An excerpt from the paper I’m reading right now (Wednesday 5:00 am — what the?):

[...] Take as another example a person that plans to write a thesis in the afternoon. When planning, she is convinced that it is best to watch no television at all. But she also knows that this is likely to lead to such a level of frustration when the afternoon program starts that she will break the resolution and watch the whole program. Thus, she explicitly allows herself to consume precisely one or precisely two hours of television. The costs of breaking this resolution depend on the quality of the program and she has a probabilistic idea about this. [...]

You can find the whole text here.

ü ürü üüüü!

I seriously cannot believe that everybody other than Turks got this wrong. These guys have no idea how roosters crow:

Danish: kykyliky

Dutch: kukeleku

English: cock-a-doodle-doo (yeah, right.)

Finnish: kukko kiekuu

French: cocorico

German: kikeriki

Greek: kikiriku/kikiriki

Hebrew: coo-koo-ri-koo

Italian: kukuriku

Hungarian: chicchirichí

Japanese: ko-ke-kok-ko-o

Portugese: cucurucu

Russian: kukareku

Spanish: quiquiriquí/kikiriki

Swedish: kuckeliku

Turkish: kuk-kurri-kuuu / u uru uuu (pron: oo-oore-oo)

Urdu: kuklooku

This is where I found all this and they have quite a list there : http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Personal/dabbott/animal.html

“A young girl pulls her brother and some pumpkins in a wagon as they visit a pumpkin patch…”

Photo credit: AFP / Getty Images / Jim Watson

Britpop anyone?

Photographer of the Month!

My favorite photographer is the photographer of the month on http://seenby.com/aom

“[...] The Dome in Cologne is famous. But how many people have seen it at night when the grey facade is romantically lit? Or when it is enthroned at the other end of Hohenzollern-Bridge showing all of its beauty? “At night things look much more exciting,” Oliver Fluck said. Fluck is this photographer that allows us to go on nightly trips all over the world, from Frankfurt to Chicago to San Francisco. And we can’t forget New York City, where chess players sit in front of a café in the village. Or Princeton, where two dummies in the show window are the only signs of life in the street at night. His carefully calculated photographs reveal his precision and attention to the detail surrounding him, and covey and mystic and almost magical atmosphere. [...]“

fluck.de

@Oli: Congrats! More to come — I know that!

I’m seriously considering spending less time on the Internet and getting my shit together. Here is my first step: twitter.com/lazyperception 

Hurt feelings

Spring semester teaching schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:45 – 11:00 am. Discipline builds character. Says who? I’m kidding. Not really.

It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Sorry everyone I kinda have to do this and get it out of my system:

American Dream

Stand clear of the closing doors.