Posts Tagged ‘night’

How To Navigate By The Stars

Not so handy working from home but quite important when hiking or sailing, navigating using the stars as your guide is both romantic and useful.

This nineties-esque tutorial will show you how to recognize a few constellations and find north just by looking up. As simple as it is, I actually find myself quietly confident about picking out a few stars now.

The Night Sky - [QuietBay]

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July 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: night, skills | 4 comments»

10 Ways To Improve Your Night Vision

Ever walk back to your room in the dark after looking at your computer screen for hours? Unless you know your path like the back of your hand, you’re going to stub your toe.

A great Instructables post has 10 ways to improve your night vision immediately. These are some of the best ideas I’ve heard; plus pirates get a mention.

step 6. The pirate’s technique
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May 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: night, vision | 1 comment»

How to pull an all-nighter

For your work project or school assignment, you may sometimes need to work through the night. Frankly, partying all night is fine, but doing productive work is what makes it difficult. A student Christian Montoya shares his tips on stay awake:

Drink coffee/tea/etc
Eat a meal
Shower
Listen to music
If you can afford to, take breaks
As a last resort, get up and walk around

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December 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: awake, night | 4 comments»

My Second Life - Work, Life and Passions

Couple people asked me how to organize my time on my day job responsibility and my hobby projects like self-development, lifehack.org and Listible etc at night. It is pretty similar to what Chris calls a second life. Same as Chris, I use my second life to pursue my passions - but things are not always go well because of other elements - work and life. Frankly Chris handles… » Continue

August 11 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: night, Productivity | 2 comments»