# minimum ambient tickover efficiency what researchers maintain while waiting for real life to begin useful rubric or general rule rather than standing there while waiting five mins for life to turn up engage in light stretching for example maintaining one's mate is important while performing mundane everyday tasks strolling down the corridor on lab rnd level d82 rather than slouch or shuffle as though moping through a thick treacle of everydayness maintain the minimum necessary to avoid working against one's own existential inertia // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]