Bob T. Monkey explores "The Infinity of Lists" at the Louvre
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 by Emily Boyd
What exactly does a list-loving stuffed monkey do on his vacation? If you thought he'd be kicking back at the beach in his Sydney hometown, you'd be wrong! Bob hopped on a plane to Paris (you have no idea of the trouble we had in getting him a passport) to check out Umberto Eco's "Mille e tre" exhibition at the Louvre.
The exhibition "traces the evolution of the concept of a list through history and examines how its meaning changes with the passage of time". While Bob had a little trouble understanding the captions on the exhibits (he speaks excellent JavaScript, but his French isn't so great), he thoroughly enjoyed checking out lists of all kinds.
Bob's favourite examples of lists were the hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamian tablets, and the menu of Tepemankh. While at the Louvre, Bob also relished the chance to see the Mona Lisa and, ever on the lookout for cows, was amazed to discover some Ancient Egyptian ones in the Louvre's collection.
Check out the photos from Bob's Louvre visit
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Catching up on reading
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 by Emily Boyd
Got a shelf full of half-read books that are silently mocking you? (I know I do.) This week's tip, from RTM user adjectivenoun, will help you plough through those pages:
Do you ever have those books that you really want to finish but that just won't die? My problem usually lies in the book's overbearing sense of proportion.
What I do is create a new item called "Chapter" that repeats every few days (or a day, if you're more ambitious than I). That way, my reading gives me flexibility, and it seems a lot less stressful; if I have to postpone or delete a specific day, it will reappear soon enough without me worrying about neglect. I feel more accomplished when I get a whole chapter read and get to check it off my list.
I usually tag "Chapter" with the book title (especially useful if you're juggling multiple reads), but making a new List altogether works as well if you're really keen on getting the darn thing finished.
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Chipping away at massive tasks
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by Emily Boyd
Finding some of your tasks a little bit daunting? Try this helpful tip from RTM user jhmorris:
I have tasks on my to-do list which have been on there forever, I have no inclination to do anything about them. I’m blind to them.
Some of these are massive tasks but can’t sensibly be broken down into subtasks. My example is the formidable sounding “File every piece of paper in the study”. I replaced this scary task with a more achievable repeating task that chips away at the problem. In this case the task is “File some paper in the study”, which I have set to repeat after 1 week.
I now have an achievable task on my list and the satisfaction of completing the short term task regularly while moving towards achieving my long-term goal – a vast improvement on the do-nothing-because-it’s-all-too-difficult situation I had before.
Thanks, jhmorris! You're our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week. :)
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tagging tasks with weather conditions
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 by Emily Boyd
Looking for tasks to do on a rainy day? Try tagging your tasks with weather conditions, as described by RTM user christoph76:
Tags representing certain weather conditions can be very useful for organizing indoor or outdoor activities on a "Someday Maybe" list. I started to collect things I'd like to do in the city or outdoors (like going on a hike, a visit to a museum, going swimming etc…) and started to add tags representing weather conditons like "rainy", "sunny", "hot", "dry" to them. So, on the next rainy weekend I can easily filter for things to do using Smart Lists or the tag cloud.
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