July 18, 2010 — 1:43 PM  I’m really proud of this post.  I put a lot of time and effort and troubleshooting into it.  But most of all it’s rewarding and a project that was (on the rare occasion) an actual great use of my time, and congruent with my career, interests, and passions, and definitely aligned with computer science.  Plus, it’s essential to my interest and studies in operating systems.  So, jolly good!

First off, acknowledgements…Invaluable or at least moderately helpful sites for accomplishing the triple boost:

• MacBook TripleBoot Instructions
• Triple Boot Mac OS, XP, and Linux on a Mac – Wired How-To Wiki
• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
• How to install Ubuntu Linux on a Mac
• How to Triple-Boot Your Mac with Windows and Linux, No Boot Camp Required

I encourage you to check those out if you want.  There’s a few triple-boot guides on the net.  This one is more of a journal than a foolproof guide, but usually seeing (there’s lots of photos) and reading about someone’s experience is a better guide than a procedure, at times…

None of these I followed step-by-step.  It wouldn’t work.  There was no “triple boot Canon”.  The step-by-step instructions would lead to dead ends because each directions are for a slightly different bit of hardware or different operating system versions.  So like most programming/dev/coding projects I read most of those and figured out what I had to do for my system.

I probably read over a dozen triple boot tutorials/how-tos but the above popped up in bookmarks and are moderately recognizable.

An enormous crucial note is that Boot camp is NOT used.  Do not partition anything with boot camp.  Apple’s Boot Camp is rubbish.  Like most all apple products it advertises that “it’s turn-key, instantaneously flawless” when in reality it’s locked-down, rubbish, buggy, and a headache.  Anyone who triple boots by nature WANTS to tweak details. They want to learn about and know about file formats, setting mount points, and the differences between EFI and MBR — booting basics.  Not being interested in those, but wanting to triple-boot, is like wanting to make a garden but not wanting to interact with plants.  Or wanting to build a house, but having nothing to do with blueprints.  It’s ridiculous.  Boot camp tries to “build a house without blue prints” or “plant a garden without plants” to perpetuate this now exceedingly peculiar sequence of metaphors.  Don’t use Boot Camp.  It’s like booting into YOUR computer but having some traffic control person installed their shielding you from having total control and ownership of YOUR computer systems.  This is turning into a mini anti-Apple rant, but Boot Camp (Assistant) embodies everything I loathe about Apple.  They advertise “simplicity” (which is usually inaccurate, boot camp is speckled with problems) but said simplicity is riddled with lock-outs so that you don’t have control over your own system!  By triple-booting your inherently interested in a lot of control.  You’re turning one hard drive into at least three partitions so you can run the three major operating systems on One computer!  That’s a lot of control.  Boot camp steals and takes away and negates that control.  Don’t use boot camp.  Use rEFIt.  rEFIt does all it’s supposed to do (basically make the girders of the boot records fit in place).  Jolly good!

Here’s a simple photo journal of the key events.

In my Remember the Milk tasks(for ease of syncing this is what I use for tasks, and it’s much better than getting locked in to a sinking ship overly rubbish unnecessarily complex productivity management system that makes you organize your todos more than doing them. RTM works for me) I had this under the “Triple Boot” Project:

• Boot off hell leopard
• Partition
• Reinstall Mac OS
• Install Refit
• Use Refit to get partitoons a-okay
• Instal IWndows
• Install Linux

And that I did.

Hard Drive Partitioning

• WIN_240_P1 = sda2 (MAIN HD), NTFS Format
• MAC_110_P2 = sda3, HFS+ Format
• LIN_110_p3 = sda4, ext4 Format,  with 5gb swap

I wanted to make and have made Windows my primary OS (web, coding, gaming, most everything) with Linux secondary (experimental, coding, social connectivity) and mac primarily for just file-sorting and garage-band editting and not much else.  Thus I made Windows the largest and the first drive.  EFI is installed on sda1 as the Master boot drive.

As mentioned in the first post, I had encountered most all I needed to know from my Fiesty Fawn Ubuntu 8 tinkering in 2007, but I wanted to review a few boot concepts and jargon to have EFI-savviness:

• MBR – Master Boot Record (replaced by GPT).  The first sector, Sector 0 (a mere 512-byte sector), of the boot hard disk volume.
• GPT –  GUID Partion Table; the layout of the partitioning table on the physical disk.  replaced by EFI.  Microsof’ts definition of GPT
• GPT provides a more flexible mechanism for partitioning disks than the older Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme that has been common to PCs.
• EFI — Extensible firware interface.
• BIOS – Basic input output system.  The BIOS loads and starts an operating system.
• and just because it sounds piratey (and is a genuinely useful concept in booting jargon)
• Bootstrapping.  Aside from it’s references in the delightful Baron Munchausen, and “as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one’s own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922″, bootstrapping refers to in computing basically a very simple program “jump-starting” a much more sophisticated and complex program, like an OS (*cough* thus, when getting a triple-boot to work, boostrapping is significant).

One could easily get by and triple-boot successfully without even knowing what these meant, but I am interested in Operating Systems design and thus found them of value.

I think everyone’s experience installing Linux will be unique.  Riddled with peculiar drivers, components that don’t work, disks that don’t work, but eventually it usually works.

Here’s the amount of disks I had to burn to find one that worked!  The third one (thumb pointing to it) was the winner. Out of this array

I have Linux Mint (worked, but I wanted Ubuntu), Ubuntu 10 32-bit (no go), Ubuntu 10 64-bit DVD (no go) Ubuntu 10 64-bit CD-ROM (worked!).  Bloody hell!  I was grateful to discard all but the working Ubuntu (and the working mint just in case) installation disks after successfully installing Ubuntu 10.

rEFIt

(Note: refit obviously is english person playing a pun with the word refit and how the boot-loader actually refits the Extensible Firmware Interface, but I’m sure you saw that one!)

A successful installation of rEFIt gives you this glorious screen which is the essence of the boot-loader.

PHOTO

I love things that are this compact, and display as much organized information, and that the information is usable.  I guess that information-knowledge-compactness is the essence of computers and most science really.  But you can decipher this yourself, but from this table you can quickly with a mere gander observer that we have:

• 5 total partitions
• 1 of which is rEFIt itself
• 3 are our main target drives for the three OS installations
• 1 is some rubbish boot junk

Rule of thumb: take note of the large drives.  Those are the one you formatted and are working with.  Basically, there’s three drives, but rEFIt has to make things technical hehe.

Now Loading Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

And the ultimate test of our installation efforts: do we have a desktop? Yes we do.  Mac OS 10.6

Now Loading Windows 7 (Home Edition)

And the ultimate test of our installation efforts: do we have a desktop? Yes we do.  Windows 7.

Now Loading Linux-Ubuntu 10…

Here’s a mini photo album of this memorable *sniff*!  experience of installing Ubuntu and completing this awesome triple-bootageness!  I included a LOT of precautions such as:

• Installation Disk Integrity Check
• 2 Double-Checkings to ensure correct partition was targetted

to make the installation fairly foolproof and smooth as possible.

For Some Reason my ubuntu  installation was not in GUI format.  No prob.  I worked it out.

Yikes.  Don’t be freaked if you see a blank blue screen.  This I thought would not bode well, but was just loading.

I tried an installation and it bombed somewhere around 60%.  Thus I secured some smoothness by doing a disk integrity check (of the installation DVD/CD-ROM) first.  Good times.

The Non-Gui Linux Partitioning Menu was definitely a bit scary.  Especially knowing that this was the third drive I installed operating system on so a wrong partition could mean accidentally wiping the drive and the other partitions!

Fortunately you just make sure you choose the proper partion and format in linux-style, which is ext4 (as compared to mac’s rubbish HFS+ or Windows’s NTFS).  It’s always nifty to double-check the SIZE of each partition to double-check you’re working with the one you think you are.

I knew the size of my linux destination partition was 120GB and it’s number was the third (4th including EFI partition).   Both those matched up.  Always have a lot of things you can double-check to make sure you’re doing what you think you’re doing.

I had targetted the right partition.  Sweetness.  All three OSes properly installed in the partitions of which I had planned!

