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This is something really interesting. I just got a message from a MSN contact that you can play the old good Pac-Man in text mode!

Never gets old!

When geeks use technology to create something like this, it makes me proud. Tears, oh may, look at my tears!
This guys know what they are doing, they know they field, they know what to do with the knowledge, simply amazing. They built up a fridge that launches your cold beer through the air and right to your hand, automatically. The best of all, they cought it on tape for us!

Simply amazing, well done gentelmen!

Text gracefully edited by Tom “Magic Hands” Lieber from Alltom.com

Ever heard about it? No? Well, let me briefly describe to you, in simple words, what it is:

Polyphasic sleep (also known as the Uberman sleep schedule and Dymaxion Sleep) is a sleep pattern specification intended to compress sleep time to 2-5 hours daily. This is achieved by spreading out sleep into short (around 20-45 minute) naps throughout the day. This allows for more waking hours with relatively high alertness.

Now why do you think I’m mentioning this? Oh yes, you guessed right: I’m about to become a Polyphasic Sleeper… again.

Being a mutant

Everyone knows I love my work and I love technology, and, everyone knows I like to work until the very end of the day, that’s a fact. So I want to have more hours per day so I can work not only on my clients project, but also, on my own projects. This guy over here says Polyphasic Sleep is just not possible for humans, and only mutants could do it. Well, I guess I’m a mutant, because I WENT POLYPHASIC FOR THREE ENTIRE MONTHS last year.

I love those “don’t be a workaholic-sleep 12 hours a day-don’t get a better job than mine-you simply can’t do it” guys devote their lives to say other people are liars. I just love them! Last year I worked from home, most of the year, so I tried Polyphasic sleep for three months and it worked. One of my very best friends, Tim, is from England, so we would chat every day and after a couple of hours, he always went to sleep at certain time. Why is that crazy? Well, because when he connected again, I was still on my messenger, I managed to sleep only 4.5 hours every day, and people started to think I was some kind of zombie or something. My friend Tim thought I was sleeping too little, but I always, during that time, felt incredible well.

Why now? you are crazy?

Well, not right now; but in a couple of months (maybe at the end of next month) I will be doing it again. This time, I hope I can do it forever. Of course, I’m going to record my whole experience on this blog for you, and I won’t be lying about it at all like some guys did out there… I did it in the past so polyphasic sleep isn’t new for me at all. It’s like an old friend of mine.

I can’t wait to get started, I can’t stay still when I think on those past days when I used to sleep only 4.5, 3 hours per day. I loved it, every moment, every minute, every second; when you know your side of the world is sleeping and you are working at the middle of the night in your “dungeon” as I like to call it, with a Coke in your hand, getting some CSS code right, or just working on some documents. It’s great.

Being the first on your block to see how the sun comes up the next morning, breathing the new day’s air… It is just amazing. It’s like being alone in the middle of the sea through the night you know, just you and your thoughts, no one else… and suddenly, after you see how the sky goes purple and the sun wakes up, you start seeing people at the streets, going to work, going to the doctor… You start seeing land at the horizon. It’s amazing, and I can’t describe it well enough. I’m not a poet, but believe me, I wish I could say something smart to describe how it feels.

It is dangerous?

I can’t answer this question. Some people say it is dangerous, others say it is not, so who really knows. I know about people who actually died from sleep deprivation, which I intend not to do. I managed to sleep 4.5, 3 hours a day successfully, and I’m still here, which means nothing. Maybe some people can’t do it, maybe others can, maybe it’s genetic, maybe you will die if you try, so I recommend you to NOT trying polyphasic sleep or sleep deprivation, I will just document my own experience on this blog, so don’t comment asking for advice (any of those comments will be deleted) to me, or to anyone about it. Don’t send me emails about it either, or they will go to the same trash can the comments asking for advice will go. Does this make my point clear?

I’m going to document everything, from how I feel doing it, and how my endless nights are, so wish me luck, and thanks for stopping by!

Added: Polyphasic sleep and Sleep Deprivation are two different things, take a look at google to find out more, but remember, don’t try it yourself.

Sleep deprivation is an overall lack of the necessary amount of sleep. A person can be deprived of sleep by their own body and mind, insomnia, or actively deprived by another individual. Sleep deprivation is sometimes used as an instrument of torture.

Different from Polyphasic sleep, see?

Here’s a little fun thing I catch at Guy Kawasaki’s blog. I named this loop, as you may be guessing, Moleskinere ;) Enjoy!

There is another one of those tests you can take online to know what kind of person you are, but this one is slightly different from the others; because this one really works.
You don’t have to enter emails, or registrations, and the questions are pretty easy to answer in a nice, stylish designed html/flash interface. My report gave me this results:

I’m an Inventor

• Your imagination, self-reliance, openness to new things, and appreciation for utility combine to make you an INVENTOR.
• You have the confidence to make your visions into reality, and you are willing to consider many alternatives to get that done.
• The full spectrum of possibilities in the world intrigues you—you’re not limited by pre-conceived notions of how things should be.
• Problem-solving is a specialty of yours, owing to your persistence, curiosity, and understanding of how things work.

If you want to read the full report of my own very person, here’s the link to my personal DNA report
(Via John Hicks)

Moe Howard (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), born Harry Moses Horwitz in Bensonhurst, New York, a small Jewish community on the outskirts of Brooklyn, the fourth of five children, was the “leader” of the Three Stooges. The distinctive coiffe came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a scissors, producing a ragged shape approximating a helmet.

Moe Howard on the right: several weeks before his death.

Although his parents were not involved in show business, Moe, his older brother Samuel, (who earned the nickname “Shemp” because of his mother’s thick-accented mispronunciation of “Sam”) and younger brother Jerome (Curly) all became world famous as part of the Three Stooges.

I always loved the Three Stooges Show. I always watched, and I always will when I have the chance. What I don’t like are the movies. Man, those things are crap. My favorite Curly sustitute is Shemp and I didn’t watched once he was cut off the air.

Realted Links
The New 3 Stooges - The Littlest Martian Free movie to download with Bitorrent.