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The Tennessee Grill makes the best chargrilled burger in the ‘hood, but I’ve often had trouble phoning-in my lo-carb mods over the busy restaurant’s background noise. At their encouragement, I printed out the exact makings of the burger, including a big empty line where they could write in the price (a very reasonable $5.50). They thought it was a stitch, so they put it up it by the cash register.
So now I get the burger I want, and they have a loyal, happy customer. Everybody wins and we're all a little better than before.
Patronize your local stores and restaurants, kids. They’re a lot more human than The Man--and a lot more likely to try and make your life easier.
Living in a cheap student apartment, I have to do my laundry on a coin operated machine in the hallway. This requires a lot of quarters, and keeping them organized can be quite a challenge! That's why I use a small Quick Clamp to hold them securely in place until needed, organized by date of mint, and if the same year may occur, by mint (Philadelphia first, followed by Denver and finally San Francisco, though the latter stopped producing circulating coinage some time ago). In the unlikely event that two quarters are from the same year and the same mint they will be organized according to levels of wear, least worn first.
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How to: Take Control of Your Health in 2012
Courtney Boyd Myers
December 29, 2011
Dionysian indulgences between Thanksgiving and New Year’s are part of la joie de vivre, but they can take a real, long-term toll on our health. Which is why, like every year, we vow to be healthier in the New Year. We promise to be better to ourselves, manage stress more efficiently, eat healthier foods and hit the gym more often.
This Christmas, my 61-year old father gave us quite the scare. After complaining of terrible stomach aches, we drove him to the ER. 12 hours later, he was in surgery to have his gallbladder removed. We spent Christmas Eve in the hospital; and while my mother prayed, I thought about how I could help and inspire myself and the ones I love to have a healthier 2012.
Maintaining a productive health and fitness regimen is hard. And finding great information online about how to do it is harder. But it’s getting easier.
Recently, I stumbled upon Greatist, which is an educated, upbeat and go-to source for all things fitness, health and happiness. The New York City, new media startup was founded by entrepreneur Derek Flanzraich (pictured right), who’s currently training for a half-marathon and has quite a lot to say about his company, and how to stay healthy and happy.
Flanzraich started working on Greatist 7 months ago after CBS bought his former employer, Clicker, in May of this year. ”Fitness and health has been my personal passion for a long time. I always credit keeping fit as my secret to how I am able to work really hard, succeed and still be a fun, positive person,” says Flanzraich. “But I’m the first to admit that I struggle with it too. Our goal at Greatist is to make approaching health and fitness easier.”
Flanzraich moved from San Francisco to New York this summer in order to hire the best possible writers and editors for his site. Greatist now has a staff of 15 editors who all have a personal passion for staying fit, supported by the company’s gym membership benefit, of course.
“I love everything about fitness; I weight train, I run and I practice yoga once a week. I love extreme sports too- everything from kayaking to skydiving. I’ll try anything,” he says.
While New York has proven a more difficult city to stay fit in than San Francisco, Flanzraich says fitness and health is mostly what you make of it, although it is deeply and profoundly affected by the people who surround you. ”Good health is about choices and being aware of what you’re doing,” he says.
To get started, I highly recommend signing up for Greatist’s Daily Email and checking out these TNW top pick articles below:
The 15 Most Inspiring Health & Fitness Images of 2011
How to Live Forever
The Secret to Better Sleep
80 Healthy Recipe Substitutions
Meditation Physically Changes The Brain
14 Health Risks You Might Be Wearing
Life expectancy has risen in recent years; in the U.S., it’s 75 years for men and 80 years for women. So, science and technology is on our side! This year we wrote about The Future of Fitness and Health and recently gave you a complete run down of all of our fitness and health articles from 2011. Now, let’s take a look at some other great companies that will help make centenarians the average age in the future. Make sure to keep these apps and tools on your to-do list for 2012.
Great apps and tools to use in the New Year
ZocDoc
ZocDoc is a free, online service that helps people find local doctors who take their insurance and allows patients to instantly book an appointment for a time that works for them. In most major cities, the wait time for a doctor’s appointment can average more than 20 days (and even higher in January with cold/flu season, New Year’s resolutions and health care benefits resetting spiking demand for doctors). The company, which we covered in June of this year, uncovers the “hidden supply” of doctors’ appointments (including 10 – 20% that are cancelled last-minute). ZocDoc says that 40% of its patients book an appointment within 24 hours; 60% within 3 days.
