(Google link, totally worksafe.)
Ohh no.
I’ve discovered FlickrBlog. There goes productivity.
Courtesy of the blog, I give you marmosets and the Flickr song. (If you’re having trouble hearing the lyrics, they are helpfully provided here.)
Thought of the day.
From a mailing list I’m on, for your amusement:
“Compared to meditation, liturgy is like going to a monster truck show!”
I’m working: Wednesday afternoons I tutor, so they’re geeenerally longer days. This has been the week of (figuratively) beating myself over the head with the notion of “if you just start doing whatever it is you don’t want to do, chances are you’ll find it all kinds of fun.” No duh, but sometimes it takes a while to sink in again.
In other news, writing a paper with a co-author is more fun than writing it alone. More frustrating at times (timing, disagreements, what have you), but more stimulating, therefore more fun.
Thanks to mindlace, the flickr zeitgeist on my home page is full of wedding photos. *happy wiggle*
A very confused fiction seller.
Fictionwise sells e-books. Some are free! Neat, yes?
Take a look at this Jules Verne classic. Click on the cover, to get a larger popup image of said cover. Giggle.
Patriotism, Superstar-Jesus-style.
Oh my goodness gracious. What the hell is this?!
Warning: you may have to wash out your eyes afterwards. This isn’t for the faint of banality tolerance.
Say it with me.
Daylight Saving Time. Only one S in Saving.
That is all.
Happy birthday, papa.
On a more sober note, it’s my dad’s birthday. He would’ve been 68 this year. I feel like… I feel like celebrating! He was a difficult man and a passionate one, and he was my papa and I love him.
Still get sad that he’s gone, but not today. Today, I’m happy. It’s his birthday!
Weekend fun chez Fremen-Zafrin
E., to me, as I balanced precariously on the living room couch, reaching to get yet another Farscape DVD out of his computer:
“You got something you want to do with that disk, or are you just gonna wave it around?”
Good Monday morning.
Food for thought
Was just talking to Cam Fraser, cool guy I met in Alberta at a graduate students’ humanities computing conference a few years ago. This is sort of a memo to self, but is also a great example of how THE INTERNET has changed the academic life. Multitask by chatting while writing a conference paper, get idea for a totally different thing, record it, go on. I *heart* these moments.
Cam: have you thought about bringing your cooking into your academic work?
me: Nnno. But it sounds like fun. How would you suggest I go about this?
Cam: boy, I have no idea.
me: drat.
Cam: Maybe something to do with bodies…
Cam: I’m thinking of the scene in “Woman on Top” where she’s smelling a chile and ends up cutting herself
me: hmmmm
me: Seriously, though: hm. Maybe I should take a look at how people (the *general populace*) procured and consumed food over the ages. It’s gone from a communal thing to a family thing and back so many times, I wonder if it’s correlated with the amount of cultural transmission that goes on.
Hmmm, indeed. Raw, but interesting.
Drugs are good, mmkay?
Note to self: for the Nth time, when taking mood-altering drugs,* would you just please remember to take them at the right time in the day? Like, morning instead of 5pm?
Jeez. How long does it take to learn?!
*Thank you, modern medicine, for this relatively pleasant winter.
