Hacking Mornings

This post is about hacking the morning routine.

The majority of people wake up to an alarm, wash themselves in some way, get something to wake em up...most likely coffee, then proceed to work/school/what the fuck ever.

Well first lets start with the alarm. Actually using an alarm is bad for your health. The sudden amazingly loud sound brings your body to a state in which you are ready for a flight or fight response. It's not intended to bring you to a state of arousal. It's to snap you into a reality which is horrible. The human body uses other responses in order to wake up properly. If you can set it to where the light in your room reverse dims brighter slowly to wake you up then when you wake up you'll actually be in a full state of arousal. You'll be awake and much more likely to proceed through your day and not be tired. I personally hate being tired, I don't know about you but I think it sucks going through your day bogged down.

Next is when you wash yourself in some way. Many people take a shower of some sort or a bath. The best way to wake up is a warm bath in which the water is moving(a jacuzzi). This brings you back to your animal instinct to where you relax feeling safe but waking you up quick enough to where you're perfectly fine. Brushing your teeth and such comes after this. It's just something you have to do because it impeads you're waking up in so many ways. You just have to get used to it.

Next is something to help wake ya up. Coffee is the prominent choice of energy in America which I believe is complete bullshit. Grab an apple for breakfast. An apple has more reserve energy in it than 10 cups of coffee. Eating 1 apple and you'll be awake for a good long period of time. Plus it's healthier, soposedly. Personally I just skip breakfast and eat 2 lunches and 4 dinners, but thats just me.

When you leave your home for whatever you might be leaving for you'll want to be slightly warmer than it is outside so that while you're driving your consciousness registers things more prominently. If you drive for more than 5 minutes then when you reach your destination you'll be fully awake and ready for the day.

So to recap.
No Alarm
No Shower
No Coffee
No Cold

If one of these things will take more time then give it to it. You shouldn't stress yourself in the mornings, you'll pay for it later.

AK

Hacking Life

This is the first of a few posts that is going to take on the basics of "hacking life" or applying reverse engineering, shortcuts, troubleshooting, and

It seems logical to start off with the process we start and end each day with. Sleep...

The Uberman Style of Life:

The Uberman sleep cycle refers to a style of life to which you cannot commit yourself that would require more than 4 hours of your time. The basics of this lifestyle is that you're awake for 4 hours then you sleep for a half an hour. Since your body is then only getting 2 hours of sleep a day then your mind tricks itself to entering REM sleep sooner to where as soon as you fall asleep you begin to dream and replentish your reserves for the day. This allows a 16 hour work day. This lifestyle requires that the nutritional value of the food you ingest is higher than the average person's. This lifestyle is often referred to as "polyphasic sleep" as there are multiple phases of sleep each day.

AKiratima's Cycling Lifestyle:

This is a process in which you lower your body's required sleep time to the point in which you are awake for 48 hour periods then sleep a normal sleep schedule. This requires training your body to endure long periods of high energy useage without a replentishing phase. This is normally believed to require lots of sugar for energy but it's quite the opposite. This requires protein, carbohydrates, a high calorie intake, as well as a grand supply of fruits being put into your system. The food regiment usually required for this entails :Salad with whatever you want on it(cheese, meat chunks, pepperoni, black olives, etc.) This also goes for the salad dressing you're going to put on it. Anything you want; Meats are next on the menu...beef, chicken, pork, and if you like it, which I don't, some fish. You'll skip desert and instead take another meal in per 24 hour period. You will now be taking in 4 meals a day and roughly 6-7 snacks regularly. These include beverages. Snacks usually entail a ham sandwich or an orange or an apple or something to that nature. Food can be prepared any way you want...grilled, fried, baked...whatever works. Once you start changing your food schedule to this you will begin staying up a half an hour later every 2 days. Be sure to wake up at the same time every day, just go to sleep a bit later. This will change your sleep pattern to something similar to mine. This is more of a Bi-Annual phasic sleep. Since you sleep once every 2 days in the end. This can be pushed further. At one time I was sleeping only 3 hours every 2 days so test the limits of this if you feel froggy.

