Like many of us, I spend way too much time setting in a chair, staring at a screen. I'm learning that this is bad for your body. I'm discovering that doctors (and researchers) are investigating the many ways that this may detrimentally impact our health - even if we have a routine exercise schedule and consider ourselves to be physically fit.
It seems that the simple act of sitting for an extended period of time is bad for our internal organs, as well as our joints, etc. Answers? Regularly moving - standing, stretching, moving every thirty minutes or so is being discussed.
So are standing desks. Check out this cool standing desk setup here.
It may take me awhile to get there, but I think a standing desk might be a nice thing to own. I'm gonna check into it.
1/13/11
1/11/11
Twitter Tip: What is a Hashtag?
Organize your tweet according to its topic(s) within your tweet by using a hashtag (#) - which is the number sign found on your QWERTY keyboard above the number 3.
Using this symbol (without a space) allows you to place your tweet into a Twitter stream that is filled with other tweets sharing that same topic.
For example, #Facebook in your tweet will place it amidst countless other tweets that are discussing that social networking site in some way.
Why should you care?
Using this symbol (without a space) allows you to place your tweet into a Twitter stream that is filled with other tweets sharing that same topic.
For example, #Facebook in your tweet will place it amidst countless other tweets that are discussing that social networking site in some way.
Why should you care?
- Hashtags help driving trending topics -- when breaking news is happening, the hashtag symbol allows all sorts of folk who don't follow each other to share information.
- Hashtags will help you find tweets that you find interesting on Twitter.
- Hashtags will help strangers (and new followers) find you.
- Hashtags will help your tweets appear in Twitter Search.
1/6/11
Writing Old School - Penmanship and the Fountain Pen
I love my keyboard, don't get me wrong, but I still enjoy writing by hand.
I'm old enough to remember when every lawyer had to have his or her own Montblanc pen (mine was pretty and feminine and silver with a sweet leather case; I still have it) - and you whipped that puppy out at depositions or hearings just like you would unsheath a dagger.
[By the way, check out the Montblanc website. Wow. It's wonderful.]
Over time, I've lost the pretty penmanship that I once had. It was something that I took pride in, truth be told, and I remember getting compliments on my handwriting.
Not today, boy howdy. It's a scrawl. I just don't write by hand that much these days. I'm out of practice. That's changing.
One thing I did: I went and bought some cool pens. The one that I'm really having fun with right now: my Varsity Disposable Fountain Pen.
It's light in my hand, and its retro packaging reminds me of the 1940s tho I don't know that back in the day they provided the handy ink window that the Varsity does. I like to imagine that Bacall used a pen similar to this in all those notes she must have written to Bogie. You get the idea.
And here's the thing: as I write by hand, I am realizing that it helps my writing. Writing by hand, you are forced to go slower than typing on a keyboard. Words get time to get pondered in a way that the computer doesn't allow.
The pleasure of words - synonyms, variations in use, origins. Writing with a pen encourages my wonder and I like this, I've missed it.
So, in my journal and on conference calls these days, I'm writing with an actual fountain pen. I enjoy it. Maybe you will too. Pick up a cool pen and try it.
I'm old enough to remember when every lawyer had to have his or her own Montblanc pen (mine was pretty and feminine and silver with a sweet leather case; I still have it) - and you whipped that puppy out at depositions or hearings just like you would unsheath a dagger.
[By the way, check out the Montblanc website. Wow. It's wonderful.]
Over time, I've lost the pretty penmanship that I once had. It was something that I took pride in, truth be told, and I remember getting compliments on my handwriting.
Not today, boy howdy. It's a scrawl. I just don't write by hand that much these days. I'm out of practice. That's changing.
One thing I did: I went and bought some cool pens. The one that I'm really having fun with right now: my Varsity Disposable Fountain Pen.
It's light in my hand, and its retro packaging reminds me of the 1940s tho I don't know that back in the day they provided the handy ink window that the Varsity does. I like to imagine that Bacall used a pen similar to this in all those notes she must have written to Bogie. You get the idea.
And here's the thing: as I write by hand, I am realizing that it helps my writing. Writing by hand, you are forced to go slower than typing on a keyboard. Words get time to get pondered in a way that the computer doesn't allow.
The pleasure of words - synonyms, variations in use, origins. Writing with a pen encourages my wonder and I like this, I've missed it.
So, in my journal and on conference calls these days, I'm writing with an actual fountain pen. I enjoy it. Maybe you will too. Pick up a cool pen and try it.
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