possibilitiestag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-280462008-11-29T05:34:00-05:00TypePadPut page numbers on both edges of the pagetag:typepad.com,2003:post-592186202008-11-29T05:34:00-05:002008-11-29T05:34:00-05:00I just read a journal paper with the coolest feature: the page number on each page appeared in both the lower lefthand corner and the lower righthand corner. This meant that when I printed it out double-sided and stapled the...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2008/11/put-page-numbers-on-both-edges-of-the-page.htmlWhy do people answer phones at ring's end?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-438177282008-01-07T20:35:24-05:002008-01-07T20:35:24-05:00Why do many people, when answering a land line, stand there waiting for it to ring once more so they can answer it at the end of a ring? Do they think that is the way you have to use...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2008/01/why-do-people-a.htmlPlain phrasing to replace sarcasmtag:typepad.com,2003:post-436791022008-01-04T14:20:43-05:002008-01-04T14:20:43-05:00Several years ago I decided not to speak sarcastically. At the time it was because I thought sarcasm is often hurtful and not worth it. In recent years my thinking has shifted more to that communication is hard enough even...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2008/01/plain-phrasing.htmlSwing travel moratoriumtag:typepad.com,2003:post-390342472007-09-17T22:08:46-04:002007-09-17T22:08:46-04:00I'm taking a break from swing travel. For 66 days from 12 November through 16 January I will only dance on Fridays in Gainesville; I'm not going to travel anywhere to dance. Preferably, I won't travel anywhere for any reason...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2007/09/swing-travel-mo.html19 hours of sleeptag:typepad.com,2003:post-355322262007-06-19T13:24:00-04:002007-06-19T13:24:00-04:00So, I ended up sleeping for over 19 hours, which is a greatly new record for me. (Previously 14 hours I think, on the conclusion of college.) I guess All Bal really requires a lot of you. That was the...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2007/06/19_hours_of_sle.htmlWhoa! These women aren't follows...tag:typepad.com,2003:post-354698862007-06-18T10:02:12-04:002007-06-18T10:02:12-04:00Swing dancers are really broken. Coming off of an intense weekend, my warped perspective is hitting up against normal people's (?) reality (?). The first sign was at the airport when the conversation of two fellow attendees and me recalling...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2007/06/whoa_these_wome.htmlI'm done whiningtag:typepad.com,2003:post-346806622007-05-30T13:20:07-04:002007-05-30T13:20:07-04:00Yesterday is the last day I will ever have whined. It's insipid, exceedingly low-awareness and disempowering. I'm done.Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2007/05/im_done_whining.htmlHow to reduce overhead in bookreading (and skip out on books not making the cut)tag:typepad.com,2003:post-341388962007-05-16T18:04:45-04:002007-05-16T18:04:45-04:00It's amazing how success strategies become so automatic and basic that it's hard to remember what it was like when a particular technique seemed silly. Just now I was about to make use of a few minutes before Pilates starts...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2007/05/how_to_reduce_o.htmlI love the wet looktag:typepad.com,2003:post-144660472006-12-04T22:01:50-05:002006-12-04T22:01:50-05:00My roommate commented that my hair "looks wet" — a look I sometimes go for by applying just enough gel to leave a slight surface slick and then going heavy on the super hold spritz. I prefer the wet look...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2006/12/i_love_the_wet_.htmlSome rudimentary thoughts on sensory exploitstag:typepad.com,2003:post-141639732006-11-17T14:10:15-05:002006-11-17T14:10:15-05:00I'm reading a book called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience which provides some quite interesting analysis of many concepts I've been turning over for the past couple years. One passage of the book (the fourth paragraph of Chapter 5)...Christian Campbellhttp://christian.typepad.com/prolixity/2006/11/some_rudimentar.html