Humor
Happy Easter!
Cadbury Eggs
Comic from the www.xkcd.com site that is listed on the right side bar. Visit them!
DST… I’m not a fan
I’m not a big fan of Daylight Savings Time as my lurkers already know. It’s not getting any better. Becky’s not a big fan of the deserts of Arizona, but its position as the lone state refusing to participate in this madness makes living there seem more attractive.
I was dragging when I got up this morning and I was dragging all the way through lunch. It’s about 11:00 pm as I’m writing this and I’m not sleepy. It will take me a couple of weeks to get on the new cycle. For those of you that have to deal with me, bear with me please. I will try not to be any more surly than absolutely necessary.
As I was trying to wake up this morning I ran across this article in the LA Times which didn’t make me feel any better with its discussion of the dark side of DST including anxiety, heart attacks and car accidents. Sleep deprivation is a wonderful thing… NOT! Can you imagine having Daylight Savings Time listed as the cause of death in your obituary?
Once again, in an attempt to make lemons into lemonade, I’ll remind you that this is a good time to check/replace the batteries in your smoke detectors. Those of you that are sleep impaired like I am need all the help you can get as you acclimate to this unnecessary assault on your internal clocks… Sweet Dreams!
Henry Kissinger’s Quote on Stress
“There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
– Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State 1973-1977
Now if they just hook the treadmill to a generator…
I have this vision of rows of these in lieu of office cubicles, each one hooked to a generator so that all the little office worker bees have to generate their own power for their computers. I guess that would reduce goofing off on the internet since you’d have to walk to goof off. People would start bringing real cards to work because online solitare would be too much effort! How many of you remember the bike generator in Soylent Green? “Soylent Green is people!”
This is the TrekDesk. It comes in several models and is supposed to be adaptable to any treadmill. Their site quotes the American Heart Association, saying that 10,000 steps a day can reduce your chances of a heart attack. It also quotes the National Institute of Health saying that walking reduces the risk of Cancer and quotes the American Diabetes Association saying that walking reduces the risk of Diabetes.
It’s an interesting concept for a home office, though I can’t imagine being able to work and read a computer screen while walking or running at any kind of workout pace. I guess any movement is better than none. Seems like it might be a kind of smelly office space too.
