the more important theory of einstien
So here's how Albert helps me do the drive time show...
He recognised that every ninety minutes or so, we wander, both mentally and generally.
So there he is doing his sums and back combing his hair (another true story) and he realises it's mind wandering time again. So here's what he does.
He goes over to his favorite chair... takes a seat and hold his pencil in his hand... He then proceeds to fall asleep, at stage four of sleep, or at least the beginning of it, he loses hold on his pencil, it falls to the floor and hits the hard floor boards below. The sound wakes him up and that was the perfect amount of sleep he needed to get over his energy dip.
If he hadn't done the thing with the pencil then the sleep he would have entered into would ahve been too deep and thus would have been counterproductive to his conscious state when he eventually did wake up.
The estimated time of this sleep was between twelve and twenty mlinutes.
This is soemthing I do every day on the way to work, in my car, obviously i'm not the one driving at the time but let me tell you, it really does work.
I don't have a lunch hour but if i did I'd spend fifteen minutes eating and drinking, ten minutes staring at the crossie and then I'd be akip, with a quick swill of my face afterwards to help get me back in the work zone.
There you go, you can have that one on me.
Let's have a few EINSTIEN titbits shall we.
CLP 2007.
X.
Comments
A man of many talents, Mr. Ev, indeed.
Everyday is a schoolday on the blog and thats how it should be.
Lets start piling the pressure for mandatory siesta time in our schools & workplaces - productivity will rise and yawning time will fall - everyones's a winner . .
power napping - it should be compulsory, never tried the pen approach tho'...cheers for the tip CLP
KWx
An afternoon snooze!! this is defo the way forward..... bring it on!!!!! Especially on a Sunday after a particularly fabulous lunch and a cheeky bottle of red!
Looking forward to the show, have a good one!
Leb x
Hi Chris (and everyone)
I thought I would cheat, and Google Einstein. Then I thought - that would be so wrong. I really honestly know next to nothing about the man. Shocking, really. I know he was incredibly clever and I will now find out something about him. He did have incredible hair!
Chris, I just could not have a snooze at lunchtime. I would feel wrecked and there is no doubt I would snore. I am sticking to the plan I have used for years - eat my lunch, read the paper, go for a quick ten minute walk onto Buchanan Street, Glasgow - looking into shop windows of all the things I can't afford!
C xx
sleeping is your bodys way of telling you get ready chris has got a dynamite of a show
oooh, I'm going to try that. What happens if you don't drop the pencil though? Or if it falls on carpet and doesn't make a noise??
Loved the show yesterday (as always) - especially the loo lady - how interesting was she???
Happy hump day all!
xxxxx
Did you catch the James May prog Chris?
James plus an original Mini - what more could a girl want.......
As for catnapping. Just keep off the complex carbs and you won't get such an energy dip.
Jan x
Well if Einstien did it!
Gingembre aka Kevin Wicks, I have been commenting on here but have got a few things on my mind at the mo! Nothing important and nothing for you guys to worry about. All I will say is 'you wait ages for a bus and then 3 come along at once!'
Last night I watched the David Beckham programme on the other side, oh he is lovely! But I missed my future hubbie Neil Oliver in Coast on ´óÏó´«Ã½2. I just adore that man, I think its the scottish accent and he's just great. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I think I will go and have my mini nap and dream of him!
i try to have as much sleep as i can during the working day.....although it drives the boss loopy...but im a much calmer person for it
Christophe, I LOVE IT when you come out with stuff like this...keeping it surreal...
BUT, I have to ask...
Is this the same as having an apple fall on your head?
I think that happened to me, as the only relativity I understand is that my favourite Aunt is a Cox's Orange Pippin.
Many thanks for your time
love
hazel
x
Actually, thinking about it, last time I fell asleep at work, I woke up with yogurt on my skirt where I'd dropped the spoon. Fortunately I hadn't fallen forward into said yogurt, and I have no idea as to how long I'd been asleep for, although the yogurt was still relatively moist rather than going off a bit.
In the meantime there was a fly, in the pot, surf-boarding on the remaining goo.
Time for my medication
love
hazel
x
He scored 5.5 for technique in case you were wondering...