And the ultimate test of our installation efforts: do we have a desktop? Yes we do.  Linux Ubuntu 10.04.

Completion & Victory

Okay this is making this post already way too much longer than it needs to be but I put a lot of time and thought into installing these and a heck of a lot of keyboarding-snapping-breaking *cough* troubleshooting, so wanted to take some victory laps.

After Getting the triple-boot EFI menu achievement

I tested all three OSes and successfully booted in all three!

Windows

Mac

Linux

Tweaks

I instaled Compiz for the snazzy Cube-Desktop effects in linux.

Basically completely moved-in to my Win7 HD.

The partitioning sizes were very ideal.  I thought about halving the MAC HD partition, but I like having it the same size as the linux partition for consistency-sake.

For Future Navigation in the Triple-Boot World, here’s a few bookmarks from 2007:

• Tips for Linux Explorers
• Updated Post:  This is an Excellent article on how to build a Linux-running PC for less than $200!  Epically amazing budgetting.  Extremely well-written article.  If you stumbled upon this tutorial, you have an interest in operating systems, and that means linux, and that means you probably know that linux (while free) is still a very good and stable OS.  You might be interested in this.  I will likely document and blog the building of my own PC likely in a way not as thorough as these guys, but it’s a great project to read about and to accomplish.

But after doing a lot of productivity work, I learned that honoring an accomplishment, victory, and/or achievement is really important, almost as much so as actual completion! So..jolly good.

(Modified 2007 Post)

I know this stuff, I am like a doctor.

“Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. When you sense danger – whether it’s real or imagined – the body’s defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction, or the stress response.”

That flight fight response thing I experience (that I said I had tons of times outside) to an overwhelming degree IS STRESS..

If I don’t stop doing thigns that cause me stress, I will have a heart attack, digestive problems, and poor respiratory system work.

I have had all the symptoms of chronic stress

scalp eczema

Gastro intestinal problems

heart palpitations

frequent stress flight-fight response

I know exactly what causes this, it’s being in cities and in america.  I know this country is unsafe emotionally, why else would I be so focused on living in other countries? Therefore, me currently being in the usa has become a problematic health issure for me that I need to address.

I just wanted to share this bit of tech uploading/syncing bit of utter craziness partly for my own records, so I remember how I set this up, given that it’s so complex, and for anyone else attempted such a technological, mult-operating system juggling act.

First off, I’m working with Linux Mint, Winows 7 64-bit, and Mac OS 10.6.3.  I’m migrating away from the Mac OS (because it’s a waste of time, did very little constructive, and might be okay for self-therapy file/photo reviewing, but othe rthan that it’s pretty much rubbish imho).

I tinkered wtih refit, and an enormous amount How-To articles.  Lifehacker was tremendous help as were ones written by various other authors.  Eventually despite all of the “don’t install boot camp to triple boot!” messages I eventually did install boot camp via boot  camp assistant.  All of this was on imac8,1.

The hard drive partitioning was incredible complex and I forget some details but I definitely partitioned the 500gb internal hard drive into a:

• 189 Mac OS Partition
• 130 Linux Mint Partition
• 130 Windows 7 Partition

I may include the details of the file format used but jsut now that I did a partition before any refit, anyinstallations, an boot-camp stuff.

Then I did install Windows 7 successful (Hurray! Great OS. Fantastic OS in my opinion!) via boot camp.

Then I successfully installed Linux Mint, a very clean, minimalist, smooth operating system.  Nothing fantastic but, not much bad about it either.

My current boot sequence involves first Alt(Option)-Booting which provides the selection of Mac or Windows and then I get the linux boot screen and can again choose which of the 3 Operating Systems to boot from.  Obviously choosing the Windows/Mac from the boot-camp loader is unnecassry because whichever selection is made, it will point to the linux boot-loader.

So, jolly good.  I have triple boot (and I can refine that on another machine, and really eventually I am moving towards bulding my own screaming fast PC from scratch which would be obviously a great Windows7/LinuxMint dual-boot.

Calendar and Email Syncing

The next feat (and there is much less documentation on this) was to resolve this problem:

I had local ical calendars, a local archive of 2003-2005 Mail.App (clumsy format not easily uploaded to mail servers like gmail), various (about 6) email accounts, and I wanted All of that (all calendars past and present, all email past and present, ALL in the same convenient program).

To be perfectly honest I’m refining which program and tinkered with gcal/gmail webbrowser, Chandler (excellent open source), Windows Live, and I may check out Windows Outlook Express.  Ical was rubbish because in it I became obsessive-compulsive in 2008-2009, recording everything I did (from sleep, to eat, to activities I did).  I will post a few photos of those here.  It’s great for self-therapeutic reasons to have access to everything you did 24 hours a day for the past two years, but to say the least, it was too obsessive and time-consuming.  I had read David Allen’s GTD book, fell into the mindlessly lost pit of that productivity cult and before I knew it I was spending 3-5 hours a day making lists and organizing thigns.  Said GTD lists (and the GTD_Ultimate_Calendar concept I created with Physiology, Galvanizing, Sleep, and other categories where I stored everything I did) created the illusion of productivity, but I wasn’t get much done and worse, I was operating from the false belief that I was.  So I’m not too big of a fan of GTD anymore.  Some concepts of it are great (like don’t put things back in “inbox”, i.e. when you process something continue processing it, don’t revert it back into the “to-be-processed” file or else that file becomes wrought with psychological negative baggage.  Concepts like “amorphorous mass of stuff” and “psychological baggage with stuff that’s not organized” and “a computer-like workflow ” to a small degree at least are decent concepts, but too much GTD was very destructive and, ironically, unproductive!  So I’m glad that phases is over with in my life.  Needless to say, I had enormous amounts of calendar data to import!

ICAL GTD Ultimate calendar PHOTO

I instantly loved how “old school” Chandler looked.  And the fact that everything happened in panes and your workspace wouldn’t become populated with a clutter of stacked windows is unquestionably appealing.  I ran into some difficulties with IMAPing Chandler and it seems to revolve around POP without that much support.  I made an account on Chandler Hub as well.

Combining my five local ical calendars was a headache, but in a nutshell. I exported those 5 ical calendars in .ics format, and then imported/uploaded all of those 5 to one gmail calendar “galvanizing_gcal”.  I made certain to always denote with a _calendarsource indicator where the calendar originaed from or more importantly where it could be edited (you can’t edit subscribed gcal calendars in calendar apps as far as I know) to keep that clear and straight.  So I piped 5 ical .ics files into one gcal calendar. Great!  Then I created one Chandler calendar and Published that on Chandler hub. So far I’ve got a Chandler calendar on Chandler hub and a historical ical 5-icss-piped into one gcal calendar.

Sharing iCAl.  In the transition away from mac I may add something via iCAl occasionally and that will taper off so that I’ll eventually just add calendar events from a single Windows/Ubuntu-based application.  I needed a way to temporarily publish any new ical-added events I added to iCal.  This was a headache.  I had to publish them to Mobileme (which was simple, but undesirable and would have much rathe preferred dev publishing with a “private server” option).  icalExchange is a free publishing of webdav that got the ics data from ical (I could view my synced calendar on iCalExchange) but then it snafued getting the html-based icalExchange data (originating in iCal) to my calendar program of choice, so iCalExchange was useless.  The mobileme publishing of any ical events added (and then subscribing to that mobileme calendar suffices at least temporarily).  I may end up putting a lot of my photos in iPhoto—>MobileMe, but that’s sort of undesirable.  I’d like to be done with the headache of mobileme now that I use more efficient online backup systems (*cough* Dropbox).  But the outcome of the massive digitally archiving material possessions, people photos, and papers will be some highly organized bunch of albums and ideally online sharing via some yet-undecided method (MobileME, Picassa, Facebook, flickr, etc).

Right…I’ll cut to the chase of a very clever trick.  I couldn’t find ANY information on getting an old Mail.app archive of mail onto a gmail account!  I had 2-3 years of emails from during college seperated into about 10 folders (Work, Book, ColoradoCollege (the rubbish college I unfortunaetly attended, but I did graduate…quickly), Work, Recepits & Business, Family, Friends).  I wanted to 1)Get all those 2000-3000 messages on a gmail account and 2)maintain their folder archiving organization.

