eMarkLee

My mate KokoBWare recently gave me a personal productivity book called Getting Things Done by David Allen. It was actually pretty enlightening. I had been in search for such a system for some time but was never able to find it. A system that captured all tasks in my life, from creating Powerpoint presentations, doing my expense reports, to purchasing the toilet paper to wipe my arse with…and wiping my arse. Everything captured in one trusted reviewed list. I’m digging it. KokoBware: you’re not getting that book back.

As I reached out on the web this is a system many techies have been following religiously for the past few years. It’s been documented on many enthusiast sites like 43Folders, which is a tech/email look at GTD. In particular, there’s a talk that the author, Merlin Mann, gave at Google that gives you a good feel for what the system is all about.

Since productivity is a personal hobby of mine, I will share my adaptation of the system, called Getting Shit Done in the next few weeks as I implement it.

Yesterday I ran in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Battersea park.

The race was a 5.6km race, which translates to 3.48 miles. I think this was the farthest measured distance I have ever run. In high school I remember getting on the treadmill for 30 mins on 6 but didn’t particularly enjoy it. This time around I ran for 33 minutes at a rate of 9.5 mins per mile. This is actually better than I expected, considering I have not been training or running. The only running I’ve been doing has been running out of toilet paper.

The finish line was my favourite part, I would say….sprinting that last 100 meters and not having to run anymore. I don’t know if I have it in me to do a marathon. Some people are made for running, others made for running out of toilet paper.

If you are loyal to Yahoo Mail for whatever reason, they have opened up a couple of other email domains for use: ymail and rocketmail. It’s a move to improve their registration rates I guess so if there’s a coveted id like “rockitwithyourcoccyx” that you’ve never been able to get, you can try again.

Still, not sure why someone that isn’t married to an existing Yahoo Mail account wouldn’t just create a gmail account. I have a couple of old arse Yahoo Mail accounts that I am totally married to. And by marriage, I’m talking love….and getting told to clean up after my crap….

If it’s good enough for Tiger Woods, it must be good enough for me!

Maybe…or you could be the small minority of people(5 out of 100) whose vision is forever ruined. As a business person, I like to figure out the cost benefit of this transaction…let’s take a look:

Cost: $2000/eye
Benefit: Not needing to wearing contacts anymore. 30 years of contact lens solution(4 per year at $10 per bottle) and $100 in contact lens costs per year = $4200 saved.

Now…of course, there’s risk:
Risk: Forever ruining your vision. The very thing that you use to see the world around you. Um…

Bottom line is: are you willing to risk your vision for life just so that you don’t need to put contacts on in the morning and take them off at night?

I sure am not, especially using Acuvue for Astigmatism with Accelerated Stabilization Design, which allows for better positioning of the lens for my football-shaped cornea. Yeah, life’s a bitch. Instead of a traditional hydrogel material, these contacts are made from Galyfilcon A, or silicone hydrogel. Basically, my previous contacts were unwearable because it dried my eyes out. These have been 100% more comfortable and less drying. So if dryness is what is making you consider Lasik, you should test other kinds of contacts. I have no cure for dryness in other areas of your body.

For all those people that have had Lasik and claim “I love waking up and being able to see the alarm clock.”, I can too. It’s because my alarm clock has digits that are huge and right next to the bed. So, there. FACE!

I been wondering about this new drug these kid on the street corner keep talking about while listening to their rap music. I don’t know what it is, but I reckon it is some form of designer drug these kids are all about these days. Will let you know when I find out. I bet it smells nasty and gives you bad breathe.

This one keeps on giving, like 8 years later…

It wasn’t all that bad…

As I had written about before, Airborne is rubbish. If you still think it does anything, be clear that all you are doing is buying a very expensive multi-vitamin with no additional protection against getting the cold. Since my lady didn’t listen to me, we have probably spent over $50 in the past year buying this dream.

The good thing now is that I can claim some of that money back. There’s a form you fill out and you can make a claim. I still never understood why people would put a magic potion created by a school teacher down their throats and be surprised that it does jack shit.

Also mentioned here.

Situation:
Apparently in Romania they still have traffic cops that divert traffic. Unfortunately, they do not do a good job at it and have been causing inprecise movements and such.

Solution:

Send all the male cops to ballet class so that they can train to be more graceful. Yeah….that’s the solution. And yes, it is a much better solution than deploying automated traffic lights like the rest of the world because you have a cop doing ballet movements in the middle of the street.