Reading Books

Make a stack of books you want to read. Buy books you want to read and put them in this stack, just so you have them and can grab them when you want to.

Make a stack of books you are in the process of reading. Use 3×5 blank index cards as bookmarks. Feel free to write in books, unless they are rare or special, or you plan on selling them. You will get much more out of a book if you let yourself write in it. Write the date you started it, things you were thinking of when reading certain pages, whatever.

The Paper

Subscribe to the paper.

Until e-ink becomes cheap and standard and big, paper is still a better way to read long articles. If you happen to have the money, it is a good investment to get yourself a subscription to the New York Times, or Wall Street Journal, or whatever.

Organize the paper.

If, for some reason, you don’t get a chance to read the whole paper from the day before, you should still read the front section on the day you get it. Same with the business section. After that, though, arts, sports, travel, science, or whatever should be kept in a “to read” pile. You can get to those whenever you get a chance.

Take out each section so that instead of being folded into each other they are laying on top of each other. A, B, C, D, and so on. When finished reading you should throw each section of the floor face down. Be careful not to leave the paper on a white surface because some ink may stain. If there are any articles you want to keep either cut them out and make a scrapbook, or make a bookmark for yourself from the web version. Come the end of the week, recycle your paper. Also, find out if any of your neighbors or friends would like to read the paper, and you can give it to them every day and let them recycle it.

For reading, you can lay the paper down on a bed, big table, or couch. Also, do the old fashioned hold up. This can get messy, and build your anxiety. The big table approach is better.

For each article, read the headline, and if interested read the first line, paragraph, first four paragraphs and so on. As soon as you are no longer interested drop it and move on. If you read everything in the New York Times it would take you a few hours every day. That’s unnecessary.

Attention! New Dog System: Don’t mind dogs

Pet Dogs. Pet sit a dog. Take dogs for walks. Love dogs. Don’t mind dogs.

Yes. This is truth.

You just have to see that a bad dog is only bad because of its upbringing. All it needs is affection, exercise, and discipline.

Watch the Dog Whisperer and all will become clear.

Linux

Install Linux on your computer. It’s rad.

The advantages to this are it’s free, and smooth.

Automatic Transmission

Driving with an automatic transmission, make sure to use all 4 gears of your car for going uphills and downhills and using the engine to act as a brake. I believe the advantages of this are increased fuel efficiency and less wear on the brake.

Umbrellas

Umbrellas. Umbrellas are the most useless tool. You never have one when you need one. When you have one and it stops raining then you have this wet rag. Forget umbrellas, just let yourself get wet.