TOPIC: Alice hopes to hear from you.

This week's episode is packed—literally, packed—with useful tips, tricks, and even a crazy challenge.

Psyching yourself into falling asleep, learning how to breathe, using your iPhone's secret trackpad, and a gauntlet thrown (or maybe dropped?) to make yourself do everything with your voice for a day.

Links for this episode:

• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #15 — Merlin Mann
  MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, February 23rd to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
  
• Pogue’s Basics: The secret trackpad on the iPhone... - David Pogue
  Little by little, the iPhone is revealing its secret ambition to be a laptop.
  
• Mack Weldon | Men's Pima Long Sleeve - 100% Peruvian Pima Cotton
  
• Irwin Tools 233250 Carpenter Pencil Sharpener - - Amazon.com
  
• Eminem - The Real Slim Shady (Uncensored) - YouTube
  
• Three Breathing Exercises and Techniques | Dr. Weil
  
• The 4-7-8 Breath: Health Benefits & Demonstration
  
• 2007-01-09 Before the Twitter. Before the... | kung fu grippe
  
• The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - YouTube
  
• The Pogues The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn 1985 RTE - YouTube
  
• Nobody Tells Me Nothing - YouTube
  

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