I’m being told, by individual mouths as well as much of my culture, that I should be upset and/or ashamed that my body is, at age 38, no longer “perfect”.

Well, it wasn’t perfect before. Or rather, if I looked at my 20-year-old body now I might say, “Perfect!”, but I never felt nor was allowed to feel like it was perfect then; and in strict ( Read more... )

I'm reposting this in its entirety from Everything2, mostly because it's an old site and this piece is over 15 years old, and I can't bear it being at risk of vanishing.  I looked it up again today because I knew people at the Ghost Ship, none who are confirmed dead so far, but many who are grieving.  This piece is not only beautiful in its ( Read more... )

OK, look.  I love logic.  I basically got a degree in it, and I was raised in a pro-intellectual household by a man whose bread and butter (and therefore mine) came from his skill at arguing - and I'm good at it; I won't even pretend to be modest there.

I know a LOT of people who also love logic, but who don't have my training in it - tech ( Read more... )

So, regarding sleep and scheduling, I'm sad to report that my Dymaxion adaptation, while it was going well and I was really starting to feel like I'd gotten it, did not survive the recent U.S. election.  I'm envious of people who can work right through something like that without floundering, but that tidal wave of angering and worrying news hit ( Read more... )

…in honor of the screaming Anarchists, in no particular order, things that have been occuring to me the last couple days like the angry ceaseless waves of a storm sea…

1.  We wanted people to vote for "anything but [X]", and they did, but they decided that the worst thing, the thing that needed to be voted against no matter what, was the ( Read more... )

I owe a thousand writeups on a hundred things to at least sixty people, and being that I've been awake for 22h of the last six days, I have zero excuse for not providing them…other than that I've just really been enjoying spending the time by myself.  I'm reading books, making chainmail again, watching movies I meant to get to, organizing all my ( Read more... )

I'm not calling this a "Dymaxion update", because I'm still not on Dymaxion…after 2 weeks, I'm getting close, but progress in adapting has been slow.

The long slog of low-level sleep-dep has exactly the effect I was worried it would:  By the time you start reducing cores to really get down to your desired schedule, you've been fuzzy-headed ( Read more... )

(Brought to you courtesy of Day 6 of the Dymaxion adaptation… :))

OK folks, time to open up: What are you reading right now? Should I read any of them??

Because this is my currently-reading list, so clearly I need more:


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(That title can be read two ways, both of which are correct!)

Coming into day five, and the last 24h have been predictably hard - days 3-4 of any sleep-schedule adjustment are hell pretty much no matter who you ask - but I feel good, overall.

The other day I was working at a shop, a little nervous in the back of my mind because I knew I ( Read more... )

It's Testing Time Again:  Gradual Adaptation & Dymaxion

I've been quite happily sleeping on the Everyman sleep schedule for years, but it's time for a switch.  After much delibration, I've decided to test out one of the major schedules I've never tried - the one commonly called Dymaxion, after the excellent scientist Dr. Buckminster Fuller.  I' ( Read more... )