RunKeeper
While he’s tried dozens of apps and wearable wrist bands, Greatist’s Flanzraich says that RunKeeper is the only mobile app he uses to track his fitness. Flanzraich is using it to train for his upcoming half marathon. Since its launch 3 years ago, RunKeeper has attracted a massive user base: 6 million fitness enthusiasts and counting on iOS, Android and Windows devices. This summer, RunKeeper became a platform and began to build “The Health Graph” which is much like Facebook’s massive “Social Graph”. The Health Graph allows 3rd parties to build applications on top of a massive amount of correlated health data. RunKeeper integrates with modern fitness devices Fitbit and Zeo, Withings‘ Wi-Fi body scale, as well as heart rate transmitters from Polar and Wahoo Fitness and Garmin watches. Auto-Pause is one of my favorite new features on the app.
Fitocracy
Flanzraich loves using Fitocracy to log his weight training routines. Fitocracy is a New York City startup that’s building a gamified social network around fitness. The “fitness social network” requires you to manually enter your work-out in order to gain points and move through the system. People give each other “Props,” that are equivalent to a Facebook Like. The best thing about Fitocracy is that you can log anything, so that I can compete with people even if I’m practicing yoga and they’re lifting weights. Since then, the startup has been admitted into Dave McClure’s 500 Startups Accelerator so expect some big product announcements coming in 2012 like applications with Nike Plus and RunKeeper.
The Eatery
Massive Health, a company that focuses on using technology to better our health, has launched a new app this year called “The Eatery“. The Eatery tracks the types of food you eat, and lets the community decide how healthy you’re eating (or not) as a whole. The app is gorgeous, and just 10 days after launch it had proven itself addictive after one million food ratings. While I use Foodspotting to snap photos of my food when I eat out, I tend to use The Eatery to snap photos of my food that I make myself. This is why I have an extremely high healthy food rating on The Eatery and still have a bit of a belly. Read our full review here.
Withings Body Scale
The Withings WiFi body scale measures your weight, body fat and lean mass. The initial set up takes 5 minutes, then you just step on the scale and voilá! Your measurements are sent to your web or mobile account. By making it so easy to monitor these data points, it’s easier to motivate yourself to make micro-decisions like deciding to walk back home instead of driving, taking the stairs or splitting a dessert.
Withings works with a multitude of devices and applications including RunKeeper, FitBit and Zeo. I use my Withings scale every day. My only complaint? It doesn’t travel well.
iTriage
iTriage for iOS lets you self-diagnose (at your own risk) what’s wrong with you when you’re not feeling right. You can search the app by symptoms, specific illnesses, or start with a particular part of your body and drill down to a potential problem. The app also lets you find doctors in your area who perform certain types of procedures or treat certain types of illnesses. Our TNW West Coast Editor, Drew Olanoff said he recently used iTriage when his friend was hurt at an ice rink. iTriage told him the wait times at the local emergency room. Read our full iTriage review here.
Foodzy
Foodzy is an app that helps keep track of what you eat during the day and rewards your eating habits with badges. On Foodzy, you can follow users to discover new products that your friends like as well as discover which of them have eating habits that are similar to you. The Amsterdam based startup gamifies your food intake by rewarding you with badges for healthy choices, and even marks some more ‘fun’ events like a Hangover badge if you drink too much. Foodzy also integrates with the Withings WiFi body scale. Download it here: Foodzy for iPhone and Android. And watch our interview with the Foodzy founders here.
Earndit
Earndit is a fitness rewards platform, which launched last September 2010 and has 25,000 users. Earndit integrates with RunKeeper, Foursquare, Fitbit, Nike Plus, Every Trail and Garmin to track your daily activities in order to earn points. So now, every time I check-in at the yoga studio, I earn 15 points. Earndit has dozens of reward partners so you can trade your points for perks like online personal trainers, retail gift cards, boxes of energy bars and gym credits. The best part about Earndit is how passive it is. I completely forgot that I synced up my accounts in September and now I have enough points for $100 Bonobo’s Gift Certificates, two free months of Artsicle or free boxes of energy bars just by using Foursquare and RunKeeper.
Lollihop
The new San Francisco based startup Lollihop offers a monthly subscription service of healthy, organic snacks tied to educational online content. Lollihop ships out healthy food much like Birchbox sends out beauty products. It’s a delightful present every month in your mailbox; a package filled with nutritional snacks from brands like Terra, Lara Bar and Kind, hand-picked from ex-Whole Food buyers. For busy moms or lazy college kids, Lollihop is an easy way to get your heath on the right track.
