Traffic, obsession and happiness

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An unhealthy obsession?

An unhealthy obsession? 12/25/2003 12:49 AM
An unhealthy obsession? The Internet is full of websites dedicated to a rabid fan's obsession with a celebrity. These websites often reveal their owners' fantasies of sexual encounters with said celebrity. But it's not often the object of such sexual desire ends up being a well known public figure from the Clinton administration.

Prime Obsession

Prime Obsession 12/24/2004 12:37 PM

Pay Phone Obsession

Pay Phone Obsession 05/13/2004 03:41 AM
You might remember pay phones. They're those public boxes on the street with telephones in them that people used to make calls in the age before mobile phones. Okay, so I'm only joking a bit, but even as phone companies struggle to figure out what to do with pay phones, (suggestion: turn them into WiFi hotspots!) there are some who are obsessed with the idea of calling random pay phones and talking to whoever picks up. For almost a decade, one man has been putting together a huge database of pay phone numbers. Of course, that database has actually turned out to be quite useful. People trying to track down callers (the article lists a mother finding her runaway daughter and a man tracking down a stalker among other things) have used the website to identify the location of a pay phone caller. Of course all this would be much easier if the phone companies published a directory of pay phones - but they don't see any reason to (despite the stories of people this self-built directory has helped).

Mountain Lion Obsession

Mountain Lion Obsession 06/17/2005 04:54 PM
According to a briefing by Palo Alto city naturalist Deborah Bartens, the one strange attractor for mountain lions is Obsession cologne by Calvin Klein....

Magnificent Obsession # 1872

Magnificent Obsession # 1872 02/17/2004 01:02 PM
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Obsession Continues In New Preview

Obsession Continues In New Preview 12/31/2004 01:51 AM
Dark Horse has posted a new 4-page preview of Star Wars: Obsession #3, in which Durge gets Anakin angry. You really shouldn't get Anakin angry...you won't like him when he's angry.

Kevin Kelly's obsession continues

Kevin Kelly's obsession continues 12/02/2003 06:30 AM
Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools

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Star Wars: Obsession Details

Star Wars: Obsession Details 07/19/2004 07:52 PM
Starting this December, Haden Blackman and Brian Ching will present Star Wars: Obsession, a 5-issue limited series from Dark Horse Comics. All the main characters from the Clone Wars multimedia adventure will appear in the series, including Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Yoda, Padmé Amidala, General Greivous, Durge, and Asajj Ventress. This crossover-in-a-crossover series will also have ties to Cartoon Network's micro-series and Del Rey's Labyrinth of Evil novel, as Anakin becomes a Jedi Knight and the biggest bloody Bospor in the galaxy. Click here< /a> for the full report, including the covers for the first two issues.

Traffic Responsive Driving Direction Can
Be Your Immediate Answer to High Fuel
Cost And Traffic Congestion Problems

Traffic Responsive Driving Direction Can
Be Your Immediate Answer to High Fuel
Cost And Traffic Congestion Problems 12/24/2004 12:43 PM
Los Angeles, CA (12/21/2004): - Traftools through www.routeinform.com releases Traffic Responsive Driving Directions plus Real-Time Traffic Maps to serve all nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. [PRWEB Dec 23, 2004]

eNom, Inc., the #1 Reseller Registrar,
Announces the Launch of Traffic Vista, a
Website Traffic Analysis Tool

eNom, Inc., the #1 Reseller Registrar,
Announces the Launch of Traffic Vista, a
Website Traffic Analysis Tool 09/01/2004 04:06 AM
eNom, Inc.(http://www.enom.com) launches Traffic Vista, a comprehensive website statistics service which enables users to monitor and analyze their website traffic. The service allows users to know exactly where their visitors are coming from and what search terms their visitors used to reach the users’ website. [PRWEB Sep 1, 2004]

Last Stop for Teen's Tram Obsession
(Reuters)

Last Stop for Teen's Tram Obsession
(Reuters) 04/18/2005 10:14 AM
Reuters - An Australian teen-ager described by police as a good kid with an obsession for trams reached the end of the line Monday when he faced charges over the theft of two trolley cars in the southern city of Melbourne.

Traffic-UK.com Delivers Targeted UK Web
Traffic To Client Websites

Traffic-UK.com Delivers Targeted UK Web
Traffic To Client Websites 06/15/2004 02:12 AM
The key to driving an Internet business is to create an effective marketing strategy that generates actual visitors. Traffic-UK.com guarantees to deliver 10,000+ UK web visitors, targeted by sector, to any page on a client’s website. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2004]

Last stop for Australian teen's tram
obsession (Reuters)

Last stop for Australian teen's tram
obsession (Reuters) 04/18/2005 12:12 AM
Reuters - An Australian teenager described by police as a good kid with an obsession for trams reached the end of the line on Monday when he faced charges over the theft of two trolley cars in the southern city of Melbourne.

