The time has gone really quickly this morning cause I have been looking at Flickr. I am starting to think there must be a Flickr group for anything and everything. I have found the fountain pens group, the fat cats group, and now librarians’ desks!
Was also looking for the script of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer micro sleeps (as pointed out by Mooiness), and finally found it. The episode is The Friars Club.
KRAMER: Hey everybody. (to Jerry) Listen, uh, do me a favour, will you? I got a hot date tonight with Connie. Knock on my door, wake me up in twenty minutes, alright?
JERRY: Catnap?
KRAMER: No, no, no, no. (comes in) This is evolutionary. I been reading this book, on Leonardo de Vinci. See, that means ‘from Vinci’, d’you know that?
JERRY: (deadpan) That must be some book.
KRAMER: Yeah, well, turns out that the master slept only twenty minutes every three hours. Now, that works out to two and a half extra days, that I’m awake per week, every week. Which means, if I live to be eighty, I will have lived the equivalent of a hundred and five years.
JERRY: Just imagine how much more you’ll accomplish.
KRAMER: Oh, I got a lot of things in the hopper, buddy.
Kramer heads for the door.
JERRY: I didn’t know you had a hopper.
KRAMER: (smiling) Oh, I got a hopper. A big hopper.
That series was just classic.
Just for the record, I am getting enough sleep (between 7-8 hours a night) – I don’t think I could ‘micro sleep’ like Kramer and stay productive (or sane)!
[Edit 1 July 8:14am: After reading this post, M says he would like to try Da Vinci sleeping sometime! ¡Ay caramba!]
Categories: Flickr, experiments, sleep, Seinfeld
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Hahah yeah that was such a classic ep. 🙂 After a few days of doing that Kramer just conked out for days.
Ahhh.. Seinfeld. Why don’t they make tv like that anymore? Big Brother doesn’t come close!