Blueprint Cleanse
I know a lot of people who are weirded out by juice cleanses because they think cleanses are unhealthy or impossible to do. It’s a personal choice but I have never felt healthier in my whole life after doing a 3-day juice cleanse last May. It was a week after The Next Web Conference and my body was in dire need of a detox. I went with the Blueprint Cleanse, which has a simple, well-designed website and great delivery options in New York City. Basically going on a juice cleanse gives your digestive system a much-needed break and forces you to not drink alcohol for a week’s time, which will make anyone feel better after a week in Amsterdam. (If you email me, I’ll send you the recipes so you can buy yourself a juicer and save a few bucks. These juice cleanses aren’t cheap!)
And do you know the single best thing you can do for your health? Hint: It only takes 30 minutes.
In truth, maintaining excellent health and fitness is really hard. Like our TNW Editor Drew Olanoff wrote:
“Better fitness and health is something we all talk about and strive for, but it’s usually the last thing we actually dedicate ourselves to. There are a lot of reasons for that including jobs, family, eating a lot of food, drinking a lot of alcohol, and the list goes on and on.”
The important first strides towards better health and fitness are awareness, education and motivation. I hope this article has made you more aware and slightly more educated. For some motivation, check out this sweet Spotify Running playlist I’ve put together, which I’d love you to add to!
In case you were wondering, the doctors released my dad the next day, so he was able to come home and enjoy Christmas with our family. But what were the first words out of his mouth after 2 hours of surgery and 2 days without food? “Pizzaaaaah. Hot Fudge Sundae….” Looks like I have my work cut out for me in 2012.
Stay tuned for more news on the future of health and fitness and don’t be one of the 43.2 million Americans who ditched their resolutions by February of last year!
Neat trick this that's been around for a while but one I didn't test until now. Throw some grapes in the freezer and, once frozen, they make a great little refreshing summer snack.
You can typically eat these straight from the freezer because the insides of the grapes don't become solid like ice, but have a texture closer to sorbet. But if they are a little firm then a few moments at room temperature will thaw them to the preferred state.
There was a time before photoshop, sometimes you got a bit more creative than just editing on a computer :)
Peace and Noise!
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There are different types of emojis, some are yellow, others are not. But they have one thing in common: if they are used for a long time, they are no longer clean. This results in a bad feeling for the emojis, but also for the computer user. As emojis are very sensitive, you have to clean them carefully. You must not use shampoo or soap, otherwise the emojis will never be able to open their eyes again. Take a glass of suitable size, put the emoji in it and fill it with clean water. If the emoji loses its orientation, take the opportunity to stir the bath water. And everything is clean. It is as simple as that.
Er zijn verschillende soorten emojis, sommige zijn geel, andere niet. Maar ze hebben één ding gemeen: als ze lang worden gebruikt, zijn ze niet meer schoon. Dit resulteert in een slecht gevoel voor de emojis, maar ook voor de computergebruiker. Omdat emoji's erg gevoelig zijn, moet je ze zorgvuldig schoonmaken. U mag geen shampoo of zeep gebruiken, anders kunnen de emojis nooit meer hun ogen openen. Neem een glas van geschikte grootte, doe de emoji erin en vul het met schoon water. Als de emoji zijn oriëntatie verliest, maak dan van de gelegenheid gebruik om het badwater te roeren. En alles is schoon. Zo simpel is het.
An ordinary blender can be converted into a superblender with a simple 20 pound, 15 horsepower, 48V Etek electric motor! Mmmm, tasty margaritas, the easy way! Just gotta be careful of the wires tending to weld to the battery contacts.
The Elfa system mounts directly to the with only a half dozen screws / anchors. The install took less than a day (if you don't count the multiple trips back to the Container Store for additional stuff). The dual bin recycling / refuse container on the end is from Simple Human, and the chairs are from Steelcase / CB2.
After creating the original mind.Depositor with clips and used it for a while, I found a small problem but it bugs me on regular basis. To insert and pull out the cards, it requires force, no matter how small it is, it creates stress. That's why superior Japanese stationery designs often put into considerations how to reduce user efforts. They call the practice "Universal Design".
So I set out to do a simpler version by using two pieces of leather only. I also have a practice to carry a small notepad or Field Notes to capture to-do inputs temporarily before transferring them to GTD index cards. So I'm adding a slit for the notepad and a slit to store extra blank index cards.
