With regards to countdown timers … if you use a Palm, consider adding BigClock (search Google). It has many alarm features, including a count-down timer mode. I didn’t think it would be that important when I installed it, but after using it for more than a year, it is EASILY my most used application. It is great for working in a ‘dash’ mode as described here (and for taking short breaks during the work day :-).

Re: The Multiple self

Holy hell… 700 faulty analogies and bad metaphors are now fighting it out in my brain. Hopefully I can redirect that overwritten piece to my operating system’s /dev/null before too long.

I don’t know… there may have been some good points in there somewhere, but I’ll be damned if I could find them under all the mountains of twaddle. Anybody have a sensibly edited summary they’d care to present?

If you like The Multiple Self, you might want to read some of Alan Watts’ books, since they cover similar ground. “The Wisdom of Insecurity” is one of my favorites.

The Multiple Self harkens to Maxwell Maltz’s ‘Psycho Cybernetics’. It’s a great self-help pop-psychology book that’s been around since the 60’s. It basically says that what you really believe (i.e. what you are ‘programmed’ with) is what really drives you, and the key to changing yourself is to change these beliefs.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Tea Timer is a good, simple OS X countdown timer.

Another great timer (useful if you have no neighbors) is a darkroom timer, like this Gralab (http://www.2spi.com/catalog/photo/gralab.shtml). Useful for up to 60 minutes, has an outlet that is controlled by the timer, but is LOUD AS HELL. hehehhee. my daughter is terrified of mine.

Monday morning is 9/12, right? :)

(BTW, I’ve been reading 43F for a couple of months now, and I love it — thanks for all the helpful tips and pointers!)

Thanks, Ellen! I was thinking of the metric system or something. :)

Quote of the week - “Someone could appreciate it; it wasn’t a total disaster.??? — My Mom, commenting on the dubiously executed paintings of Grandpa Mann.

Remind me of what my aunty said.. :)