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01/06/2009 21:18 #47314
Pearls Before SwineCategory: the odes
Everyone needs a reality check sometimes. But only Stephan Pastis delivers this check with porcine astuteness.
01/04/2009 17:01 #47281
Why brain cells *really* die.Category: science
To answer's (e:zzzzzzzoooooob)bbbbbbaarrrr's unasked question:
Current scientific thought points to the following processes:
a)
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b)
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c)
But we all know why they *REALLY* die!
PROOF!
a) Sitcoms
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b) Arguments with kids
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c) Beauty Magazines
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d) Treadmills!
Current scientific thought points to the following processes:
a)
+
b)
+
c)
But we all know why they *REALLY* die!
PROOF!
a) Sitcoms
+
b) Arguments with kids
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c) Beauty Magazines
+
d) Treadmills!
01/03/2009 10:20 #47261
More New Year Resolutions...Category: the odes
Ranked in descending order from toughest to easiest:
3. Logon and check (e:strip) only once a day!
4. Complete one page of academic writing every day.
5. Draft tasklists and try and complete 75% -> 100% of the list every day.
6. Finish writing and propose before this month is out.
7. Take notes on worthwhile articles and keep up the running notes diary.
8. Will finally gather my wits together and start discussion sessions with future collaborators and draft grant ideas @rate of 1/month.
9. Cut down on non-productive interaction. Reply to relevant emails promptly.
10. Erase hate-like emotions and cultivate indifference instead because really, sometimes I couldn't care less.
Here's to a more streamlined 2009!!
TP
3. Logon and check (e:strip) only once a day!
4. Complete one page of academic writing every day.
5. Draft tasklists and try and complete 75% -> 100% of the list every day.
6. Finish writing and propose before this month is out.
7. Take notes on worthwhile articles and keep up the running notes diary.
8. Will finally gather my wits together and start discussion sessions with future collaborators and draft grant ideas @rate of 1/month.
9. Cut down on non-productive interaction. Reply to relevant emails promptly.
10. Erase hate-like emotions and cultivate indifference instead because really, sometimes I couldn't care less.
Here's to a more streamlined 2009!!
TP
tinypliny - 01/05/09 20:21
It's more of a self-hate for lack of goal-achievement (under authority-expectations) than anything else, unfortunately. :(
It's more of a self-hate for lack of goal-achievement (under authority-expectations) than anything else, unfortunately. :(
imk2 - 01/05/09 11:20
wait a minute??? when did you develop hate like emotions? i didn't think that was possible? i don't believe it.
wait a minute??? when did you develop hate like emotions? i didn't think that was possible? i don't believe it.
tinypliny - 01/03/09 20:15
The first (cook more interesting stuff) and second (write more thoughts out for better resolution - more general writing) are in the last two posts. :)
- 3 disn't even succeed today! :/
The first (cook more interesting stuff) and second (write more thoughts out for better resolution - more general writing) are in the last two posts. :)
metalpeter - 01/03/09 12:53
Hey (e:tinypliny) I admit I'm a little bit confused, your journal says more Resolutions..... But where are the first ones? My second part of that question is why do you start at #3? On a side note I wonder how long #3 will last my guess is about a week but I could be wrong, HA. I wish you luck with them.
Hey (e:tinypliny) I admit I'm a little bit confused, your journal says more Resolutions..... But where are the first ones? My second part of that question is why do you start at #3? On a side note I wonder how long #3 will last my guess is about a week but I could be wrong, HA. I wish you luck with them.
theli - 01/03/09 12:03
Yay, indifference!
Yay, indifference!
janelle - 01/03/09 10:30
My New Years resolution is to desist from smoking cigars. I only do it a couple of times a year. Usually with (e:Drew) or my father (who purchases high quality cigars). This NYE I had one with my dad and pretty much from the first puff I felt the sinus infection setting in.
No fair.
