How to Think Like Me

Not sure how scientifically based these recommendations are - but I must admit that the 4 or 5 really truly scary-smart people that I have known all posessed at least some of the qualities

Excellent resume tips

Some great formatting tips here to help make your resume stand out

 

 

Fantastic article about convincing your boss buy you stuff

I love Ramit's riff here

To Build a Secret Door

Such a cool idea, I'm thinking about how to incorporate w/ a wine cellar....

Play your favorite NES games online!

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/gaming/play-your-favorite-nes-games-online-206073.php

Oh... so much time wasting

Oh Yngwie

I've been addicted to this song for the last couple of days. A bit hard to watch, and I have to agree that Yngwie does seem like a bit of a pompus prick... but there is absolutely no questioning his ability to shred with the best of them

The 25 most difficult questions

The 25 most difficult questions


looking for a job? great things to consider on beforehand!

Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com - The Torrent Search Engine

An awesome torrent search engine: Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent

How to perform the perfect golf swing - VideoJug

I admit it, I'm a crappy golfer.

This video has an excellent 9 minute video about developing your swing.

Tips on Value Stream Mapping

Some great tips can be found here on value stream mapping... very useful if it's something you ever do.

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"

What an incredibly strange fellow Tom Waits is...

Excellent XP installation help

Ever get called to fix your mom's/friend's/neighbours/grandmother's/aunt's/etc/etc/etc 's computer? Here's two tips that may save you a lot of time

How To Save An Hour (Or More) On XP Installs
XP's No-Reformat, Nondestructive Total-Rebuild Option

Are you kidding me?

When I see stuff like this, I want to just quit playing guitar all together... insane

Richard Kuo's Personal Blog : Optimize your life #8 - Read faster

I tried one the online reading speed tests that are linked in this article and scored a 486 - though I think I rushed a little bit.

This is fantastic advice though, actively trying to increase the size of the pipe through which you take in most of your information.

The author makes the very good point that many (most?) really successful people are heavy readers - there's no question that being able to more quickly and effectively is a very powerful skill.

Emurse your resume - Lifehacker

So sweet, what an awesome idea

Fortune: The new rules - Jul. 11, 2006

Tearing up the Jack Welch playbook.... very interesting reading

Phone Trick Page

Phone Trick Page

Lots of possibilities here...

Mother Tongue Annoyances ? How to Handle Tough Questions from an Audience

Fantastic advice on how to deal with stumpers in a public speaking situation...

Mother Tongue Annoyances :How to Handle Tough Questions from an Audience

Howstuffworks "How Fireworks Work"

I think one of my ideal jobs would be creating these

Howstuffworks "How Fireworks Work"

Sudoku puzzles: how to solve

Interesting look at strategies for doing these puzzles

Sudoku puzzles: how to solve

How to avoid lame morale events

I got stuck with organizing our 'function day' earlier this year.... what a nightmare. There some great ideas over here about now to NOT have a lame morale event.

2006 Commencement Leadership Lessons

There's nothing like a great commencement speach. The best one I've attended was given by Canadian actor/musician Tom Jackson at Trent University. It was an extremely meaningful and motivating talk.

Here are some other great ones

Time to quit?

Time to quit?

This is some fantastic advice.

A Lean Budget?

Lean Blog: A Lean Budget?

love it

Buying a car: Real Fighting Chance

Thinking about buying a car? Give this a try...

Live Simple: Radical tactics to reduce the complexity, costs, and clutter of your life

Live Simple: Radical tactics to reduce the complexity, costs, and clutter of your life

I love it

Action Girl's Guide to Living

Great advice - what was the last thing YOU created?

Eluta: Jobs in Canada - Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Social Work, Public Service, Government Employment and more

Eluta spiders it's way through indivdual company job postings and gives results that include a map of the location... very cool!

Historical Sounds

Awesome collection of sound clips from important moments in history

Tom Waits is awesome

Can you find another LIVE Tom Waits show?

captain?s dead ? tom waits 5.26.00 warsaw, poland

The Tarleks, as in Herb

Even if you're not a fan of the Rheostatics - you can't deny the wickedness of getting Frank Bonner to re-apply the plaid...

