Believe it or not I do much of my work walking along the street. When I'm doing office hours at YC (and the weather's good and we don't need to look at screens) I usually suggest going for a walk.
Edit: Just realized I replied to pg. Well, get your ass back into that office and implement some of those great ideas then.
Just today I've heard a theory, that when you walk around brain is more able to try new ways of thinking and solving problems, because the 'motion center' in the brain is doing what it's supposed to do: handling one's movements. On the contrary when we are not moving, this center can often overwhelm the thought process with already established habits, which makes trying new things harder.
I thing it works - even in offices many people start walking in circles when they have an important decision to make.
Funny, in my language the word meaning 'reflexively', 'instinctively' is in a form which can be literally translated 'out of the movement', which quite fits this theory.
I didn't look for the scientific background, but I know from the context of how I've heard this, that it was taught at the univ on a psychology specialization.
Nietzsche said that all great thoughts are conceived while walking... perhaps this is why.
An early Western practitioner of "walking meditation" perhaps?
We yogis from Berkeley prefer lotus posture with gaze turned toward spiritual eye ;)
Good to have you aboard, Nick. Hope you enjoy an addiction to HN as much as I do.
I got quite annoyed when the college closed the gardens between midnight and 4 AM...
The Wadham college gardens aren't quite so well guarded as the college proper, but they're still surrounded by a 15' stone wall -- hardly something anyone is going to climb over just on the chance that they can mug someone.
I wasn't a CS student, though.
Watch out for traffic though.
:)