Chris
Apparently, in your 'average day'.....you naturally have a big dip in energy levels at 2.20pm, which means that it is very easy to fall asleep at that time. I know that is a little obvious as, for many people, that is after lunch and, as we all know, eating does tend us towards a little sleep : )
Talking of learning.....I DO really like the bit in your show when you say....'so, what have we learned today......?'
Mange tout, mange tout
Gaby
xx
OMG one and all
I'm barred for sure. I wonder if this message will reach the light of day.
Broken fingernails hitting the keyboard. I need a good soak in the Bath followed by a rubbing down of false tan!
Cleudo was always my favourite game as a kid ... not that long ago!!! I assure you.
I guess I'm a bit of a dectective at heart.
Viva Las Vegas
Gingembre - just read your comment (the last one on yesterday's blog). I really feel for you and your colleagues. It must be horrendous. I used to be friendly with a guy who was a policeman. He said to me that he really couldn't tell me the things he had seen - but I could see the pain in his eyes.
Good advice from you - I always tell everyone I love, that I love them. And my smoke alarms are fed up with me footering with them to make sure they are working!
Thank you so much for what you do.
C xx
First time blogger but i feel i know you all 'cos i read the blog everyday. Love Chris's show. One day i'll get thru to ARF. Then i'll be truly happy!
I can't believe I telling you this but here goes....
Where I used to work, if I could feel myself drifting off a bit at my desk I would sneak off to the ladies and sit on the loo (lid down!) and close my eyes. By the time my head touched the wall and I then woke with a jump, I felt much better.
The girls at work probably thought I had digestive problems never thought of that before. Oh well.
Love Deb x
While visiting a company in Taiwan I saw loads of people asleep on their desks with their jackets over their heads. They even bring in pillows. I laughed that they were overworked and was told they they are taught to sleep at lunchtime from school age.
I looked into it some more and found that a 20 minute power nap is good for you as you described.
My Grandfather, who was in the Navy, could sleep for 15-20 minutes on demand. He says that he learn it through his service as you had to catch it where you could.
Hurrah. Christoffe Evanstein.
Ah yes. My dear departed father Eric used to power nap. He'd come in from work, chuck the 3 small granddaughters off his swingy chair and boom, "Get them zulus off and put my Countdown on", then announce "Right, men", (in a household full of girls, even the dog was a bitch; he was a rugger bugger, see, and consequently had all kinds of sexual issues goin' on, har har)..
"Right, men, I'm just 'avin' 20 minutes."
Whereupon he would settle back in exactly the same pose as when I last saw him, arms across the chest, and have just that. 20 minutes. He would just drop into a sound sleep, during which time the Royal Arse Ortillery could march past his chair letting off bangers and playing the big bass drum and he would remain soundly asleep.
Exactly 20 minutes later, bingo. No alarm, nothing, and off he'd go to his rugby club committee meeting fresh as a daisy and twice as thirsty and that was that.
And you know what. Enstein had nowt on Eric. Mind you, this was the son of the legendary barking mad Grandma, whose words of wisdom included,
'Tight shoes show on your face.
'Your Uncle Sid's that tight fisted 'e won't buy our Florrie a fridge 'cos 'e can't be sure when she shuts t' door, t' light goes off.
'Look 'ow fat 'e is in that safari suit. 'E favvers a brasted steak puddin'.
etc.
And the War Hero Granddad was equally astute, though his talents were less academic. As a Special Constable in Wigan during the War, he once discovered a dead horse in Shelmerdine Street. Having to write up his report, according to Granddad, he had to singlehandedly drag it into King Street as he couldn't spell Shelmerdine.
Who needs Confucius.
Clodagh.xx
By the way I've bin' abducted since Monday; did little Theo get 'is tiger teddy back? I've bin worried sick.
Cloagh.xx
And PS. Olivia. Huh. Tell 'er stop in. It's tactless bein' that gorgeous when there's old bids like me doin' our bit for Queen an' country with substandard equipment and bits droppin' off.
Some of us have just crossed the Big Red Lipstick Divide, when said cosmetic turns you into summat less like Dita Von Teese and more like Fanny Cradock after suckin' a beetroot.