I had to use a lot of tricks:

• I created a seperate gmail account “myfullname.archive@gmail.com”.  This way it will be an empty fresh account so that I know it’s the online container for all those mail.app roughly 2.5k messages.
• Getting the Messages on Gmail: Now I could simply drag the “Local” Messages in Mail.app (archived from 6 years ago) in the message-list-view to the IMAPed myfullname.archive@gmail.com and the messages now pop up in the gmail archive inbox! Fantastic!  Finally, I can get out of Mail.app to view those old messages!
• Folder Maintenance: This was very tricky.  Chandler gets it’s email by installing “INBOX/Chandler Mail” and a few othes on gmail (this is hte part of using Chandler that’s headache-ish and a deterrant to using it for email.  Only the said chandler folders are synced with the Chandler application apparently…bollocks…still working on that, but the main goal was get everything (calendars, and email) “up in the cloud” so to speak (and in this case the cloud of gmail) and from it all online it would be easy and simple and intuitive to then just subscribe, import, dial all of that in to a single time-management application that does calendars, email, and possibly tasks.)  So…in noticing that INBOX/ scheme of Chandlers.  I noticed tha only the three INBOX/ folders of Chandler popped up in Mail.app (in a different email account, the main one).  So I custom-tailored the myfullname.archive@gmail.com account by deleting all the current pre-made labels and making the respective INBOX/Work, INBOX/Friends, INBOX/Book…etc folders tha I had on the local folders of the archived Mail.app mail!  Then those folders popped up in the IMAPed version of myfullname.archive@gmail.com and I could jsut drag all the messages (ranging from 50 to 924 in some folders) from the archived mail application to the IMAPed gmail myfullname.archive@gmail.com backup archive account!! Phew! Double Phew!  (Okay, the double phew was cheesy, but I had been trying to find a way to get those 2002-2004 year messages backedup online so now I can view EVERYTHING for the past 8 years or so in email from one email application.  Fantastic.
• Then obviously, I could forward (and leave a copy of the archive now-on-gmail emails to my main email account, validatelife@gmail.com).  Good.

I may include photos of the polished application (likely with me throwing a drunken party of jubilation and victory xD) with everything synced up and all archives included so all messages and all my massive amount of calendar data is accessible (it already is on gmail, but I greatly dislike using that for productive because it’s so sluggish, but I do use gmail in browser alot, albeit reluctantly to ensure some things send/recieve at times, so the email-calendar app I use must have that assurance (that I’m syncing and getting all the email accounts and calendar accounts).  Great.

The main goal (and a huge whopping achievement it will succeed) will be jsut getting all calendars and All old emails (even the archived local peculiar copies) up on a gmail account, up in cloud so easily accessible to pull/subscribe/push, etc to a cal-email app.

Recent Update

This article was originally called “Bleh….About 4 hours finally succeeding in getting cross-OS/application platform syncing cal/mail data Chanlder is mehand maybe winlive.” And indeed, the ambiguity of the title reflected my uncertainty in knowing which programs to use, which ones were best!  Well, Now I have MUCH more clarity on that having downloaded, installed, and tested out over half a dozen email/calendar apps and/or configurations.  I tried:

• Eudora — Old School, but clunky.  No Go.
• Netscape — The Quintessential, Epitome of Old School Email.  Fit like a glove, great.  May keep this for simplistic reviewing of emails or if I want a change from main email viewer.  Netscape email was the email program I used back in the 90s when email was actually fun, back when I got emails from girlfriends or friends, instead of mass viral insanity.  So in addition to being free no cost, Netscape is clean, minimalist and spot on with the old-school-ness
• iCal — Rubbish.
• Gcalendar — Great for syncing but Cannot stand the adverts and cluttered in-browser calendar mode.
• Thunderbird — Likely the best email and cal (with Lightning Extension) situation.
• Chandler — I loved the ability to review all events, but it had some clunky python (programming) .exe that goggled up CPU work and it froze occasionally.  It’s a great program, but ultimately a sloppily-designed open source buggy app. No Go.
• Windows Live — I liked the simplicity of this at first, but then after falling in love (again) with netscape, I realized it’s too hypey and slightly bloated.
• Opera Mail — I read about this, tried the opera browser adn couldn’t find the mail app.  No problem, I don’t really care.  Netscape and Thunderbird work perfectly fine.
• iScribe — Some open source old junky app. No Go.
• Pegasus — Old, lame.  No Go.

That’s about it.  What I’ve got now is FeedDemon for all my news. Sick!  Thunderbird is set up with this Massively Awesome rad, sick, incredible, pretty much exactly what I’ve wanted — simplicity for adding new events, complexity for reviewing all my past events in list form, it’s free, it’s open source, it constantly has cutting edge add-ons and extensions thanks to thousands of programmers working around the clock (and I may add some kind of add-on if I branch into that kind of programming) easily installed from the add-on manager.  It’s stream-lined, not-bloated.  And Most AMAZINGly of all.  The add-on Provider for Google Calendar AMAZINGLY conveniently as All heck, enables me to Modify Google Calendars FROM (get this….drum roll….from….) Thunderbird!!  And I can modify google calendars from any browser and because I subscribed to that calendar in Thunderbird, it will update thunderbird (And thunderbird will update gcal!)  Finally, the any-where-accessible calendars are playing nicely together, live syncing and updating.  Best of all, thunderbird has a “View All Events” option so I can constnatly review my thousands of calendar historical events for self-therapy if I want (see Ultimate GTD Calendar lunacy and headache described below).  Furthermore, I have one calendar really and it syncs with gcal’s servers, thunderbird and everything, so it’s perpetually backed up and perpetually accessible from anywhere in the world!  This sounds like a no brainer (oh..gcal big deal), but really, look into trying to setup a way to modify calendars that you’ve subscribed to (like gcal) it practically does not exist and the two-way modification (changing calendar A on Thunderbird or changing Calendar A on gcal, where Calendar A is a gcalendar that Thunderbird subscribed to, is UNHEARD of in the calendar syncing world and would not be possible without the small, dinky, simple no-name, Provider for Google Calendar Addon!  Big Kudos and Grats and Gratitude, for that matter, to that add-on!

Plus, there’s some nifty as heck addons like FoxClocks.  I’m a Philleas Fogg time zone freak! so I love updates of world time and in a neat, tidy, compact display at the bottom of Thunderbird, I’ve got local, UK, sydney time updates (of course I have international times on my desktop gadgets, gcalendar, and taskbar…but hey, time is one’s most valuable commodity!  Hey that’s true!  What happens when people die?  They have run out of their time commodity!  What exists in the universe?  Space & Time!)

(I still have one that syncs with gcal and thunderbird if I add an event from ical,but I am pretty sure I will delete that within less than a week because I can add events from gcal web browser (bleh, but a convenience) or thunderbird (yipee!!) and it syncs with gcal’s server, thunderbird, anything I have subscribed to me gcal_galv or gcal_tent(ative) (I may abandon the tentative calendar for just one calendar simplicity, but hey, 1 or 2 calendars is much less of a headache than the 5+ I had been juggling!).

That said, I still like the old school simplicity of Netscape.  I ordered netscape mail to download the whole 1427 messages from the myname.archive@gmail.com account I created (see below).  So I can review that era of my life in the highly minimalist stream-lined netscape email program whenever I wish (or alternatively from thunderbird as well).  I like the idea of using Netscape (an old school and comfortable fit email app) for doing self-therapy and reviewing old emails (from like 6+ years ago) and thunderbird for new emails.  But they’re all IMAPed and linked up for offline viewing (key folders are) so there’s no headache if I ever reinstall system software.

Wow, what a mountain of installs and tweakings, from partitioning the hard drives, to install the three OSes, to figuring out the best app for cal/email/tasks to ensuring it’s all synced and automatically backed up and so that I have only 1 or 2 calendars/emails! (I still have over a dozen emails so am whittling that down.)  And tasks I’m currently using Remeber the Milk and/or Thunderbird Lightning’s Task.  If I could sync up Thundie’s tasks with a server (not unlike the gcal-Thunderbird calendar syncing two-way modification is so sweet and refined) I’d use just Thundie for tasks, but hey I had used a smorgasbord of GTD hellish apps (I won’t even get into the dozens of those) and text files.  I like just doing things and collecting the small handful of things that I don’t do at the moment.  Good times!

