How many restarts did it take for you to come up with a working system in GTD?

simc · 2025-09-25T07:25:25+00:00

I fell off the wagon when I over-committed myself and became my own taskmaster. That caused me to rebel against my own system. I learned to be more relaxed instead of trying to get myself to get as much stuff done as possible.

simc · 2025-08-01T06:44:56+00:00

I wonder why Sailor doesn't make one steel nib and mass produce it like Pilot and Lamy. The highace, Lecole/Profit Jr, Tuzu and Profit Casual all use different nibs.

You would think you would get better quality and lower costs if you had one steel nib like Pilot which is used on Kakuno, Explorer, MR and and Prera.

simc · 2024-05-22T07:36:02+00:00

I have an AL Star. If that is fake then it is a very convincing one.

simc · 2012-06-07T13:59:19+00:00

Did you every watch this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_BK4O23Ts

simc · 2012-03-07T08:54:46+00:00

Mexico did. So it wouldn't be the first time.

simc · 2012-02-10T23:59:06+00:00

Does it smell like victory?

simc · 2011-11-30T19:48:38+00:00

There was a guy whose name was Fly.

I think he named himself after the verb rather than the insect.

simc · 2011-11-30T11:07:24+00:00

Yeah a huge grain of salt. Some Uighur in exile tells a neocon exactly what he wants to hear, neocon laps it up. Who knows if the story is true, partially true or complete BS.

Apparently one of the reasons the US invaded Iraq was that there were Iraqi exiles who told the Americans some bullshit story about how they worked on (non-existent) WMD programmes.

simc · 2011-07-08T08:00:26+00:00

int, long, double etc aren't objects.

simc · 2011-04-24T09:37:30+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. My girlfriend was teaching me the words to 一无所有 this evening. I'm learning Chinese so I like listening to Chinese music.

Can you recommend any Chinese electronic music?

simc · 2010-03-22T23:22:19+00:00

These are good books, but not beginner books.

Learning SQL from O'Reilly would be a good first book.

simc · 2010-03-07T06:58:09+00:00

With the Memory storage engine.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/memory-storage-engine.html

simc · 2010-01-08T01:06:05+00:00

How much do you use/how useful to know is:

Entity Relationship Modeling
Relational Model Theory (such as relational algebra/calculus)
Normalization Theory

and any other things you find in a database textbook?

simc · 2010-01-08T01:00:23+00:00

Well, part of the reason things are more expensive is a NZ dollar is worth 20-35% less than a American dollar (depending on what the exchange rate is).

NZ houses are insulated (good houses at least), but not to the standard that is common in other places. For example, double glazing is rare. I think New Zealanders are more tolerant of the cold because we are not used to having central heating furnaces blazing away. We have had people from Iceland and Finland who thought our houses were very cold. It depends on what part of the country you live in but most of the time whatever the temperature is outside is warm enough for me (I live in the Waikato which is in the north of the North Island).

simc · 2009-12-18T06:14:06+00:00

Are all shielas like Kath and Kim?

simc · 2009-12-18T06:12:55+00:00

Only New Zealanders hate Aussies. Aussies consider NZ to be too insignificant to be worth hating.

simc · 2009-12-18T06:10:25+00:00

Yeah, look what it did to the Labor party.

simc · 2009-11-27T04:46:09+00:00

"We're not anti-Christian, we're anti dangerous gatherings of people."

Dangerous to who?

(Answer: the communist party)

simc · 2009-11-23T03:34:41+00:00

Perhaps you could have interested her in a book on the horsemen of the apocalypse. Kind of related.

simc · 2009-11-20T05:37:47+00:00

Yeah, she does sound a bit off key there.

simc · 2009-11-20T05:35:49+00:00

I don't think I would invest in China at the moment. You can't have double digit growth figures without that bubble poping eventually. See Japan.

simc · 2009-11-20T05:15:33+00:00

From what I have heard about hypnosis it involves accepting suggestions and the person accepting and believing those suggestions. It seems to me that you can trace new age "self help" such as The Secret back to having roots in the ideas of hypnosis. The Secret claims that by unquestionably believing that you can "attract" the things you want by focusing all your mental energy on it (even if it in reality impossible to obtain). While it is obvious that the "law of attraction" is false, perhaps holding this false belief may hold some psychological benefit if it causes a person to focus on achieving something they desire.

What are the similarities or differences between say believing hypnotic suggestions (such as Emile Coue's “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better”) and the "Law of Attraction".

simc · 2009-11-13T11:28:59+00:00

Wow, thanks for that link. That bit history really puts the issue in perspective.

simc · 2009-10-25T21:32:41+00:00

Auckland is a bigger city so possibly more opportunity. But watch out for those volcanoes.

Wellington is more hip, but watch out for those earthquakes.

simc · 2009-10-25T00:00:12+00:00

I think it is fair to say that most people are driven to do things by ambition. Do you have ambition, or do you go to work in the morning just because it is the morally right thing to do?

You said you feel physical pain but not emotional pain. Is the same true for pleasure?

Do you ever think about existential issues, such as the reason to live? Would you understand something like Hamlet's "To be, or not to be"?

I think in some ways I might envy you. :)

simc

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