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jayparkinsonmd: Making health simple: Living in such a...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:15:45 -0800

Making health simple:

Living in such a complicated world can seem so complex. But we’re creatures of habit. Ninety-three percent of our behavior is predictable.

And everyday the media reports on new research that suggests certain things are good or bad for you. It’s all quite confusing. We get so lost and so paralyzed by complicated details, we lose sight of making health simple. Don’t worry about whether or not coffee is good or bad for you. If the “science” of analyzing one substance and its effect on health hasn’t figured it out by now, the implications of that substance is mostly unknown for you as an individual. In fact, even the number one selling drug in America, Lipitor, designed to reduce your cholesterol has very little evidence to suggest it prolongs your life. In reality, our longevity is limited by our genes and our everyday behaviors.

All I ask is that you stop and think about your life today.

We’re all expected to live 82 years or so in the developed world. What do we want out of those years? Do you want to prolong your life at the end? Do you want to live to be 92 instead of 82? Or do you want to feel your best prior to getting old and limited by age? What do you think will give you the most happiness out of life? Living your life optimally as a young person? Or stretching your life out at the end for another decade of life as a slow-moving senior citizen?

Now, think about your everyday. Spend a few minutes and write down how you spend your day. What are you doing? What are you doing that’s probably good for you? What are you doing that’s probably not that great for you? What are you doing too much of? Not enough of? Make a list. It’s actually pretty simple. For everything you identify that’s not so great for you, write a simple way you can change that behavior.

Think about just three things– sleep, food, activity. Changes should be very, very simple. It’s things like taking the stairs instead of the elevator. It could be eating less meat. It could be sleeping 7 hours instead of six. It could be drinking with friends 3 nights a week instead of four. It could be one less hour of sitting in front of your computer.

Life really isn’t about your health. It’s about happiness. Health is just one component of happiness. So take a break every once in a while and sit down and think about a few small everyday things that have huge impact on your happiness.

video portrait of Drew Anderson by me.

"There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:33:13 -0800

“There are no other Everglades in the world.
They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth, remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them: their vast glittering openness, wider than the enormous visible round of the horizon, the racing free saltness and sweetness of their massive winds, under the dazzling blue heights of space. They are unique also in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life they enclose. The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slow-moving below, the grass and water that is the meaning the central fact of the Everglades of Florida. It is a river of grass.”

- There are No Other Everglades In The World | Cold Splinters

“Security, Love & Democracy (for export only)”, 2006 by...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:33:07 -0800

“Security, Love & Democracy (for export only)”, 2006 by Shahab Foutohi. via VVORK

owlforeigner: Anti-IMF demonstration in Iceland

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:30:59 -0800

owlforeigner:

Anti-IMF demonstration in Iceland

"…It soon became clear that Dan Bejar was master of a singular songcraft—and one who was only just..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:38:53 -0800

“…It soon became clear that Dan Bejar was master of a singular songcraft—and one who was only just getting started, because the following year brought us Streethawk: A Seduction. And every last inch—and we don’t mean this hyperbolically: EVERY. LAST. INCH.—of Streethawk is a true classic.”

- I really hope that Dan Bejar writes his own press releases. (via perpetua)
Whoever wrote that is right! (via listgenerator)

Srsly (via me)

A poem written to @michaeljordan via Twitter

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:33:05 -0800

A poem written to @michaeljordan via Twitter

990000: Yeah, tell that to the Iraqis. And the Haitians. And...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:41:04 -0800

990000:

Yeah, tell that to the Iraqis. And the Haitians. And the Afghans. And the Palestinians.

Also, why should we assume that amazing things make people happy?

VVORK

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:36:15 -0800

VVORK

"Picking the right text editor will not make you a better writer. Writing will make you a better..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:27:55 -0800

“Picking the right text editor will not make you a better writer. Writing will make you a better writer. Writing, and editing, and publishing, and listening — really listening — to what people say about your writing. This is the golden age for aspiring writers. We have a worldwide communications and distribution network where you can publish anything you want and — if you can manage to get anybody’s attention — get near-instant feedback. Writers just 20 years ago would have killed for that kind of feedback loop. Killed! And you’re asking me what word processor I use? Just fucking write, then publish, then write some more.”

