machine. But the guy is oblivious, … Continue reading Situational Awareness, My Lack of
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