Is one of my favorite quotes from "Spin Control" another SF book I read this week.

Simon just sent me this article;

Solitaire-y ConfinementWhy we can't stop playing a computerized card game.

I am addicted to solitaire on my phone, that's why Simon sent the article to me. This is going to humiliate me but I am going to say it anyways. At bedtime after I have turned out the lights, I play solitaire on my phone until my eyes start to fall shut. Then I put the phone down and pass out.

I am reading Light by M. John Harrison Lyrical SF it is, or maybe literature accidentally catagorized as SF. I am too much of a purist for that, if there are space-halos and brains who live in tanks and pilot ships it's SF.

Not the point, the point is how incredibly nice some of Harrison's prose is. These are my favorites so far:

I don't have a ton of time here, since I am *still* plugging away at the OLPC paper, but anyways.

So mike tipped me off to this incredibly apropo and I want to say trenchant, even though I don't really know what that means, blog entry by Ivan Krstić discussing (still) the problems that plague the OLPC project.

(This is partly why my paper never ends, the problems ne'er seem to either)

So Ivan links to this article in the NYtimes about how 1-to-1 laptop programs are being abandoned in schools stateside, as students show no real sign of improvement.

Which led me to read this quote from Mark Warschauer, an education professor at the University of California at Irvine:

“Where laptops and Internet use make a difference are in innovation, creativity, autonomy and independent research,” he said. “If the goal is to get kids up to basic standard levels, then maybe laptops are not the tool. But if the goal is to create the George Lucas and Steve Jobs of the future, then laptops are extremely useful.”

And I just about threw up the very tasty guacamole and goat cheese sandwich I ate for dinner.

I have been feeling kind of weird lately, kinda feeling like my life is a ball of twine that I dropped a few months ago and I've been trying to roll it all back into something comprehensible since then. But enough about me, let's talk about ManBabies.

When things are a bit screwy it's nice to know that someone out there has invented the ManBaby, like a LolCatz picture only for the seriously fucked up (and bored at work). The idea? Take a picture of a man holding or interacting with a baby and switch the heads around. That's right, fearsome and funny like you wouldn't believe.

Also and pleasantly, these images give me the feeling that even if I haven't opened an official looking envelope in about 5 months, and even though I keep saying I have work to do and then going to the gym for about 2.5 hours to sing gay dance songs under my breath and pretend jumping to the bass-beat = mastery of life's challenges. Despite my own ineptitude, there are people out there Photoshopping men's heads onto babies bodies! SO in fact I am doing okay.

Anyways, check it out...

These are my favorites:

When all else fails, stare at some ManBabies.

I was just searching the McGill classifieds for a used flat-screen monitor when I came across this post:

NEW APPLE IPHONE AND IPOD TOUCH, NEW BLACKBERRY, NEW VERSACE PURSE
Posted Friday, May 2, 2008
My brothers gave me an apple iphone, apple ipod touch, a blackberry and a versace purse along w some other stuff, but i already have an iphone, don't need the blackberry and i have too many versace purses already!......they are all brand new in their box/wraps.....want to sell them.....make me an offer......

Don't you hate when that happens?? The other day my brothers gave me a portable DVD player, a pair of D&G sunglasses and a wallet full of credit cards. But I already have those! So I am selling them to the public at rock-bottom prices. Thanks Bros' next time just get me a Chapters gift certificate okay?