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More Time

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Today’s Daily Post asks:

If you needed more time, where would you take from? Lets say you had an emergency this week that required you to spend an hour, every day, taking care of something you don’t currently do.  Where would that time come from? What would you drop first?

I spend a little over an hour winding down at the end of every day. I use that time to catch up on email, read the news, skim through my Words With Friends games, and tie up any mid-level priority type lose ends. My guess is that time would get shorter, and I’d probably eat into my sleep-time a bit too.

I know that the answer to this question *should* be “I would work less” but I enjoy what I do so much that it’s difficult to not do. Maybe I’d work a real 40 hour week instead of the 60-80 range it ends up being when you count communication, coding, OSS dev, and just general work related distractions.

Maybe I could find a way to delegate this new 1 hour thing to someone else; I kinda like the routine I’m in right now. :)

Super Powers

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For a long while I’ve been meaning to take advantage of the laziness that our Daily Post blog offers, and today’s topic was short enough to finally motivate me to start.

Would you rather be able to read other people’s minds, or live forever?

Clearly, we all would rather be Q than Diana Troi. Am I right, or am I right?

See, living forever comes with it certain assumptions… being impervious to pain, having some sort of regenerative ability, and finally learning to play the piano. Without those things, I’m just another bag of organs. After a few thousand years of people watching I’d develop the ability to predict people’s behavior anyways; eventually I’d have both powers and everyone that picked “read minds” would be dead and buried.

Now that I think about it, this question is severely flawed. Who, currently in their right mind, would pick “read other people’s minds”?

I want to read my dog’s mind instead.

Most of the crap people think of on a daily basis is stupid. You’d be stuck listening to people complaining about their bosses, worrying about the weather, and all sorts of other mundane non-events until you finally die a glorious death just being happy that the voices will finally stop.

In closing, if you’re giving me a choice of being an immortal Scottish swordsman or The Amazing Kreskin, no offense Regis but I’m leaning towards Duncan MacLeod.