Happiness Is...

Happiness Is... 04/29/2004 12:22 AM
Recent acquisition: Which brings our household data capacity to a quarter of a terabyte. I've long claimed that 5 petabytes is all I'll ever need, for life. Which provokes bemused expressions on the faces of those around me. No one...

The how and why of happiness

The how and why of happiness 04/16/2004 01:06 PM
Long article about happiness from The Guardian. I was especially interested in the part that reported that people, on average, are least happy at age 42, because they realize they aren't going to be rich and famous like they thought when they were in their twenties. After 42, though, they stop worrying about it, and start enjoying life more.

'People start out in life pretty certain that they're going to end up like David Beckham or win the Nobel Prize,' says Oswald. 'Then, after a few years, they discover it's quite tough out there - not just in their careers, but in life. Unsurprisingly, their happiness drops.' The good news is that the downer doesn't last. According to Oswald, if you trace the trajectory of most peoples' happiness over time it resembles a J-curve. People typically record high satisfaction levels in their early twenties. These then fall steadily towards middle age, before troughing at around 42. Most of us then grow steadily happier as we get older, with those in their sixties expressing the highest satisfaction levels of all - as long, that is, as they stay healthy.

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"Against Happiness"

"Against Happiness" 06/26/2004 08:34 PM

Happiness is....

Happiness is.... 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

reliving my past. When I opened Rhapsody this morning, Cake by the Trash Can Sinatras was staring me in the face. Now that's how you start a day!

And if you're not a Rhapsody subscriber, you can listen to some free MP3 downloads from the TCS site (there are some videos, too). If I have a chance to install iTunes at work today, I'll see if the album available there, too (I imagine it is).

"...ever stopped to think and found out nothing was there?"

So-called Google arms race proves
media's anxious obsession

So-called Google arms race proves
media's anxious obsession 05/19/2004 04:17 PM
The story gets interesting when rumors of Google's response met and fell in love with a programming bug in Gmail. Users starting reporting yesterday that their 1GB of email quota was now adding up to 1 terabyte.

In Pursuit of Happiness

In Pursuit of Happiness 09/22/2004 12:27 PM
One Fool experiences more than two hours of lost pre-party productivity in a Barnes & Noble quest.

Inexplicable happiness

Inexplicable happiness 01/07/2004 04:33 PM
Do I exist if I don't blog? I have been quiet for a couple of days, because there frankly has not been much to say. I'm using my final vacation days, and not really much of interest has happened - nothing that I would say out loud in public anyway :).

I did manage to see Helmiä ja Sikoja, a rather hilarious Finnish movie about a bunch of guys who owe someone a whole lot of money, and thus decide to make a singing star out of their 10-year little sister. I wasn't expecting much of it, but somehow the fresh performances of the cast, who obviously do have some comedic talent, made it a rather memorable experience. And the song the little girl sings is absolutely beautiful. Got a tear in my jaded eye :).

Though, I did have these flashbacks to some other movie, where also four handsome brothers land in some financial difficulties and use crime and deception to wiggle their way out of it... Oh well.

Grr. Work tomorrow. A catastrophy is waiting. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air.

The Happiness Broker

The Happiness Broker 12/30/2004 04:43 AM
Before: Hey, we need to talk! Don't you remember me? From school? Well I sure remember you! Look, let me buy you a coffee. Surely you have a few minutes to chat. A lot has happened since those days.

The Keys To Happiness

The Keys To Happiness 09/15/2004 07:49 AM
Microsoft's wireless ergonomic keyboard gives those weary fingers a rest, while Logitech builds a better mouse using laser beams. By Peter Lewis, Fortune (via MyAppleMenu)

Money can't buy happiness

Money can't buy happiness 09/27/2004 08:53 AM
David Pescovitz: A new scientific study reveals that (shocker!) a nation's economic fortitude is not as tied to the well-being of its citizens as previous believed. The results of the study--prepared by researchers at the University of Illinois and University of Pennsylvania--appeared in the latest issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

"It has been assumed that money increases well-being and, although money can be measured with exactitude, it is an inexact surrogate to the actual well-being of a nation. In a 1985 survey, respondents from the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans and the Maasai of East Africa were almost equally satisfied and ranked relatively high in well-being. The Maasai are a traditional herding people who have no electricity or running water and live in huts made of dung. It follows, that economic development and personal income must not account for the happiness that they are so often linked to."