I just looked at some email settings and tthere’s this continual bandwith limit error.  Other people on forums seem to have had similar problem.  Seems to be the result of gmail restrictions.  It seems like the (now in my opinion, seedy) gmail only limits something like 100 email something (sends, but I haven’t sent 100 emails and am still getting this bandwith error?) possibly per day.  Bollocks.  The quest for good email app and simple email accounts goes on!  I may just use gmail for archive.  It’s caused me tons of headaches and I have wanted to move away from it for a long time.  Indeed, my 40-folder sub-folder nested hierarchy is indicative of not liking the account and festering it with overly-complex sub-structures.  So maybe I’ll just have my co.uk account in thunderbird and load all historical accounts in Netscape, or pop3 the old accounts and only keep one current account IMAP.  Will, see have to resolve bandwith limit error (by new/non-gmail account or adjusting settings, likely the former). This may solidify me switching fully to my live.co.uk account, one that I like much more anyways!  Jolly good.  The emails send, they just get all sixes and sevens in the client and you get bombarded with alert boxes upon sending.  I do like the synced alarms (with snooze in Thunderbird.  I think thunderbird is most likely to be calendar app of choice.  The email app am still tinkering with.

The Goal Achievement Checklist for this OS Project

• √Triple Boot OS — I can boot in Windows 7, Linux Mint 9, or Mac OS 10.6 (which I haven’t and likely will not boot in Mac much anymore).  Notes: May repartition drives, providing different distribution so that Windows has 250GB, Linux 150GB, Mac OS 100GB.
  • √Installed awesome apps.
  • √UK Theme on Windows 7 is sick.
  • √Selective and simplified Install set of applications.  I loathe anything bloated from OSes, to individual apps. So I made a folder “windows7_installers_worked” to keep all the installers for applications that I know I use, and they work (Thunderbird, Firefox, Download Manager, Synergy, Feeddemon, etc).  And the addons that work and I use in any of those respective apps.  After that’s polished and tested (I still use the apps) I can pop all those installers on a flash-drive or burn them onto a DVD and I’ve got my “instant full install DVD/Flash-Drive” after I reinstall the OS software.  I basically test, tinker, try out apps and things that I may/may not like, find what I do like, keep that installer, so if/when I reinstall OS fresh I don’t have to experiment and can jump straight to installing only what I need and use, efficiency and simplicity defined!
• √Calendars
  • √Two-Way Modification – Done.  Thanks to gcal, thunderbird, and the clincher Provider for Google Calendar add-on.
  • √Syncing/BU on Server — Done. The calendars are from gcal, modified in thunderbird.
  • √All old calendars uploaded and removed from local drives.  The Historical GTD 5-calendar “recording every event” craziness is backed up and I can subscribe to it instead of freakishly in a state of panic and worry about it being on a local drive (plus those 5-old-calendars I don’t touch anymore and utilize solely for self-therapy and historical review).  All I need to do is ensure those are individually on gcal, and then delete the local versions.  Sweet!  I much greatly prefer having the main version of something online and then I can setup backups to local areas, but that way, the “local backup” is itself already a backup of a backup (good for security and minizing anxiety of data!).
  • √Good, simple, clutter-free calendar app.  Done. Thunderbird Lightning suffices.
  • √View All events (historical events from past two years) in list form.  Done.  Only other place I saw this was buggy Chandler, so Thunderbird accomplishes this.
• Email
  • Simplicity of only 1 or 2 accounts.  Getting there.  Not quite yet whittled this down.
  • √All email on servers, IMAPed.  All email from all the funky local POP3 formats I have uploaded on various gmail accounts.  This was a headache and a massive relief and “missing piece of the puzzle” to have those 2003-2006 emails all on server.
  • Only thing left is to maybe designate a work-email, everything else email, and archive email.  But it’s all backed-up and off local hard drives, so that’s excellent success.
  • √+Simple, intuivie, non-bulky email app for online and offline viewing.  Thunderbird and Netscape accomplish this.
• √Tasks — Handled with Remeber the Milk at the moment, and/or Thunderbird.  After GTD hell, I’m not as interested in an imprisoning multitude of task-lists, so the fact that this isn’t so solidified isn’t as much of a problem and reflects my disinterest in many task management files.

Jolly Good!  This was very successful.

s2010_17_06._08:10:56 I’m using Netscape for email.  Calendars in Thunderbird (likely), but definitely netscape.  I have cutting edge most of everything else (the latest firefox addons, triple-booting etc).  One thing I’ve learned in life is somethings you keep, even though they’re old, because they work.  I’ve dried 5 different wallets and still have the exact same one (not the same style, but the exact same wallet) I had when  Iwas 10!  Netscape works, there’s few bandwith errors (even if that’s a gmail problem), it’s simply and emails can get complex so I can’t have a complex email program (yin/yang right? right.) .  It’s free, it’s simple, and it was the first email app I really used back in the 90s haha! Good times.

Reviewing Booting Terminology

After being marooned and imprisoned in Mac-Land (where Apple locks it’s cult-worshipping users out of interacting with a lot of the hardware, which really bites, because that’s the best part of computer!) I had to reacquaint myself with some jargon used in Windows and Linux booting for multiple-OS savviness.  Obviously I could’ve gone much more in-depth.   There’s full books written on just EFI let alone the transition from from the different partition

MBR – Master Boot Record (replaced by GPT).  The first sector, Sector 0 (a mere 512-byte sector), of the boot hard disk volume.
GPT –  GUID Partion Table; the layout of the partitioning table on the physical disk.  replaced by EFI.  Microsof’ts definition of GPT

GPT provides a more flexible mechanism for partitioning disks than the older Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme that has been common to PCs.

EFI — Extensible firware interface.
BIOS – Basic input output system.  The BIOS loads and starts an operating system.
and just because it sounds piratey (and is a genuinely useful concept in booting jargon)
Bootstrapping.  Aside from it’s references in the delightful Baron Munchausen, and “as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one’s own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922″, bootstrapping refers to in computing basically a very simple program “jump-starting” a much more sophisticated and complex program, like an OS (*cough* thus, when getting a triple-boot to work, boostrapping is significant).

Reflecting on Multi-Operating Systems

Regarding Mac OS and Windows, I’m interested in operating systems in general so delaying eliminating Mac OS from my work may be a slight incentive to tinker with mac, but that’s not really an interest at all.  I felt I wasted a lot of time on mac and compared to the fully-amped aviation-like Windows 7, Mac OS seems like tinker toy with few features, relatively few collaboraters, and just the result of cult product.  But that’s a little too opinionated.  Features alone, Windows 7 is soo sooo sooo much more professional and smooth and efficient and quality from the right-clicking features to the efficiently-designed Windows 7 .  I’m impressed with how Win7 hasloads of features but still maintaining an incredibly streamlined and non-bloated effect.  I’m a huge fan of Win7 and given my massive interest and experience with computers over 20+ years it’s preposterous how long I’ve delayed fully trying out ANY distro of Windows (and Linux for that matter)!  I’ve been trapped in Mac; I’ve craved Windows (and a bit of Linux!).  Regarding actions on each operating system, I’ll just say this:

• On Windows 7 I’m writing this blog entry (highly technical, professional, about a 40-20,000 foot planning perspective)
• On Linux I wrote a very impassioned facebook not that may become a blog entry on my love atheism (unquestionably a 50,000 foot planning/discussion perspective)
• On Macs…I basically eat food and don’t do much, but I was scanning in a few photos from elementary school (the tail end of an enormous 1000s upon 1000s of photo archiving almsot all papers and material things from past memories onto the computer, which I then can access from any OS).

