C has hit on a new strategy to make both of us (or at least me) have a more enjoyable experience when we go grocery shopping. She read somewhere that men should bring a book and read it while standing guard over the cart in order to make the experience more tolerable for them. Of [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Peachy
Posted in diversion, video games, tagged DS, Super Princess Peach on 29 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brain overload
Posted in dissertation, tagged article on 28 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow. I’ve managed to buckle down and get some work done.
I spent several hours today making revisions to my article. Probably most of my day, except for a few hours this afternoon when I went to lunch with a professor from Australia (originally from Slovakia) who chaired my panel in Glasgow in April.
I’m hoping tomorrow [...]
ETA: next lifetime
Posted in dissertation, tagged outline on 27 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Karma can be a bitch.
About, oh, three weeks back, I wrote about how, once I did the heavy lifting of outlining, I’d be able to breeze through writing the draft of the whole dissertation in almost no time:
Even if my dissertation runs something like 400 or 500 pages, it’s not unrealistic to think I can [...]
Strategerizing
Posted in Simpsons, dissertation, diversion, procrastination, tagged Burn Notice, Psych, Stargate, TV on 27 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
C informs me I got the whole planning thing wrong.
Evidently I’m supposed to divide up the big tasks into several smaller, less-daunting tasks, instead of just setting goals for accomplishing the big ones.
To my surprise, I put in several hours of honest work today. I decided I have enough good cartoons to do a conference [...]
Not so much
Posted in dissertation, diversion, procrastination, video games, tagged outline, article, Need for Speed Carbon on 26 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
Sigh, I haven’t made much headway on anything the last couple of days. Well, not since the weekend, if we count Monday, which was a planned day off for our anniversary.
I did go to the library yesterday to consult the books I needed for some opinion polling data one of the reviewers suggested I incorporate [...]
Hey, Germany, you stinck!
Posted in send in the Slavs, tagged Germany, Prague, stincky on 25 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spotted on a Prague edifice this afternoon, snapped with my camera phone.
Idiocracy
Posted in send in the Slavs, tagged bureaucracy, Slovakia, immigration, Foreign Police on 25 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Note: I wrote this about three months ago, to try to chronicle the feelings of futility we experienced trying to get “legal” status to be in Slovakia more than ninety days. At the time I had no good place to share it, but since I’ve got the blog now, I figure I can subject folks to [...]
The oeuvre of Troy McClure
Posted in Simpsons, diversion, procrastination, tagged Simpsons, Troy McClure on 23 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
Special thanks to C for sending this my way. Evidently one of the underrated actors of our time, Troy McClure, has his own IMDB page. But what’s better, there’s a quiz on Mental Floss: Troy McClure film, or actual terrible movie?
I scored 14 out of 15. Post your scores in the comments, unless you want [...]
FIFA Soccer 08
Posted in diversion, procrastination, video games, tagged FIFA 08, video games, Wii on 22 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
FIFA Soccer 08
One of the three titles I’ve most wanted a console to play (along with Guitar Hero and any NHL title — which will finally come to the Wii in September 2008 when 2K Sports releases NHL 2K9), FIFA is a game I’ve played a fair amount, mostly in short, intense bursts. I think [...]
Wii would like to review
Posted in diversion, procrastination, video games, tagged review, video games on 22 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the features I hope to bring to this blog is a comprehensive list of video games I own, with my own reviews of each one. Since I have a hell of a lot of games for my Wii — more than thirty if I count games from other systems that I play on [...]
