Yearly Archives: 2009

Thoughts

A twist on telecommuting

Derek Thompson from The Atlantic picked up a post I wrote a couple of years ago, entitled “13 arguments for telecommuting“, in an article which proposes a twist on the idea: a 4-day workweek. The State of Utah switched to just such a program a year ago for its government employees, and the results are in: everyone loves it.

I wouldn’t have minded a 4-day workweek back when I did the 9 to 5 thing, but thankfully my boss let me shift my working hours. I’d come in at 11 am and leave at 7 pm, which meant I got to avoid most of the DC rush hour traffic.

Of course, it’s even better than all of this when you can telecommute entirely. That would truly save money for both employers and employees.

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How To

How much water should I drink daily?

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Several years ago, the common advice was 6-8 cups of water a day. Lately, I’ve been hearing 8-10 cups a day. Thankfully, there’s a easy formula you can use to calculate the amount you need.

½ * bodyweight = x ounces of daily water

I didn’t come up with this on my own. It’s a formula you can find on the Hippocrates Health website. So let’s see, for my 160 lbs. body, I’d need 10 cups of water per day.

½ * 160 = 80 ounces / 8 = 10 cups of daily water

For those of you on the metric system, 1 ounce is about 25.6 ml, and 8 ounces (1 cup) is 237 ml (or a little more than a quarter liter).

For my needs, that would work out to 2.36 liters per day. It’s really not that much, particularly on these hot summer days. The sad thing is I’m not drinking enough, and then I end up with these monster headaches. The lack of water may not be the main reason, since I’ve got plenty of other things going on, but it sure is one of the contributing factors.

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Lists

Condensed Knowledge – July 26, 2009

This is a summary of articles I read and found interesting during this past week. The list is shared from among my feed subscriptions:

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Thoughts

Alice in Wonderland official trailer (2010)

Tim Burton’s version of “Alice in Wonderland” is out (the official version, that is). Guess what role Johnny Depp is playing?

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Alice in Wonderland Official Movie Trailer in HD

Not to be nitpicky, but in the trailer, Alice’s hair is curly before falling through the hole, straight as she’s falling, and curly again when she finds herself on the floor at the bottom. And while she’s falling, her hair drapes downward, which doesn’t make sense. It should be blowing upward, right? Have a look at this frame from the trailer to see what I mean. Looks like they forgot to use some fans when they filmed those sequences, to simulate the force of the air blowing past her during the fall.

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The role of the Mad Hatter has naturally been made more prominent since Johnny Depp plays it. It’ll be interesting to see how the story changes to accommodate that.

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Can’t wait to see this movie.

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Thoughts

Kuroshio Sea

Video from Kuroshio Sea, the 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world, by Jon Rawlinson. Set it to play full screen and enjoy it. It’s quite peaceful. Seeing the silhouettes of the people set against the backlit aquarium will give you the proper scale for all the fish in there. Great stuff.

Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

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