Handing it down to a person who then won't be buying the lower end product from the same manufacturer? Doesn't sound like a win to the person building/selling the products...
I've done pretty much the same thing my entire life - much to my parents chagrin during my early day... Ever since I was born, 3 hours 15 minutes, almost to the second... No observed adverse effects, I've done several sleep studies both in college and a few since I moved up near Yale... No related health issues, no problems - I don't feel tired, I function normally... Unlike one poster suggested, I don't work a boring, repetitive job - well, *sometimes* being a contract database programmer gets repetitive but it's not burger flipping... I made my way through college holding done a full time job, 20 hours a semester 2/ a 3.9 (4.0 in major) and left with a MS in Math and a MS in Comp Sci... Now, in my 40's, I sometimes take a little nap out in the hammock on Sundays (being a heathen has it's perks!) but at no time in my life have I ever *needed* to take naps unless I had a really nasty flu or some such illness... I have an ex-wife who contends I'm crazy, but a shrink who is more inclined to 'just a little weird' so...
The doctor I'd seen @ Yale said it wasn't totally unheard of, but certainly rare... I think someday they'll find a way to reduce the amount of sleep the average person needs...
A couple of interesting (to me anyway) side notes, I fall asleep withing minutes of lying down and according to the sleep studies, enter REM within 30 minutes of going to sleep...
take email that isn't obvious spam yet fails the challenge-response system and put it in a Junk folder of some sort where users can 1 click white list the sender...
This is pretty much how my account with mailblocks.com works... Though it allows obvious spam in, I scanned the PENNDING folder every day for the first few weeks and white listed everyone that I didn't trust to figure out the C/R (grandma, etc)... I can also add email to the white list from the web interface... Mailblocks also offers
"throw-away" email addresses (they call them TRACKERS) that you can subscribe to lists through... I have noticed in my PENDING folder that there are several C/R cycles going on, most specifically with "LuckyDeals" where they send me multiple "Unsubscribe successful" emails and mailblocks re-challenges them and they again send a "Unsubscribe successful" email and so on and so on - some days to the tune of 20 or so "Unsubscribe successful"'s... Not perfect, but it's cut my inbox form 150-200 emails every morning down to the 15-20 a day I actually want... I'd have to second the opinion of the gentleman who suggested that they allow approved emails to be forwarded as the email scanner I used doesn't like IMAP accounts... I'd also like to see mailblocks send challenges back to people with a "from" address that matches the originally-sent-to address instead of the mailblockers.com one (I use one of my vanity domains for almost everything forwarded to the mailblocks domain i.e. e-bay@eccentrics.us for e-bay, verizon@eccentrics.us for verizon -- makes it easy to see who's selling my email addresses)
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Handing it down to a person who then won't be buying the lower end product from the same manufacturer? Doesn't sound like a win to the person building/selling the products...
I've done pretty much the same thing my entire life - much to my parents chagrin during my early day... Ever since I was born, 3 hours 15 minutes, almost to the second... No observed adverse effects, I've done several sleep studies both in college and a few since I moved up near Yale... No related health issues, no problems - I don't feel tired, I function normally... Unlike one poster suggested, I don't work a boring, repetitive job - well, *sometimes* being a contract database programmer gets repetitive but it's not burger flipping... I made my way through college holding done a full time job, 20 hours a semester 2/ a 3.9 (4.0 in major) and left with a MS in Math and a MS in Comp Sci... Now, in my 40's, I sometimes take a little nap out in the hammock on Sundays (being a heathen has it's perks!) but at no time in my life have I ever *needed* to take naps unless I had a really nasty flu or some such illness... I have an ex-wife who contends I'm crazy, but a shrink who is more inclined to 'just a little weird' so... The doctor I'd seen @ Yale said it wasn't totally unheard of, but certainly rare... I think someday they'll find a way to reduce the amount of sleep the average person needs... A couple of interesting (to me anyway) side notes, I fall asleep withing minutes of lying down and according to the sleep studies, enter REM within 30 minutes of going to sleep...
2600 & Dallas Morning News only too offlines I read anymore...
I've had the original on DVD for years, but really can't wait to see it on something bigger...
it's been online for about a week at http://www.entensity.net/ , As a music video no less
It's going on all weekend, If it's worth checking out, I'll Post...
Hmm... I work less than 2 miles from the KoP Mall... Mayhap a rest-o-the-day-lunch is in order...