http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:13:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK.. This is cool. Heard about it just last week from a college student I know. Bacon-cooking alarm clock by Matty Sallin.  Read the post at Make: Online where they have all sorts of cool stuff you probably never thought of.. but now that somebody has... you want to make one, ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2010/how-to-get-up-in-the-morning-second-idea/ I have learned that if you that if you take your own bags to the grocery store, even if you only pack their bags into them when you get to your car, it takes A LOT fewer trips to get all that crap (er, food) into the house. AND the worst ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/reusing-grocery-bags/ Ian King posted on his FaceBook page this morning this quote by Thomas Jefferson: Delay is preferable to error. Ian says it's like being able to "press the 'pause button.'" And that makes for a much "different life." His friend, Nancy Robinson, worried, in her comment to Ian, that delay might let ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/delay-is-preferable-to-error/ Once upon a time, long long ago, my husband and I had a party. Actually, we've had pretty many since then. But I digress. At the time of that particular party, we were in the middle of doing planning  a lot of projects around the house. We had the list of all those ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/making-a-plan-and-sticking-to-it/ Funny how one of the most viewed posts on my blog is one called "How to get up in the morning." I thought it a bit of an odd fluke til I read over at MakeUseOf.com that THEY also noticed it's something people search on a lot. So they reviewed an ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/how-to-get-up-in-the-morning-redux/ There’s a word for those who have it worse... A friend sent me this info… today… on the day it was posted at Wordsmith.org. perendinate PRONUNCIATION: (puh-REN-di-nayt) Meaning: verb tr. : To put off until the day after tomorrow. verb intr.: To stay at a college for an extended time. (Personally, I like that the day after ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/procrastination-redu/ It seems like the more complicated the decision the more people look for some easy answer. Wanna lose weight? Couldn't there just be one food you could eat that would fix it all? Buy a car? Some simple calculation to make the right decision? A couple of years ago (actually way back ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/decision-making-and-math/ People of my generation (including Ted Forth of the comic strip, "Sally Forth") are pretty universally bummed that when the century turned, we did NOT have flying cars. But today IEEE Spectrum reported from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas the phone to make Dick Tracy proud! LG has a prototype ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2009/wristphone-can-flying-cars-be-far-behind/ More news on the decision making front. According to the Brain Mysteries site on December 27. ... Alex Pouget, associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, has shown that people do indeed make optimal decisions-but only when their unconscious brain makes the choice. "A lot of the early ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2008/decisions-dont-have-to-be-conscious/ Sometimes making a decision depends on doing some research, making lists of pros and cons and most certainly on knowing what the constraints of the decision may be. When you have what you need, making decisions is much easier than when you don't. Our old TV is starting to make noises ... http://www.mapthefuture.com/blog/2008/new-tvs-and-deciding/