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.
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November 28, 2009 by albi
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
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November 28, 2009 by albi

“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
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November 24, 2009 by albi
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November 23, 2009 by albi
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! 
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November 21, 2009 by albi
I’m seriously considering spending less time on the Internet and getting my shit together. Here is my first step: twitter.com/lazyperception
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November 17, 2009 by albi
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November 17, 2009 by albi
Spring semester teaching schedule: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:45 – 11:00 am. Discipline builds character. Says who? I’m kidding. Not really.
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November 17, 2009 by albi
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November 16, 2009 by albi

Stand clear of the closing doors.
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