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LifeloggingI am Apollo Lemmon and this is my lifestream. I invite you to join me in my exploration of an integral life. I am focused on discovering what it means to live a life rooted in integral consciousness and I explore spirituality, art, community, technology, fitness and other aspects of a fully engaged life. I am now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I can always be reached at apollo@apollolemmon.com
Continuing since my previous post, I have listened to at least one new album each day.
For the 30 days spanning February 16th and March 18th I will be listening to at least one album I have not yet heard each day. Here is the second set of 9 albums.
February 22, 2010
Volcano Choir – Unmap
February 23, 2010
Katzenjammer – Le Pop
February 24, 2010
Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave
Butch Walker – I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart
Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
February 25, 2010
Hungry Lucy – Glo
Paramore – Brand New Eyes
Wolfmother – Cosmic Egg
February 26, 2010
Star One – Space Metal
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. During the time measured for this report I averaged 7.47 hours of sleep, 1.54 hours of exercise and 0 hours of meditation each day. The ten foods and drinks I consumed most were Texas caviar, fussili, Soyeat, brown rice, bananas, aloo gobi paratha, Jamaican vegetable patties, Memories of Roma sauce, cheese pizza and French vanilla cappuccino.
I was derailed from strength training after injuring my arm and shoulder, but I am back to that again as of today.
This is a quick digest and analysis of my lifelogging data from 4:31pm Wednesday January 27, 2010 to 11:00pm Wednesday February 24, 2010.
As I mentioned in my previous post, “Apollo’s Music Timeline“, I haven’t been adding new music to my collection at the rate I have in previous years. That is changing now with a new project. For the 30 days spanning February 16th and March 18th I will be listening to at least one album I have not yet heard each day. Here I am presenting the first 9 albums.
February 16, 2010
Moby – Wait for Me
Everclear – In a Different Light
February 17, 2010
Magneta Lane – Gambling With God
Julian Casablancas – Phrazes For The Young
February 18, 2010
Madder Mortem – Eight Ways
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels
February 19, 2010
Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
February 20, 2010
Florence + The Machine – Lungs
February 21, 2010
The Pack A.D – Funeral Mixtape
I have been digging each of the albums listed here very much. They were each received as a recommendation from friends; I’d love to have more suggestions, so send yours my way.
Almost every song I have listened to since January of 2004 has been recorded at Last.fm. It’s a wonderful site for recording listening habits, playing fantastic music and connecting with people who have similar tastes. This week Last.fm launched a Scrobbling Timeline that is “generating personalized, real-time [listening] history graphs”, which is really very interesting. I learned from this graph that I have discovered less new music in the past year than I have in previous years.
A lot of the hype this week has been about Google Buzz, and for good reason: Google tends to do internet projects very, very well. But the project that has me most excited is the much more ambitious One Social Web.
One Social Web aims to decentralize the social internet by allowing all social networks to interact. Buzz, Facebook, Twitter and all the other social sites we use really should be able to talk to each other and we should be able to keep in touch with friends no matter where they decide to share their lives. What OSW does is create the framework to allow this, which is a wonderful development.
I’ve begun tracking my location with both my iPod Touch and a cheap GPS data logger. I’ll be tagging my photos with location data and keeping a log of my location to associate with other data I collect.
Today I recorded my moments on a walk that I have taken many times since moving to Waterloo. First I walked from my apartment to my Credit Union. Next I visited my local library the Waterloo Public Library, where I picked up two books I placed on hold the night before. I shopped for some groceries and then headed back home.
The accuracy isn’t superb, but I’m ok with the rough lines the tracker provides.
I’ve amassed a number of quotes I haven’t found a good outlet to share before now. Clogging up Twitter would be shameful, so a blog entry seems an ideal way to present them. There are bits of profundity, inspiration, compassion and geekiness in the words that follow.
Lifelogging provides an effective way to objectify pieces of our lives, and when it is used in the service of subjective practices like meditation it gets really juicy. Equanimity Project works at the convergence of the objective and subjective, providing tracking of meditation to aid in establishing a practice and overcoming resistance. The Equanimity application is currently available for the iPod Touch and iPhone, but the website also includes printable charts and a flash timer.
Easy to read graphics let you know at a glance how regularly you are meditating, and how long your daily practice has been going. A chart illustrates your progress over the course of the year, and a bar graph shows the total number of hours you have meditated.
It’s much easier to keep going with a routine when you can see so clearly how you are doing. ~ “Meditation timer for the iphone“
Gary Wolf featured Equanimity Project and its creator Robin Barooah at The Quantified Self blog today and shared the following video, in which Robin explains his application.