28 Hour Days 6 Days a Week:

This is a system adopted by quite a few people, and even a few that I know personally. This Requires changing your workday to 10 hours, personal time to 7 hours, and then you get 9 hours of sleep. Both the 24 and the 28 hour day allow a 2 hour period in the morning to prepare and commute to where you need to be. This still allows you to work 40 hours a week since you repete this 28 hour day 4 times a week (in regards to work). This does however cause one of your days to be contained within a period of darkness, unless you are to make that day a day off and you move your work day closer to the modern weekend. This would be considered a monophasic sleep cycle since you'd be changing the period of time that the day would be considered and shortening the week to 6 days. The other two work withing the 24 hour day idealism.

All three of these are much more productive than our current lifesyle which is the 24 hour 7 days a week 9-5 work day 5 day work week. Personally I run the AKiratima cycling lifestyle...but I'm not gonna try to persuade you to another random one which wouldn't benefit you nearly as much as the one I created.

AK

Speed kills, but beauty lives forever

Recently there's been a slew of motor vehicle hacking. Well, here I am talking about even more.

In Europe around 2000/2001 it was decided that 200 mph is too fast for a motorcycle so they said any motorcycle that could excede 187 mph would be banned. Well, what if we were to buy a speed capped motorcycle and...modify it?

So the ZX1200-A2 is capped. The ZX1200-A1 isn't. When comparing the two we find 1 extra wire in the ECU, engine control unit, and obviously this is the thing limiting it. Right? The new wire is #9 yellow which connects to a sensor. This seems to be the thing that limits the speed. Cutting this wire seems logical. Break the connection and it'll work perfect...Right?....wrong, this causes it to go into a fault mode. This causes the exact opposite reaction. The bike is now limited to much slower of a speed. The normal voltage on a signal is 5v and it works out to be 3357Hz while going 186 mph. If we could replace the signal being sent with a signal that never goes past 3000hz then the motorcycle will never stop it's advance of speed until physically impossible.

Good stuff. Here's a link to a guy who ended up putting Unix on his bike, among other things.

If you have any good motorcycle hacking tips post a comment on here. I kinda got onto the whole motorcycle thing cause my friend just got a new bmw motorcycle.

AK

Damn Blogger!

OK, so I've posted twice since the last post and neither of them were posted. Hopefully this one is gonna post. I've actually wised up and opted to copy all this to a text file just in case it doesn't work this time. I don't know why but Blogger and Audio Blogger have been FUCKIN up!

Anyway, Time for Piracy on the High Seas.

NEWS:
#1
Randolph Guthrie was recently deported from China where he was arrested and jailed for piracy. He served 5 or so months then was deported back to the US. His operation was based out of Shanghai with the help of an accomplice, Abram Thrush. Sadly, Abram was sentenced to a year and pretty much dissapeared off the face of the planet. He's probably been killed in some alley. Thats why it's better to get caught in the US. You go to jail and get 3 meals a day, less prisoner abuse, easier sentencing.

#2
Microsoft believes that they can knock out piracy in a single bound. They believe they've created the ultimate in pirate protection. It's a one time use dvd. HMMM, well...I do believe that this was tried once before. In the early times of DVDs there was a counterpart that was much like this. Just like the battle between cassette and 8-track. Then cassette to cd. As well as beta and vhs. There was a dvd vs. 1 time use disc. The public though the 1 time use was wasteful and pointless thus the DVD jumped into the foreground.

#3
The RIAA has effectively been stopping Congress from passing bills set to prevent online piracy. Wait, lets read that again...riaa....stop...bill...prevent...piracy. Hmmm, something's not right here. Oh wait, thats right...If legislation is passed on piracy then the RIAA, MPAA, etc. are out HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in lawsuits. The legislation against it would make it an actual crime, which right now it's not, and getting caught would come with jail time...not a subpoena.

I could rant and rave about how the RIAA/MPAA/etc. are completely fuckin up in their ways. Piracy has not only jumped, but fuckin skyrocketed since they made such a big ruckas about it. Before only computer savy people knew how to get movies and such, but now that the common folk who aren't computer savy know that you only need a program then they're all jumping on the bandwagon.

Steve Jobs...I just wanna commend you for your fortitude. The recording companies want the prices on itunes raised but you refused. Good call. You've had a good haul when it's come to technology in general. I like you. Got the mac, the ipod, all kinds of good shit. Plus, unlike other places, you make smart decisions when it comes to battling piracy.

Piracy is too wide spread, it's a foe that cannot be stopped, it cannot be controlled.
Keep yourself informed. Knowledge is power.

AK

p.s. - Hack the planet