Hey, and you know what, kids can also install ComputerTime on their parents computers to prevent their parents from spending too much time on the computer!
Source: momfilter – TheLogOff.org
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From the monthly archives:
May 2011
If you’re sitting in a chair for most of your day, doing your job, you might want to take notice: Just How Dangerous Is Sitting All Day?
Sitting down for extended periods makes you 53% more likely to have a heart attack, according to a study in a medical journal.
Parents with desk jobs are sitting all day long. That’s not good. Kids have to go to school, move between classes, walk from the bus to home and they’re more likely to be moving around and having varied activities. How many office-working adults are on a sports team.
Of course, kids have their summer vacations. Maybe they prefer to stay indoors where the A/C is on and sit for eight hours with only their thumbs moving as they play with a half-dozen friends on some Xbox Live game.
Even adults can make use of ComputerTime to make them get up, stretch, walk around, by setting session limits with mandatory five-minute breaks. The other alternatives are stand-up desks
If you use a stand up desk, tell us how you like it by leaving a comment below.
Do you think stand up desks might be good for your kids too? Do you think they might be less comfortable about spending too much time on the computer if you made them stand while being on the computer?
Maybe the treadmill computer desk is the way to go.
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ALTHOUGH his computer time is limited to half an hour a day, Damian Chuah Tjun Kit, 14, beat over 30,000 readers all over Asia to emerge champion of the The 39 Clues book series online competition.
To make it extra special, Damian received his prize cheque of US$5,000 (RM15,000) on his birthday, April 25.
Nice work Damian!
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Not all people feel them. This is article is very interesting:
Who feels chills while listening to music? People “open to experience” (Source: Collision Detection)
I bet this strongly correlates to people who have a need for better quality audio equipment. I know few people who seek out really high quality audio systems for that ultimate music listening experience. They strive to reproduce the most authentic and realistic sound. The put in audiophile headphones, sit, and close their eyes, and completely get lost in the sound.
I had somebody question my need to spend money on high-end equipment many years ago. They said, “I don’t hear that much of a difference.”
I demonstrated, by hooking up a pair of low end speakers that didn’t have that much clarity and had no tightness in the bass, and switched between the to… A… B… A… B…
“I still don’t get it. They sound the same to me.”
So this article about the study linked to above isn’t shocking to me. This person I refer to is the least open to new experiences of any person that I’ve ever met. Been listening to the same kind of music for four decades, been eating the same kind of food for four decades, been partaking in the same activities for over four decades. Present something new to try and the stock response is, “Why would I want to do that? No thanks.”
I wonder about the entire generation of kids being brought up with iPods and their inferior white ear bud headphones. If these kids get chills from listening to certain songs, then they really have to give some higher-end audio a chance. Get a pair of Sennheiser headphones
To me, music hasn’t generally been about the lyrics so much as it’s been about the sonic experience. What’s your experience? Have you noticed the difference in what people hear when they listen to music? Does music give you chills sometimes? Do you actively seek out new forms of music (and food, places to go, thinks to try)?
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