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1) iMac 27" 2) Yoga + Meditation (everyday) 3) MixCloud (for fresh + awesome source of music playlist)
When asked to do things you do not want to do, say no. Obviously you have to pick your battles, but this simple act is guaranteed to give you more time to do the stuff you do want to do.
I rarely cook a meal for just myself. Either I cook for my housemates, or one of them cooks for me. It saves a lot of time, because cooking scales sublinearly. It's also cheaper and tastier (I put more effort in if I'm cooking for others).
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>> 5) don't commute more than 20mins each way I walk to work. Free 1.5 hr of exercise every day and I don't have to spend money on transportation.
You can get to work some quicker way and run instead. Running is much more valuable than walking.
Also I have bad knees that make even the mile I walked to the job I just quit a little difficult. I doubt they will ever heal enough that running is a good idea.
GNU Screen is the big new thing for me. While old hat for many programmers, I just recently started realizing the power of it, especially detaching and reattaching, or reattaching to a broken SSH connection.
I agree, GNU Screen is great... but try tmux, I do prefer this one because of the ease of splitting horizontally and vertically without the need of a patch. If you want to stick with Screen... try Byobu
If your living space is limited, ditch your dining table and get a folding ping-pong table with wheels. Do this before you find your life partner.
And this was a joint decision post finding my life partner!
Advantages:
1. Loads (and loads!) of fun, along with all the accompanying benefits of learning/improving at a sport
2. The lack of furniture ensures random hangers-on who visit don't stay for too long, and only good friends who can appreciate our lifestyle stick around for eats and drinks and such.
Disadvantages:
1. Hard to get work done at home
2. Nothing else that I can think of!
edit: formatting
I actually don't really use the "social" aspects of social bookmarking at all.
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I agree, GNU Screen is great... but try tmux, I do prefer this one because of the ease of splitting horizontally and vertically without the need of a patch. If you want to stick with Screen... try Byobu
Is splitting terminals really that helpful? I tend to use 80 character wide, tall terminals so that I can have emacs sitting next to it (in similar dimensions). I guess if I used console emacs, having one terminal with it split would be fine, but when I'm using a tiling window manager, I don't necessarily see the benefit..