Posts by Russell Brown
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I can do early mornings if I have to (did a year of 7.45am starts a while back), but left to my own devices it's dinner at 10pm, bed at 2am, and arise at 10am. My most productive time tends to be late afternoon.
I have:
6am-12pm: Ideally, not a 6am start, but I can work consistently and productively through those times if I have to.
1pm-4pm: Are you kidding? Hopeless for writing, okay for meetings, best for the supermarket or idle internet surfing. Siesta!
4pm-6.30pm: The extra productive period I was obliged to discover as my workload rose. Tends to rely on the glass of wine.
7pm-10pm: I've been reading all day. I just don't want to read any more. I want to watch the pretty TV pictures, or get irie and play music while I do the dishes. (I also cook, which heals the soul.)
10pm-??: If I really have to, I'll spend an hour setting up stuff for the morning. I find it much easier to get up at 5am and nail something than to try and press on with it at 1am.
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It's the same thing with McCain. He is trying -- with some success -- to use his forty-year-old experiences to deflect political criticism being aimed at him in the present.
Quite. His team's comeback for the "kitchen table" crack this week was to declare that when he was a POW, he didn't even have a kitchen table!
Gah.
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@James:
According to Michelle back then America was a terrible place, overflowing with misery and suffering, but last night it was a real swell place and she loves it.
Or so Powerline, Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin would have you believe. A reasonable person who actually read those speeches might not see any real conflict between them and the America "not as it is, but as it should be" message of this week's.
Is it really such an offence for a Democratic stump speech to point out that some people in modern America are doing it hard? Bollocks it is. They are perfectly normal political speeches. It's the infantile characterisations of them -- and in the case of the "whitey" slander, the outright fabrications -- that are weird.
That said, there's more god-bothering than I;m comfortable with in some of them.
Anyway, here's one.
And another, to a Women for Obama luncheon.
I guess people can decide for themselves.
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@RB
Caught the last few minutes of Hilary on BBC - looked wild eyed and p-fueled to me.Fair enough. I only saw the first part, where she seemed to have some stature.
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Hillary 's looking pretty awesome: completely in command, leaving no doubt about voting direction.
You have to wonder how things might have been different if Mark Penn hadn't run her campaign.
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Hillary takes the stage for her speech soon.
On CNN they're filling in time by fooling around with an electoral map that's a multi-touch sensing screen. It's like a big iPhone with a few extra gestural features.
It's only about a year since multi-touch was fresh outta the lab, isn't it?
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See, I thought McCain came over as someone barking talking points without really even considering the questions.
I think that's the great divide. I don't mind a politician looking like he's thinking about the answer to a question, or expressing nuance when he does answer -- but I accept that for some folks that's an unforgivable sign of weakness.
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I'm not knocking Obama, but I do find a system where the candidate and their partner are assumed to be a political team somewhat presumptive.
Sure. But that's the reality. The Right-Wing talking Points Machine has been using Michelle as an attack vector against Barack for months. She had to get up there and turn that around -- ideally, without turning herself into a black Steptford wife. She nailed that.
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What's wrong with your back?
Oh, just an unpleasant and cascading series of strains and spasms. Nothing serious. Except when I move.
Unfortunately, it looks like my ace new ergonomic chair ain't arriving till next week.
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But seriously, one of the ways we've learned to avoid stress the younger boy (on his part and ours) is to acknowledge his sleeping patterns. He has to go to bed around around 10, but we can't make him sleep (sometimes he'll read webcomics in the dark on the EEE PC), and we're not obliged to make him get up early in the mornings since we withdrew him from school.
Which I fancy makes us sound like bad parents. But it has worked.
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