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- Wake up - Complain about how early and cold it is - Turn on computer - Shower/shave/brush teeth - Get dressed - Prepare lunch - Breakfast/coffee while browsing - Feed cat - Work (/read HN)
How did you manage to find such a patient cat?
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I've always wondered at the UI of alarm clocks. It seems like they gave up after "let's make the snooze button big!" Now what I'd really like is a programmable alarm clock, allowing me to encode an optimal awakening algorithm. "at volume x, play song y. If snooze button is not pressed yet, double volume and play The Safety Dance."
"The Safety Dance" == lmao About the only thing I've seen that could do that is a Chumby. I've never used one myself, but I believe it's effectively "fully" programmable: http://www.chumby.com/
EDIT: Looks like the new one does. Now I want one :)
reality: Snooze several times. Lie in bed and check twitter or rss feeds on iPhone or iPad. Get out of bed and look at a few sites on a real computer, craigslist, github, reddit, hacker news. Realize I've taken too long, shower and get ready and out the door. Then get a coffee and banana chocolate chip cake at starbucks or a strawberry cream cheese muffin from the grocery store on the way to work, or shortly after arriving at work.
* Wake up at sometime between 7am and 8am (no alarm clocks)
* Turn on the shower to the hottest setting (but don't hop in)
* Bring laptop into the bathroom, catch up on work emails (client time zone is 2 hrs ahead) and web news (HN/reddit/engadget) while the bathroom is turning into a steam room.
* Shut down the laptop when there's enough steam that my touchpad no longer works due to wet fingers.
* Reduce the shower temp, shower, brush teeth, dress.
* Walk to the coffee shop. Grab either a coffee/muffin or a fruit smoothie (depending on how my stomach feels after reading work emails).
* Walk to the office.
- Wake up
- Contacts/teeth
- Walk the dog
- Feed the dog
- Shower
- Eat breakfast / make coffee
- Head to work
- Read daily sites / email / begin working
Wake up. Snooze. Snooze. Snuggle w/ wife. Snooze. Snooze. ... Realize what time it is. Snooze. Wake up again, realizing what time it is. Race to class / internets / bathroom. I live an exciting life.
Whoever invented the snooze button should have to account for all the agony that button has caused. Think of the number of heart attacks.
0701: baby sees daddy's face, smiles and makes trademark happy noises. Wow, my day rocks!
0702: change and feed baby. Dress baby for the day.
0730: shower, teeth, dressed (or go back to sleep and wait for baby to wake me again.)
0800: breakfast and check facebook, HN, other online forums
0830: take stock of tasks for the day. Prioritize and schedule. Start actually doin' stuff.
1. Alarm goes off at 4:55am
2. Sit down at my desk with a sharpie and big sketch pad for 10-30 minutes. There
are no real objectives, I just put what I'm thinking down on paper, may it be
doodles, a brief todo list, ideas, concepts, etc.
3. Shower/teeth + dressed
4. Grab some light breakfast, check email/twitter, and read HN/GReader/etc.
(it's ~9:30pm PST at this point, so still active, but within hours everything
dies down, so I dont waste as much time procrastinating.)
5. Start work at ~6amEarlier quoted context omitted.
See, I've always thought that, when the alarm is going off, every button should snooze. Then, a minute later, the off button actually works . That way you can whack the thing to shut it up, and not worry about turning it off and falling back asleep (happens to me, especially when I'm tired. I turn it off instead of snoozing without even realizing it).
I've always wondered at the UI of alarm clocks. It seems like they gave up after "let's make the snooze button big!" Now what I'd really like is a programmable alarm clock, allowing me to encode an optimal awakening algorithm. "at volume x, play song y. If snooze button is not pressed yet, double volume and play The Safety Dance."