I love this thing! A couple days ago I showed off my new industrial strength floss dispenser. Well I just got the item that makes it all worthwhile. These floss handles are really an awesome way to floss, and make getting at all the tough spots in the back really simple.
Yeah, maybe some people thing this is a strange thing to get excited about, but what can I say? I like making a common task more efficient and enjoyable.
Here’s the follow up to yesterday’s rapid weight loss test. Using a combination of an epsom salt bath and an overnight Preparation H basting of the midsection, and a day of fasting… could I drop 1-2 inches of waist size in a day?
Watch to find out, and for goodness sake, don’t try this at home. I was definitely light-headed the next day and had to take it easy and slowly rehydrate. Not something I plan on repeating.
Today is one of those crazy, random days I promised in the beginning. I’m actually putting to the test a rumor I heard that by soaking to the waist in an epsom salt bath, followed by applying Preparation H to the midsection and wrapping with cling wrap overnight, you can drop a couple inches in the waist by morning.
Obviously not the healthiest thing to do in the world, and I’m certainly not recommending that anyone ever try it for themselves, but I wanted to put it to the test and see for myself if these sorts of things work.
Results to follow tomorrow.
Today I make an appeal to all owners of public restrooms to consider your customers a bit more and plan an adequate number of hand dryers…
On a more serious a productive note, I talk a bit about Dale Carnegie’s classic: How To Win Friends & Influence People. I had the opportunity to put a couple of his techniques to good use this evening, and was rewarded with the satisfaction of making a stronger personal connection. Definitely a must read and a frequent review.
Watching Robin Hood tonight got me thinking about liberty and the need for eternal vigilance, and how easy it is to ignore in our easy, first-world life.
Also I talk a little about undertaking a path of mastery when you’re learning a new skill from scratch. I explore my (moderate) mastery of the Rubik’s Cube and how I might apply the lessons learned to the new skills of programming and coding regular expressions.
Today brought a great deal of progress in leaving Wordpress and hand-coding my new site. I tackled menus and other template items with server side includes (no, not PHP) and had a great experience setting up Disqus so I can maintain a high-quality comment system without Wordpress.
I also set up my about.me profile. It’s a brand new service promising to be your online social hub. It presents a simple profile with links to all of your other online services. Looks good so far, and should be interesting to follow.
All that, plus a sing-along with 100+ Brits. Looking forward to a relaxing weekend planning next week’s trip to London.
With one decision I am both throwing in the towel and finally pursuing some larger goals: I’m scrapping Wordpress, and hand-coding my site from scratch. I also discuss what it truly means to gain experience, and a bit about dental hygiene.
Today I discuss the problems with Wordpress, the appeal of Posterous, and why introverts are sometimes at a loss for words.
Today starts a new format for regular content at my site. This video explains a bit about it and what you can expect going forward.
Reason.tv recently put out a video talking about the libertarian movement, and why the greatest gift to the libertarian electorate was the Obama administration. I especially liked the quote at 1:10 in the video:
Libertarians are treated as if they have quirky beliefs precisely because they’re consistent. In a country where a lot of people have inconsistent beliefs, an adherence to principle… a consistentadherence to principle sometimes looks pretty unusual.
What a great quote!
At one point in the video, Mr. Pitney also says:
You have to put it in perspective. The vast majority of voters aren’t going to read The Road To Serfdom or The Constitution Of Liberty.
That sounds like a challenge to me!
If you want to prove Mr. Pitney wrong, and you don’t want to be among the “vast majority of voters”, here’s where you can get the good stuff:
A Basic Libertarian Reading List
Basic Economics was not mentioned in the video, it’s my personal addition. It is one of the few books that I truly believe every single person should read.