- Mark Pilgrim on The Setup (via adactio)

"The city food only weakened him. He and his great-uncle had eaten well. If the old man had done..."

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:22:30 -0800

“The city food only weakened him. He and his great-uncle had eaten well. If the old man had done nothing else for him, he had heaped his plate. Never a morning he had not awakened to the smell of fatback frying. The schoolteacher paid scarce attention to what he put inside him. For breakfast, he poured a bowl of shavings out of a cardboard box; in the middle of the day he made sandwiches out of lightbread; and at night he took them to a restaurant, a different one every night run by a different color of foreigner so that he would learn, he said, how other nationalities ate. They boy did not care how other nationalities ate.”

- pp. 161-162 of The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor

Watch 'Give Me A Dram' in its entirety!

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:18:47 -0800

Watch 'Give Me A Dram' in its entirety! :

jeremymoss:

Available the month of Februrary on the auteurs.com website

990000: Jeez.

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:07:35 -0800

990000:

Jeez.

There’s something moving about this. It seems pure.

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:31:16 -0800

There’s something moving about this. It seems pure.

"The more I do with and around social data, the less interested I seem to become in ‘realtime’ and..."

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:57:23 -0800

“The more I do with and around social data, the less interested I seem to become in ‘realtime’ and the more interested I become in ‘over time.’ When I first started hacking on Twitter (and Facebook) apps, I was in love with the idea of parsing and analyzing data in real-time and I was very link/content focused. But the more I build and use these tools, the more I see the value in the history and the trails of the data set - especially when you consider that we are all living in a more asynchronous world then ever before thanks to things like blogs, Tivo, Hulu, iTunes, and other media-on-demand stuff. I don’t think it’s really so much about ‘what are you doing right now’ as it is ‘what have you done that’s interesting to me right now?’…and I think you get that by aggregating and analyzing.”

- Kevin Marshall, co-founder Wow.ly, Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World of New Apps & Features (via factoryjoe)

Candy and sodas for all!

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:06:35 -0800

Candy and sodas for all!

The Best Albums of 2008

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:34:00 -0800

Now that 2009 is almost over, I’m finally confident enough to proclaim the five best albums of 2008. I’ve lived with each of these albums for over a year, and they’ve stood the test of time—noting that a year has become an almost incomprehensibly large metric in a music world where new best-album-evers are blogged about every 15 minutes.

I hate writing about music, and these aren’t in order:

Saint Dymphna – Gang Gang Dance

Saint Dymphna feels like an emergent force, a hurricane made of voices and guitars and synthesizers and lots and lots of drums.

Microcastles / Weird Era Cont. – Deerhunter

Deerhunter and I probably listened to the same music growing up. The difference between us is that they loved it more and are better musicians. I’m really glad they’re making music. All 82 minutes of this double album are good and worth listening to all the way through.

(k)no(w)here – Wilderness

If I put this list in order, this would go at the top. (k)no(w)here is a short album that should be listened from start to finish. I think it’s about the apocalypse (I think all Wilderness albums are about the apocalypse). For some reason, I think they’re libertarians too. The closing track, “<….^….>,” cannot be played loud enough.

Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill – Grouper

The cover art and title make this album seem more morbid and creepy than it really is—Focus on the rain and the forest instead. It’s a beautiful and quiet album.

Devotion – Beach House

This album is much heavier and harder than it sounds.

Draft Blog Posts

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:37:23 -0800

I want to blog more, but I’m very bad at finishing posts.

I’ve built a significant catalog of drafts with working titles that now merit a post of their own. Behold the things that light up my brain:

This list may or may not say something about the clarity of my thoughts.

Note: Interview with Destroyer and Regarding Live Music are published.

dusdin: [Dus[d]in] did an interview for Feaverish Photography...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:27:23 -0800

dusdin:

[Dus[d]in] did an interview for Feaverish Photography Blog.

listgenerator: Suffragette City by David Bowie “She’s a total...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:24:19 -0800

listgenerator:

Suffragette City by David Bowie

“She’s a total blam-blam” is one of my favorite lyrics of all time.

"Most app discovery comes from viral word of mouth among customers, not from people searching app..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:21:34 -0800

“Most app discovery comes from viral word of mouth among customers, not from people searching app stores for something to download.”

- 11 things I didn’t know about app development | VentureBeat (via adora)