Instead, the authors propose that a population's "engagement, purpose and meaning, optimism and trust, and positive and negative emotions in specific areas such as work life and social relationships" should be considered when measuring the strength of a nation. Link

The intolerable happiness of being

The intolerable happiness of being 05/14/2004 06:09 PM
Just had the perfect dinner with a beautiful woman in a fabulous restaurant.

Bliss.

Happiness Is the Best Medicine

Happiness Is the Best Medicine 04/19/2005 07:02 AM
Happiness and health are often linked, but are people healthy because they're happy or happy because they're healthy? Several new studies shed light on the connections between biological processes and the psyche. By Rowan Hooper.

Bluebird of Luggage Happiness

Bluebird of Luggage Happiness 07/09/2004 06:22 PM
A conceptual contest winner envisions Bluetooth luggage tags: The tags on your luggage and that you carry signal when your luggage is near. Conceivably, this concept could be expanded so that you would register your luggage and your tag: without both parts, you wouldn't be able to leave with the bags. [link via Gizmodo]...

Daedalus - How not to buy happiness -
The MIT Press

Daedalus - How not to buy happiness -
The MIT Press 08/07/2004 03:52 PM
How not to buy happiness

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Dynamic Happiness: Flash and PHP

Dynamic Happiness: Flash and PHP 08/22/2002 08:22 AM

Happiness is a warm puppy

Happiness is a warm puppy 04/19/2005 09:17 AM

Sleeping with Bo

Mizuka took this awhile ago. Just found it on my camera.

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Money can buy happiness (Reuters)

Money can buy happiness (Reuters) 01/09/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters - Money, it seems, can buy happiness after all -- but only if you've got shedloads of it.

What price happiness? (Reuters)

What price happiness? (Reuters) 06/29/2004 04:07 AM
Reuters - You don't need millions to be happy. At The Happiness Institute in Australia, a couple of hundred dollars may do the trick.

Happiness is a Constricted Anus

Happiness is a Constricted Anus 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
The secret of a long, happy, cancer-free life, according to Hiroyuki Nishigaki, author of How to Good-Bye Depression: "Constrict anus 100 times in succession > 3-5 minutes. 100 times in total a day is OK if you are busy." (03-05)

EZ Traffic From Google And Yahoo Traffic

EZ Traffic From Google And Yahoo Traffic 06/01/2004 06:37 PM
WebProNews,KY-3 hours ago ... exposure. By optimizing the graphics on your own pages (see below) you will likely increase the overall ranking of your page at Google. ...

Ruby the Elephant Monitored for
Happiness (AP)

Ruby the Elephant Monitored for
Happiness (AP) 04/30/2004 07:50 AM
AP - A judge gave a Tennessee zoo six months to report back on the social life of an African elephant named Ruby.

One Recipe for Happiness? Run 262 Miles
(Reuters)

One Recipe for Happiness? Run 262 Miles
(Reuters) 03/24/2005 11:47 AM
Reuters - Pondering life on his 30th birthday and finding something lacking, Dean Karnazes staggered home from a night out drinking with friends, put on his gardening shoes and went for a run. A 30-mile run. All night.

happiness and cheer, families draw near

happiness and cheer, families draw near 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

According to The Man, I need to walk for about a week before I can start running again, so I've been dragging my lazy ass out of the house for the last few days, and reminding my muscles what it feels like to do more than move from the office to the living room and back. This hasn't been as difficult as I thought it would be, because I'm super motivated to get back into shape, and the weather in Los Angeles has been just amazing. Right now, it's 71 in my backyard, and it has been near 80 for almost a week. I have also taken the boredom out of walking by listening to America: The Audio Book by Jon Stewart and the writers from The Daily Show. It's awesome, and I highly reccommend it.

This morning, I added two miles to my walk, which took me past Nolan and Ryan's elementary school. The streets around the school were lined with cars, and I paused my iPod long enough to hear a chorous of children singing holiday tunes as I passed the auditorium. It reminded me of a blog entry I wrote a few years ago, which didn't make it into Just A Geek. The original is in the archives, but rather than cut-n-paste, I did a little . . . uh . . . cleaning up, because, well . . . uh . . . wow.

Hope new readers like it, and hope returning readers don't mind the reprint.

I am Jack's Holiday Program
Originally published on December 20, 2001, edited on December 15, 2004

I just got back from watching Nolan's holiday program at his school.

Nolan is in 5th grade this year, so it's the last elementary school holiday program I'll probably ever see, and when I realized that this morning, I felt immense regret for all the years I attended because I felt obligated to be there, rather than truly looking forward to the show.

