Tuesday 1/28/25
Celebrate:
Daisy Day
Data Privacy Day
Global Community Engagement Day
International LEGO Day
National Blueberry Pancake Day
National Give of the Ladybug Day
National Kazoo Day
National Plan for Vacation Day
Pop Art Day
Rattlesnake Roundup Day
Speak Up and Succeed Day
Thank a Plugin Developer Day - Software person
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The Super Bowl is set!!
KC squeaked out a win against the Buffalo Bills, 32 to 29. That means they have a shot at becoming the first NFL team to win three straight championships.
But they have to get past the Philadelphia Eagles, who beat the Washington Commanders 55 to 23.
Super Bowl 59 (LIX) is Sunday, February 9th at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. Kendrick Lamar is headlining the halftime show.
It's a rematch, the Eagles and the Chiefs played each other in Super Bowl 57, and the Chiefs won, 38 to 35.
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A Connecticut state senator named Martin Looney has introduced a bill that would make theaters list the actual start time of the movie you're paying to see.
You know how a movie is advertised that it starts at 7, then you get 20-30 minutes of ads, trivia, and trailers. He calls this an "abuse of people's time."
A theater owner in Stamford pointed out that these are challenging times for movie houses, and they rely on those ads for revenue.
Making it easier for people to SKIP those ads will make companies less likely to pay for them.
By the way, do you hold off on the popcorn and snacks until the movie actually starts????
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Here we are the 27th of the month, and we've heard before that it takes 21 days to make a new habit. Your resolution should be all set in stone now...but noooooooo - it probably takes a LOT longer than that.
New research has shown that forming lasting habits typically requires two to five months of consistent practice, and it can take closer to a year.
Researchers say if you're serious about wanting to form a new habit, it's more important to understand the process than to be fixated on a certain timeline.
Here are SIX takeaways:
1. The first step to forming any new habit is repetition.
2. Early repetitions lead to the biggest gains and that's probably why it can feel like the habit is locked in after three weeks. They compare it to learning a language. Progress is rapid at first, but then it plateaus as we reach higher levels of proficiency.
3. Cementing new habits takes an extended period of reinforcement, and you should be prepared for it to take up to a year to build so that it gets to the point where it's truly automatic, and requires minimal conscious effort.
4. Morning habits tend to form more successfully than evening ones.
5. Simple actions with clear triggers, like flossing every day, become automatic more readily than complex behaviors, like sticking to a new workout at the gym.
6. New behaviors that you want to add show stronger habit formation than those assigned to you by others and you're also more likely to stick to a new habit if you enjoy it. This sounds obvious, but it can be important in how you design your habits. Make it fun!
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Today’s Useless Fact of the Day - If you need new nightmare fodder: There are 25 million tons worth of spiders on Earth right now . . . and based on the amount they eat, in theory, they could eat every single human on the planet in one year.
Added up, all the spiders in the world consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey every year . . . while all the humans on Earth weigh around 300 million tons.
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