C.xx
CLP, you asked for AE titbits so here goes...
the real meaning of E=MC2
M represents Mass, for the sake of argument we can say Mass=weight
C represents the speed of light, of course a huge number, so C squared is said huge number multiplied by itself, result is an immensly huge number.
So E Energy = weight multiplied by an immensly huge number
my point now being that your weight * an immensly huge number = enough energy to blow up the planet!
SO with all this energy why exactly do you need a sleep on the way to work?
~cuttsy~
Aaaaaaaaah, sleep.
I was really tired last night, stayed up reading Harry Potter 6 until it was time for my small one's last bottle. Looked forward to a full night's sleep - and then proceeded to hear the clock from 1 til 4. Really frustrating, so is there a reverse pencil trick for inducing sleep? I really need it!
Night all,
Kate
And another thing.
Lambie Pie.
That picture of yous in the white frock.
Get shut of it quick or I'll have to get meself down there, spit on me hanky and rub your ickle cheeks to within an inch of their lives. Yous'll have ringin' in the ears, vertigo and a face like a filleted turbot for 6 weeks.
Pucker up chuchie face.
Clodagh.xx
Aha! (NorskBand)
I love Einstein theory. I often sleep like that, didn't realise that it was just genius' who did that!
tee hee.
I can put my head down on the table and fall asleep. My husband calls it "Sleeping Sickness".
O M G _ My husband is reading me excerpts from the Danish Jamboree Hand Book!!! ha ha - Useful Phrases. "My Sleeping Bag is wet, can I share yours?" "The Blue of the Uniform brings out the gleam in your eye". "let's button our uniforms together". "We could weave our twist breads together!!" Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for bringing kids from different nations together, but doesn't this sound strange.....
Obviously promoting relations!!!
DWNB
Chris
A few of my fave quotes from Einstein
(did you know btw that he allegedly preferred
his feet naked, on the basis of the big toe always endedup making a hole in the sock.
I can't remember now if it was Einstein
who - allegedly - used to ask what time
the next station arrived at this train. Anyway,
on to the quotes ) :
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very
persistent one
Gravitation can not be held responsible for
people falling in love
Anyone who has never made a mistake has
never tried anything new
Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,
and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty
girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
THAT'S relativity !
Only two things are infinite, the universe and
human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former
The difference between stupidity and genius
is that genius has its limits.
(and the three that made me think he should
have been a politician : )
If A equals success, then the formula is:
A=X+Y+Z where X is work, Y is play,
Z is keep your mouth shut
The secret to creativity is knowing how to
hide your sources
If the facts don't fit the theory,
change the facts
Re power-napping (etc)
For as long as I can remember, I've had
the 'facility' of going on to what I call
"reduced power". To look at me, you'd think
I was asleep but I aint; I can hear what's
going on around me but I can't interact with
it. So for instance, when the 2pm news comes
on R2, I come out of it. Not the first time
I've caught people talking about me !
Sometimes though, if I do doze off, all it
takes is my name to be mentioned and
I am bright and breezy. Years and years ago
I went to visit pals. They decided to go in
to town to "the Union" but I couldn't be
bothered. So they left me in the flat and
inevitably I dozed off in front of the TV.
They came back after an hour and discovered
they had left their keys in the flat. No worries,
I was already there. They rang the bell,
knocked etc etc but no reply. They assumed
I had left and broke the door down to get in.
They came in to the living room and one
whispered "Aw look at him, Steve must
be really tired" and I woke up bright and
breezy and said "Oh, are you back?".
You can guess the "Not pelased" level
for yourselves.
Re Bonnie Tyler and "Holding out for
a Hero" that has just been played.
Did you (collectively) know that B/T waltzed
in to the studio and did that in ONE take ?
Hello - I often read this blog but haven't contributed before.
I'd love to be able to take a short nap, but once I've dropped off to sleep nothing seems to wake me up easily, let alone the tiny sound of a pencil hitting the floor. I've been known to sleep through a fire alarm in a hotel (very scary - luckily it was a false alarm).
However, I did manage to wake myself up the other night after nodding off while reading in bed - by dropping the book onto my face! Maybe this is an alternative approach for those of us who aren't easily wakened by noises?
How on earth does anyone fall asleep without being in bed after dark ??? I can't.
