Are You Interested? Powdered Drinks, iPhone Shortcuts, and Exploding Laundry Detergent. Don't know what "up there" is, but Gatorade powder is sold in grocery stores here in the Chicago area. I only buy it when it's on sale otherwise it's a minimal savings if used full strength. I've only found it sold in large quantities to companies, clubs, etc except for a few online sellers. As far as mixing goes, I've never noticed a problem, but I learned a long time ago to mix a little first. In the Camelbak that works anyway as I mix it in the partial fill that I freeze ahead of time. And I avoid commercially bottled water like the plaque. I said 'up there' because the North is usually up on maps. 1. 2. Maybe it IS sold here, just didn't find it. How to Determine If A Controversial Statement Is Scientifically True. A small typo: "...Dr. Plait warned that [t]here are a few things to watch out for...
". Great article overall, though I wonder if it advocates leaning on authority figures a bit too much. I think it's fairly obvious that the evidence itself is more important than whoever presents it, but I wish this were stated more explicitly. It can be next to impossible for laypeople to determine the difference between "legitimate" experts and their counterparts (and in some fields "legitimacy" may be ill-defined to the point of meaninglessness, and even experts aren't *always* right). Flagged Thanks for the correction - and excellent points, thank you! Showing Up Is Not Enough.
Keep Your Life Focused by Making Right vs. Right Decisions. Five Best Internet Radio Services. Supercharge and Automate Your Android Phone with On{X} @AnxiousLogic is a contrarian: Mark Zuckerberg, et al, at facebook, have shown themselves to not be above flat-out lying to its users, and flat-out violating — usually egregiously — their privacy. One would have to have spent the past few years living under a rock — and also unconscious — not to be painfully aware of this. Your question, then, smacks as intentionally clueless... in the hope, I suspect, of getting those who maybe tend to go through life a bit more asleep at the switch than some of the rest of us to assume that there's no actual problem. There is an incontrovertible problem; and shame on you for suggesting, by your posting, here, that there might not be. You should have signed said posting with either your facebook employee ID number, or that of whatever corporate entity ultimately benefits from on{X} logins using facebook IDs.
The problem with facebook logins is, in a word, privacy... ...or, more accurately, facebook's outrageous and routine violations thereof. Your Head or Your Gut: How to Know Which to Trust and When. In "The War of Art," Steven Pressfield's insightful work on production, along with his follow up work, "Do the Work," a manifesto on the same subject, he proposes that Resistance is the enemy of creative effort. This piece, Adam, touches on an equally malignant force - Urgency. Urgency is what is driving people nuts while reducing their productivity (aka, accomplishments) at the same time. E-mail is the Urgency's Specter. The buzz, flash, ping, preview, draws us instinctively towards it and begs us to check it. We can't help it, it's part of our genetic code to react. In fact, it's called the startle response and it's one of the instinctual behaviors that brought this far along the evolutionary path. The best defense against the destructive lure of e-mail is a good offense.
Sorting and queuing helps to feel back in command of our e-mail and our world. More on how to do this at www.quietspacing.com. Your Brain, Back, Buns, and Bytes: Four B's Worth Your Money. Get a Little Exercise in at Your Desk to Burn Extra Calories and Help Avoid Repetitive Stress Injuries. The Desk at the Edge of the World. Open in New Tab, Dropbox Uploading, and Travel Laundry. How Can I Find Out How Much Bandwidth I’m Using at Home? I do illegitimate downloads, Netflix high quality daily, gaming and tons of legit file transfers and haven't come close to hitting Cox's cap of 200gb yet.
Can't tell if you're trolling or not, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt... 1. There are other applications that may be data-intensive that aren't illicit. Cloud backups for one. 2. 3. 4. It's only common sense that you keep track of your usage if you have a plan that will charge you for overages or cut your access off... Use a streaming game service like Onlive and you'll be eating 2-3gb per HOUR. 250gb is nothing for a gamer. Maybe you should use some of that bandwidth to look up how to use their, there, and they're correctly. Spotify for Android Updates with Completely New Interface, Better Audio Quality, and More.
