I have to say that Improv Everywhere is fast becoming my favourite "useful waste of time" procrastination website these days. In one of those odd semi-viral, partially synchronicity-driven coincidences, I ran across or was sent the link to IE's "Frozen Grand Central" mission video four times in two days, and there were three different links to it. ( Read more... )

I'm not talking about weird stuff that happens to you, mind you. We all have those quirks. If I ignore my toenails for more than a week, nine of them look at the ends on my toes and say something like, "no thanks, I'll stay right here" and stay reasonably short. Then there's number ten, the big toe's nail on the right foot, which seems determined ( Read more... )

It's not a secret that part of my thesis project involves studying social networks. I began collecting data and references a year or two ago, and signed up to some of the more innocuous-seeming sites and then didn't visit them for nearly a year or more. OKCupid was a site I joined because it has quizzes and crap, and I like quizzes and crap. ( Read more... )

I can read words backwards and upside-down. I use this skill to slow down when reading if I need to concentrate on something boring or technical. I have also used a mirror to do the same thing.

I kill watches, especially if worn on the left wrist. Especially digital watches. Non-digital watches worn on the right wrist fare better. I prefer asymmetry ( Read more... )