plants bore the hell out of me, though. they just... sway with the wind... I love all human knowledge besides botany. I don't care if 6 plants make up 80% of humanity's food consumption. I would rather just eat meat than learn about ... plants!
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Pencils vs. Pens
For the longest time I've been debating pens vs. pencils.
Pros Pencils
You don't have to worry about the 'ink drying out'.
Pros Pencils
You don't have to worry about the 'ink drying out'.
You don't have to worry about the angle at which you're holding your pencil.
Cons Pencils
You have to sharpen pencils.
If the tip of your pencil is sharp, you may poke yourself depending on the way you carry your pencil.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Moral Capital
Sure, getting organic bok choy and phosphate-free toilet-bowl cleaner can make you feel good about yourself, but how good? And does buying green translate into more redeeming behavior overall? Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto conducted three experiments on 305 subjects to find out. It turns out that just being exposed to green products - seeing a TV commercial or walking by an organic store -- created a "halo effect" that makes people more charitable and trusting. But actualy buying green products was like getting a license for hypocrisy: After a purchase, the green consumers were more likely to lie and steal.
Mazar points out that more and more consumers are buying green and socially responsible products, which gives them "moral capital" (ak.a. a superiority complex).
Popular Science August 2010
Sunday, 10 October 2010
Saturday, 30 May 2009
don't make your bed
let's say that you spend a minimum of 5 minutes making our beds each morning. in a year, you spent 30 hours making your bed. you could have spent each 5 minutes to read a page out of a book instead.
I don't structure the blankets on my bed. I don't see the point in ordering the blankets when I'm just going to disorganize them later. I wonder how much time the average person wastes in a life time structuring their blankets. If your bed is against a wall, you have to move your entire bed to 'make your bed' adding the wasted time. I don't think anyone should take pride in fixing their bed. "I'm a responsible and disciplined person because I fix my bed" says the wrong person, but the truth is that you could take pride in having read maybe more than just one entire book by the end of the year. If someone uses their bed as a work place, I can see the point in making the bed, but you could always just move the top blanket aside.
I don't structure the blankets on my bed. I don't see the point in ordering the blankets when I'm just going to disorganize them later. I wonder how much time the average person wastes in a life time structuring their blankets. If your bed is against a wall, you have to move your entire bed to 'make your bed' adding the wasted time. I don't think anyone should take pride in fixing their bed. "I'm a responsible and disciplined person because I fix my bed" says the wrong person, but the truth is that you could take pride in having read maybe more than just one entire book by the end of the year. If someone uses their bed as a work place, I can see the point in making the bed, but you could always just move the top blanket aside.
how many clicks?
blogspot:
to blog a new post on blogspot is 3 clicks (if i'm logged in)
1. clicking www.blogspot.com
2. clicking "new post"
3. clicking "publish post"
facebook:
depends on what you do there but that takes about 5 clicks as well
gmail
takes about 5 clicks to open chats with some friends and check some mails
google reader
takes about 5 clicks too... i wish google reader and google talk would come together so I didn't ahve to be on gmail for google talk and google reader at the same time. i'm not sure how much memory and bandwidth that takes up.
bottom line is that I can't wait for google wave. where else is that awesome spell checker being implemented?
to blog a new post on blogspot is 3 clicks (if i'm logged in)
1. clicking www.blogspot.com
2. clicking "new post"
3. clicking "publish post"
facebook:
depends on what you do there but that takes about 5 clicks as well
gmail
takes about 5 clicks to open chats with some friends and check some mails
google reader
takes about 5 clicks too... i wish google reader and google talk would come together so I didn't ahve to be on gmail for google talk and google reader at the same time. i'm not sure how much memory and bandwidth that takes up.
bottom line is that I can't wait for google wave. where else is that awesome spell checker being implemented?
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