September 2011
20 posts
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Day 270: Translate Hebrew
A story about The Time Hack was featured in an Israeli magazine called Calcalist Magazine.
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe that I attempted to translate the article from Herbrew into English for 1 hour and 34 minutes before giving up and using Google Translate. Read the translated version here.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 269: Stargaze
Five unusual facts about stars pulled from the web:
Scientists believe that we can only see about 5% of the matter in the Universe. The rest is made up of invisible matter (called Dark Matter) and a mysterious form of energy known as Dark Energy.
Neutron stars are so dense, that a soup can full of neutron star material would have more mass than the Moon.
The Sun produces so much energy, that...
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Day 268: Appear on NPR
I am roughly three weeks backlogged on The Time Hack and am going to need to post content from those three weeks at some point in the coming days. All in one post, maybe? Regardless, in an effort to stay on track, I’ve moved ahead to today.
I appeared on NPR a week ago for a story I did for the BBC on individuals who have moved to West Virginia to escape wifi, mobile phones and other...
Day 245: Drive a motorboat
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that I drove a motorboat for 18 minutes and 22 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 244: Use the word 'squire' in a sentence one...
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe it took me 5 seconds to tell a co-worker: “Good morning squire. Looking like a busy news day?”
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 243: Create a commercial
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe it took 3 hours and 55 minutes to create a promotional video for the BBC News website. The promo will go live tomorrow here.
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Day 241: Hold a cloud photo shoot
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I snapped 23 pictures of clouds in a park in Stockholm over the course of 13 minutes and 00 seconds.
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Day 242: Attend a book group
REMEMBERED DETAILS
I read the first two pages of chapter three of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
There were two characters that had dialogue in the pages that I read.
A woman with brown hair was sitting to the right of me.
A man with brown hair, who was wearing a tie, was sitting to the left of me, two seats away.
There was a mixed drink and a half-eaten piece of pizza in front of me...
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Day 240: Drive a taxi
Weekend post
I had originally planned to sit in a plane cockpit on day 240, but I was running severely late for my flight to the US from Stockholm. Luckily, my driver allowed me to complete another task on the list - drive a taxi. But I was unable to snap a photo of the experience because my mobile was dead - so please note that the above picture was stolen through a quick Google search.
In...
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Day 239: Experience a free fall
Weekend post
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that the free fall ride at Grona Lund in Stockholm lasted 3 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 238: Play a musical teeter totter
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that my friends and I played a musical teeter totter for 6 minutes and 11 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 237: Visit a synagogue
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I spent 6 minutes and 22 seconds at this synagogue in Stockholm.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 236: Receive a tick bite
I cannot say this Time Hack task was planned. But I did grab the timer immediately after I spotted the tick and had a friend stop it when it was pulled out.
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe 6 minutes and 37 seconds passed between the time when I realized a tick was lodged in my stomach and when it was removed.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 235: Use an outhouse
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that I used an outhouse on an island in Sweden for 4 minutes and 2 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 234: Swim in the Baltic
REMEMBERED TIME
I estimate that I swam in the Baltic for 1 minutes and 11 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 233: Drive a car in a foreign country
Weekend post
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I drove a car around Stockholm for 31 minutes and 22 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 232: Visit a Swedish dance club
Weekend post
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I was at the Swedish dance club Debaser for 4 hours and 22 minutes.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 231: Request a full-body pat-down from a TSA...
What can I say.. as of late, I have been spending inordinate amounts of time on airplanes. Time Hack tasks have had to adapt accordingly.
You’d be surprised how TSA employees react when a passenger actually requests this.
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe it took 13 minutes and 28 seconds to request and complete the full-body pat-down.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 230: Visit the world's largest radio telescope
ACTUAL EVENTS
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REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I visited the world’s largest radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia, for 12 minutes and 13 seconds.
ACTUAL TIME
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Day 229: Elevator gamble
REMEMBERED TIME
I believe I stood by an elevator with a friend for 10 minutes and 09 seconds, placing small bets on what color the pants of the next person who steps off would be.
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