My New Years resolution is to desist from smoking cigars. I only do it a couple of times a year. Usually with (e:Drew) or my father (who purchases high quality cigars). This NYE I had one with my dad and pretty much from the first puff I felt the sinus infection setting in.
No fair.
01/02/2009 07:28 #47248
Hope as a construct.Category: the odes
This is going to be a rather boring abstract stream of thoughts from some of yesterday's conversations. Thus, feel free to skip this journal. I am writing it because really, the construct of hope continues to fascinate me. I am not sure whether its this particular holiday season - the only one I have spent away from immediate family or because I am at this crazy unsure point in my school. Every step seems to take an eternity because a thousand thoughts flow and ebb before I complete it.
At the last minute I see patterns in the waves and that changes the place where my step is finally going to take root. I am almost about to place my foot down but I look down and I see its not solid ground.
Its a wild desolate marsh full of exotic colours - they are so exciting and pretty but they are also so foreign I can't name them even if I try really hard! I look up and there is a lighthouse but its lights are too distant and fog shrouds its outlines. Its a hint of hope. Every little thing I see is tinged with hope when what I really want is for them to be fully coloured with bold broad firm strokes.
I think hope is very contextual in its distribution. Its in tune with what we do for a living and what our particular situation in life is. Why does this nonuniform distribution even exist? Why is it that our professional lives are, more often than not, tempered with a heavier dose of hopes and convictions than our perspective of the professional fields that others work in? Does this unequal hope temperance only happen when we have invested a high level of effort and deliberation in choosing and pursuing our professions? It surely does not stand a chance when we hate our jobs, but it thrives when we feel even a tenuous and remote connection to what we do for our living.
Are we merely justifying the work that went into being qualified for a living when we cultivate dreams for its future and believe in them? Or do we think that somehow our "expert insight" into our professions extend to also detecting shiny and hopeful visions of this field in the crystal ball? Does all this also stunt our visions for other professional fields? Is it some psychological one-bird-in-hand grapes-are-sour phenomenon?
New Year Resolution 2. Write down craziness when it occurs. Use writing as a weapon for thought resolution. Check.
Photos:
At the last minute I see patterns in the waves and that changes the place where my step is finally going to take root. I am almost about to place my foot down but I look down and I see its not solid ground.
Its a wild desolate marsh full of exotic colours - they are so exciting and pretty but they are also so foreign I can't name them even if I try really hard! I look up and there is a lighthouse but its lights are too distant and fog shrouds its outlines. Its a hint of hope. Every little thing I see is tinged with hope when what I really want is for them to be fully coloured with bold broad firm strokes.
I think hope is very contextual in its distribution. Its in tune with what we do for a living and what our particular situation in life is. Why does this nonuniform distribution even exist? Why is it that our professional lives are, more often than not, tempered with a heavier dose of hopes and convictions than our perspective of the professional fields that others work in? Does this unequal hope temperance only happen when we have invested a high level of effort and deliberation in choosing and pursuing our professions? It surely does not stand a chance when we hate our jobs, but it thrives when we feel even a tenuous and remote connection to what we do for our living.
Are we merely justifying the work that went into being qualified for a living when we cultivate dreams for its future and believe in them? Or do we think that somehow our "expert insight" into our professions extend to also detecting shiny and hopeful visions of this field in the crystal ball? Does all this also stunt our visions for other professional fields? Is it some psychological one-bird-in-hand grapes-are-sour phenomenon?
New Year Resolution 2. Write down craziness when it occurs. Use writing as a weapon for thought resolution. Check.
Photos:
metalpeter - 01/03/09 12:47
Ah ok that clears things up a little bit, thanks. That being said I love the light house picture in this post.
Ah ok that clears things up a little bit, thanks. That being said I love the light house picture in this post.
tinypliny - 01/03/09 10:29
Hey metalpeter - sorry for the confusion. I was specifically writing about hope as it relates to the future of one's professional field versus hope when you think about the future of someone's else professional field (not related to your own).
