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Intelligence and Atheism

Those who are intelligent must tread a fine line to achieve success because the average majority status quo will ridicule, belittle, and humiliate them because of their own insecurity.

If you are intelligent you must be wary of the status quo average people, for they will ridicule, chide, and try to injure you; the [...]

Change in Content Posting Frequency

For many, many months I have been interested in revamping and/or decreasing the content of this blog.  As mentioned in this post frequency will likely decrease due to the presence of other important projects.

Have You Visited the 200 Countries of the World?

Okay, there’s around ~200 countries.

Wikipedia puts the list of sovereign states at 205. This about.com page that lists the capitals of every independent country puts the number at 196. Finally, world atlas confirms (what is most likely to the best answer) that their is no correct answer but the number ranges and varies with 189, [...]

Welcome to a New Year – Site Changes and Making Resolutions

The content of this site may drastically change and it is very likely that the frequency of posting may diminish.  All the hundreds of posts on the Validate Your Life network will be always available for free, but subsequent posts, updates, and content may diminish and/or change greatly.  This site will link to any other [...]

Why I love (and hate) my Bike

First off, I seem to attract a lot of wankers who (possibly out of jealousy of not having one of their own and marveling at my ingenuity in saving hundreds and hundreds on petrol cost, having no car insurance costs, and brilliantly no car maintenance costs, not polluting the environment, getting glorious fresh “top-down” scenic [...]

Schedule Your Calendar with Structured TimeFrames and TimeScapes

Introduction

“For just at that moment the light came over the hill, and there was a mighty twitter in the branches. William never spoke for he stood turned to stone as he stooped; and Bert and Tom were stuck like rocks as they looked at him1.”

That is an excerpt from possible the greatest fantasy [...]

The Tognetti Post: Utilize the Skills of Sherlock and “Intuitive Urges” To Stabilize Success

This post is about one of the greatest soundtracks of all time (paired with a very quality and decent film and I dislike most films, so that’s saying a lot), and applying and using the Skills of Sherlock to “meta-observe” one’s intuitive urges, actions and interests to resultingly make more keen and prudent choices [...]

The Preventive Wholistic Doctor

[audio: http://www.validateyourlife.com/vylab/vylab_20110816_wholisticdoctor.mp3] Edify on the go! The aim and fulfilment of discovering name, identity, and home is a journey only done by the heroic.  

I identify myself as a preventive wholistic doctor (some people would call me a productivity coach, however, and, indeed, I am a Certified Professional Coach).  Back to the preventic wholistic [...]

Religion: The River Vein of Evil

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Edify on the Go

Disclaimer: If you have a problem with Atheism, you might as well save yourself headache and not read this post. If not, then read on!

I Reread this scathing article and must say, a very necessary and vicious diatribe.  I really liked how the the author illuminated the [...]

Talking to Myself for 45 Minutes | A Voice and Photo Journal – July 26, 2011

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Voice Journal – 2011, July 26

Just a voice journal of me talking to myself for slightly longer than 45 minutes.

Unfortunately, this is explicit in a few areas.  I drop the f-bomb maybe 4-5 (that’s four to five, not 45) times.  I will try to cut down on those, but considering that [...]

Winning at Roulette

I’m not professing to be a master of this game at all!! I’ve played it less than ten times in a casino, but am just sharing my story of winning, my interest in it (given it’s french origin and decidedly mathematically clean design), and probable distaste for casinos.

 

Seeing that liked this game [...]

Why and How “The Machinist” is a Brilliant (Film) Story

Backstory Saw this randomly when I was finishing up 4 year college degree almost a year ahead of time. I had zero expectations, do not recall how I discovered it, and was instantly astounded by its psychological depth and more interestingly its emphasis on self-morality and self-justice in very alternative way. In hindsight, this film [...]

Items I’m Loving (or have been for years) Recently

Things I’ve Loved Recently (Bold Indicates an Apex Productivity Item; Underlined indicates an apex productivity item AND having used for over three years) that I have liked for Years

Writing Utensil – Fisher Clickable Spacepen. Excellent and exceptional for everything writing related. No other writing utensil comes close. I have been using this same exact [...]

