The Cliffs at Princeville, a condominium resort on the North Shore of Kauai, has combined two of the more tedious tasks of a vacation into one.
Of course, writing release notes can be one of the more tedious tasks engineers face.
Social media may consume more and more of our precious time, but in at least one regard, sites like Facebook and tools like Gmail have freed us from one of the more tedious tasks of modernity: keeping track of phone numbers.
Like any copywriting job, my duties ranged from fun, creative endeavors like coming up with PicoBong's brand tagline ("Not for the Clothes-Minded") and writing an ebook on sex positions to more tedious tasks, like editing user manuals and writing press releases.
Adults with ADHD suffer with organisation, time management and memory problems, and employers can tackle these problems by providing alarms or beepers, the use of structured notes and agendas, and providing regular supervision or mentoring, delegating more tedious tasks such as paperwork, and/or introducing incentives and rewards for task-completion.
Instead, they handle more tedious legal tasks like drafting briefs and executing merger documents.
The answer to this is, of course, that mathematicians can have even more fun by letting the machine do the more tedious and menial tasks: "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used" (G. W. Leibniz, New Essays Concerning Human Understanding).
Sometimes my packed clothes would smell like raspberry for an entire trip, which is only slightly more tolerable than the tedious task of picking tiny bits of broken glass out of those reeking clothes.
Debating for an hour or more about the art of the recipe was a tedious task for me, nonetheless amazingly interesting.