So maybe because Linux is “open source” I think of things that are “free and non-business” like atheism.  Maybe I feel very productive and professional with windows so that’s why these very techie blogs emerge in that OS, and Mac is just the OS I’ve used for over 95% of my computing experience in the past (*cough and tha twill be merely past because all efficiency has increased using Windows 7) maybe I just dink around. lol.  I am finishing up some old archiving projects on Mac OS but that’s only because of drivers for the scanner and digital camera.  Jolly good.  Will be massively relieved when the last few scans and digital photographs have been taken and all hard-copies are practically gone (many burned! xD) is over and everything is digital and I’ll have the rewards of my efforts!

One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned in travel is that different people have different flexibilities.  Use this to your advantage. The ultimate example:  I flew Dubai airlines.  To say the least, it doesn’t allow as much checked-bagged weight as they allow in usa.  My extra kilos would’ve cost me $980.  I eliminated much of the weight but was still 1.5 kilos overweight and at $70/kilo I should’ve been charged 105 dollars.  I approached a different clerk and he off-handedly said “Oh it’s only 1.5 kilos over.  No problem.” And I was allowed on board.  I KNOW the other clerks would’ve charged me the $!05 fee.

Another perfect example was I was in a French Gare (Train station) and needed my water bottle filled.  I asked this woman working in a cafe if she could help me with that endeavor.  She said (in french) “Yes, I’ll fill it, but my two other colleagues will not.”

This has been a HUGE lesson.  Being a do-it-yourself guy, I hate dealing with customer service in general.  But when I have to (which unfortunately, for traveling, is a lot — from flight attendants, to barristas, to ticket vendors) I’ll always remember and engineer ways to utilize the fact that some people are nicer, more leniant, and more flexible.

Knowing that another person may be more flexible with “the policy/rule/etc” can save you money, time, and make you feel much more satisfied in the unfortunate event of having to interact with customer service. I think in the future if I encounter a person and think to myself “this person is being ridiculous.  I’d never be that restrictive”, I think I’ll just say “Okay, thank you,” step away, and wait for a different person to emerge.

The success of hypnotists (and this is not about hypnotism, but rather, finding a person who’s flexible, but nevertheless parallel does exist) is 50% composed of purely selecting people hypnotically susceptible. Indeed, there exist very elaborate hypnotic suggestibility/susceptibility score charts.  One of which I think was designed by Stanford, so it’s pretty formulaic and definable criteria: whether or not someone is hypnotically susceptible.  Similarly, I think it’s good to be observant and cognizant that if you show up 5 minutes late, there exist inhumanely annoying people who will make you pay some fee and others who will simply say “Phew, glad you made it!” XD.

Bottom-line: picking the right people to interact with can change your experience from

• Having to pay a fee, being reprimanded, and being refused

to

• Being welcomed, no fee, and being helped!

Ultimately, my ideal travel people would interact like the fictional characters of Tolkien’s novels interact. They welcome travelers, take care of them, heal them even, hear their story, set them on their way, and it’s all very commonplace, and most of all eloquent, cordial, and respectful.  I love the amount of propriety with which the characters in Tolkien’s novels address each other.
Cheers.

I got a bunch of questions about “water-striders”, the life-span of turtles, and the function of tails.  Frankly, I loved responding, liked my response, and love sharing this biological awesomeness.

Water striders are some of the coolest organisms imho.

This is such a cool biological adaption.  They utilize COHESION TENSION.  this is so frickin cool I love this stuff.

Fill up a glass of water to the brim.  Notice that the top of the water (the meniscus) is actually above the rim of the glass (this works best if you slowly add water and will not work as well if you gush water in).  It’s almost like there’s a “skin” on the water.  This is cohesion tension.

The negatively charged oxygen atom forms a weak hydrogen bond with the positively charged hydrogen atoms of the H20 molecule.

Cohesion tension froms the “skin” of water, but more importantly (and a seperate and more botanical discussion) is that it is what makes transpirationa-pull of water through plants, possible.

So you the water strider simply adroitly and delicately avoids breaking the cohesion tension on the water.  It does not have some super-hero water-walking ability, and thus, there’s nothing we coudl “inject” ourselves with.  Our best bet would just find a way to avoid breaking the very weak (but strong enough for plants to utilize it for transpirational pull) cohesion tension force.

Water striders are extremely lightweight and don’t break the cohesion tension on the water surface.

Turtles lifespan

“. A typical pet turtle can lives 10-80 years or so while larger species can easily live over 100 years. The oldest recorded age of a turtle was 250 years in India.”   (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_life_span_of_a_turtle)

This article is excellent

http://www.slate.com/id/2138560/

Basically it says that animals and their lifespans revolve around how quickly they can reproduce.

Animals have adaptations to help their genes get passed on such as:

reproducing quickly (these animals usually have shorter lifespans)

having poisons (protection)

being larger

having armor (like the turtle)

sea turtles are large and have armor, thus, both those contribute to their longevity.

TAIL

Basically, tails serve different purposes for different animals.

Deers use tails (the underside) to signal and flash it’s friends to warn of danger.

Fish use their tells form locomotive movement through the water.

Monkeys and opposums use their tails for grappling branches.

Cats and kangaroos (sort of similar to the monkey function of the tail) use their tail for balance.

Scorpion tails inject venom as a protection.

Dog tails show mood.

So you see, the tail is quite and amazing thing and depending on the animal, the tail could

inject venom

signal friends

show mood,

maintain balance

grab branches

propel through water.

WOW talk about versatile appendage!!! Awesome!

From  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail

DNA — Deoxyribonucleic acid is the “blueprint” for our cells and cells make up body parts (including tells) including the lightweight ability of water-striders.

I could tell you weren’t trolling.  Your question is interesting.  Seems like you’re interested in getting a tail and walking on water??? haha!  Basically, without genetic mutation, we would need to slowly adapt through natural selection to need those things.  But we don’t have a use for tails anymore and we used to have them!  Our ancestors (thus, or geneological dna) used to be swinging from the treetops with our prehensile (tree-branch-grabbing) tails about 65 million years ago.

Also, we don’t have a need to float on the cohesion tension of water?  Why?  Humans can build boats!! xD.

With advances in genetic copying i’m sure some geneticists could isolated the genes/alleles for extracting the “tail” dna “code” or the water strider’s code for being lightweight and not breaking the cohesion tension, but “injecting” that in and just expecting a tail to pop up wouldn’t be practical.  Also, you ahve to understand that the water-strider ability is based on it’s lightweight and it’s distribution of weight over the surface of the water (and not some special ability to turn water into a solid while standing on it or something).

Cheers!

September30

I sprinted around a ton and bought icecream pops and spent some of day moving out belongings and had walkthrough.

October 1

I moved out much of my stuff from the apartment.  5 Car loads and moved them into the storage shelter.  I moved out the last bits of stuff (some bags, vacuum, and a lamp).  It felt great to move out of there!  But I couldn’t find a place to stay so just kept driving north, possibly thinking about going to Vancouver, but honestly have little to no interest there.  More interest than america, true.  But that’s about it.  So I drove through the night and day.  Sweating a ton in the car.  Then came to this place past Bakersfield and really enjoyed the rural area.  Wrote Justin Howard long emails and sprinted on rural road.  Came to Kings Canyon park and saw “Cat Haven”.  Got a tour and saw AMAZINGLY hot two blonde women.  One was very smart and bio.  The other was all body and attractive, but quite dumb.  Saw lynxes, lions, tigers, leopards, jaggerundi, serval, panthers.  Was SOOO cool haha! The most gnarly cats.  Roaring tigers.  Nimble servals.  Huge lions.  Was incredible.  Went back there the next day to try to volunteer but was early and no one is here. Then went north and realized I felt pain everywhere and stopped at this Snowmill Lodge to ask for rates.  They said they were looking for someone to help them pick up the place.  They had an Australian flag!  And tons of other flags.  I gave them my vacuum and they said that would be okay for night, but I wanted to get moving anyway and checked out the huge Sequia park around 6pm October 2.  I sprinted around there and saw a Polish woman outside the gift shop.  Then I went back to the snowill lodge. The two women and the dude, Buddy, were oddly nice. Their place was an utter dump with tons of clutter and I realized my words about clutter were relevant to them but ones they did not abide.  Tons of rubbish, multiple vacuums etc all strung around.  It made me realize that america is like that.  Just a collection dump of everyone else’s stuff that rarely gets used.  Buddy was cooking chili in his room and said “I really like my room”.    I couldn’t imagine anyone staying there even though they said they had all these foreigners. I imagined it bustling restaurant, but it was a dump almost dorm-room like.

