Sysloggin' one day at a time.
By Jim
Excerpt from:
The Command Post – Global Recon
“We find them by the smell,” says Kerg-Reut Khaolamai, manager of the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Krual, as the body is bagged and carried out.
“Then the elephants clear the way and lift them out. They have not done this kind of work before.“
By Jim
Boing Boing: Get my stuff done
This animation just nails the procrastinator’s mindset and is incredibly infectious. You’ll see. Link to Quicktime (Thanks, Imaginary Foundation!)
By Jim
It’s never too late to reinvent yourself.
Imagine someone holds a gun to your head and demands that you tell him what you really wish you were doing in your life. Now imagine he tells you that if you don’t start taking steps toward making that happen, he’ll kill you. He knows where you live, and he’ll be watching.
That scenario is one my favorite scenes in Fight Club.
And thanks to the overwhelming new brain research, we now know that it’s virtually never too late to reinvent yourself. To start something totally new. To learn, even master, something completely different from what you’ve been doing for the past five, ten, forty years.
From my current favorite brain book,The New Brain, Richard Restak puts it this way:
“As recently as only a few years ago, most neuroscientists believed that brain plasticity largely ceased by adolescence or by early adulthood at the latest. At this point the brain became fixed in its structure and function–at least that was the prevailing assumption. But this assumption, too, turned out to be wrong.”
He goes on to talk about how people–regardless of age–can still achieve superior, even expert-level performance in things they haven’t done before.
The more we lear
…excerpt from: headrush.typepad.com…
By Jim
Tsunami Missing Persons
Find Missing Persons from Tsuanami affected areas.
By Jim
Excerpt from:
The Command Post – Op-Ed – Counting The Cost
The human toll of the recent [tsunami] tragedy will never be known exactly. It looks like it will never be known even approximately. All the official figures are, as at 01 January 2005, neccessarily drastic under-estimates. To see why, and what the difficulties are in estimating even approximately the toll in human life, read on.