Time Unknown (Entries tagged as life)

This is how geeks nap

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:12:53 +0200

Lately I have messed up my night time sleep more often than usual. I'm not by any means good at napping, so usually falling asleep is difficult. However, I've recently discovered that the Stack Overflow podcast will put me to sleep very promptly. Is it geek or what to find Joel Spolsky that soothing?

Language inversion

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:12:21 +0200

As some of you might know, I'm now kinda bilingual, equally comfortable and (uncomfortable?) with English as with Finnish. Almost every time I run through what I'm planning to say in my head, I do it in the other language than what I'm actually likely to use. I have no idea why. It's not a conscious choice by any means. The downside of this is that I might in the end still not know what to say, the upside is that what I say will not be practiced to death, no matter how often I have been running it in my head.

How do you other bilingual people do this? I know that not everyone 'practices' conversations at all... even I don't do it often, it just always catches my attention when I do.

Population growth

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:51:00 +0300

Population Growth: unnatural, unnecessary, unsustainable is a beautiful but sad video on population growth.

If after that you feel tempted to say we can solve it by colonizing other planets, read this insigthful article on the math of population growth and think again.

The question Dip did not ask

nospam@example.com (Lynoure) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:54:01 +0300

Yesterday I finished reading Dip by Seth Godin. The book, despite its small size, discussed in some depth the difference between a dead end and a dip. However, it did not take into consideration the poor souls that are off the map of their dreams completely and who are maybe in a dip and not in a cul-de-sac, but in the wrong dip.

Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, what do you want to do?
Look at your life, who do you want to be before you die?
Look at your life, you haven't got forever.
-- The Cruxshadows: Birthday

Ask yourself if the direction you are heading is taking you to the place where you wanted to go. Or did you lost the X on the map and maybe the whole map altogether, and are now heading towards someone else's dreams.