August 17, 2006

Lazicopedia - Sleep and Laziness

today was a longday.

first time i was out of the house since last friday when i reached ahmedabad. nothing unusual when i am at home.

even my craving for cigarattes wont let my flat-ass move an inch. that too in the heat and traffic of ahmedabad, never, i rather would die starving even if dont have any food at home.life is really difficult out there, when i go downstairs it is even more difficult. below 3rd floor out of my room my den everything is very hostile.

just now baba moved to have some food and i am also thinking about going downstairs to get some groundnuts. today i ate few out there on the gates of iim-ahmedabad. i never ever will be able to go inside( though i was once inside there too pee) as a student, i love that building. a good work of architecture. sometimes i enjoy sitting out there and smoking cigarettes.

how i reached there today is a long story, it is just 7 kilometers away from my house but today it was like 7 lightyears away. traffic in ahmedabad is deadly and today,a holiday, was even worse. everybody around gathered on the bridges to watch overflowing sabarmati river. river front project is a distant dream now, every thing is washed and modi's hopes too. it took me a good part of one full hour just to cross the bridge from one end to another.new amdavad is no better than the old walled city. it is even worse i think as far as traffic is concerned. was a very painful day really.

no movement is the best movement.

now for last 3 hours i have been preparing all the links for lazicopedia, and few of them are here for you today.how sleep is related to laziness? how important it is too sleep till noon? what are sleep disorders and myths? how can we improve our sleeping habits and laziness? all articles i have found at wikipedia and google-scholars suggest that it is good and interlinked with laziness.all the articles can tell you tonns about sleep, laziness and meditation. just check them out. full articles will be available soon on lazicopedia.

++Important key words to use for further research and googling. good luck.
+ Hypersomnia
+ Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS)
+ Actigraphy+ Narcolepsy
+ Sleep apnea

++now the wikipedia links:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_evaluation
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Anthropology_of_sleep
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Footnotes
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excessive_sleeping
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Airway_Resistance_Syndrome_(UARS)
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcolepsy
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea

+findings:
1. in computer programming lazy evaluation is a technique that attempts to delay computation of expressions until the results of the computation are known to be needed.
2. Sloths have made extraordinary adaptations to an arboreal browsing lifestyle. Leaves, their main food source, provide very little energy or nutrition and do not digest easily: sloths have very large, specialized, slow-acting stomachs with multiple compartments in which symbiotic bacteria break down the tough leaves.
3. Recent research suggests that sleep patterns vary significantly across cultures. [1] The most striking differences are between societies that have plentiful sources of artificial light and ones that do not.
4. Footnotes 1. ^ Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep Foldvary-Schaefer N. Grigg-Damberger M. Sleep and epilepsy: what we know, don't know, and need to know. [Review] [242 refs] [Historical Article. Journal Article. Review] Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 23(1):4-20, 2006 Feb.
5. Hypersomnia is an excessive amount of sleepiness, resulting in an inability to stay awake. Even though people with hypersomnia sleep for more hours at night than is considered necessary (or even healthy), they may still need to take frequent naps in order to remain awake and alert during the day.
6. Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome ("UARS") is a condition in which patients complain about excessive daytime sleepiness and there are symptoms of airway resistance.
7. Actigraphy is a method of activity and sleep study achieved by mounting a small actigraph unit on a patient for an extended period of time. The unit itself typically includes a small accelerometer and continually records the movements it undergoes.
8. Narcolepsy is a neurological condition most characterized by Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS), episodes of sleep and disorder of REM or rapid eye movement sleep. It is a kind of dyssomnia.
9. Sleep apnea (alternatively sleep apnoea) is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep. These episodes, called apneas (literally, "without breath"), each last long enough so one or more breaths are missed, and occur repeatedly throughout sleep.

>> this are the links and relative findings and articles available on them. knowing the importance of sleep in our lives i have further searched about the topics and now have few links available on sleep and orders/disorders. will post all the links here for general benefit of lazy community. as google-scholar says, stand on the shoulders of the giants. a brief about the links are ther below them.

>http://neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/46/2/393
The clinical spectrum of narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia

>http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/hypersomnia/
hypersomnia.htm
ha ha, baba they think that hypersomnia is a neuro-psychological disorder. i think we can easily prove those scientist wrong in a flicker. be ready with your hammer but let the iron be red.

> http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/hypersomnia.htm
Hypersomnia is excessive sleepiness. It is an excessively deep or prolonged major sleep period. It may be associated with difficulty in awakening. It is believed to be caused by the central nervous system and can be associated with a normal or prolonged major sleep episode and excessive sleepiness consisting of prolonged (1-2 hours) sleep episodes of non-REM sleep and is characterized by....

>http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcArticles.nsf/pages/
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcArticles.nsf/pages/Hypersomnia?OpenDocument
what do they talk about sleep and hypersomnia? find it out here on talkaboutsleep official website. good luck.

>http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/conference/
2006 National Patient Sleep Conference
Overview
TalkAboutSleep is pleased to announce that we are hosting the Inaugural National Patient Sleep Conference. ha ha ha, they are having conference about sleep where they think everyone will be awake to listen to them. god bless those americans.

>http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?
The Role of Actigraphy in the Evaluation of Sleep Disorders

>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1519002&dopt=Citation
To assess the use of actigraphy in evaluating insomnia, 36 patients with a serious complaint of insomnia slept 3 nights each in the laboratory, where the usual polysomnograms (PSGs) were obtain ...

>http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid
=185826&tools=bot
Sympathetic neural mechanisms in obstructive sleep apnea.

>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
Sleep Apnea and Hypertension: A Population-based Study

all this are medical, neurological and psychological journals and they are backing what we think. this is really feel good factor for all lazy people around the world and especially who enjoy to sleep. even they think that those are disorders i think we are in perfect order, rhythem and harmony with nature. sleep till noon.

enough of searches and dogpiles today. now i think i am really running out of the gas. my tank is both empty and full. upper tank is now empty and lower one is full. so i finally have to move my ass as baba also logged out and now may be thinking about how painful it is to work at this hour. we always used to smoke and read newpapers at this hour near samrat. now i think all that is a distant past.i alone sometimes go to THE STATION early in the morning and enjoy smoke and newspapers their but now no one is their to discuss those very important topics and headlines. haha. enough for today i think. will again strike back tomorrow with more links and laziness. amen.

Site will be launched soon renamed as: www.lazicopedia.co.nr

long live brotherhood. long live laziness.

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