Fostering procrastination!

[summercomfort]

Soo.... finals week. Which means that I'm trying to write a paper, but not really wanting to, and so ending up checking LJ friends, etc. And also posting and hoping people respond to my posts so that I can then respond to them, etc etc.

So... how about this:

comment to this post with:

1) one interesting thing found in your procrastination adventures (news articles, images, websites, etc)
2) bits of your final paper or code or problem set or whatever.
3) repeat as desired

This way, everyone can share in the fruits of your procrastination! And, you'd be pressed to accompany that with actual work!

Feel free to meme-ify


Me first!
1) YEAST
2) "The heterogenous Hankow neighborhoods were achieved in part by the melding of residential and commercial functions of the shophouses. The shikumen rowhouses of Shanghai were even better suited to this due to its structure and spatial organization."

Comments

[idothattopeople.livejournal.com]

1) Issei Sagawa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa) is a Japanese man, who, in 1981, killed a woman and ate her. Because his daddy was rich, he was extradited to Japan and set free. He has written books about his own murder, as well as fiction about other murders. He now writes a weekly column and has appeared on television.

2)
a)Once she knew that the plural morphology was part of the children’s grammars, she could use experiments to see exactly how they use this morphology. Giving them novel words, Berko tried to see which allomorphs of the plural -s the children could use. The children were able to form the plural, given the word wug (providing the correct wugs), but they had a much more difficult time with more complex phonological situations, such as for the word gutch. In these situations, only 26% of the pre-school children could give the answer gutches. (For more discussion on the wug test, see Question 3).

b) Yeah for html sucking.
// this is needed for the hash
struct eqstr
{
bool operator()(const char* s1, const char* s2) const
{
return strcmp(s1, s2) == 0;
}
};

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

1. the background to someone's webpage: http://acagim.kohakubara.net/myartwork/kitsune-ink1.jpg
Isn't it pretty?
Most of my procrastination has involved looking over Sushu's shoulder, so I haven't come up with much more.

2. At this early point in the story, we have the perfect setup for a capitalist fairy tale. The boy wants a bicycle and a pair of boots, so he learns to ride the bicycle, works his way up through the company ranks and eventually becomes a manager himself, wearing shiny new boots and, well, here the fairly tale begins to break down as we remember what boots can do to a man. This story could also become a proletarian literature piece where the narrator’s rejection and oppression by the modern world he suffers under eventually disillusions him, and he dies of consumption or joins the other workers in a rebellion or simply loses his humanity and becomes little more than a machine. Perhaps all three at once.

I want to know more about wugs and gutches.

[idothattopeople.livejournal.com]

http://www.answers.com/topic/wug-test

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool. The thing about Issei Sagawa is extremely disturbing.

[summercomfort]

see, that just makes me itch to draw something like that.

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

draw what? Wugs and Gutches? Cannibals?

[kitsuchan.livejournal.com]

please don't say cannibals.

[summercomfort]

... a kitsune lady with a fox mask, my dear.

It must be late at night. How does oen draw Wugs and Gutches anyway? And why name things to sound like bugs and glitches?

[idothattopeople.livejournal.com]

this is how (http://home.uchicago.edu/~jpop/pics/wug.jpeg)

And they are named so that they are novel words, but still are compatible with English phonology.

[summercomfort]

1) random ass! in the air!!

2) The establishment of these stores and enterprises brought the element of commercial into residential life and linked the insular enclosures to city streets, creating a further spatial network that differed from local-orgin associations that was so crucial to creating a municipal atmosphere in Hankow. The shikumen, in their easy adaptability and spatial mediation between public and private, functioned better than the Hankow shophouses in creating a spatial network that crosscuts the social network of guilds.

[bakeneko.livejournal.com]

It's not finals for me, but I'm always up for procrastination!

1) Swedish people have some damn weird ideas: http://www.dragonbane.org/en/
They're building a freaking animatronic dragon. I'm impressed.

2)"From Ainu oral history and early Japanese records, we know that the Ainu were considered a powerful trading people, who traded goods with Russia, Manchuria, Japan, and Korea. They were well known for providing natural and maritime products such as fish, furs, bone, antler, and ivory"

Yeah, envy me X3 *does the I love Ainu dance*

[conejita.livejournal.com]

1. >stolen from charlie's journal<
"President Bush believes he should be able to make the news himself because he's the President."
-- Ari Fleischer, March 3rd, The Daily Show

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/politics/13covert.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=c040ac38c7b344fa&ex=1268370000&partner=rssuserland
No kidding.

2. For example, the first few locative media artworks were about drawing using the location of the artist. For Teri Reub this was about the reduction of the individual to a point within a cartographic space. The point is depicted with no absolute location, but only relative location as depicted through its movement. This is the lonely child who hums in the darkness. The point creates the first form from chaos; this is the moment of the first territorialization. With the invention of GPS devices we are constantly forced to reterritorialize or to make our territory disconnected with the earth and mobilized. This is because GPS gives us location without context. We are just a dot on a plane of chaos with only our song (or tracklog) to remember our location.