Comments on: When all that’s left is to re-boot your day http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:53:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Kiwi’s Adventures » Blog Archive » Wash that week right out of your hairhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-111882 Kiwi’s Adventures » Blog Archive » Wash that week right out of your hair Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:54:22 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-111882 [...] is always the case when you’re really busy, everything goes wrong, which is why I really wish this article had been written last Monday! I could’ve done with it. I’m going to try and remember it [...] [...] is always the case when you’re really busy, everything goes wrong, which is why I really wish this article had been written last Monday! I could’ve done with it. I’m going to try and remember it [...]

]]> By: Linda Martin-Peopleshttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41344 Linda Martin-Peoples Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:30:41 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41344 In the 1980's, we used to call this "taking an Edison": a 20 minute nap to re-fresh, re-group, etc. (re-boot is perfect!) From what I understood at the time, it was named after Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, who purportedly (according to his wife) never actually went to bed and "slept" for several hours like most people do...he just took periodic 20 minute naps throughout the day and night, then got back to work. I can do it if I sit in a comfortable chair and lay my head back. If I lay down on the bed...forget it...I'm gone for hours! In the 1980's, we used to call this "taking an Edison":

a 20 minute nap to re-fresh, re-group, etc. (re-boot is perfect!)

From what I understood at the time, it was named after Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, who purportedly (according to his wife) never actually went to bed and "slept" for several hours like most people do…he just took periodic 20 minute naps throughout the day and night, then got back to work.

I can do it if I sit in a comfortable chair and lay my head back. If I lay down on the bed…forget it…I'm gone for hours!

]]> By: neo.phyt.us » Going to try and practice my own mantrahttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41244 neo.phyt.us » Going to try and practice my own mantra Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:13:16 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41244 [...] across an interesting post at GAS about re-booting your day and I think I’m going to try and implement it to a certain extent. [...] [...] across an interesting post at GAS about re-booting your day and I think I’m going to try and implement it to a certain extent. [...]

]]> By: Kiwi’s Adventures » Blog Archive » Wash that week right out of your hairhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41215 Kiwi’s Adventures » Blog Archive » Wash that week right out of your hair Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:50:32 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41215 [...] is always the case when you’re really busy, everything goes wrong, which is why I really wish this article had been written last Monday!  I could’ve done with it.  I’m going to try and [...] [...] is always the case when you’re really busy, everything goes wrong, which is why I really wish this article had been written last Monday!  I could’ve done with it.  I’m going to try and [...]

]]> By: Death Due To Lack of Swap « The Programmer Who Loved Mehttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41093 Death Due To Lack of Swap « The Programmer Who Loved Me Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:25:18 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41093 [...] O’Neill is blogging about my life on Geeks Are Sexy TM. His post, When all that’s left is to re-boot your day, is cutting awful close to home as I listen to the moans, groans, curses, and other unintelligible [...] [...] O’Neill is blogging about my life on Geeks Are Sexy TM. His post, When all that’s left is to re-boot your day, is cutting awful close to home as I listen to the moans, groans, curses, and other unintelligible [...]

]]> By: Mark O'Neillhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41101 Mark O'Neill Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:54:08 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41101 I should have continued the computer analogy by saying how fragmented I was feeling! ;-) I should have continued the computer analogy by saying how fragmented I was feeling! ;-)

]]> By: HSOhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41099 HSO Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:34:48 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41099 Wouldn't it be great if we could reboot our lives, too? Crumbs, I'd settle for a couple of restore points... Some days it feels like the only solution is to FDISK. Wouldn't it be great if we could reboot our lives, too? Crumbs, I'd settle for a couple of restore points…

Some days it feels like the only solution is to FDISK.

]]> By: Anyahttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41092 Anya Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:24:28 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41092 My husband needs a serious re-boot today. The problem with re-booting is if the same annoying situation is still there when you wake up (like a crapalicious laptop). What I need is to get him another laptop during his little nap. Oh, and the geeky doctor making computer analogies; that's awesome...maybe I should send my husband to see him. I have also heard that taking a 15 to 20 minute nap is a good thing in the afternoon, calling it a re-boot definitely catches a geek's attention. My husband needs a serious re-boot today. The problem with re-booting is if the same annoying situation is still there when you wake up (like a crapalicious laptop). What I need is to get him another laptop during his little nap.

Oh, and the geeky doctor making computer analogies; that's awesome…maybe I should send my husband to see him.

I have also heard that taking a 15 to 20 minute nap is a good thing in the afternoon, calling it a re-boot definitely catches a geek's attention.

]]> By: Robert Plumerhttp://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41085 Robert Plumer Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:50:07 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2008/01/20/when-all-thats-left-is-to-re-boot-your-day/#comment-41085 I've heard about this theory of taking an afternoon nap or some type of down time helps recharge your brain. Rebooting yourself is an interesting way of putting it. I've heard about this theory of taking an afternoon nap or some type of down time helps recharge your brain. Rebooting yourself is an interesting way of putting it.

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