For years, Anne and I would arrive at the school moments before the show began, and we'd end up standing in the back, with all of the other parents who overslept, or took too long for breakfast, or had to grab a quickie once the kids were at school. But this year, Anne got there nice and early, and grabbed us two seats with a great view of the stage.

Unfortunately, our great view was tainted a little bit by the horrible people who surrounded us. To my immediate right, I present the old woman who kept farting loudly throughout the entire show. I will not deny that there was more than a little amusement value in listening to them reverberate off the metal cafeteria chairs, but they weren't just the loud "hey, pull my finger" farts. They were the really horrible, lingering, "holy shit, man! Was that you?" ones. Behind us to the right, please enjoy the two little kids who did not stop talking the entire time, except when their mother told them that a good way to stay occupied would be to stand on the floor and bang on their chairs in time to the music. And finally, say hello to the kid immediately behind me, who had one of those little kid colds, and coughed and sneezed throughout the whole performance. I especially loved it when he sneezed all over the back of my neck.

Once the show got started, though, all the annoyances that surrounded us insignificantly faded into the background, as we focused our attention on the stage. All of the classes were great, and the kids were just adorable. The theme this year was Peace and Diversity, which is very funny, considering that I live in the most reactionary, demagogic Republican area in the freakin' world. (All of my neighbors had those offensive "Protect Marriage" signs last year, when the homophobes were trying to make it certain that marriage should only be between men and women. Because those marriages always succeed. And we have to keep the gays from soiling that sacred, unspoiled institution, right?) Sorry. mini-rant. I'm back now.

Nolan's class performed the Christmas carol "O, Tannenbaum," which meant that I spent the last five weeks helping Nolan learn three verses in German, so I could sing along. It was easy to pick out the other 5th grade parents, because they were singing too. Nolan was so adorable in his red sweater and Santa Claus hat, and he held his head high as he belted out, "O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum, wie treu sind deine Blätter!" He did all the same things on the stage that he did when we were learning the song: when he sang "Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit" he clenched his hands into tiny fists and looked at the ceiling. When he sang "Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit" he punctuated the three syllables in wenn es schneit with little punches in front of his chest.

I am certain that I, like all the other parents, was able to pick out and isolate my child's voice from the chorus, and I am equally certain, as were the other parents, that my child had the sweetest voice, and turned in the most adorable and memorable performance that has ever graced the cafetorium's stage. Or any cafetorium's stage, for that matter.

My absolute favorite moment was watching Nolan's subdued Joe Cocker as he sang,of course . . . but coming in a close second was when these kids read poems about winter. There were 4 kids up on the stage, all in their holiday finest, who each read a different winter-related poem. The first kid read "The Snowman" by Shel Silverstein, and I'm embarrassed to report that I can't recall what the middle two kids did. But the last kid, who looked an awful lot like Dewey from "Malcolm in the Middle", who wore a checkered shirt and non-matching clip-on tie (it was so damn cute, I couldn't stand it) recited, from memory, a poem by elementary school staple Jack Prelutsky, which was quite an impressive achievement, especially for a third grader. This kid did a great job, and when he was done, he proudly scanned the audience, clearly looking for his parents. When he found them, shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "Well, that's about as good as it gets", and picked his nose and ate it.

Nolan starts Middle School next year, and I realized this morning how much I'm going to miss not just these performances, but all the things that are part of elementary school: the macaroni art work, the turkey on Thanksgiving that's made from a little handprint on brown paper, the mobiles at Christmas that are made from sixteen inches of yarn, green construction paper cutouts that look like trees if you squint, and fifty pounds of glue.

I know that they'll both be in high school before I know it, and then they'll be off to college . . . but wherever my stepkids are, I'll always have these memories to keep me company each holiday season.

Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope you get to spend some time this season with people you love.

Happiness is a Warm Mobile Suit

Happiness is a Warm Mobile Suit 12/19/2004 03:51 PM
My Zeta Gundam box set has come in.

Private Life, Public Happiness and the
Howard Dean Connection

Private Life, Public Happiness and the
Howard Dean Connection 01/07/2004 03:12 PM
With Dean, the campaign is somewhere... out there. It is not at headquarters any more, but it talks to headquarters. This is a de-stabilizing premise, and a reporting nightmare. But Samantha Shapiro in the Times magazine this week had a notion.

Yahoo! finance push reveals secret of
male happiness

Yahoo! finance push reveals secret of
male happiness 12/03/2003 02:57 AM
Revolution Dec 3 2003 2:16AM ET
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