Suddenly french people showed up and I had to translate.  $125 for floors, but the place was so umkempt. The french looked clean, clear, white, nice, neat.  So I wrote my name on the wall of the Snowmill lodge and went to catch up with the french people for dinner! It was awesome and fun! I almost sat at the head of the table but felt it would have “authority”, which is ridiculous, so I didn’t and would’ve been better if I had.  But I practiced french, was great!  People looked like Jeff Smith, one like thomas. Family of 7.  4 Sibligs, a mom, 2 spouses.

That night I basically drove on all the Sequiao park trails and got horribly lost, was cold and met many dead ends and decided to thus go back.  On the October Third (not having slept since October 1 at noon) I drove back to Aguora Hills.  I stopped on the side of the road and overlooked traffic and called Car dealer, Lee Flayton, mom etc. and had fear of if I went back I would be into porn and if I went north I would be into music, which is just disgustingly illogical.  I missed the storage shelter time AGAIN after stopping at Auto Zone and some weird guy said he went back to check on havinga car cover and I never got what I wanted again.  Americans do that.  Focus on what you want and do checks until you get it. Good. I killed time in Glenwood, which, while clean, was GROSS.  This gross bar Charles Billiards with this pig of a bartender who gave me bloody mary mixes. I met a russian who talked about wow and who ended up stealing the bartender’s tip and got kicked out.  I met a guy named Jonathon who was like Vos and just drank beer nonstop.  Everyone watched the games. It was a really gross place but stomachable because atleast glenwood was a little bit cleaner.

So I drove off that night and got out of LA. Dawkins had been there because it was the 3rd Saturday.  Then I drove north. Stopped to sprint to ocean in lompoc.  Woman thought I was shoplifting but I said “Yeah after I get this icecream” in regards to paying for orange tc.  Hot and great!  Then felt nervous and needed to go to Europe in grocery store.  Stopped at weird random round table pizza place.  Then sprinted outside a ton, got lost, ate chinese food (tasty). saw  blue cross country shirt guy and finall 5am motel 6.

Reflections.  Talking to susan isn’t good.  She’s a spoiled, control-freak, nobody.  If have to talk to biofam, tdk, jsk, or tmk are okay, but preferably none of them.

Moved “into” the motel and it feels JUST like the damn apartment! Of course with a better smaller subset of everything.  I can’t let taht storage stuff to creep up on me.  It’s nasty.  I brought 2 suits, 3 collared shirts, 3 pants, 2 undershirts, vitamins, and variety of weird clothes don’t wear.  All that clutter WAS brutal, deafening.  But it feels the same! It feels exactly the same here ffs as the apartment.  I gotta try something else uk.  Factors styming that

Baggage.  Should I bring just what I brought to aus?  Namely, no laptop, no suits????

Interesting models of the world to frame. you’re an author who “wrote” all the people in the world story.

What’s kind of freaky is how things don’t change.  Very few things change!  I just moved to this other place and everything seems the same more or less.  almost disturbing.  Well it’s not that far away, but good to know that if I ever need to crash, I could

this is like identical to malibu canyon apartments ffs.  I gotta get out of here!

Okay London, I’m bringing 2 backpacks, 1 with laptop, 1 with rolled up suit, reckon.

Wow. I realize how massively lonely I’ve been.  What’s veiled me from that awareness?  Computer addiction, writing addictions, all of that plus the clutter problem made me realize how lonely I’ve been in usa.  THAT’S why eliminating clutter is so huge.  Doing so makes me aware that I need friends!  So I am looking forward to making friends in europe.  But i think the best friends are friends made through work.  So a good work environment upon where I could meet friends would be ideal.  Additionally, I will attend Atheist Alliance International in future.  I was in LA same time dawkins was there.

Also, Regarding your old partner:  Chi ha compagno ha padrone.  I think in italian that’s “he who has a partner, has a master”.  Now seems like you’re completely your own boss.

SUITS!!!!! Do you wear them? Ever? If so, how often?  If so, when, where, and why?  Do you travel with suits?  How much luggage do you have?  I took a small portion of my stuff (there’s a blog post listing most all of it from many months ago) and feel INCREDIBLY liberated. The epitome of freedom just having this stuff. I think what I currently have is MAXIMUM what I want to have.  Anymore, creates IMMENSE clutter and pinions my life.  Horizons open, future emerges.  GOOD stuff happens when eliminate clutter!  I am a happy (much less of a  and finally not a) camper!

I recently saw the Fantastic, utterly incredible movie In Bruges.  It was incredible because of the Irish component, great acting, fantastic direction from McDonough, Ferrel was A+ and his exchange with Gleeson (all three Irish dudes, mind you) was beautiful and humorous rapport)….BUT but but! But the most prominently cool and awesome part of the the movie was it’s seriousnesss and incredible depth!  That movie was deep!  And it had a reoccurringly profound theme of the necessity of abiding to principles.  I won’t give away the shocking ending, because you don’t want to spoil anything, but the relationship with allegiance to principles was an extremely strong message.  If you’ve seen the movie you know the concept of “principles” definitely defines the shape of the path the characters have in the movie.  Actually in the movie, disastrous things occurred because people were obdurate with sticking with principles.  So the actual message of the movie was kind: “You have to look very closely at detail to apply a potentially good principle effectively.”  But the whole brew-haha about got me thinking about how everyone has these upper-level, high-level principles and beliefs.

So that’s what this Validate Your Life “Linguistic Code” ebook is about :  Defining Principles that install the changes you want to occur and the freedom you want to experience.

What happens when you don’t abide by these principles?  What happens when you don’t take these principles as life or death truths that you must follow?  What happens when you fail to take these principles as a biological necessity for life?  You fail in the game of life.  You experience failure upon failure.  You experience the complete absence of success.  You get hurt — emotionally and physically.  You become overwhelmed.  Bottom line (are we getting the point yet? These are important!) Bottom-line: You don’t survive without implementing these principles!

I went into Shell station the other day.  I had an agenda.  to send a package that I had sold.  I did not want to chat with a person.  I don’t like the people that work in shell station.  I have no interest in continuing to waste my time with them.  And this woman asks me ALL these questions!! It was REALLY annoying.  Why are people so rude and obnoxious and hideously atrotiously intrusive to me?

I asked her about the boxes and she blurted out “I Told you the options!!” and She had NOT given me the prices of the individual boxes, which was hte information I sought.  I also wanted to know and see the different types of boxes.  SHE’s the loser who get paid to work at the post office, she HAS to show me that information.  But she didn’t and she invades my privacy.  She had hte audacity to ask:
Did you Sell this on ebay?
And I said, “Yes, but people also sell things on craigslist.”
How much did you pay for it?

Nosy
good
halt her attempt be intrusive

And I drew the line there.  I don’t want to tell her that information! How dare she be so intrusitv.e  I didn’t even want to have a conversation in the first place!!!!!  And she’s asking how how and where and for how much I sold something.

(it was gummy bearS)

Then she tells me: “Someone in my house gave me gummy bears.”

WTF?!! She’s purposefully trying to confuse me.  So vague.  Someone just walked into her house and gave her gummy bears??? IT’s like these people are trying to coach e and 1)THEY SUCK AT COACHING (atrotious) and 2)I DON”T WANT THEIR COACHING b/C IT’S DESRUCTIVE!!!

So I go: “Who gave you gummy bears in your hosue? Someone you live with?  Someone just walked up to your house and gave you gummy bears?”

and she mumbled something and then said “He’s a Trucker”.

And I thought WHO is a fucking trucker? Why the fuck should I care if a trucker somehow (in relation to her or not) walks into her house and gives her fucking gummy bears.  That person is not me.  I am not a trucker.  I felt like saying that because I felt like she was trying to frame me as some trucker.  And I most certainly AM NOT.  I am a scientist!  most definitely.

