February 2012
38 posts
current distraction..
..obsessed with horses…
“if i find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that i was made for another world”
—C.S. Lewis (via soulboheme)
current distraction...
..stylish tv show intros…
a good opening credit sequence can be more memorable than the tv program itself..
my personal top 10…
#10 the mentalist
#9 nip/tuck
#8 twin peaks
#6 weeds
#5 dexter
#4 carnivale
#3 sherlock
#2 true blood
#1 human target
“anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment…”
—robert benchley
“enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things…”
—robert brault
current distraction..
..vampire infographics…
especially like blade & edward.. ;)
delena chart...
maybe i should do a series on tv show fashion & design..but income tax form is coming for me...
knock, knock…
postponing sleep...
..while looking at gossip girl interiors…
heroes of procrastination #1
JOHN R. PERRY
john r. perry (*1943) a professor emeritus of philosophy at stanford university, has made significant contributions to logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind…he is known primarily for his work on situation semantics, reflexivity, indexicality, and self-knowledge..also he is a self-diagnosed procrastinator..having written an essay called “how to procrastinate and still get things done” (first published in 1996 in the chronicle)…
the article the article established the principle of “structured procrastination”:
to be a high achiever, always work on something important, using it as a way to avoid doing something that’s even more important…
for the ideas set forth in that essay,he won the ig nobel prize in literature in 2011..
perry deemed the tardiness of his award “quite appropriate” given the nature of his essay…
“one needs to be able to recognize and commit oneself to tasks with inflated importance and unreal deadlines, while making oneself feel that they are important and urgent…
this is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deceptive skills also..and what could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another..?” —john r. Perry, “structured procrastination”
this is not a problem, because virtually all procrastinators have excellent self-deceptive skills also..and what could be more noble than using one character flaw to offset the bad effects of another..?” —john r. Perry, “structured procrastination”
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the key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing.. procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing..they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it…
why does the procrastinator do these things..?
because they are a way of not doing something more important..if all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it…
however, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important…
“after all, tomorrow is another day..”
—scarlett o´hara
should be finishing my income tax form..starting with tumblr instead.
