18 Tricks to Teach Your Body

1. If your throat tickles, scratch your ear!

When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Now, as an adult, you can still appreciate a good body-based feat, but you're more discriminating. Take that tickle in your throat; it's not worth gagging over.

Here's a better way to scratch your itch: "When the nerves in the ear are stimulated, it creates a reflex in the throat that can cause a muscle spasm," says Scott Schaffer, M.D., president of an ear, nose, and throat specialty center in Gibbsboro, New Jersey. "This spasm relieves the tickle."

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ฤดูที่ฉันเหงา

ฤดูที่ฉันเหงา (Flure)

ในชีวิตจะมีหนึ่งฤดู ทำให้ฉันนั้นรู้สึกคิดถึงคนหนึ่งคน
เธอคนนั้น เราพบกันและต้องไกลในวันที่ฝนพรำเช่นวันนี้

ฝนตก ยิ่งนึกถึงทีไรก็ยิ่งชุ่มฉ่ำอุ่นในหัวใจ
แม้ว่าคืนนี้อากาศจะหนาวสักเท่าไร
ก็ขอฝากลมฝนช่วยเป็นสื่อให้เธอรู้

ว่าฉันคิดถึงและยิ่งคิดถึง
ในคืนที่ฝนโปรยเราอยู่ด้วยกันตรงนี้
ฉันเหงาเธอรู้ไหม ฉันหนาวจนแทบขาดใจ
ไม่มีอ้อมกอดจากเธอที่รู้ใจรอคอยเธอกลับมาหา
เฝ้ารอจนฝนซา สุดท้ายก็ว่างเปล่า

ยังจดจำทุกสิ่งที่สวยงามทุกความรู้สึกก่อนนั้นที่ใกล้กัน
ในวันนี้ ยังเฝ้ารออยู่ที่เดิมในคืนที่ฝนพรำไม่ไปไหน

ฝนตก ยิ่งนึกถึงทีไรก็ยิ่งชุ่มฉ่ำอุ่นในหัวใจ
แม้ว่าคืนนี้อากาศจะหนาวสักเท่าไร
ก็ขอฝากลมฝนช่วยเป็นสื่อให้เธอรู้

ว่าฉันคิดถึงและยิ่งคิดถึง
ในคืนที่ฝนโปรยเราอยู่ด้วยกันตรงนี้
ฉันเหงาเธอรู้ไหม ฉันหนาวจนแทบขาดใจ
ไม่มีอ้อมกอดจากเธอที่รู้ใจรอคอยเธอกลับมาหา
เฝ้ารอจนฝนซา สุดท้ายก็ว่างเปล่า

ฉันคิดถึงและยิ่งคิดถึง
ในคืนที่ฝนโปรยเราอยู่ด้วยกันตรงนี้
ฉันเหงาเธอรู้ไหม ฉันหนาวจนแทบขาดใจ
ไม่มีอ้อมกอดจากเธอที่รู้ใจ

ฉันคิดถึงและยิ่งคิดถึง
ในคืนที่ฝนโปรยเราอยู่ด้วยกันตรงนี้
ฉันเหงาเธอรู้ไหม ฉันหนาวจนแทบขาดใจ
ไม่มีอ้อมกอดจากเธอที่รู้ใจ

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wise words

Love like you've never been hurt. Work like you don't need the money. Dance like nobody is watching.

Tags VS Folders

OK, this is my next article following this one.

First I promised that I will write about "how human organize information" ,but now I feel that is too big a subject. (meaning: I'm lazy...)

So, instead of that, I thought I will write about "how we use computer to organize information."

Then I realized I have written about it months ago. ( Title: "File Management" )

Oh well, this time I will just "rewrite" that in a clearer way then.


OK, let's start.


Files in computer

We can think of File as a unit of information.
As every computer user should know, computer organizes files in folders.
Actually, this really comes from how we organize papers in the real world.

Look here for the comparison:


We didn't change the concept at all when we evolves from paper to paperless,
and it is quite sad because since we are on computer now, we can use a much better concept to organize information.

And so comes tag.



Tag - a natural way to organize information

This "tag" concept is generally the same as how brain organize information: by association.

Each thing that we remembered has a "tag" or "label" or "keyword" associated with it.


For example:

What do you think of when I say "father"?

I would think of "parent" , "warmth" , "male" ,and "money." This is my tags.

It is very likely that, if I play a guessing game, and someone says all of this keywords to me, I will probably think "father" is an answer.

In other words, tagging is a way to search for information. And this is fast, because it is the way our brain works.

Do you see now how "tag" is better than "file and folder" concept?


I'll give you another example:

You received a word document from your friend "John" last month, and stored it in some folders.
Now you want to find it, but you can't remember the name of the folder, and you for sure can't remember the name of the file ...

In folders world, you might have to look at each folder, one by one, till you find it.
In tags world, you just search by "John", and "last month (ex: april 2005.)"

To really understand what I'm saying
I strongly recommend you to see this demo. (it's 28 MBs, but you'll love it.)
the demo is about how we could organize picture and media files in a new way. watch it.

Screen caps of the demo:



OK, this is getting a little bit long, so I will end here. Next time... I don't know what I will write next, so keep watching this blog until then.

The Growing Importance Of Librarians

Oh yes, the librarians. They are pretty important nowadays.

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They hand out library cards,
they whisper "Shhhhhh!" at you for being so loud in their librarys,
and sometimes they forbid you to borrow books "just for fun."

