Circadian Shift

Moving along with my 10 Things in 10 Days list, I've done five loads of laundry today (the last of which is in the dryer right now). However, there is still more to do, and I am running low on coinage, so I won't be able to strike that one off today. In the meantime, please leave a small offering on my behalf at the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Laundry.

Ran across these links a few days ago:

• Structured Procrastination -- "All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this bad trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important."
• Complexity Digest -- This seems to be a big honking list of links that comes out on a weekly basis. From the mission statement:
  • To collect and disseminate online complexity science related information to anybody interested in the topic.
  • Use the nature of connections about complexity to
    • Speed up its evolutionary development
    • Extend its interactions crossing over disciplines, levels of knowledge and geography to find new research and new applications.
  Feed your head until it explodes.

The current issue of Complexity Digest listed an article which piqued my interest, but linked to a site which required some sort of registration process. Fortunately, Google came to the rescue, and I found it elsewhere:

Is sleep 'hard-wired' into the brain? -- "Falling asleep is usually thought of as something we can control ourselves as part of our behaviour patterns. In a new article in the December Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Bidi Evans argues that waking and sleeping is actually controlled by a physical mechanism that is 'hard-wired' into the brain. She suggests that evidence from people with brain damage shows that coma patients literally cannot wake up, because their waking mechanism is 'broken'."

I think the wiring in my head is faulty, but I don't think there's a warranty for it. Damn.