Quote: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

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We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

- Richard Dawkins

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Zzz Spotlight: Qhost

I just got word from another polyphasic blogger that would like to contribute to the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping news feed (see correspondence below).

Qhost will be attempting to adjust to the Dymaxion Sleep Schedule. Check out his blog here:
http://theworldandi.co.uk/category/polyphasic/

Correspondence with Qhost

From: Qhost
Date: Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:33 AM
Subject: Also.. : )
To: jorel314@gmail.com

I would love to be entered into your feed, I made a “Polyphasic” cat and moved my posts into there : )

Sorry for the double email : )

PS – I will also be trying to adapt to The Batman Sleep when I get a longer holiday : )

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You’re Welcome Gina!

I was happy to discover a comment left by a recent patient of mine.

Gina was referred by a friend, and I helped her retrieve a lost file. It was great meeting her and seeing her artwork. She is very talented, and I hope to see her work online one of these days when she has time to make a website.

Here’s what Gina had to say…

i seriously cannot thank you enough for finding my file — 8 weeks worth of notes that would be really hard to get back — almost 70 pages!!
the computer guys at school couldn’t figure it out and told me it’d cost upwards of a grand to locate my file. then joe told me you may be able to help, but i already gave up.
then you came to berkeley, gave me all this software and found my file. you are amazing, but most of all i was really touched by your kindness and attitude towards life. i hope the world is populated with more jorel’s.

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September 2009 Polyphasic Bloggers

cc photo by Ibrahim Iujaz

The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “randallCbennett[dot]com” by Randall C. Bennett
- “Growing Happiness” by Marlina
- “unlikelysquiggle” by Leigh T Cooper
- “Br. David Klecker” by Br. David Klecker O.Cist
- “Steve & Thoughts” by Steve Torpey
- “icasm” by zecqi
- “Puppies & Ponies” by Clutch
- “Francesco Georg’s Blog” by Francesco Georg
- “TendoMentis Projects” by Nick
- “greenGuru” by greenGuru

The following have been removed due to inactivity (no polyphasic posts for more than 1 month) or explicitly mentioning they are no longer blogging about polyphasic sleep.

- “La fabrique des idées” by Boreale (long term, French)
- “Becoming Überman” by Matt Brandt
- “Nisrak’s Polyphasic Sleep Blog” by Nirsak
- “Hexadecaphasic Sleep” by gill
- “Polyphasic Wonderland” by Robert
- “Polyphasic in San Francisco” by Elizabeth
- “Carolee Flatley” by Carolee Flatley
- “Larry’s posterous” by Larry Nichols

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August 2009 Polyphasic Bloggers

cc photo by Stephane Tougard

The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “Polyphasic in San Francisco” by Elizabeth
- “Unlocking the Human Potential” by Emerald Wolf
- “Carolee Flatley” by Carolee Flatley
- “Larry’s posterous” by Larry Nichols
- “J’s Polyphasic Sleep Log – The Uberman” by Jason West
- “Aqil’s Polyphasic Sleep Experiment“
- “Kyle Murphy’s Blog” by Kyle Murphy

The following have been removed.

- “Polyphasium” by Geekapolluza (long term)
- “My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment” (long term)
- “Contemplation” by akshatrathi294
- “Kenny’s Polyphasic Sleep Experiment” by Kenny
- “Jean’s Polyphasic Experiment” by Jean
- “nemogbr” by nemogbr
- “An Experiment in Polyphasic Sleep” by Matt
- “(optional.is)” by Brian Suda
- “Phasor Dot Org“
- “neurohack” by Sharif Olorin
- “A Polyphasic Sleep Experience” by Onymous
- “A Polyphasic Summer” by Chris Lee
- “Conor Sherman” by Conor
- “Secret Little Spartan“
- “A nice cup of rabies” by Peggy
- “BlackGin’s” by Blackgin
- “Thoughts of an ablexxive man” by David Freiberg
- “3DMacDaddy” by Josh (video blog)
- “Morpheus” by Daniel
- “From the Ground Up” by Rowland Fitzgerald
- “Love is a Many Splendid Thing” by David

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Polyphasic Map

Wouldn’t it be great to locate polyphasic sleepers near you? Now you can with the handy map at the following link.

http://trypolyphasic.com/map

I came across this wonderful tool from a post by Nicky Hajal at the Polyphasic Google Group.

http://groups.google.com/group/polyphasic/browse_thread/thread/777506bf09d53303?hl=en

Send Nicky some love along with any suggestions or bugs.

I’d like to see more people from the Bay Area on the polyphasic map. Currently, there’s just me and Oki O.

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Quote: Do Something

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.

- Benjamin Franklin

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July 2009 Polyphasic Bloggers

cc photo by Robert S. Donovan

The following have been added to the list of current polyphasic bloggers.

- “A Polyphasic Summer” by Chris Lee
- “Conor Sherman” by Conor
- “Secret Little Spartan“
- “Nisrak’s Polyphasic Sleep Blog” by Nirsak
- “A nice cup of rabies” by Peggy
- “BlackGin’s” by Blackgin
- “My Polyphasic Sleep Experiment“
- “Thoughts of an ablexxive man” by David Freiberg
- “3DMacDaddy” by Josh (video blog)
- “Morpheus” by Daniel
- “From the Ground Up” by Rowland Fitzgerald
- “Love is a Many Splendid Thing” by David
- “Hexadecaphasic Sleep” by gill

The following have been removed from the list.

- “A Polyphasic Lifestyle” by Aximilation (long term)
- “Polyphasic or bust” by Hunner (long term)
- “eftichis.com” by eftichis
- “She Who Chatters” by D
- “Polyphasic Sleep log of Angel Grablev” by Angel Grablev
- “cwfineart” by Chris Wolf
- “Technology for Living” by John Allison
- “Why am I doing this?” by Migo

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Alpha Nerd Calendar

I officially started my Alpha Nerd project on April 7, 2009. Lately, it has been keeping me quite busy as you can tell from the less frequent blog posts.

I’ve spent some time helping random strangers and of course family and friends which I really enjoy doing. I’ve learned lots of new things and expanded my social network. As the demand for my time increases, I thought I’d make a public calendar for people to view my availability.

You can view the calendar at the following link.
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=trn997b4gqnd3p02g9n6r7qj8s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles

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Video Tutorial: How to install Windows on a Mac

I was recently contacted by a friend who was requesting help with installing Windows on his Mac, so I thought I’d make the video tutorial above to show others how to do it as well.

There are many tutorials on this topic. This particular method uses VirtualBox to install Windows XP on an Intel Mac.

This tutorial also assumes that you already have a disk image of Windows XP. The exact copy of Windows used in this tutorial was pirated from here. Downloading torrents is not within the scope of this tutorial.

Reasons I like this method

• It uses free and open source software for virtualization
• It doesn’t require you to dual boot like the Boot Camp method
• You don’t need a physical installation CD
• Windows XP requires less resources to run than Vista

Like all original content that I create, this video tutorial has been set free from any copyrights.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment. I’ll try my best to answer them.

Video Tutorial Overview

1. Install VirtualBox.
2. Create a new virtual machine.
3. Install Windows.
4. Install Guest Additions.

License

To the extent possible under law, jorel314
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
Video Tutorial: How to install Windows on a Mac.

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