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02.21.05
Tired, Dead
07:53 PMOK, here's what I don't get about the human body. So, Sunday night comes, and I'm not tired or sleepy. Even though I stay up later than I should, I still can't get to sleep even when I do force myself to go to bed. But I finally do get a few hours of sleep. Logic suggests that this should be enough to maintain an already not-tired me.
Instead, the next morning, I'm way more tired than I was before sleeping. As if sleep subtracted rest. Apparently, sleep does not reduce the need for sleep; instead, sleep is weighed against an expectation of sleep, and if the balance is found wanting, the difference is deducted from your energy level.
It's the worst battery design ever.
It's nearly as bad an idea as President's Day, a "holiday" so useless that no one (outside of car dealerships and department stores, which don't count) ever has plans for it; yet, it's sufficiently official that a fair chunk of folks get it off – not enough to tip the balance so we all get it off, but just enough to inconvenience those of us who don't get it off.
And it's hard enough to keep up with the birthdays of the living; who cares about ancient presidents' birthdays? Especially when they've been squashed into one for commercial expediency?
See? I wasn't this cranky at 1 o'clock last night.
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[Insert obligatory apology for lack of posting/barely credible promise to post more]
But while I've been lax, my friend Kris has been pumping out the content, with much useful and interesting stuff, if you're into web communication, design and culture. Which you are. And it's all on his first home-grown design.
So go there while I get my index cards in order.
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There was this cool study done about human sleep cycles, and it's all based on the sun vs. your body's expectancy of it coming up in the morning.
It was found that if the human body was not subjected to the constraints of time (a woman lived in a "cave room" with no clocks, windows etc. for a month), that one could stay awake for three days on end without even realizing it. Of course, then you'd need to sleep for 24 hours to catch back up again, but it was amazing to hear about this woman reading entire books in a sitting, and having no idea that she had been sitting in the same spot for an entire day. Then she'd get up and excercise or cook a meal or something.
We did a similar "test" in college, pulling all nighters. You could be high-as-a-kite and full of energy, and the *instant* you saw the sun come up, it was as if your body slammed on the brakes.
"WHAT?!? THE SUN?!?! You said it was only 5:30 in the evening! That's it! No more energy for you!"
– Bowler · 12 PM
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– tim · 10 PM
> a woman lived in a "cave room" with no clocks, windows etc. for a month
You mean a casino?
– tim · 10 PM
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