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What will be your New Year Resolutions?
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Q: What happens when four WASPs find themselves in the same room?
A: A dinner party.
(Score: 4, Funny) by turgid on Tuesday December 31, @04:59PM
I'm going to buy the winning one this time.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Ingar on Tuesday December 31, @10:04PM (4 children)
Because that's what a gentleman does.
Understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Hartree on Wednesday January 01, @02:02AM
Because that's what a lawyer does.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday January 05, @08:16AM (1 child)
Step 1: Throw a beanbag at her head and run away.
Step 2: Hide behind a tree and peek out at her, trying to hide a goofy smile.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Courtship complete.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday January 05, @08:16AM
Whoops, should have used <ol> . You get the idea.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 01, @05:50AM
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday January 02, @01:31PM (7 children)
How do you get exercise at the keyboard? I don't think typing is consuming enough calories or exercising the body in any meaningful way.
(Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Thursday January 02, @03:14PM (5 children)
When a standing desk isn't good enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a__6yuHWVMA [youtube.com]
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(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Thursday January 02, @03:58PM (2 children)
Sitting or standing isn't really that big a difference. I guess the treadmill keyboard could do things. It would probably also increase injuries many folds as things on the screen(s) could be so distracting that you fall over and hurt yourself -- I have seen such things at a gym with people running/jogging on treadmills and someone comes up and starts talking to them from behind; they turn; and then fall in a oddly brutal way.
It's probably best to split the two. Keyboard time, non-keyboard time. Not combining them into one.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Thursday January 02, @06:25PM
I think these are just for slow pacing but I never tried any of these myself so I wouldn't know really.
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday January 05, @08:18AM
Avoid that by stopping walking, let the treadmill carry you off the back and jump off. If you land on them, it was probably their fault in the first place.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pTamok on Thursday January 02, @04:29PM (1 child)
There's a blog/video somewhere of someone with an (exercise-) bicycle powered laptop and light. If you don't pedal, you run out of power, and doing things that take a lot of cpu means you have to pedal harder. The laptop battery allows you to take short breaks, but you need to keep the average output at or above consumption, which is not easy.
(Score: 3, Informative) by pTamok on Thursday January 02, @04:31PM
Here we go:
https://www.pedalpc.com/ [pedalpc.com]
It's an interesting read
Acer have subsequently done something similar
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/acer-ekinekt-bike-desk-powers-your-laptop-with-workout/ [digitaltrends.com]
https://liliputing.com/acers-ekinekt-bike-desk-lets-you-power-your-laptop-by-pedaling/ [liliputing.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10, @01:23PM
What's the sound of one hand clapping?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday January 02, @03:32PM (1 child)
My current sig says it:
My New Years resolution for 2025: DON'T MAKE A NEW YEARS RESOLUTION FOR 2025! That way, I can't break it.
This might finally be the first year I don't break my new years resolution.
The age of men is over. The time of the Orc has come.
(Score: 5, Touché) by mhajicek on Friday January 03, @09:17AM
Oops! You just broke it!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2, Touché) by pTamok on Thursday January 02, @04:22PM (3 children)
My New Year's resolution is to not make any New Year's resolutions.
Have I made one, and have I broken it as soon as it is made?
(Score: 1) by pTamok on Thursday January 02, @04:25PM (1 child)
I read DannyB's posting after I posted mine. In my defence I have made the same paradox for many years now.
The psychology of New Year's resolutions are interesting. Gym businesses depend on people making resolutions and breaking them quickly.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Friday January 03, @07:43PM
I have also.
The age of men is over. The time of the Orc has come.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 05, @01:46AM
When you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday January 02, @08:46PM (2 children)
It's a pointless exercise. You want to quit smoking? Why wait until the end of the year? Lose weight? They have drugs for that. Exercise more? Just fucking DO it!
New Year's resolutions are a pointless crowd-following activity. I sometimes jokingly say I resolve to not stop smoking pot and drinking, or I resolve to eat every day, etc.
A man legally forbidden from possessing a firearm is in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. Have a nice day.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 05, @01:51AM
Pointless or not, many of our smaller projects seem to get out of procrastination mode around the end of year break from work.
I had a giant useless (for the last 6 years) old thing taking up space in our bedroom, these past weeks I got it thrown away, built some shelves and moved the not quite useless junk that had accumulated on the floor onto those shelves, in the process getting rid of half that pile too because it seems that around here when a pile starts forming, everybody tends to ignore it except to add more to it somehow under the delusion that somebody else will somehow take an interest in cleaning up the pile, now that it is even more of a pain to deal with than it was before.
So, anyway, I do stuff like that, the wife gets inspired to clean up some of the stuff in her domain, there's this end/start of year movement in the Marie Kondo direction that inevitably fizzles at some point... you've gotta turn it around sometime, or else end up on an episode of Hoarders.
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(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday January 10, @01:29PM
Yeah but a lot of people work better with deadlines and post-Christmas guilt helps, at least the first few times.
Nonetheless, I think the universe should start making Easter resolutions. Far easier to keep up with whatever regime when the days are getting longer and warmer (at least here in the Northern Hemisphere).
(Score: 2) by Snospar on Saturday January 04, @12:26AM (1 child)
I've kept this Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook S7110 around for years (it still has it's proud Windows XP sticker) but it's 32-bit only and even Linux is starting to drop support. Weird things like a lack of OpenGL mean it's less and less useful. I kept it as a backup should something else fail but an old Raspberry Pi can easily fill that void.
At the other end of the spectrum, I have a Steam Deck (and reading glasses), it's 2025 and I'm literally living in the future. Disclaimer, I used to read a comic called 2000 AD as a child and well, we're not quite in that future. However, I can play ZX Spectrum games on the go with a colour screen... the future is now.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday January 05, @04:52PM
During my recent bedroom re-org I started storing old laptops on a shelf kind of like books (notebooks?) One is a MacBook Pro from 2006, display goes non-functional after warming up. Another was a top-of-the-line Sony Vaio from 2008, it's still rockin' the Windows 7 as hot as it did for James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Cuba. There's a more recent HP that's perfectly serviceable but just superseded by later models.
All of them require more "cleanup" labor than I'm willing to do before letting them go on to another life. I should probably just drive a big nail through the hard drive of the MacBook and let it go in the recycle bin (the battery on that one was removed long long ago), but the others feel "wrong" sending perfectly serviceable devices to be scrapped, or scorned by our friends' children as the "old junk" that they really are.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 05, @06:01AM (2 children)
To start drinking heavily - especially after Jan 20th.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday January 08, @01:27PM
Hey now, a diet program consisting of pizza, steak, and beer is still a diet resolution!
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 09, @06:06PM (1 child)
Get a job.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday January 09, @06:36PM
I, and I am sure many others here, will wish you all the best in finding employment again.
I am not interested in knowing who people are or where they live. My interest starts and stops at our servers.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 10, @04:23AM
None of your fucking business.