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Overview. Welcome to the information pages for Gregory Paul Johnson, Director of the Resources for Life.com website. Gregory strives to maintain an open source life that is transparent, interactive, and part of the creative commons. The most popular Gregory links are currently: Facebook, Music, Photography, and YouTube. Below are summary descriptions of various areas of life.
- Activism. Maintaining the Resources for Life website and facilitating the Small House Society. Writing product reviews and providing consumer advocacy through the Consumer Defense Resource Group.
- Annex. The g-annex is a website that facilitates music podcasting and easy publishing of media. Some of Gregory’s content is published there.
- Career. Working full-time with the University of Iowa. Providing computer and technology support to hundreds of clients through the Technology Services Resource Group.
- Computer Support. The Technology Services Resource Group is Gregory’s consulting firm.
- Food. Gregory has been evaluating a diet of purely organic Vegan foods.
- Health. Committed to daily yoga, meditation, and fitness routine as part of the Schedule for Life and Holistic Living System. Maintaining fitness goals of exercise, nutrition, and sleep for optimal performance, productivity, and effectiveness. On August 14, 2008, Gregory Johnson signed on with the Isagenix nutrition and wellness system. Gregory will be journaling his initial 30-day experience with the system and products which are due to arrive on about the 20th of August. Live running and walking data is also available.
- Home. From August 2003 to August 2009, Gregory lived in the Mobile Hermitage, a 140 square foot cottage. In August 2009 Gregory moved into an apartment that is about 12′ by 14′ for the main living area.
- Journal. Gregory’s journal of more polished writings can be found in the current documents library or the archives. Passing thoughts, observations, and raw unedited writings, are available through the GregoryCam live feed.
- Lifeways. Gregory developed and tries to follow the Holistic Unification Lifeway Practice (based on Adonaikido) as an expression of his philosophy and faith beliefs.
- Music. Composing Music [ archive ] and selecting songs for the monthly and annual Heart Songs collection. Gregory also has a Smuel Ocarina page. Users of iTunes can view the archives of monthly and annual Heart Songs collections.
- Personal Updates. Since the year 2000, Gregory has been sending out personal monthly updates that review each area of his life. He recently began posting these online.
- Photography. Gregory’s current photography and archives are available online. His hope is to build an online source for stock photos that can be part of the creative commons. Gregory’s photography can be viewed on the following networks
- Radio Interviews. Audio is now available for recent interviews with Gregory Johnson on ABC News Australia, National Radio in Ireland, Iowa Public Radio Book Reading/Interview, KRUU, and Public Radio Interview with Ben Kieffer from February 2007.
- Relationship Status. Married to Makur Jain.
- Social Networking. Gregory has pages on Bebo, Curbly, Digg, Facebook, Hi5, Kiva, LinkedIn, Orkut, Scribd, and Twitter. A complete list can be found at the bottom of the ResourcesForLife.com About page.
- Transportation. Commuting by bicycle year-round. Facilitator of the Life Mobility Transportation Group
- Writing. Gregory recently published a book on simpler and smaller living, Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned From Living in 140 Square Feet. Other writings are available in the documents library such as product reviews and keeping a regular online journal of reflections on politics, society, relationships, technology and other topics.
Archives. Below are categories that are not currently being updated regularly.
- Books. Reading and reviewing books. Most recently read book, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
- Calendar. Gregory’s general event calendar is available online.
- GregoryCam. A live photo feed called GregoryCam provides images and unpolished short writings from Gregory as he goes about his day. An alternate co-location redundant backup site is also available by visiting the Resources for Life.com Apple MobileMe Gallery Page.
- Live Feed. GregoryCam is a live photo feed that provides images and unpolished short writings from Gregory as he goes about his day. Photos are available on Blogger (with occasional notes) and also on MobileMe (photos only).
- Stress Testing. Several times a year, I perform a stress test to evaluate the effectiveness of the Holistic Living System. Here are some recent outcome summary reports.
- 20080912fr. 90 Hours Without Food While Evaluating Isagenix Cleansing Products.
- 20070710tu. Working 33 hours non stop without sleep and no food for 24 hours.
- TrailGuru. Gregory’s Trail Guru account documents some of his travels showing each trek, routes created, active routes, photos, reports/graphs, trail friends, and people who are nearby. Subscribe to the RSS feed for updates.
- Travel. The Apple iPhone, with GPS tracking, provides detailed mapping of Gregory’s travels using MotionX GPS by FullPower. This service was previously provided by Trailguru
- Travel Archives. An archive of Gregory’s Trail Guru account is available for 200902-06 and shows each trek, routes created, active routes, photos, reports/graphs, trail friends, and people who are nearby. Subscribe to the RSS feed for updates.
Video. Below is a video of Gregory Johnson explaining why some services have been archived.