The daughter has suggested I issue a word of warning to anybody power-napping if you've got friends like mine.
After a somewhat strenuous night out in Cheshire's Nonceland, the bunch of sadists I call my mates and I finished up back at one of their houses in the wee small hours, the worse for rocket fuel and anaesthetic, and crashed out where we fell. Working in London as I was then, I'd been up at some ungodly hour that morning, done a full days' work and driven up to said mate's before going straight out on the lash and was therefore first to hit the sofa.
Drifting into consciousness with the birds twittering, fully dressed and hair like Phyllis Diller, viewing the carnage and corpses around me, I decided to sneak out and home before my abductors noticed. Grabbing my bag and abandoning the search for my shoe I shot off like Penelope Pitstop.
I did notice the bemused looks and sniggers I got from the chap on the toll booth and the Hooray Henry at the traffic lights but just thought it was the mad hair. Parking the car and bidding a Good Morning to my somewhat snotty neighbour and his dog, I opened my front door, opposite which I had a large mirror.
Imagine my delight upon copping the face staring lividly back.
With drawn on Billy Bunter glasses, moustache and spots, and a big red nose.
So a word of caution. When your book drops on your head or your nose falls into your yoghurt at the end of your power nap, check yourself out for graffiti before attempting your next presentation to the World Bank.
Clodagh.xx
First time posting for me!
Writing this while working nights. Power naps are the bees knees. 20 minutes at the end of my break sets me up for the rest of the shift (12 1/2 hours!). Should be made compulsory I reckon.
Love n stuff
First time posting for me!
Writing this while working nights. Power naps are the bees knees. 20 minutes at the end of my break sets me up for the rest of the shift (12 1/2 hours!). Should be made compulsory I reckon.
Love n stuff
Oh, Clodagh, SO many memories...I think I may have met your Barry before, at several parties I attended in a previous life...before he decided to take up his One Man One Squirrel crusade, I think it was him who used to nail people to the floor, by their sleeves and trousers, draw on their face, and after placing a lit cigarette in their mouth, rousing them from their drunken stupor, and laugh like a drain coz they couldn't move.
Prior to this all we ever did was pile food up on top of dozers heads or in their laps, and persuade whatever dog may have been present that it was ok to eat up...
I'm going to have nightmares now.
That's why you'll always find me in the kitchen at parties
love
hazel
x
Anyhoo, Gingembre, my dad was a cop, I have been a funeral director, I know exactly what you mean...my heart goes out to you, your colleagues and the stricken family.
So, did anyone see Top Gear last night? How did that one slip under the radar? Nearly missed it - the boys giong to the North (or was it the South) Pole - brilliant tv!!
Sal, hope your back is better this morning - what HAVE you been up to????
Thirsty Thursday, hurrah!
xxxxxxx
Oh my God Gingembre- Just read your post for yesterday. That must have been awful I couldn't imagine what its like and I don't want to know. I hope you and everyone is ok.
Tinsel, me and the Badger watched it...it was only mentioned after James May's show on Tuesday evening, but the boy noticed it in the TV pages too, so had reserved the remote control between the hours of 8 and 9.
Absolutely sublime telly, too many fabulous bits, but when James asked Jeremy to slow down while he sliced the lemon...you don't get quality like that every day!
Poor Hamster though! And what beautiful dogs. My dad used to drive huskies when he was in the Royal Marines...they just keep on going...a bit like Mr Hammond!
North Pole
love
hazel
x
Then I watched Heroes. Not a bad bit of telly either, but what's the woman about with the little boy and dead people? 'Super Dual-personality Girl'? Is she gonna be a baddie d'ya think?
Morning!
Yes, I saw the Top Gear Polar Special, Tinsel - great stuff and Hammond certainly deserved to win just because of the conditions he faced. Clarkson and May + big truck were slightly advantaged I think!
As for the power nap debate - can be a great thing but there are times when you have a quick nap then wake up feeling worse and want to go back to sleep longer. However we have just found some cushions in our office today - dare I brave a quick lunchtime snooze?!
Hope you all have great days!
Cat x
Sorry, but I have to bring this to everyones attention...
Also available in Coyote fur.
Hazel Love #37....and we thought Mr Woods had big biceps......dream on (T)tiger : )
Top Gear....brilliant!!
