I don’t buy into everything I read on Zen Habits, but this post resonates deeply. Please read the whole thing.
I desperately need to become more comfortable with discomfort.
Refugees vs. paedophiles
Click through for an excellent piece on the latest round of xenophobia they’re trying to call politics:
My father might have suggested a close watch on the mean coots in Parliament.
x100.365 #59
Now that his arrival has been announced on Facebook (modernspeak for “now that everybody knows he’s here”), I can share the face of February 28: Mr 3’s godparents’ new son, a.k.a. Miss 1’s future husband.
Welcome to the world, you gorgeous little hairy man with the cute sad face!
[As mentioned earlier, x100.365 is going to be a bit different in March. 31 strangers in 31 days! Stay tuned.]
x100.365 #58: The funny chair
The joke was too much for the one in the middle.
x100.365 #57: A splash of colour
Sometimes, you only have time for a flower photo. [The day after you were supposed to have taken it.]
Full credit to the school’s assistant property manager for cultivating these colours, though.
x100.365 #55: Stairtube
There’s something about this stairwell at John Hunter Hospital.
I’m not sure what, but it’s something.
“Hooked on hacking life”
Seth Godin’s latest post wasn’t quite what I was expecting from the title.
Here’s a snippet:
Striving to get smarter, better and faster helps us create our future. The risk is that merely collecting, trading and discussing the tools turns into the point.
It’s possible that your next frontier isn’t to get more efficient, it’s to get more brave.
(See? It has absolutely nothing to do with compromised computers at Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Twitter.)
My 2012 was pretty overrated, so I’m currently doing more “life-hacking” than usual – ditching some of the things I don’t have time to do, removing friction wherever possible, trying to have more fun, etc. It’s all part of trying to make 2013 a better year.
But, as always, I’m finding it easy to focus on the minutiae of optimising myself rather than on Actually Getting Things Done.
Thanks for the timely post, Seth.
To bravery! #drink
x100.365 #54: YouTube
If we let him, Mr 3 would watch trains on YouTube all day. Twenty-minute single-takes of stations or trips are his favourite. His concentration is intense.
It’s slightly scary.
x100.365 #53: 33S
I love Hewlett-Packard calculators.
It’s one of the less annoying things I’ve inherited from my dad.
If it can’t operate in RPN mode; if its keys don’t respond to your touch with that special somethin-somethin; if it’s not programmable; if it’s not solid enough to drive a car over … well, it’s not a real calculator.
This is my 33S, which I bought after (foolishly) selling my beloved 32SII. Even with PCalc on my iThings, I still love this machine. And the 12C I have at work too.
x100.365 #52: Fresh bitumen
Nothing beats the smell of a newly resurfaced road in the morning.
(Thanks for looking after our street, LMCC.)