I agree with everything you said. Hope is extremely important in all circumstances! :)
Hey metalpeter - sorry for the confusion. I was specifically writing about hope as it relates to the future of one's professional field versus hope when you think about the future of someone's else professional field (not related to your own).
I agree with everything you said. Hope is extremely important in all circumstances! :)
metalpeter - 01/02/09 19:39
To me it sounds like you think Hope is something that is made up, if that is what you mean then I kinda disagree. Hope is an emotion and some people don't have it, some people think of everything and dark and all ways think the worst result of anything they do will happen. The fact is that many things in life are uncertain and having hope that something will turn out good is better then being afraid that all hell will break and everyone will die.
Every time I watch sports as an example, I want my team to win. I route for them and I hope that they win or I hope the other team loses.
But a better example is in humans. For example if someone is sick or even has something deadly like cancer often hope is all people really have. Some people have cancer and it is caught and they have chemo and stuff cut out of them and they live and the Cancer never comes back. But see some peoples body that doesn't happen with the same thing happens they think they are clean and they hope that they will be healthy just like the other person and then years later the cancer comes back. Hope can be a very important feeling.
To me it sounds like you think Hope is something that is made up, if that is what you mean then I kinda disagree. Hope is an emotion and some people don't have it, some people think of everything and dark and all ways think the worst result of anything they do will happen. The fact is that many things in life are uncertain and having hope that something will turn out good is better then being afraid that all hell will break and everyone will die.
Every time I watch sports as an example, I want my team to win. I route for them and I hope that they win or I hope the other team loses.
But a better example is in humans. For example if someone is sick or even has something deadly like cancer often hope is all people really have. Some people have cancer and it is caught and they have chemo and stuff cut out of them and they live and the Cancer never comes back. But see some peoples body that doesn't happen with the same thing happens they think they are clean and they hope that they will be healthy just like the other person and then years later the cancer comes back. Hope can be a very important feeling.
01/01/2009 14:16 #47240
The New Year Brunch 2009Category: eating in
Resolution No. 1: Cook more interesting stuff. Check.
tinypliny - 01/03/09 20:18
I think they turned out pretty well but they become soggy on reheating. Not the case with "real" samosas that become crisper and crisper. I am thinking of making the dough myself with a tonload of butter next time I make this. I realized very late that the pastry sheet have hydrogenated oil (margarine) and palm oil. Butter is WAAAAY butter. :)
I think they turned out pretty well but they become soggy on reheating. Not the case with "real" samosas that become crisper and crisper. I am thinking of making the dough myself with a tonload of butter next time I make this. I realized very late that the pastry sheet have hydrogenated oil (margarine) and palm oil. Butter is WAAAAY butter. :)
heidi - 01/03/09 18:07
Were the puff pastry sheets an adequate substitute for samosa dough?
Were the puff pastry sheets an adequate substitute for samosa dough?
tinypliny - 01/01/09 19:42
They are samosas. :) Puff Pastry sheets stuffed with potatoes and baked to a crisp. The sauce is a tamarind-tomato chutney garnished with peas.
HIGHLY fat-ridden and completely unhealthy. I made them at home today morning because I felt like some constructive cooking. I hope to perfect my technique and bring them to the next potluck though! :)
They are samosas. :) Puff Pastry sheets stuffed with potatoes and baked to a crisp. The sauce is a tamarind-tomato chutney garnished with peas.
HIGHLY fat-ridden and completely unhealthy. I made them at home today morning because I felt like some constructive cooking. I hope to perfect my technique and bring them to the next potluck though! :)
metalpeter - 01/01/09 17:18
What is that? Did you eat alone or with others?
What is that? Did you eat alone or with others?
theli - 01/01/09 14:30
Nice!
Nice!
Yeah, the hard choice is yours.
So what you're saying is I have to choose between rotting my brains with Everybody Loves Raymond marathons, or sit by helpless while they remember the lyrics to 'Ride That Donkey?' How dreary.
- Z