If you like Star Wars....

Hilarious

7 Days to Tool...

Getting pretty excited for the upcoming show at Hummingbird Centre... can't wait!!

Lean Supply Chain News Update: Extended Lean Can Make Your Supply Chain Hum

Lean Supply Chain News Update: Extended Lean Can Make Your Supply Chain Hum

Drink the Kool-aid......

Comfortably Numb

More amazing music videos - this one from David Gilmour's recent AOL session. His closing Comfortably Numb solos have been KICK ASS this tour

EDIT - Looks like AOL got wind of this one and removed the YouTube feed.

Instead, here's a crowd-captured video of his performance at Massey Hall in Toronto on April 9th (the night before I saw him):

So Awesome

Derren Brown is amazing - here is one of his insane tricks

How to Exercise an Open Mind - WikiHow

WikiHow is a pretty cool site worth checking out if you want to kill some time.

This particular artcile about keeping an open mind was very interesting

More Tool videos..

There is a ton of awesome Tool videos on YouTube - here are some good ones:

KICK ASS

HOORAY!

It's out!! Yes, I'm aware that it has been "available" for a couple of weeks now, but after five long years we finally have a new official tool album!

The packaging for 10,000 Days is awesome - do yourself a favour and go buy this album NOW.

Bleeding Tree

Back in March I was out in the Rouge valley. It was still cold - but it was sunny and above freezing that day.

I came upong a tree that had fallen and crashed into another, it looked like it had been that way for quite a while. Anyway, the frozen sap dripping out of the suspended truck as it thawed was pretty neat looking





 

SWEEET

WOW WOW WOW if you were to be so inclined as to wish to hear the new single from a band mentioned below.... look here

EDIT - ok so now the whole album has been leaked....

Hey! New Furnace!

Yeah I know that it's not really that exciting. Is that Lennox guy a real guy? Is his face just the company logo?

Not exactly sure why I'm posting about this. I guess that after the amount of freaking money the thing cost I just think I need to brag about it to somebody...

Sure works nice though!

David Gilmour: Night 14: Toronto

David Gilmour: Night 14: Toronto

A kick ass show - venue, songs, band, seats (4th row centre!)... everything just perfect.

One of those times when you just can't stop looking around because you want to remember every single quantum of detail forever. It's almost like it'll last forever, but it just passes so fast....

It's so awesome when you have one of those milestone lifetime events - you are AWARE of the significance while it's happening.

As Bidini often sings: "I was there!"

YouTube - TOOL - Lateralus / Triad

If you know anything about music - you like Tool.

This is a pretty awesome performance from the tour supporting the Lateralus album.

I think the playing speaks for itself. Needless to say, I'm quite looking forward to their new album.

Study Skills Library - Academic Skills Center - Cal Poly

As I'm currently in the home stretch for my P.Eng exam and looking down the tube for the PMP sometime in the fall, thought I'd share a little piece I found on something I've found quite challenging: Procrastination

University for me was a lot of assignments (pretty sure it was 2nd semester in 2nd year that I had 7 due each week!) that were required to be handed in on regularly spaced intervals.

While there's no doubt that the ability to deal with this onslaught and maintain sanity (not to mention staying productive without much sleep) has proven useful in my post-university life, - there is no question that topics and formats I've encountered since, usually of a less technical nature, require a whole different set of muscles in order to study. I can count on one hand the number of times in my Engineering Physics education that i had a full-blown 'reading' assignment - i.e. read chapters 12 through 47 by tomorrow, bring a report. Every single formalized course I've taken since then, however, has had some component of "read, digest, recall-on-command".

Anyway, I guess I really should be studying.....

How to have a 36 hour day

Love it - good advice

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?

Not that I'm cynical about the whole thing... but those little stones that every girl must have sure do have a pretty crazy history

It Happened

So it's been 3 weeks now and I keep forgetting to put this up here - we got engaged on March 4th. The amount of stress and worry that goes into an event such as this can be quite large - especially if you're trying to pull it off without getting caught.

