Tuesday, June 29, 2010
I've found the most cathartic massage point
The hip bones right above the butt.
I've been massaging this small spot repeatedly with a variety of results from burping to bowel movement, but it always feels incredible. You can tell its working when unpleasant things want to escape from your body.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Internet videos - the party killer
This is a public service announcement.
I know that internet videos are awesome. They allow our atrophied attention span to view things that are too weird, particular, offensive, or just awesome to show up on TV or in the movies. They make a work day go so much faster and I love to receive them in my mail box.
But there is something that needs to be said and acknowledged:
Internet videos can be a real buzz kill.
We have all been there. We are having a good time at a party or casual get-together and someone says, "Oh, you have to check out this awesome video!" Suddenly time slows down as everyone else in the room start to get anxious. They don't really want to see the video, no matter how awesome or funny, but they don't want to be a dick. Someone gets on the computer and the conversation goes to a dead stop as they try to remember how to find the video on a message board or blog that they frequent. When you finally see the video, you are practicing your phoney appreciation for when he asks you what you've thought. You don't want to make the person feel bad, but two minutes ago you were in a good mood and now that mood is gone.
Don't get me wrong. I've been that guy. I have shown the video that no one appreciated but me. I've also shown videos that amazed people. But its a gamble.
Sometimes what is funny in your cubicle at 11 AM isn't funny around your friends at 9 PM. Sometimes you don't have the objectivity to realize that the video is specific to your interests.
Generally speaking, I'd say it is good advice not to show people internet videos in person. If the thought occurs to you while at a party, e-mail it to them the next day. Chances are it will be much better received.
I know that internet videos are awesome. They allow our atrophied attention span to view things that are too weird, particular, offensive, or just awesome to show up on TV or in the movies. They make a work day go so much faster and I love to receive them in my mail box.
But there is something that needs to be said and acknowledged:
Internet videos can be a real buzz kill.
We have all been there. We are having a good time at a party or casual get-together and someone says, "Oh, you have to check out this awesome video!" Suddenly time slows down as everyone else in the room start to get anxious. They don't really want to see the video, no matter how awesome or funny, but they don't want to be a dick. Someone gets on the computer and the conversation goes to a dead stop as they try to remember how to find the video on a message board or blog that they frequent. When you finally see the video, you are practicing your phoney appreciation for when he asks you what you've thought. You don't want to make the person feel bad, but two minutes ago you were in a good mood and now that mood is gone.
Don't get me wrong. I've been that guy. I have shown the video that no one appreciated but me. I've also shown videos that amazed people. But its a gamble.
Sometimes what is funny in your cubicle at 11 AM isn't funny around your friends at 9 PM. Sometimes you don't have the objectivity to realize that the video is specific to your interests.
Generally speaking, I'd say it is good advice not to show people internet videos in person. If the thought occurs to you while at a party, e-mail it to them the next day. Chances are it will be much better received.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Meditation
I'm looking into meditation as a solution to some of my problems... or at least a relief... I hope.
I used to meditate in my teenage years... when I could find no other way to deal with my feelings. This was before I had done any drugs. When life and my thoughts became too much to handle, I would just concentrate on returning my mind to a blank slate. I was pretty good at it too.
One thing about meditation is that it lets your subconscious loose and before long, you don't know if you are talking to yourself or receiving information from... elsewhere. Call them the voice of God, spirits, or the left hemisphere of the brain... It can get a little weird and intense.
It's funny how such a simple thing as clearing your mind has so many techniques and philosophies attached to it, but I like Swami Vivekananda said:
I used to meditate in my teenage years... when I could find no other way to deal with my feelings. This was before I had done any drugs. When life and my thoughts became too much to handle, I would just concentrate on returning my mind to a blank slate. I was pretty good at it too.
One thing about meditation is that it lets your subconscious loose and before long, you don't know if you are talking to yourself or receiving information from... elsewhere. Call them the voice of God, spirits, or the left hemisphere of the brain... It can get a little weird and intense.
It's funny how such a simple thing as clearing your mind has so many techniques and philosophies attached to it, but I like Swami Vivekananda said:
"Meditation has been laid stress upon by all religions. The meditative state of mind is declared by the Yogis to be the highest state in which the mind exists. When the mind is studying the external object, it gets identified with it, loses itself. To use the simile of the old Indian philosopher: the soul of man is like a piece of crystal, but it takes the colour of whatever is near it. Whatever the soul touches ... it has to take its colour. That is the difficulty. That constitutes the bondage."
Small aggrevations
I wake up every morning in a cold sweat with my pillow soaked. What's with that? Do I have some bad dreams that I can't remember? Is my comforter too warm? Is my pillow drooling?
Also, I have a stress pain in my neck that would have impressed the Spanish inquisition... and they are probably the only ones who could work it out.
Also, I have a stress pain in my neck that would have impressed the Spanish inquisition... and they are probably the only ones who could work it out.
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