So then she goes: “I am from nepal” And she all points to herself like she’s flustered like I was confused a bout somethign and she goes “I am from nepal.”

I think Why the fuck should I care? but I say: “Have you done any climbing?” Just very nice.

And she goes “I KNEW you were going to ask that” and she implied: “your boring your trite” WTF So far All I’ve tried to do is mail a package and this OBNOXIOUS TERRIBLE atrotious slimy unfahtomably obtrusive woman has kind of framed me insultingly as a trucker (an insult), intruded into my financial affairs, and implied that I’m hackneyed.

And I didnt’ even get to see the package costs and she declared “I’m trying to help you!” when I was getting package prices but she iddn’t provide ANY prices!!!

Then she mentiones : “I got fat from eating gummy bears.”

and Then I quickly say : “I used to eat like 60 pounds of gummy bears and sour gummy snacks. and it didn’t make me fat. but it was an addiction I didnt’ want so I stpped it.”

and then she implies: “Oh well IT DID make me fat.”

I asked her if she’d climbed everest and she said no. And I mentioned climbing pikes peak and she said: “That’d be good!”  And she implied that I should climb everest????!! WTF?!! I wanted to spent $5 and send a package and NOT have a conversation and I have this obnocious woman telling me…

See all this garbage that pops up.  This is why I’m afraid to go outside SERIOUSLY. This is what happened in an exchange where all I wanted was to pay without talking with a perosn.  I DID NOT want to say a word with that person!!  I’m not getting paid to coach her!! And this is what she did:
she implied:
“your boring your trite”
was insultingly framed me insultingly as a trucker (an insult)
was confused by her bringing up the ODD phrase (someone in my house gave me gummy bears)
the privacy of my financial affairs was invaded
I ws indirectly inulsted as being hackneyed (I knew you were going to ask that question)
I was “forced into coaching” by her mentioning “I got fat from the gummy bears” she can bring that up in a coachign session but not when I’m ON MY TIME.
implied that I hsould climb everest.  I have ZERO interst in climbing everest! I Do not want to climb everest.

Comedy clubs don’t let me have an open mic.  So I can’t turn this into a comedy bit.

but It DOES impede me.  PEOPLE DO treat me obnoxiously!!!!!! I REALLY DISLIKE IT here in america in the ghetto of los angeles.

and then she implied
So I need to a way to mute people or get out of america.  I had those festering disgusting slime-ball women. and they are NOT all women, just usually very young, stupid, uneducated women

And this is like Tony Robbins.

AnD ALL ALL I wanted to do was Go into mail a package. I DON”T wan’t fucking dramma.  I have ZERO interest 0% interest in the shell station person.  But All that happens (See above) if I go to mail a package. THAT’S WHY I’M AFRAID TO GO OUTSIDE.  Because people

I need to go apathetic.  I operate on a wavelenght of natural compassion (that has become destructive and draining wherby people exploit me and I won’t stand for it) so going apathetic for ME will put me the level of most people. Great!

Why do people trample on me?

A theory.  They recognize me as someone who has been exploited and continue to do that.

They recognize me as someone who USED to give out free lifecoaching so they try to apply their

I really dislike americans.  Most americans especially the one’s in the foul ghetto squalor HELLHOLE of los angeles are manipulative wankers.

I told
I

apathetic

Honor thei
Electric Agenda: The Equation for Taking Ownership of Your Time.

I’ll be frank, upfront, highly direct, and incredibly honest: I used to be royally atrotious with using my time effectively. I would visit friends, overstay my welcome, become disgruntled about staying too long, hit on a woman, have some freaky belligerant and pugnacious Iraqi neanderthal thug almost try to beat me up….okay what a rant.  I have MYRIAD examples of the negative consequences (from feeling overwhelmed, confused, and abused to get physically beat up from arguments nad fighting) ALL because I stayed longer than I wanted to stay at a given time.

Expect Resistance to my Departure, Honor, and Abate Cordiality Appropriately.

Catch-phrase: Expect Resistance to Departure.

What’s this mean?  This bit of time code implementation refers to the script that “Yearners”, “Energy Drains”, “Time Exploiters” use that goes something like:

• “You have to go? What? Why do you have to go?”

• “Awwww Really? Come on just stay for another 5 minutes.”

• Pout. Pout. Pout.

• Anger that they aren’t getting what they want from you.

wor

t people who yearn for you, who are trying to exploit or manipulate you, or who are simple greedy with time and want more of your time, or it’s very useful for doing dealing with those people who want entertainment or “free services” or something from you other than what you’ve got, which is just leaving when you want to leave!

honor value of being OCD setting a watch timer.  This sounds Obsessive-Compulsive. GOOD!! It should!! Time is ALL that you have in life.  On the highest level up on the hierarchy of possions — “what do I OWN”? — TIME is the highest up you can get.  What do you feel like you should have more ownership of:

A metal transportation device that uses two axles and 4 wheels

An odd contraption that has four legs and is used for something animals refer to as “sitting”

The time used to MAKE, DESIGN, CRAFT, ENVISION, and

Set a clock with a buzzer and a beep.  Set a buzzer on your phone.  Wear two watched (I have a watch that actually vibrates so it’s a kinesthetic as well as an auditory alarm)
experiment envisioning adults as kids (kdis adult)S for the purpose departing and taking ownership of my time
Treating driving away or when teh buzzer goes off as catching a flight.
Setting a time constraint — ” I only have a minute”
be very crips when I’m not coaching and when I’m coaching.  Because that ensure that I don’t get involvd in peoplle’s problems.  Becaus
earning money is an inherent characteristic with taking ownership of your time.

No, This angry asian is not me. But his demeanor portrayed what I was feeling about self-help books.

I think I’m interested in being mindful about reading, what I’d want to read, reading science reference books, and questioning the nature of reading before starting another book for a very long time.  Reading books is massively painful for me.  People say “you have to keep learning”.  I agree, but also greatly disagree.  You must keep learning and APPLY that learing.  I just spent over a hundred hours of my life reading 3 different NLP books and they all basically communicated the same information.  Most people in the world aren’t intelligent enough to realize this.  When you have read one book by an author, you most likely have read every book.  All authors will simply recycle back their ideas.  Reading too many books is toxic simply because it’s shoving in your brain the same data over and over and presupposing that you haven’t learned it yet, when you really have!!! So I’m an enormous fan of ceasing reading books and instead applying what you know.  Rereading stuff youv’e already learned is dangerous because it moves you further away from applying it.  It’s time to embrace the “quick-reference” charts, abandon most all books (Except reference books), and work with what we have.  I know I grasp 100% of NLP, so WHAT if there’s one other smidgen 1% of NLP that I am not aware of?!! Moving forward is applying applying.  IF I have to read another self-help book I will vomit.  I loathe self-help books because they use phrases like this:

Do not give self-development affirmations an exact deadline, for example, In

three months’ time t shall be a more relaxed person.’

Don’t just think it. Ink it!

Think back what your goals are?

They focus on PROBLEMS and YOU.   I hate that.  Focusing on something objective and universal (like stomata in leaves or thermodynamics laws or combinations and permutations) ALWAYS make me feel better because I am removed from the problem, from the equation. That’s relaxing!! It is NOT relaxing to have some idiotic, subjective author barking at you “write your goals on a piece of paper”, “now write obstacles to those goals…” crap!  That’s demanding of self and creates stress.  So, while science reference books are okay in moderation, I’m steering clear of all self-help books and basically any book that repeatedly uses 2nd person “you”.  Those books induce hypnotic trances, deluding you into false senses of securities, and other.  I think it’s really for quite unintelligent, stupid people.

You’ll never see a scientist in an NLP class, because NLP is retarded!! Well, it’s an upgrade from self-help.  I do not read self-help books anymore.  NLP is the bottom of the barrel of acceptable reads, and barely acceptable, only acceptable because it’s highly technical.  So what ARE acceptable reads?  Science, physics, chemistry, reference book reads that move towards a test where you can test your understanding.