Quite an educational experience as well - I found the hasty introduction to the diamond business quite ... Enlightening... (see next post).

In the meantime - here's a thumbs up to that special someone who was kind (or impaired) enough to say yes.

R

p.s. some pictures from our mini-trip that week


T-MINUS 2.5 days: Does she look at all suspicious?




T-MINUS 2.4 days: Who me? Still trying to figure out how to actually propose?



T-PLUS ~180 seconds: Well, she hasn't reconsidered yet - maybe she's in shock (or the wine)

Best way to learn guitar - Guitar Noise Wiki

Obviously I have already mastered many of the aspects of being a rock god.... Now just need to get better at guitar and I'll be all set

Guitar Noise Wiki

Brick by Brick: Lego's New Building Blocks

Brick by Brick: Lego's New Building Blocks

this is insane....

Hack Attack: How to install a motherboard and CPU - Lifehacker

Hack Attack: How to install a motherboard and CPU - Lifehacker

Krist needs this

Creating Passionate Users: How to be an expert

Creating Passionate Users: How to be an expert


It's been ~15 years and I'm not yet past the "kicking ass threshold" for guitar yet.... sheesh

The New Entrepreneur: Bruce Judson's Go It Alone! The Secret to Building A Successful Business on Your Own

I remember taking an "Introduction to Entrepreneurship" class in Grade 11 (I created a business plan for a Guitar Store in Muskoka). From the point of view of Bruce Judson's free ebook , the entire class pretty much does not apply anymore...

From the intro:

Today, the conventional wisdom about how to start a substantial business is just plain wrong. Now, you don’t need to raise a lot of money first, you don’t need a team of employees, and you don’t need limitless financial resources. This book details how in today’s business environment it is easier, and more possible, than ever to build a significant business on your own with no employees.

Poka Yoke (or lack thereof) in action

Amen - Every day I seem to find something that would be appropriately detailed on this site...

Was delighted to find this one as I can relate personally - I actually own the mug and can attest that getting a noseful of coffe once or twice on the way to work is pretty difficult not to do.

Fat Old Sun

Despite your first impressions, this is not conclusive proof that the Canadian government is performing atomic testing in Prince Edward County. Nope, it's just the dimming of the day as Sam flys a kite on the West end of Wolfe Island..

You may have noticed a recent spike in activity over here.

My buddy Krist is starting to publish some of his photos over at Life Edit

I'm using this as motivation to try to share more of mine - though he has a nicer camera...

Who's Smarter? (part 2)

With the whole Nobel Peace Price thing and all, I'd have to say Mike Pearson is a clear winner on this one... 

Who's smarter?

Personally, my money's on Socrates - but I'm pretty sure Jen can take Plato... 

Making Prime Rib - Part 3

 

Making Prime Rib - Part 2

 

Making Prime Rib - Part 1

 

Seth's Blog: The Reason

Seth's Blog: The Reason

Another piece of wisdom from Mr. Godin... quite an incredibly persuasive guy

Psychology Today: Procrastination: Ten Things To Know

Psychology Today: Procrastination: Ten Things To Know

read this and then stop wasting time

I Will Teach You To Be Rich: 10 things about yourself that would surprise you

I Will Teach You To Be Rich: 10 things about yourself that would surprise you


think about it

Web of Knowledge

Web of Knowledge



nice list of torrnets

Presentation Zen: Where to get quotations for presentations?

Presentation Zen: Where to get quotations for presentations?

Gold mine list of sources for quotations... awesome!

R

Download of the Day: Restoration - Lifehacker

Download of the Day: Restoration - Lifehacker

Another awesome program that you can run from your usb thumbdrive - a quick little data recovery app

R

Geek to Live: Lifehacker Pack - Lifehacker

Geek to Live: Lifehacker Pack - Lifehacker

Great list of free software, without a couple of the duds that Google included on theirs...