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My last job interview was with a boss from a previous company, who moved onward. The interview was more of us catching up after not seeing each other for a while. Of course if you are changing industries then all bets are off on that front. If you work at a large company, and plan on staying in that industry, the turnover rates can be pretty high, and you will often know many people at many places. When you work somewhere, do a good job, don't be a dick, and make as many friends as possible, internally, and with external clients and partners. If you can't do that, then you are going to have a harder time finding a job regardless of whether or not your resume is perfect. How to Invert Your Browser's Colors for Easier Reading at Night. Whitson Gordon claims that for longer reading, "black on white is much easier to read than the opposite or any other combo.
" - This is not true. The most efficient and 'easiest' on the eyes set up is: pale yellow font on dark blue background. This is true for all reading. And for longer content, serifs fonts (ones with the fancy hooks and and swings) in them are better than non-sans: more points of reference to distinguish one letter from another, so less processing effort is needed. Perhaps Whitson's comment is simply a personal preference. Pale yellow on dark blue has science of how the human eye-to-brain processing system works as proof. Btw: Ironically, bright saturated yellow (canary) is the most complex and therefore confusing color for the human site system to process, so it can cause agitation, be it as a font or the color of someone's clothing.
Focus Your Ambitions with the Lifehacker Hierarchy of Goals. Setting goals is easy, but prioritizing them is hard. Humans suck at properly weighing what we need to achieve our goals. We take on too much, skip steps, and often, as a result, we give up. Once you commit to a framework to prioritize your goals and cut the junk, achieving your goals gets a lot more realistic. Here's one way to do it.P If you're anything like me you have a ton of goals. Consider this a system of life designing that helps you question assumptions and figure out what you really want.
Level 1: The Primary GoalsP SExpand Your primary goals are the base of all other goals—the one or two things you aspire to do before you die. Level 2: Long Term GoalsP Your long term goals are the major goals that are required to get to the primary goals. Level 3: Short Term GoalsP Think of short term goals as weeks or months out. Level 4: Recurring GoalsP Your recurring goals are what you want to do daily/weekly/monthly regardless of what else is going on.
Level 5: Immediate GoalsP. Get Hired. Can we get a counter point article written by job interviewees? This article comes across as slightly arrogant. I've noticed that a lot of interviewers treat me as if they are giving me some amazing life changing opportunity by agreeing to talk to me, even though most of the time they're the ones who approached me. It's incredibly irritating, and a lot of hiring managers forget that the interview is a two way street Just a few off the top of my head: 1. The phone thing, like wizzard said. 2. 3. 4. 5. How to Give Criticism Without Sounding Like a Jerk. Foursquare Updates with New Design, Recommendations, and More. Create a Focus List and an Ignore List and Review Them Every Morning. Turn Your Email into the Best Social Network You’ll Ever Use. The Accidental Asshole: Pinpoint How You're Annoying People and Do Something About It. What Advice Do You Wish You Could Give Your Younger Self? The points from The Buried Life, that I would advise to my younger (15 year old) self are: 1-5, 7, 10-16, 18 and 19.
In addition to those points, I'll add: 1. Maintain what you already know. You will, over time, develop proficiency in numerous skills. Do not allow yourself to take these skills for granted! Make a schedule that allows you to practice them routinely. 2. 3. 4. 5. Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead: A Three Step Process. Survival Guide Puts the US Military Survival Manual in Your Pocket. A little while ago I sitting in the garden when a neighbor had a heart attack, turning immediately into a zombie. I ran back into the house, bolted door and windows, only to discover the demon from Paranormal Activity breaking things and stuff. I ran out through the back door, and that's when the raptor saw me. I ran and ran down the road. A while later I saw a car coming and stopped it, asking for a lift. I ran into the woods, hoping to find a place to hide.
I somehow climbed a tree to try and wait it out till things slow down a bit. Guess I should download the app now, eh? How Can I Overcome a Work Slump? There is no panacea that you can use for the rest of your life to keep your work ethic going. What gives you drive is going to be a constantly changing thing. My work is in music, but for the past couple of months, I have been getting over my own slump, too. My mentor had me make a list of 5 things that would make me focus. These are doing more than making me focus, they're giving me drive. I think focus and drive go hand in hand. It's going to be different for everyone, but yeah, I would definitely suggest giving any or all of these a try. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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