Upsy-datesy!

Oh, shut up — the word “update” gets boring after a while, okay? ;)

This is now the day following Perfect Night Three, post-holiday-and-sickness which knocked my schedule all whacky (but not monophasic). Days one and two, I was significantly tired at some points between 11p.m. – 1a.m., and around 7a.m. This tiredness was much reduced over the last 24 hours, and if experience holds, will be completely gone in another couple days. (Remember, part of the trade-off with Everyman is that you don’t get as crushingly tired while adjusting as you do with Uberman, but it lasts a bit longer usually.)

I have also been experimenting with Placebo’s Sleep Track like I said I would, and overall I like it. I wasn’t using it in the car at first — I never have trouble sleeping in my car; perhaps that’s because I can hear traffic from the nearby main road, and that provides my own “white noise”? …But it’s been magic during my 9p.m.-ish nap, which I always have problems with because of noises in the house. The white noise blurs everything just enough that I can ignore it and sleep, and I wake up at the end like somebody’s flipped a light-switch. I’m going to try using the mp3 player in the car too, now, and see if it helps me wake up faster / resist the temptation to hit the timer for 5 more minutes. (This temptation is born of work being hell lately, and it being cold out. Both things just make me want to hide in my sleeping bag all day!)

And here, gods, I can’t keep up with the cool stuff people keep throwing at me!

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Booyah! Nanotech scores in the battle against cancer and chemo with gold-plated “bombs”

About damn time we had a model philosopher and kickass female role-model…Barbara Forrest may be my new personal hero

This is why “science is fun!” isn’t just another stupid thing we say to kids…check out these freaky new “superfluids”!

Write a short essay and get named America’s Greatest Thinker! (Okay, so the competition there isn’t exactly stiff, but… ;)

And lastly, it’s not easy to find intelligent and uplifting conversation nowadays, but Doug Rushkoff delivers in this neato interview. ::bowing before the nerd god::

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…And that’s what I got for now, at least without further compromising my mental health for your entertainment (and you wouldn’t want that, would you? …Would you?) -PD