I don’t want to turn my website into a stream of things I hate (as has become of my Twitter) but I detest running. I take care of myself by eating well and exercising regularly to keep trim, but running has never been a skill of mine. Whether my legs are too short or I [...]
Author Archives: Clutch
Man-children in the kitchen
December 11, 2009 – 10:21 am
At what point in our past did a man’s role go from stoic provider to bloated toddler? I came across this guide for “Easy Guy Meals” that promised the reader good food in 5 minutes flat. As we’re all pressed for time, I can understand why someone would want to have some dishes that are [...]
Sleep FAIL?
October 23, 2009 – 9:12 am
I’ve run into a problem. It’s not a new one, but it’s been happening with greater frequency as I get deeper into this experiment: I’m sleeping through my alarms. To make sure that I don’t overrun the 3-hour mark on my core nap, I set the phone’s alarm, and at the beginning, all was well. [...]
Days 2 & 3
September 25, 2009 – 1:22 pm
These last couple days have been rough. Even though I get my naps in, when I wake up at 3 I have only the energy maybe to lay on the carpet and keep my eyes open. When morning rolls around, though, and I get that nap at 7, I wake up fresh as a daisy, so [...]
Day 1, cont.
September 23, 2009 – 2:28 pm
Catching the midday nap continues to present a problem. I did manage to sleep for about 15 minutes, but I awoke on my own before the alarm even went off. At lunch, I forgot my caffeine pledge and drank a big glass of iced tea. Whoops! Better luck next time.
Polyphasic sleep journal–day 1
September 23, 2009 – 9:41 am
The new sleep schedule is in effect. I turned in at midnight (the girlfriend got home late and convinced me to stay up) and I managed to wake up without an alarm at 2:50.
Admittedly, I was exhausted, and my dreams of using this new free time to write and hit the gym have not yet [...]
Biblical pants humor
September 22, 2009 – 1:43 pm
“I used to wear stretchy jeans,” she said, “but when you try to stitch the rips in them the holes just get bigger and bigger.”
“That’s what you get for building a house on shifting pants,” I replied.
Polyphasic sleep
September 22, 2009 – 1:28 pm
For several years I’ve been interested in the idea of polyphasic sleep, which breaks up one’s daily sleeping time into several shorter nap-chunks. This provides results similar to those of a normal “monophase” sleep schedule, but in two to four hours instead of eight. The most obvious benefit of polyphasic sleep is having more time [...]