I HATE the west coast and all of its sleezy, trippy, hallucinations, and “religious” spirituality, Mysticism.  Oohh!!  CRAP. Utter crap.  Bullshit.  I also hate chicago because it’s old vapid deflated, shit.  I LOATHE the fucking west coast.  They’re enemies! They’re sleezeballs who want you to “be spiritual”. What other stuff “you should read autobiography of a yogi!”  ”do yoga!” “have faith!” screw yoga, i’ll shove a yoga ball in your fucking face, you stupid fucking hippies.  I hate hippies.  I HATE the squalor, muck of california.  This place is PURE enemies.  I like my fucking dog.  My dog is cool.  I hate west coast people.  I hate my stupid bike and stupid surfboards.  Well not sure about those.  I don’t like surfing.  I like swimming yeah that’s good.  I HATE fucking random ass people!  I like the looks of britain, new york, london, sydney, because they’re real.  California is ALL fake!

Places that may be acceptable:

Vancouver and Toronto

New York

London

Sydney

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This article is primarily about the outcome frame: applying it, it’s inherent awesomeness, and connecting up with what you want, need and deserve in life through utilizing the outcome frame.

Picture your life — I’m serious.  Actually do this.  Visualize.  You’ve discarded all your crappy cult of hollywood movies by now, right?  So you have to start to visualize.  Do this. — after everything’s done.

Picture your life after:

• The website is up and completed
• All your sales, all your products are not just available, but there’s a high turnover rate of sales
• Your services are not just available, but business is booming and you have clients.
• Your books are not just finished, but published and selling.
• All those nuisance annoying errands like get the “car’s brakes fixed” and “update xyz” are complete.
• All the loose ends to all projects are complete and filed and finito and done.
• Everything your reading, watching, or listening to from podcast to magazine, to web article to book, to research, to novels to important non-fiction reads you’ve already read high-lighted, taken notes on and fully processed and archived.
• All of your notes are applied triple-synced, archived, and used in your profession.
• You have a consistent health routine and all your health goals are achieved.
• In short, all of your “todos” all of your projects are DONE.  Finito.  Complete.  Total. Comprehensive.  Completion and Victory.
• RAD!!

What now?!! Seriously.  Visualize that state.  And for those of you who constantly find warped pleasure trying to add more and more things to do this may be particularly difficult.

But if you’ve done this correctly, it will be life-changing.

Do you still have the same outlook?  Do you even have the same profession?  Do you have the same relationships?  The same life?

Outcome state is very very extremely effective for creating massive change.  Use it!

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“What if you asked to be born?”

This is a fascinating question. It sparks and generates allusions to fate, destiny, and having a life mission and purpose. With questions like “Am I just feeling out life?” Did I signup for life to “Investigate life?” It makes you cognizant with your relationship to life! You start to think, “Did I ask to be born because I wanted to party and life’s a party?” or What about a mission or purpose, “Did I ask to be born to complete or accomplish something, like a life mission?” In many ways, this question is a seriously effective motivational epiphany!.

Here’s an interesting, albeit subtle, shift in the question:

What if you WERE asked to be born?”

Now that intrinsically changes the frame of the question as it catalyzes and inner dialogue of question like “Did someone or something request that I was born?” “What created the interest in someone to specifically request that I be born?” Wow very unique and different frame there. Personally, I prefer the “original” “..if you asked…” but either is a state change of utilizing perspective.

I’m glad I asked to be born!

The International Nature of the Classes.
Undoubtedly, being from a certain area of the world does not mean that they’ll always have the same perspective and or approach, however, I noticed a lot of very useful comments from the people from New York. I think New York has a kind of Type A, driver, let’s get things done personality associated with it. I like that and need that. When the facilitator, Ronnie Wood, asked a very open-ended question a lot of people branched and spiraled out into these abstact cool ideas and the New York contributor, Nancy, I think, simply said “You know that’s a terrific question. I wrote that down for future use. Here’s why I thought it was great….etc”. It’s always from the frame of how can I use this for future use! I like that moving forward frame. I’ve been stuck in the “Am I doing the right thing?” frame. Time to graduate from that into the “How can I move forward with lifecoaching?” frame. That’s a terrific frame that will bring me success and I think the cool kind of New Yorker getting things done mentality will be conducive to that as well!

Your Empowering perspective: Specifics of Application (My Elevator Speech)
Specifics of Application is my Ultimate empowering perspective as far as I can tell. I’ve had an evolution of empowering perspectives. Last year I was all about precision, navigation, and freedom. Those were the most empowering values for me. However, I’ve recently realized that “Specifics of Application” is the empowering perspective that I consider to be “meta-” to any other perspective like “exploring”, “freedom”, “choice”, “authenticity”, “any other perspective”. Why? Because any empowering perspective can by improportionately applied. “Action” is a terrific empowering perspective but too much action without enough planning is disempowering. “Exploring” is an empowering perspective but exploring without learning or exploring in the same circle is disempowering. Therefore, specifics of application is the meta-empowering perspective. I also just realized that “Specifics of Application” will be my elevator speech. I can take any strength or focus someone has and integrate in “specifics of application” to make them realize that they can even improve on that. So that’s my edge. I’m psyched

Synopsis
Life feels good and easy and valuable and enough challenge to feel accomplished and very smooth now. It’s a terrific feeling.

My key essential perspective is “Specifics of Application”.

Notes & Information-Processing…

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Great Perspective Changes
Reversal Roleplay
See My post for All the NLP Frames and Reframes.

Nancy’s comments were EXTREMELY helpful and helped me focus on important things to make sure I extracted the most out of the course (tips for building business)
thanks nancy from ny.

the James guy sounds Very intelligent.

lisa challenge
tammy toronto

generosity, exploration, true to self

Condemning or Disempowering Perspectives hold
Victimization
Judgement
Fear
Regret

The Goal is to shift them from Disempowering State to an Empowering State. Questions conducive towards that (yes. coaches do have goals as well!).

Clients frequently don’t know how close they are to that state of confidence even though they may feel in a state of fear or uncertainty.

Responsibility Frame!
This one is Great.

1. Tell the client to frame the situation, the problem, the source of fear as-if it is entirely someone else’s fault. 100% someone else’s fault. Ask them to describe the details of how they hold 0% responsibility and how other people are 100% at fault and to blame and their responsibility. (Of course this is all purely hypothetical because fault, blame, and responsibility are really not present in the lucidity of high-level living ; However for hypothetical sake of this exercise).

2. THEN tell the client to describe how their 100% at fault. How how was it your personality characteristics, your strengths were in some kind of way the cause of the incompatibility or why this did or didn’t work. Get the client to explain why they’re entirely at fault

3. Ask them to describe the good, the life lesson, the empowering long-term result of this failure or this dilemma or this problem.

So that Responsibility Frame is a VERY useful transformation tool.

“What if you were asked to be born?”
motivational epiphany
feeling out life?
being aware of your gifts
want to enjoy life
did I want to join the party of life?
do I have a specific life mission?
did I want to investigate life? like what is this life thing? is that why I asked to be born?
it’s definitely an awesome question that has allusions to fate and destiny and have a purpose and life mission.

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However, these are similar to a system I already prefer. And that’s Virginia Satir’s Computer, Placater, Distractor, and Blamer types. However these deal specifically how you interact with others. The above 4 types are vauge, Satir’s are very easy to apply however!

An AMAZING site here with this Building Rapport article. I love the lists. I love the bullet-point format for organization and quick access to information. And Rapport is merely a small portion of the NLP’s bracket of communicational tools (along with pacing leading (with representational system predicates, tone, voice, body language), congruence). But for learning Rapport. This article is AMAZiNG. very helpful. nice.
I see why rapport could be a great tool. It makes the other person think you’re part of their tribe (when in reality you’re very different). I’ve VERY different from most people I meet and therefore if I want to connect with someone for the purposes of business generating rapport is a must for me. then I can just break state and resume being myself after the rapport exchange

Also “warning warning salesman salesman!” LMAO!!! I think people totally think that about me occasionally. good tip on matching pace of speech, tone, and source (nose, chest, throat).

Good to have access to all those methods of communicating for the purpose of generation rapport for others! But then it’s important to pattern interrupt that to resume being yourself. And I’m a very fast talker when I’m excited about something.