Patrick is intensely jealous of the specialness of Sarah T’s being registered on this website.
2 CommentsRyan Schenk and Ruth play the mandolin for us!
Oh man! such a cute tune!
No commentsJess has informed me that she has left a huge pile of wood for me that needs to be chopped.
yes!
6 CommentsI should now be in Ukraine.
No commentsI love Phil Plait’s bad astronomy section of Discover. It is reliably filled with awesome information.
Take this article for instance. It talks a bit about Saturn’s rings and our somewhat unique orientation to those rings. Before you click over and read the article, take a guess as to how thick Saturn’s rings are.
Yay Space!
1 CommentMikeDiDonato.com just got a little better.
1 CommentA customer just sent me a text message. Interesting.
7 CommentsThe red ‘people’ can’t touch the ground. If they do, the program modifies the car slightly and tries again.
6 CommentsA really epic collection of great t-shirt designs.
3 CommentsJust your typical gymnastics bullfighting video. Nothing more.
2 Commentsfrom Pete.
I got 57%. I am ashamed.
19 CommentsMike D: yeah, I have so much homework. It’s stupid.
Mom D: is it stupid or are you stupid.
A great video of four people and a google spreadsheet.
No commentsFun thing I didn’t know about my own website. If you let your mouse hover over a notification in the ‘new comments’ section, it’ll tell you who left the latest comment!
Awesome!
No commentsCrane Parachuting. Not what you expect.
8 CommentsCommercial or not, it’s absurdly awesome.
2 CommentsUpdate!
Same thing, You tubed and not flashed. The music is so epic.
it should be noted that it’s way more fun in full screen flash.
on a cell phone…
Lady: I don’t want to leave Ohio. It reminds me a bit of Texas except it’s colder.
Wow.
3 CommentsI was writing an e-mail to Jill with a short motivational quip regarding stretching before exercise.
I wrote:
I think if you specifically add certain stretches to you routine and consider them as important as the weight lifting, then you might have better lunch forcing yourself to do them.
Jill e-mailed back, pointing out my error saying “Further proof that Michael’s number one priority is food”
Authored by: mike d.This past weekend was enjoyable. I drove everywhere. Friday I zipped up to Worcester and saw a few people, Saturday I visited the lovely Jill and we saw ‘Sideways’ and went out to a nice dinner, and Sunday I went down to RI and went running with my sister Theresa.
While we were running, Tree (whose birthday was on Friday, happy b-day t!) told me about all sorts of cool psychological stuff. She’s getting her PHD so she knows what she’s talking about. We discussed mental health, common symptoms of psychological breakdowns, and then we talked about sleep. And I learned some awesome stuff which I will now convey to you.
There are a number of stages that the body goes through before reaching REM sleep. By the time the body goes through the whole process and reaches REM there are certain specific things that happen. First, you lose the ability to sense temperature changes. Second, your body falls into a temporary paralysis. Third, your brain gets crazy with activity and you start to dream. and I think there was a fourth thing too, but I don’t remember it.
ANYWAY, you know how every once in awhile as you start to fall asleep your body jerks violently and you wake up all startled? Often times it’s accompanied by a strange dream where you’re falling, or tripping or something? well! When you’re stressed, or extremely tired, your body will sometimes skip the first stages of the sleeping process. You’ll go straight to REM. Then your brain gets crazy with activity but your body has yet to fall into temporary paralysis. So your brain ends up sending messages to your muscles to contract and jerk violently. Thus waking you up thinking that you had just fallen off of the edge of a giant bowl of custard and landed angrily on a pile of wooden shutters. isn’t that interesting?
I hope that little story made your Monday morning that much more bearable.
Authored by: mike d.