Productivity Mastery Tricks of the Trade: Airport Security

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3.4oz/100ml CONTAINER. Meaning the amount of fluid is not much of a consideration, but rather the container of that fluid must meet the 100ml/3.4oz regulation. Your container must meet those regulations. If you have a 4oz container that’s only 1/3 full, the annoying TSA people (who are really more invasive than securing) INSERT_LINK_TO_MY_POST may [...]

Unique Things I Do with my Mind for Success

“Download and Cognitively Install” code by listening to hours and hours of audiobooks on a topic (pua, code, math, neuroscience, nautical astronautics) installing a cognitive operating system.  It’s like my brain is a hard drive, I just install what I want on it.  Occasionally reformat it (wipe it) and then install more things.

Sleeping Two Hours A Day

Introduction

I have experimented with polyphaisc, and modified sleep patterns for years.  Am interested in structuring that.  The longest I’ve stayed up consistently was 85 hours in October 2009.  I was doing something quasi-dangerous so that necessitated focus which kept me alert, which kept me up.  But I usually just stay up and then [...]

Osama’s Body

Strange they dumped Osama Bin Laden’s body in the ocean.  They could’ve burned it; I don’t think burial would have been proper since his death was so victorious and earth burial usually connotes preservation.  I mean I was just reading about different forms of death-related grief and the (mangificent) book indireclty mentioned that sometimes death [...]

Saturday Photo Journal – 2011, March 26 – Field Work, Tractor Auction, Real Estate House-Gandering

Yeah this is technically a week later it was last last saturday, but here’s that photo journal.

I hadn’t seen the dog , nor mom for awhile, so it was good to see them.

Field Work and Tractor Auction

Didn’t do as much fieldworkthis weekend. Twas a wee bit chilly. I did jump across [...]

The Kitten Anthologies: Beautiful and Awesome things I’ve Learned (and am Slowly Learning) From my Awesome Kittens.

Cat Professors “On Cats” Stay. The word “Stay”, apparently now having been completely rewritten to be synonymous with phrases like: “Go”, “Disregard me!”, or “Pretend that I’m invisible and do what you’re doing!” (actually I looked up “Stay” in the Cat dictionary and,indeed sure enough, the word isn’t even listed), is [...]

Amusing Sunday Round-Up of Links: Gold, Moustache, Atheists!

The floods in Australia prove to be auspicious as the water-rush sparked a gold rush with panners raking in as much as $2,500/day!  That’s one happy gold-panner. Also, Although there exists zero competition in this specific genre of musical limerick-ness, here’s a great “Moustache Song”!  Shakespeare, Errol Flynn, Klein, Einstein, and Mario are quality! [...]

The Joys of Life (according to myself a dozen years ago)!

I just found this

rummaging through an old drawer of room in which I spend some of my fondest childhood summers in Michigan. It was a valentine’s card from my dad to me. I must’ve been about 11? (12? 13? Hopefully not 14 or older!) judging by my writing. What’s funny is This list was [...]

Michigan Field Work Photo Journal Day & NLP Health Baseline

Okay, today rocked and was really awesome and exciting.  There was some rubbish in Libya but that, being man-made rubbish brewhaha doesn’t interest me. The tsunami did and does interest me greatly; and still does, but that all aside, I loved doing some productive field work in my dad’s field.

The evening before i got [...]

Cigs to Be Banned from Sale in England!

This England regulation on cigarettes will be saving one lung at at time!

“Cigarettes will disappear under the tobacconist’s counter from next year in England under new measures announced on Wednesday.

Only temporary displays in “certain limited circumstances” will be allowed under the plans unveiled by the Department of Health.

The regulations will come [...]

The Kindle 2 is less Functional than a Doorstop

I can’t bloody stand the Kindle 2!! It’s a piece of Shit!!!! It’s bloody awful!! White (shows dirt), CLUNKY AS HECK, and the hardware interface?? Obscene,  2-year-old toys have more complex interfaces.  The buttons on the kindle 2 are just heinously dumb.  I absolutely can’t stand the 2 also because of it’s clunky size. [...]

Great French, Aussie, & British Proverbs

As the aussies say: “Good on ya, mate!”  or proverbially ”The more you know, the less you need.” – Aboriginal Aussie Proverb.

As the French say: “Bonsoir, tres bon, monsieur.”  or proverbially “On ne change pas un équipe qui gagne.” (One does not change a winning team) and”Vaut mieux prévenir que guérir”  (It is better to prevent than to [...]