Sinabro

To expand on “sleep is optional” bit earlier, in all seriousness, sleeping in the usual sense (sleeping in a bed, for example) is entirely optional.

Unless you have a rare disease, like “fatal familial insomnia“, your body will do what it needs to do (fall asleep, go into a short nap, etc.). There is absolutely no reason for you to go through the ritual where, perhaps because to a lazy person spending 4 to 5 hours unconscious is not enough of wasting of time, spend additional 10 to 30 minutes trying to make oneself fall unconscious for a few hours or so. If you had needed to be unconscious, you will fall unconscious.

Anything else is a luxury and should be recognized as thus.

In my dream last night, I think I just met my guardian angel of handiness.

Wonders of Google. I was trying to stalk do background check on this one person, and for some reason, I made a typo in the name. And, guess what—Google corrected it for me! (… leading to the right results—this person had done a lot of things and hence significant web presence.)

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised at this, but I still find it rather amusing that, as I google around for some general topics related to the research I am doing (topics relating to the apparatus and the material), past work by my advisor keeps showing up, some as old as 1999, and some as recently as 2006, in references of random papers, and sometimes in the Google result itself.