Top Gear was indeed brilliant. I can completly see Jeremy and James way of thinking by having a G&T! Not exactly much traffic around was there and the baby polar bears. AWWWWWWW!
Well Benefit update. It has now been 2 months and 2 days since I got the awful letter through saying they had cut off my incapacity benefit. I phoned the helpline today for an update. She said that the decision makers had just been looking at my case (yeah right!) and that they couldn't change the decision. So now it goes off to an independant decision maker where they look at the case again. This could take up to 12 weeks!! Do I scream, Do I cry,Do I write to This Morning or Jeremy Vine for help, I don't really know what to do! It really makes me sick, that when I could I worked so hard. I was hardly ever sick. I never took advantage and now I'm having this blip and they are really NOT helping. Ok now gonna go on the web and look to see what help I can get, because they don't tell you anything and also the tears are starting. Thank you Job Centre!
Dear Christoph lummy pie,
As a wagon driver I reguarly have a power nap it makes sense. At the end of the day I think we are all just big batteries
Take a car battery it needs water to work, we need food and water to work. It needs charging for 8 hours, we need sleep for 8 hours. It can have a 15 min boost charge, we have a power sleep.
So to all employers out there we should be allowed to have a power nap if we need one. It would relieve stress, give better productivity and so give us a better working environment. Everybody would be happy to go to work and would not have to take a sicky like Ms Boazman ??!!
Cheers byeee!
just a quickie today (ooh-err)
missy - I hope you get it all sorted as there are soooo mnay shirkers and scroungers out there fleecing the system leaving people like you all upset and stressed.
I hope this next bit cheers you up after your comment re: 3 buses coming along - I was on CLP's blog during my break at work and clicked onto your page (amongst everyone elses) - anyhoo your B&W pic caused quite a stir with my colleagues all wanting to know who you were and how I knew you!
Clodagh - your granddad/horse story made me roar with laughter yesterday, very very funny
Got my appointments all sorted re the gammy knee - start next Thursday!
Bonnet de douche
KWx
PS... I wasn't realy looking for a response with my 'smoke alarm' entry but thank you to those that bothered to read and remark. I love my job but there are days when it smacks you in the face and it was nice to have somewhere to get it off my chest. Kirk x
Gingembre- oh blimey shouldn't those coppers but out catching criminals or something! This whole benefit thing is just so annoying. You have to fill in page after page saying the same thing over and over again. Wait up to 6 months for an answer maybe if they could see me on the days where my legs and arms sting and ache and when I'm white as a sheep and look awful. Believe me I don't look like that pic all the time!
(((((Missy)))))) - it's so unfair - as Gingembre says, there are so many people out there fleecing the system and then the people who really need the help don't get it - makes me soooo angry - I'm grrrrrrrrrring for you if that's any help.
Have you tried the Citizen's Advice? Do you have ME (think that's what the problem was)? Is there an ME society that can offer some advice? Can't your doc officially sign you off so the benefits people know you're not making it up?????
You've probably tried all that already, but just in case ...
There must be a blogger who has some knowledge of what you can do, surely ......
xxx
Hello everyone - thirsty thursday again - where do the weeks go??
HL- have seen your emails, thank you soooooooo much for your kind words.
missy - hang on in there missy. i know its easy for me to say, but try not to get too down in the doldrums over the benefit issue. you don't need stress at the mo, so try to take it easy and remain calm in the face of red tape adversity. personlly, i'd set jeremy kyle on them - he'd sort them out good and proper!
i was blog-absent yesterday. i had to go to a meeting in the morning and then felt dog rough/tired and just couldn't face coming into the office so i went home, put my PJs on (in the afternoonn!) and relaxed. i think the events of the last few days finally caught up with me. feel much better today tho ... probably helped by ...
last night's TOP GEAR special. Yep - magic, gold, fan-flamin'-tastic! does anyone know when it was filmed? surely they wouldn't let or Hamster do that after his crash, would they??? myself and Mr Diva were in hysterics at the lads' antics - which wasn't good news for Mr Diva as laughing still hurts - bit like Harry Potter and his painful scar - Mr Diva has one of those at the mo!
Tonight is "earl" night - if you've never seen it, give it a go - wonderful trailer trash comedy!!
