What in the world is keeping you up at night? Official Thread

[frank ryan]

Haha! Let me guess...you're both glass half-empty kind of people. I speaking the quality not quantity of how babies sleep.

What wakes me up? My alarm. I have to get to work by 0530. After a full hard day's work, falling asleep is a piece of cake. Now go dissect that metaphor.

The glass is both half empty and half full.

[Jeff Lebowski]

"Hmm... Did I lock the back door? Pretty sure I did. Maybe I didn't. No, pretty sure I did. But what if I didn't?"

"Is it 6am yet? Did I sleep through my alarm? No, go back to sleep. But maybe the alarm went off and I didn't hear it."

"Crap, I have a ton of stuff to do this week. I wonder if I will be able to get that proposal written. I should ignore all of my email tomorrow."

[swampfrog]

What about lumping all liberals together as “The left,” or “leftists?”

If you're wondering if I think that is exactly the same problem, I do. Labels are difficult, often they are used to simplify conversation, but using them risks incorrectly categorizing individuals. However, mob mentality is a reality. Bret talks about this in the documentary. If he has the opportunity to converse individually, healthy dialog is possible, but when a mob is confronting him he is at their mercy, and they don't have any.

[old_gregg]

If you're wondering if I think that is exactly the same problem, I do. Labels are difficult, often they are used to simplify conversation, but using them risks incorrectly categorizing individuals. However, mob mentality is a reality. Bret talks about this in the documentary. If he has the opportunity to converse individually, healthy dialog is possible, but when a mob is confronting him he is at their mercy, and they don't have any.

poor bret

[BigPiney]

Last night it was a liter of Dr Pepper and trying to sleep on a friend's couch.

[Pelado]

Last night it was a liter of Dr Pepper and trying to sleep on a friend's couch.

What kept you out of your own bed? Should that be its own thread?

[BigPiney]

What kept you out of your own bed? Should that be its own thread?

Dropping my daughter of at a leadership conference at Pepperdine. Our friends live only 40 minutes away from Malibu, while I live over 4 hours away. Nothing exciting to add to the reason my spouse is mad at me thread.

[Pelado]

We're driving to Utah in the morning and the anticipation is not permitting sleep.

[chrisrenrut]

Tonight, it’s jet lag. Sucks, knowing i have to return to work tomorrow after a week off and, and will be very busy and tired all day

[LiveCoug]

Thunderstorms last night. That's about the only thing that would keep me awake. I never lie in bed worrying about stuff. I usually hit the pillow and and gone.

[Applejack]

Existentialism

[Green Monstah]

Gravitational time dilation. I can wrap my head around time dilation caused by motion, but I am having a really hard time finding a layman's explanation for why time moves slower nearer to the source of a gravitational field that is an actual explanation rather than simply "your GPS works correctly because Einstein was right."

[Green Monstah]

Thunderstorms last night. That's about the only thing that would keep me awake. I never lie in bed worrying about stuff. I usually hit the pillow and and gone.

Quite a lightning show last night.

[Northwestcoug]

Gravitational time dilation. I can wrap my head around time dilation caused by motion, but I am having a really hard time finding a layman's explanation for why time moves slower nearer to the source of a gravitational field that is an actual explanation rather than simply "your GPS works correctly because Einstein was right."

My daughter's boyfriend, who is a physics major, can't dumb it down for me either.

[Uncle Ted]

Thunderstorms last night. That's about the only thing that would keep me awake. I never lie in bed worrying about stuff. I usually hit the pillow and and gone.

I sleep right through Texas size thunderstorms anymore... I think a tornado would have to rip the roof off on my house to wake me up. Fortunately the thunderstorms keep my wife up and watching the weather for me.