Even though I’m thinking about an internet sabbatical, I still think the internet is the best thing ever. It has things like the Beckoning of Lovely. You can watch this video below, but I recommend going to the original site. It’s nice to look at.
The girl who organised this has a blog at whoisamy.wordpress.com. Perhaps we could start a coalition of “girls with a question before our name” blogs.
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My new favourite thing is Urban Dictionary Word of the Day.
September 17: Imma let you finish
Obnoxious way to interrupt someone and steal their moment, while wryly mocking that media train wreck that is Kanye West.
Based on West’s instantly infamous interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Female Video with his insane microphone-stealing shout out to Beyonce.
Bob: Thank you Mr. Brown for having us in to give this sales presentation. We’d like to talk to you today about…
Alfred: Yo, Bob, I’m really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but I just got to say our product is is one of the best products there is!
Seen on How About Orange…
Colour Sense Game. Apparently you can discover your colour personality.
Let me know if you think it works for you. (I’m going to do it again later to see if I get the same answer the second time round).
Added later: I keep getting White Spaces as my primary pallet but my secondary pallet keeps changing.
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Tagged: internet
Sigh…A Crisis of Attention and Intention. Courtney E. Martin wrote this article for the American Prospect and unfortunately it’s all about me.
I have the shortest attention span of any 26 year old I know. It’s embarrassing. I even get bored at wild parties. Perhaps it’s because I do have such a short attention span, I really do believe that being able to concentrate on one thing is one of the most valuable skills/traits and person can have.
I had a note on my desk at my last job that said “Multi-tasking is a moral weakness”. It worked quite well, being reminded that multi-tasking is not something to aspire to, but it certainly didn’t turn me into a focused and productive individual.
This article talks about students being distracted by facebook and other things during lectures, which I can definitely identify with, but it doesn’t stop there.
Martin says:
Take those Facebook-surfing students, missing out on a potentially life-changing lecture about war and courage. Their diffused attention isn’t criminal, but it certainly doesn’t do justice to professor Dalton’s lectures, their own potential for learning, or the $51,976 they or their parents are paying for a year of Ivy League education. They mirror something very real in most peoples’ lives—the sense that your life is happening “to you,” instead of feeling truly intentional about how, with whom, and on what you spend your time. How many times have you complained about how long you spent emailing–as if some ambitious demon inhabited your body and kept incessantly pecking away at the keys?
I can relate to this as I am especially guilty of letting the internet and my computer rule my life, and frantically jumping between screens so fast that my crappy computer freezes on me every time (then, of course, I get frustrated by the moment that feels like an eternity it takes for my computer to start function again, as if I haven’t just been reading blogs for the last half an hour anyway).
Martin continues:
Their passivity, their misplaced priorities, their degraded educational experience has a lot in common with the frenetic pace and compromised lifestyles that too many of us lead. It is as if we have all been swept up in the hurricane of contemporary life without realizing that it is our own complicity that gives the storm its overwhelming force.
This reminds me of those people you meet from time to time who seem to be able to go slowly, and stay chilled at all times. Man, those people freak me out.
This is not an anti-tech argument or a back-to-the-land manifesto. It is a reminder that our technology is only as enlightened as our use of it. Our productivity is only valuable so long as it is paired with excellence and excitement. Our memories are ultimately populated by sensory experiences, the highs of connection and lows of disconnection, not the mind-numbing march of checking off items on our to-do list while half-listening to the drumming profundity of our own lives.
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Tagged: internet, News links, Soul
It has been a busy week! I can’t actually recall ever working as long hours as I have worked this week. It’s been fun, but I can tell I need a rest because last night when I lost a day’s worth of work on the report that I have been working on (the reason for the long hours) all I did was giggle.
Me: hehe, Mike I think I just lost my report….hehe
Mike (my housemate): ummm, like ‘lost it’ lost it?
Me: just one day’s work. hee hee.
Mike: should you be laughing?
Me: heee heee
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Now…get ready for some information that is going to have you all booking the next flight to Aceh (but don’t forget about visas! Call me and we can chat).
This morning I went to a cafe and bought this:
A coffee and a muffin!
But here’s something, I emptied the coffee from that giant paper cup into my Starbucks mug (Starbucks haters can keep their rants to themselves, this was the only decent mug I could find on the WHOLE island of Sumatra), but…the contents of that giant paper cup only filled my mug three quarters full. I think I’ve uncovered a paper cup scam. Cafes give outrageously tall cups to those silly people who are all like, “I simply must drink a GRANDE latte in the morning before I speak to ANYONE,” but as the cup gets taller it also gets skinnier and those people are really just drinking a regular sized coffee.
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Earlier this week, when the report writing insanity began, I lost one whole hour to this website.
Because none of you probably followed that link, I will just tell you about it. The website is called “Postcards from yo Momma” and is a collection of funny emails from mums. I was shocked to see that other mum silliness in the world is actually very similar to my own mum’s silliness.
I even found this post from April 8 that sounded awfully familar:
What are you doing getting bitten by mosquitoes?!! You will get MALARIA – and i will have to start worrying about that instead of typhoid. Maybe you have got dengue fever even! Are the drugs working? Are you still alive?
OK, so that is actually an email from MJ, but it is posted on the website.
When I found the site I thought I would look back through the many millions of MJ’s emails and find one that made me laugh. Uhhh, it took me approx. 10 seconds. You are a very silly woman who writes lots of funny emails MJ. Keep up the good work!
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Tagged: Drink, Family, Food, internet, work
Now I am writing post headings like newspaper headlines, except they’re not catchy and short.
I’m writing again only a few hours later because it occurs to me that you might be intrigued by a blog with a long posting history. I know you don’t want to commit to some flash in a pan start up that will be over as soon as it begins. You want to know that this author will be providing on a daily basis when you need it most, as a distraction from work or study. And I am willing to post as much mindless junk over the next few days as I can to convince you, dear reader, that I didn’t just start this blog today and will be tired of it in another month. No, I will convince you, under false pretenses, that I have been writing this blog for years and will continue to do so.
Actually I have every intention of maintaining this blog for at least the next 12 months.
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