Right, i'm off to peruse the interweb for the rest of my lunch hour. will nip back in this afternoon to say "hi" - but not anything like Sally saying hello!
Hugs galore!
CtD x x
PS: thunderbolts and lightnin' very very frightenin' !!
Top Gear last night was Top Notch, You just knew that at some point Sir Ranulph Clarkson was going to get all Ayrton Senna on the throttle and Kerrash! What about the Bumper Dumper? Poor old Hamster, you can now see why he left his car in the floods last week and ran the 16 miles home for his daughters birthday. Did any other ladies have the same reaction as my wife when Hammy appeared with a little stubble growth? i.e. ohmygod he's even more gawjus! I go without shaving for 3 days and get GBH of the ear'ole!
Missy! Hang in there kitten!
HL Hope the new (2U) car will have a Cat-a-lick-it convertor?
DD out
PS Albert said that E=MC2
PPS Chris, drop the bell
PPPS Magnetic North is OK but I wouldn't get stuck on it! I's not metal!
PPPPS Schuh-wing those pants!
Christoffe Lamb Pie.
This may be a crap idea but you'll BP it if it is.
Thing is I'm off on Sunday to Galway for Race Week, and unfortunately I have to return to Dublin on Thursday, FEK. Ladies' Day. Bugger. Now this leaves me with two tickets not used for the best day of the week and of course they're not transferable, so rather than bin them I wondered if any of the bloggers would like them.
The accommodation costs are truly horrendous during Race Week; nay at this stage I doubt there would be anything within a 50 km radius of Galway available so it would need to be someone with friends or family over there.
What dyou reckon. I'm not going to leave contact numbers or arrange any meetings since if the rest of the fekn eejits who write here are as daft as meself I'd be truly afraid; but I can leave said tickets at a pre-arranged location if anybody wants them.
And no, you can't borrow me hat. I shall be wearin' that as a protest en route to Dublin with me roof off so as not to squash me gladdies and me stuffed parrot.
Clodagh.xx
E=Mzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
apparently.......Mr E (no Chris, I mean Albert) hated Scrabble. Aside from his favourite past-time sailing ("the sport which demands the least energy"), Einstein shunned any recreational activity that required mental agility. As he told the New York Times, "When I get through with work I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."
In harsh comparison......does that mean, if you DO enjoy the odd game of Scrabble, you've not deployed your neurons correctly up to that point?
just a thought
(consequently, I won't be playing scrabble later)
love 'n'nstuff
SNS
x
Clodagh - I'm still having BIG TRUB offloading my Scissor Sisters tickets for tomorrow night. I think I'll just go into Tesco on the way home and give them to the first hard-done-by looking checkout girl!
CtD x x x
Oh dear oh dear Bloggers and Blogettes.
That previous missive sounded vaguely insulting to the lot of yous GENIUSES, I'm so sorry for the way I phrased it there.
I just haven't thought it through yet and am always cautious of giving out contact information.
Must go; I've to get out the hair shirt and the horse whip and go see Sister Assumpta for absolution.
Clodagh.xx
I read somewhere that he had 7 identical suits so when he went to get dressed it didn't provide him with a choice so he didn't lose vital though processing on mundane (to him anyway) issues...
Sometimes I am serious one and all.
Missy, when you are feeling unwell it does tend to make you tearful, As far as benefits go.... well, I recently moved house to escape abusive neighbours from hell. I can't tell you how much abuse I suffered over the 6 years I lived there. I digress, but just to say that neither of them work he claims to have a bad back and as they are not married she claims a carer's allowance. They even spotted a new social services directive, in that I carer who does not live on the property can claim more money. They then applied for planning permission for a static caravan for her to supposedly live in.He has a check up every spring by the social services so you will see him for a few weeks on sticks however the rest of the time he is as active as the next person.
They happen to be ex Gypsies who seem to know every trick in the book.
How dumb the social services are at times.
In your plight I would seek professional help and wish you luck.
Gingembre. Not sure if you are a fireman or a policeman both extremely stressful jobs though.
Clodagh. Luved your party story.
Normal service will be resumed next time around!
Good evening.
EINSTIEN is the most famous dyslexic.....