I'm kidding. What I mean is that we're depending more
and more on librarian-like skills.

And What does a librarian do, exactly?

They organize information.


As you might already experience, We're getting bombard by a huge amount of information everyday. I felt that when I filled up 120 GB harddisk. I felt it again when I realized I hadn't read 6 books that I bought 3 month ago.

The problem now is not how to get enough information,
but how to find the relevant ones.

And that comes from a good organization of information.

For example, Suppose you want to find out about "buying adult diaper".

You might try the following :



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T.V. - You sit for hours, waiting for commercials about adult diaper. There may be 2 or 3 times a day. The information is incomplete and also exaggerated for advertising purpose.


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Yellow Pages - You try to find companys that sell adult diaper. The options are: search by name (alphabetical order) or by group ( like "car" or "insurance" ) . I'm not sure if they have a group called "adult diaper."




Google - You type "Buying adult diaper" in the search box.
This is the results.



These, for me, is like a way of organizing information, a library of sorts. There are T.V. library, Yellow Pages library, and Google library.

As you can see, T.V. is the worst of all three, mainly because its constantly pushes irrelevant information to us. you can't tell it what you want to watch, it tells you. ( although the situation has improved since TiVo came out.)

Yellow pages is better, but searching is difficult and unnatural, as there are only 2 ways of searching: name and group.

Google is much better, and is the best of all three.
By just typing the words in,
it finds the buyers directory, an article about the industry,
and a buying guide.

The links is all in the first page. Notice that it filters out about 84,290 of 84,300 links.



You may argue that this is not examples of ways of organizing information,
it's ways of searching. But, you see, it is because
a particular way of organizing information (such as by alphabetical list),
that enables a particular way of searching (by alphabetical order.)


Well, this is it, for now.
On my next article, I'm going to talk about how human organize information, why I hate folders, and how google is going to be the biggest information company in the world.


( This wraps up my first "serious" article. Please comment so I know how I can improve it or maybe why you disagree with me. Feedbacks is important! )

Gmail turns 1 today

I love Gmail so much... it's fast, reliable, spacious, and lastly it's cute -- just look at the pic below. I love this kind of informal atmosphere...

oh well, Long live Gmail!

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My Amazon Wishlist

It's Here in case anyone wants to buy me a book(s?).

The children of GOD

This morning , a barber shop in my neighbourhood has been robbed. The owner, who resisted, has been shot. He's just an old man...

The robber is presumed to be a drug addict.


This.make.me.so. mad.


How can anyone do anything like this?

With all these advanced technology, why is our conscience still in the stone age?

I've seen the dark side of human nature today, and it won't be forgotten easily.


F**k them, May they receive twice all that they did to others.

Holy Shi.....!

Awesome awesome game engine - Unreal Engine 3.0 !

Screen Shot and Description

Demo Videos ( You'd better off with the Quicktime ones. )

When the game that can use this (and to the max) comes out, I gonna buy a new Graphic card!( or may be a new PC 'cause my current one doesn't have PCI-Express...)

GIF アニメ ?

great gif animation at www.gjae.net

it's a little hard if you don't know japanese, but
with some thinking, you should be able to navigate to the good stuff.

Ideas from the book "Knowledge and Decision"

Do you think we have more things to learn nowadays than in the past?

Surely any single person today would know more than ..say -- a caveman from 300 years ago, right?

I used to think like that. I was wrong.

It depends on the kind of knowledge you know and also the kind of "society" you're in.

Let's assume that you are a mathematician.Your normal Geek.

You know a lot about math, and a little in physics and all those related disciplines. But outside that area of knowledge, you only know like any average person knows.

I would say that you knowledges are quite "specific."


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On the other hand, if you are a caveman, you have to know about survival stuff. Which kind of mushrooms are poisonous, where to find a shelter, how to make a spearhead, how to use herbs to cure yourself, and so on...

Infact, there're a LOT of stuffs you have to remember if you would like to be a survivor.

The caveman knowledge is kind of like the jack of all trades' , you know almost everything, but not deeply. It's "general."


This is also the reason our society now is much more advanced than our cavemans friend.

Because cavemans live seperately, Each caveman must have approximately the same kind of
knowledges to survive. They can't depend on other cavemans to get food, to provide shelter, or to heal their wounds. They have to do ALL of that themselves.

As a consequence, their society have a lot of "duplicate" knowledges.


We, on the other hand, tend to specialize. And that makes a huge difference.
We can rely on others
to get food (arrived ready to eat at the restaurant or supermarket),
to provide shelter (we hire others to build our home),
or to heal our wounds. (doctor!)

This leaves us to have knowledges in other areas which the others will rely on. No duplicates.

We have spread the knowledges -- we have "economized" them.

Very nice photoblog, updates daily..

[daily dose of imagery]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Loneliness could kill.


More precisely, loneliness could make you feel so bad that you end up killing yourself.


Whether it is physical, or emotional, it is painful.


I just felt so lonely today and had that split-second thought of disappearing forever. Luckily I have changed my mind.

Very Often the group we feel most emotionally attached to, and emotionally dependent upon -- is our family. It is the home that we can always go back to rest, to heal our wounds, or to ask for an advice.

or for just an understanding.


Today I just feel like a stranger with my family. They don't know me anymore.

And that make me feel lonely, very lonely...

Drawings

My Drawings posted at conceptart.org
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=382517&postcount=2