The American Museum of Natural History has a collection of old photos taken around the museum online. The ones of workers creating exhibitions are very interesting:
“Oops, so sorry about that….let me just put these back here…”
Photos found via Pruned.
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Woe is me \ ‘o, > o,’ / !! Thesis thesis thesis will you never be done? You are so difficult. But listening to Bach on strings helps. It just makes me feel so *siiiiiigh* sorry for myself. They will find me, 2 days from now, a spider spinning a web between my brow and blue pen, my face stuck to interview transcripts, dead with a cringed when-will-it-end expression on my face. And waffles will be softly crying behind
THE MOST AWESOMEST SCREENSAVER (via BoingBoing)
SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 600 network surveillance cameras worldwide. a haunting live soap opera. it is the first release of my ongoing experiments with network surveillance cameras.
It is truly somewhat haunting to view these feeds. Even if only a rural intersection or abandoned warehouse. Oh wait – I guess that’s why they might be haunting.
A happier song just came on. I’m not dead anymore.
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I am learning that if you search Flickr for pictures tagged “couch”, it is very difficult to find a vacant couch. They are all occupied with pets, children or naked women.
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The other night at supper A reminded me of craigslist missed connections. I had forgotten about them! Not so interesting when in another country and there is 0% chance of surprise…1% chance and I am sucked in!
I wrote about them before and this time, I’m thinking about the different types of posts. Some of the characteristics or variables are:
The one thing I am not liking is this one dude pouring his heart out over an ex (I assume) that he misses deeply. Now I know, missed connections can be a good emotional outlet for broken-hearted people and there is that word “miss”(ed) in there. However, when somebody posts they are doing so for their own benefit – the small possibility that the person they seek will read the post and they can reconnect or connect again. At the same time, they are benefiting the community of missed connection readers by adding to perceived chance, arousing curiosity and satisfying some voyeurism. I feel like the sob letter posts do not provide the same benefit and enjoyment to the community and they add noise to the information I am interested in. Not that this is a service for my enjoyment, its purpose is missed connections, and maybe some people do enjoy reading about the heartbreak of others but…I wonder if a separate craigslist category would be more suitable? One between missed connections and rants and raves.
I was also wondering, if I was an Asian woman and I saw “Asian girl on the skytrain” how would I identify with that? Like…especially living in Vancouver. Maybe I wouldn’t even think about it. It is a physical description. I am “Tall girl on the 25″. But I wonder if the difference is that “Tall girl on the 25″ could be posted by any man but, I am going to guess that the guy who posted “Asian girl on the skytrain” is not Asian. Tell me if I am wrong but, if this is the case then it is interesting how, while specifying filter information, the man implicitly includes information about himself.
Finally, I have never written a missed connection myself and I wonder, if the occasion comes about in the future, will I be reflecting on the saucy man I saw in the soup aisle at the supermarket (sorry about that) and think – I should missed connect! Or, will I be composing the classified the moment I see him walk away with a can of Campbell’s tomato?
(Actually when I think about it, the soup aisle might have the lowest flow of male customers but I have no evidence to back that up. Though I am sure someone has researched male versus female flow through the grocery store and if I can’t fall asleep in the next 15 minutes I might just have to look that up.)
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I am currently on hold with air miles. Want to book a flight for this fall. They are playing the mooooooooooooost depressing music. I am talking Seal’s Kiss from a Rose interrupted by a please hold message every 10 seconds which itself gets interrupted by another please hold message from another woman. This is the part that is not free I guess. Oh yeah and there’s also the taxes and gas prices and other fees…I am sleepy and tempted to hang up. Or at least the skype equivalent of hang up button which is not as satisfying and you still feel like the person on the other line can hear you.
My sister pointed me to this:
check the about – it is kind of interesting and a nice change from the usual Google interface.