On the left hand side of the cover, I can put a notepad by inserting it to a slit, put blank GTD index cards in the pocket and insert a Field Notes.
On the right hand side I can put two categories of index cards (Personal and Work) into different pockets.
There is also a flap used as a bookmark or enclosure.
The whole thing becomes more compact and functional. It requires less effort to use, it is a simpler design with pleasant leather as the only material, I'm so happy with it. I especially like the color contrast of the outer white and inner brown. So check out the sections below and learn how to create your own.
Original mind.Depositor
Download mind.Depositor Index Card Templates
How to create the original mind.Depositor
How to create mind.Depositor 2
Previous cover of mind.Depositor: Lifehacker.com (followup, and Japanese version of it), GTDTimes, Moleskinerie, Koloist, David Allen Co., Lifehacking.jp, Geeks Guide To Productivity
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by combining the earlier lifehacks "wartagging" and "do me done", I've created a lifehackhack that lets me search open applications by tag with a mere glance. Take that, spotlight!
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A juggler, who is juggling email icons. Instant message icons are flying at him from all directions. In the background is a frantic scene from Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.'
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Mark James (modified)
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Here you can see me installing an upgrade to my body's storage capacity (6Gb IBM HD) in preparation for my Spanish final. The drive is formatted with Debian Linux for maximum efficiency in throughput. I'm using the myspell-es package to store vocabulary. The drive is hooked up to my brain through the side of my head.
Tucked in a corner next to the dining table. Sometimes I feel pent up and I unplug the laptop and move to the couch.
The shelves do cast some shadows on the work surface, so we mounted a couple of inexpensive decorative light fixtures from Ikea directly to the wall. The light looks more intense in the photos, it actually is more of a glow because of the heavily frosted glass covers.
To capture indexcads for Cardlog. Indexcard, Digital Camera, Tripod, and Cutting mat.
Nothing special. :)
After jazzmasterson's request.
2006.10.30 23:05 changed title from "Capturing Indexcard".
First week in: I never had a held back lane before, it's worked out nice, this is for items held back due to circumstances beyond my control.
I was drinking a cup of coffee from Starbucks (grande white chocolate mocha with whip) and I didn't notice it was dripping. I ended up with coffee stains on my shirt and pants. The sipping hole on the plastic coffee cup lid was placed over the part of the cup where the paper overlaps - leaving a small gap from where the coffee dripped out.
Moleskine Personal Kanban update 2: Another example of being able to switch it up very quickly, I needed to get organized for a trip out of state with options not related to anything else except the trip, I wanted a separate board. When I was freaking out at the airport wondering if I remembered to pack a particular item, I just pulled this out of my purse, checked the completed lane and was reassured the item was packed. This worked remarkably well.
I wasn't intending to buy that purty red label printer, but I stumbled upon it at Office World (29.- CHF!)
I'm so overly happy about it now I've got it, though.
We have begun work on our yard. This is our personalkanban in progress for our backyard. We drew a rough draft of our yard so that we made sure we were going to tackle everything we wanted to accomplish this spring. Once we have completed each landscaping option they will move over in the done lane. I am trying to bring as much visualization on my pk as possible. I am hoping this will help me for next fall when I am doing pk's for my classroom for children who aren't able to read yet.
You can view the whole Moleskine Personal Kanban set here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swimmor/sets/72157625937171559/with/5657357456/
Moleskine Personal Kanban update: I love the ability to add a new pk based on my needs for a particular day. The first PK I made in my moleskine pictured here: www.flickr.com/photos/swimmor/sets/72157625937171559/with...
I used that for the whole week. This one was needed just for a particular day. It worked great.
I am using this personal kanban without the traditional lanes, I just wrote the words where the lanes would be. I wanted to try it with no visual barriers on my board.
What is Personal Kanban? www.personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/
We bought a new townhome that included a cubby about 5
10" wide that we wanted to use as a home office. We wanted two workstations (PC + laptop) plus room for all the peripherals and supplies. We looked for furniture that would fit the bill for a while, but nothing left enough space to move around.
Bit by bit I am reducing my A4 files with A6 and A7 files with pared down information, extracting the core information from those
articles and books, and writing it on A6 or A7 pieces of paper or maybe file a small, dense article as is ( a job for long winter evenings). The mini files use A7 paper, using the back of old correspondence cut down, and punched with standard hole punch.
There is more on organization tools on my website www.judyofthewoods.net