Sleeping Outside the Box » News http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net Whatever the crap I feel like posting Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:42:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 \m/ I Own a Mere 69 Things (100 Things Challenge) #100TC http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/08/17/m-i-own-a-mere-69-things-100-things-challenge-100tc/ http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/08/17/m-i-own-a-mere-69-things-100-things-challenge-100tc/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:52:23 +0000 Atom[antic] http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/?p=418 So, Lena read this article today about consumerism and ways of keeping your level of home owned crap down to a minimum. Since we moved out of the country 6 months ago and moved back last month, we’ve gone through 2 massive get-rid-of-everything-non-essential purges. Now that we are in a state of living out of two suitcases and two backpacks, I figured this would be a great time to join the 100 Things Challenge and begin tracking our crap.

Here’s my list of personal belongings:

    Essentials

  1. Laptop (macbook pro)
  2. - External hard drives (x6 – 320GB Laptop Drives)
  3. - Laptop Mouse
  4. Phone (samsung vibrant) + charger
  5. - Spare Phone Battery
  6. Wallet (+ contents)
  7. Passport Wallet (+ contents)
  8. Glasses (Prescription)
  9. Juggling balls (4 Jester Footbags)
  10. Backpack (SwissGear IBEX Notbook Pack)
  11. Suitcase
  12. Headphones (BeyerDynamic DT 770 Pro)
  13. Shoes
  14. Socks (7)
  15. Underwear (7)
  16. Pants (Jeans)
  17. Belt
  18. T-Shirt (Jolly Roger)
  19. Wedding ring
  20. Coat
  21. Toothbrush (Sonicare FlexCare)
  22. Razor (Electric)

    Extra Clothes

  23. Hat
  24. Pants (Jeans) + Belt (attached)
  25. Pants (Jeans)
  26. T-Shirt (Grey)
  27. T-Shirt (Black)
  28. T-Shirt (Grey Striped)
  29. T-Shirt (Jolly Roger)
  30. Shirt – Long Sleeve
  31. Shirt – Long Sleeve
  32. Shirt – Long Sleeve
  33. Shirt – Fancy Striped Button-Up
  34. Light Autumn Coat

    Drawing

  35. Pen Tablet (Wacom Intuos4 Medium)
  36. Sakura Pen Set (6)
  37. Staedtler Pen Set (Mars Pigment Liner Set of 4)
  38. Sketchbook (Moleskine – Large)
  39. Drawing Pad (Strathmore)
  40. Pencil Set – Tombow (8)
  41. Eraser (Kneaded x2)
  42. Pencil Sharpener

    Music

  43. Accordion
  44. Chromatic Harmonica (Velvet Voice 48 Hering Professional)

    Expendable Items

  45. Mechanical Pencil
  46. Red Pen
  47. Black Pen
  48. To-Go Ware 3 Tier Steel Lunchbox
  49. LunchBots Uno Stainless Steel Lunch Container
  50. Utility knife
  51. Headphones (for phone)
  52. Business card holder (with cards)
  53. First aid kit
  54. Deck of cards (minature)
  55. Paracord (for knot tying practice)
  56. Blipplace (toy–self assembled microcontroller electronic gadget)
  57. Unassembled Blipplace
  58. USB adapter (Belkin mini 4-port)
  59. USB adapter (Buffalo Squid 4-port)
  60. USB Extension Cable
  61. Cat-5 Cable (short emergency cable)
  62. Macbook Remote

    In Storage (@ Family’s House)

  63. Hand Drum (from honeymoon in Thailand)
  64. Unicycle
  65. Books
  66. Contact Juggling Ball
  67. SmartNav 3
  68. Sketchbook (Moleskine – Small)

    Temporary (getting rid of)

  69. Old iPhone
]]> http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/08/17/m-i-own-a-mere-69-things-100-things-challenge-100tc/feed/ 0 TED: William Li – Eat to Starve Cancer http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/30/ted-william-li-eat-to-starve-cancer/ http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/30/ted-william-li-eat-to-starve-cancer/#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 13:58:20 +0000 Atom[antic] http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/?p=374 This is absolutely amazing. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that the key to fighting just about every deadly disease we know of is probably as simple as eating fresh, tasty foods.

William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game.

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My favorite bit here:

Vitamin C has been touted as a cure-all for everything from preventing colds to curing cancer. The latter claim was popularized by Linus Pauling and eaten up by people who forgot that he got a Nobel Prize in chemistry and not medicine. The movement was dealt a bit of a setback when he died of cancer in 1994.

Read the full article on Cracked

]]> http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/26/cracked-8-health-foods-that-are-bad-for-your-health/feed/ 0 TED: Craig Venter Unveils Synthetic Life (Not Science Fiction) http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/24/ted-craig-venter-unveils-synthetic-life-not-science-fiction/ http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/24/ted-craig-venter-unveils-synthetic-life-not-science-fiction/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 10:12:28 +0000 Atom[antic] http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/?p=368 This is freaking awesome. It’s only a matter of time before we have custom house pets, bacteria that cleans air, water and anything else we want, in fact, bacteria that creates just about any chemical element or structure that we want. The possibilities are pretty wild.

The part about watermarks in the DNA is impressive.

Craig Venter and team make a historic announcement: they’ve created the first fully functioning, reproducing cell controlled by synthetic DNA. He explains how they did it and why the achievement marks the beginning of a new era for science.
–TED.com

You also may be interested in Gregory Stock on TED with “To Upgrade is Human”: http://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_stock_to_upgrade_is_human.html

]]> http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/24/ted-craig-venter-unveils-synthetic-life-not-science-fiction/feed/ 0 TED: Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/05/ted-jeremy-jackson-how-we-wrecked-the-ocean/ http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/2010/05/05/ted-jeremy-jackson-how-we-wrecked-the-ocean/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 21:21:16 +0000 Atom[antic] http://sleep.shadowpuppet.net/?p=366 Disturbing images and information about the state of the oceans and predictions for the future. I hope my daughter can see the ocean as beautiful as I’ve seen it in my life.

In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators that things will get much worse. Astonishing photos and stats make the case.

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