Waking up in the morning is a difficult task for some people. The night owls know exactly what i mean. Unhappy and depressed friends understand too. No matter what the situation is, don’t make the mistake of spending few more minutes in bed. Try not to get another 5 more minutes of sleep. Wake up right away or sleep for another 5 hours. Don’t just steal those 5 minutes from something else.
If you manage to get out of bed do 10 push ups. Don’t pee, don’t brush your teeth, don’t drink coffee. Just do 10 push ups before anything else in the morning.
If you excused yourself for those 5 more minutes of sleep, try to make it through the day. Be miserable and cranky and wait till next morning to try the push ups treat.
If you still don’t get it, it’s simple. You need to stimulate your mind of doing something out of the ordinary using by shocking your body with push ups. Although your fitness will improve by those 10 morning push ups, the goal is mental.
Do the push ups or sleep for the next 5 hours. Just don’t do the extra 5 more minutes of sleep.
What distinguishes the new Intro free font from FontFabric is the strongly expressed geometric makeup and structure. The basic letters of the Alphabet like “A”, “O” and “H” are built or based on principles of simple geometric forms like triangles, circles and squares.
In contrast to the Futura font which possesses similar styling, the Intro free font preserves the characteristic sharpened edges of the “А”, “V” and “W” letters even in its bold form.
This time-lapse video shows the full assembly of the first Vega launcher at the launch pad, in preparation for its qualification flight. It starts with the transfer and installation of the P80 first stage from the Vega Booster Storage and Preparation Building to the launch pad, followed by the two solid-propellant second and third stages, the Zefiro-23 and Zefiro-9.
Next step was to add the AVUM — Attitude & Vernier Upper Module — liquid-propellant fourth stage to the vehicle. The ‘upper composite’ — the fairing and payload — was moved to the pad on 24 January and integrated over night.
Thanks to ESA (European Space Agency) Vega will be handling the launch of satellites up to 2500kg in space.
Ryan Gosling pretty much sums up how most men feel when dealing with women. This of course involves a strong dose of romance, complexity and confusion. What would you do if you had to deal with this kind of woman? Not the sexy geek waiting for you in the car checking her phone but the kind of woman after the jump. Continue reading »
DevinSuperTramp does crazy and risky stuff once again. This time it’s the World’s largest rope swing filmed in Moab Utah. They used a Canon 5D Mark II, a Canon 7D, a Canon 60D, an iPhone 4S, a GoPro HD and an Epic Red One camera. Watch the video in full screen and you’ll get it. What DevinSuperTramp does is pretty bad as*. DevinSuperTramp World’s Largest Rope Swing FTW – do not try this at home or whatever.
The 4 hour body diet as explained in the book by Tim Ferriss mainly consists of two ideas: slow carb diet and food combination. If you want to lose weight following the 4 hour body diet you don’t really need to eat apples and drink orange juice all day; that might actually help you gain weight (see Glycemic index).
As explained in the infographic above, avoiding carbs, processed food and combining appropriate food carefully you can lose weight or avoid gaining extra weight while enjoying your full fat rib eye stake. It’s mainly the carbs that make you fat and that extra kick of sugar you had after dinner. Continue reading »
David Weekly, the author of “An Introduction to Stock & Options for the Tech Entrepreneur or Startup Employee” talks about the basic terms of financing a new company and understanding what the heck all this paper work means. If you see this video you will learn anything you want to know about stocks, options, raising funding, startup investments etc.
The 2012 Miss Reef calendar video with beautiful girls around the world. This Miss Reef Calendar video might be NFSW for some people.
From tropical beaches to enchanting caves and waterfalls, Puerto Rico was chosen to host the 2012 Miss Reef Calendar for its wild beauty and rich diversity of landscape. Puerto Rico has been a destination for surf travel since the late 50′s and provides picturesque surf spots that many surfers dream about. The coffee table-style book contains iconic Miss Reef imagery captured by fashion photographer Nicholas Routzen as well as Puerto Rican resident Emiliano Gatica.
When a man describes himself as “Fat bloke at Ogilvy, IPA; The Wiki Man” your radar screen immediately blinks. Meet Rory Sutherland, the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Group UK (according to LinkedIn) and of the most enjoyable TEDx Athens 2011 talks according to my totally unscientific poll later that night. I’d argue he was the best story teller of the event but that’s another story for me to tell.
It’s fascinating to learn from this great story teller and realize the difference between event speakers and performers. I’m sure Rory told this particular story quite a few times. You can tell from his eyes. He rarely looks the monitors in front of him and when he does it’s only for a blink of an eye. Continue reading »
What Richard Koo says is simple: the crisis EU and US currently facing is a totally different kind of crisis from what you read in the textbooks. Japan spent more that 15 years into this shit hole but made it. Maybe it’s now up to the rest of the world to learn from Japan’s recent financial turmoil and solution and try to fix the EU and US economy or maybe not.
What Richard Koo suggests is that cutting budget deficit is the worst thing you can do. Instead, GDP has to grow. Money has to go back into the economy and keep the beast happy until private sector balances are good.
What happened in Japan and what is happening in EU and US is this:
1. Bubble burst 2. Assets lost huge amounts of value 3. Interested rates fall to record lows or zero 4. Private sector paying back debt and cut spending 5. Banks accumulating money from private sector debt payments 6. Cash stay in banks because private sector pays back its dues, doesn’t borrow to spend 7. Interest rates still in record low or 0 but the economy keeps dying
What Japan did was this: the government decided to take all the frozen money from the banks (no5 and no6) and throw them back to the economy to keep the GDP grow.
What EU does is cutting budget deficit, sucking money from the economy rather than pouring cash with stimulus packages. GDP goes south, budget deficit increases etc.
Greece is a special case in the circle of EU for two reasons:
1. The country provided wrong numbers so nobody really-really knows what was going on 2. Greek private sector is messed up for various reasons
In other words Greece consists of a special case of its own crappy proportions, yet the pill given or enforced to taken is absolutely wrong one. Reducing budget deficit is a guarantee of a deep shit solution as is all the structural problems the Greek public and private sector has.
Greece will either fail miserable and default or experience a death spiral of many years to come while losing dignity, property and who knows what else. Before raising your finger and blaming others, remember who participated and supported the Greek democracy and re-elected each and every party the last few decades, maintaining this burning platform.
First video of Richard Koo: Macroeconomic Management After a Crisis is 18min long with great sound but not a very details one.
The second video following is an hour long, with crappy sound quality but detailed explanation of what happened in Japan, what is happening now in the world and how this can be possibly fixed faster and more efficiently. It also includes great bits of information such as why Germany was forced and had to buy Greek bonds (not what you think).
