I got as far as the dick as jackhammer bit. Ummm. Painful.
Just realized (duh) the double meaning there. I meant watching it was painful. Although the whole jackhammer concept, well, you know ...
I really didn't find it funny. He was trying too hard.
Funny? Not really. Like a bad comedian on the stage long after he told his last funny joke.
Y'all killed the thread. Maybe it wasn't funny, but that's not the point at all. Now how will I procrastinate?
We could talk about something else.
Like how you procrastinated before the internet, old timer.
We could always go out and hijack someone elses comments!
Yeah, let's go invade crooked timber.
I need outside help, such as yourselves, in order to procrastinate properly. I can't do it organically any more. The spirit is willing, etc.
I'm sure that you all think of yourself as more than just enablers of procrastination, but you're all wrong about that. You have a mission
Your mission is to enable procrastination. Especially by me, but others are welcome too, and of course your own is fine. You're sort of like the ski patrol, which gets to ski for free as long as they help out other skiers.
That's an interesting thesis, John, but I see a problem. My mission is to enable procrastination, including perhaps my own, but if I'm working on enabling the procrastination of others, then I'm fulfilling my mission, and therefor not myself procrastinating. When do I get to procrastinate, in abdication of my own mission?
Your mission is to enable procrastination.
Well then, here's a whole page of unfunny comedy.
Your problem, Ben. Just get to work, dammit.
One might ask: "How does one procrastinate when retired?"
Indeed.
You could put off relaxing and enjoying yourself by pacing around the house.
Ben, your problem is only a problem just as long as you can have only one mission. Just give yourself a task more important than helping John procrastinate (rack your brain!).
Yes, if some fictitious mission more important than helping me procrastinate were invented, then you could not fulfill that mission, while at the same time fulfilling your actual mission.
DeLong wrote about this recently. His trick is to put his most fun, interesting things in the #3 slot.
Maybe ogged could finally assign new sections of Being and Time to read, and then I could not do that.
Good idea. We're falling behind, so just finish the book by Tuesday.
(Will answer your question tomorrow, by the way.)
BTW, you all failed terribly in your mission most of today, having lives and shit and not posting.
I didn't see you posting, Emerson. It takes two to procrastinate.
I was going to comment on this thread, but I kept watching tv instead of reading unfogged. This place is like work, you know.
I can't wait for that fellowship.
I was just today thinking that there must be enough material here for someone to study how online communities are formed, the comings and goings of members, the enforcement of norms, real-world intrusions, etc. Research is done on far less interesting stuff all the time.
So you're sponsoring the study? I'm looking for work.
Actually, I was thinking that I would dramatically withdraw my cooperation once the study was underway. I thought you were in school.
Why would anyone need your cooperation? I've got a full archive of the site.
They wouldn't need it, but they might want it.
Nothing like leaving a team of (e-)scholars part way through the project.
I thought you were in school.
I'm taking a year away and might not go back. I remember sort of hijacking a thread here months ago and getting useful advice on the possibility of law school.
Oh, I thought you were considering leaving, but still in school. Got it.
Well, technically I'm still in for about another month. Then the year away begins.
We could always start a thread about perpetual students. Those who, if money were not an object, would pile up degrees like flapjacks and never spend a day in the "real world." (c) MTV. But that is neither here nor there. Some might call them professors, but I mean people who would go to law school, get their law degree, decide that they wanted to really get a PhD in fluid dynamics, and upon receiving that, decided they really wanted to go to business school.
I am in no way saying that there is anything wrong with this. What I am saying is that its probably akin to triathletes and endurance athletes in a way.
Yes, I manipulated the powers that be into beginning the school year in the fall instead of in the summer.
I am a crafty one.
If money were no object, I'd probably do that. But only if money were no object only if I did that; ie, if I had the money before I made my plans, that would not be my plan.
Or we could discuss commenter DougJ over at Ballon Juice. Sarcastic? Or just Right?
oops. Balloon. balls on juice are a whole different shriveled thing.
If money were no object, I'm sure I'd spend a great deal of time learning things, but don't think I'd be motivated by degrees.
I was just today thinking that there must be enough material here for someone to study
Somebody's gotta be doing it, if not with unfogged. I have a friend who studies something similar with the communities that develop shareware - who takes on what roles, who sticks around and who leaves quickly, when and how does the group decide to do a new release...
A funny thing about norms. I think there's imprinting from the time you start to participate and things change fast. I still do the italicized quote at the beginning which was common when I first posted a couple times. The community has gone through a couple other styles since then, but I'm kind of stuck there... maybe because I don't post all that often.
italicized quote at the beginning
People still do this.
Somebody's gotta be doing it, if not with unfogged.
Yeah, but, who cares?
Well, I guess I'm not really an active commenter at other sites, but my guess is there are types of behavior here that you don't see too much elsewhere - randomly inspired versification, for example.
Where is SB, anyway?
(Something else you don't see many other places.)
I could see a writer researching this kind of stuff for an e-pistolary novel. Just imagine something like the Pamela, Shamela, Dracula, or the Sorrows of Young Werther taking place through blogs, chat rooms, e-mail, and IM.
Are you still on hiatus, Ogged? It's been a long time. I think you should consider coming back.
OK, I'm back on the job, procrastinating after a good night's sleep!
I actually will be doing something today and tomorrow (moving), but that's OK because I'm at a least a week behind schedule and everyone's mad at me.
To 30: I'm tired of the free riders. Someone else has to post first.
People have done projects on metafilter.
Here I am procrastinating on vacation, so anything's possible. I really should get off my ass and check out the penis museum but it's really, really cold and rainy at the moment.
I thought you were there with a lady-friend, MY.
How do Icelanders feel about blond jokes?
And it should be noted that Yglesias's picture tour of Iceland reads like it was done by the son of Jack Handey.
The blonde pictures are British. What a waste of an opportunity.
No, lady friend is in Princeton spending the week helping inner city kids. Sucker! Who's Jack Handey? And isn't like Saturday night or something back in America? Shouldn't you guys be doing something fun?
Sunday AM. Iceland isn't that far away.
It's Sunday morning.
Here's some Jack Handey.
Go see the Penis museum. If it's only raining, it can't be that cold.
Photo title: "ducks".
Photo is of: ducks.
Photo caption: "Some ducks".
I only visit penis museums on warm, sunshiny days, wearing white, with a straw hat on my head.
Taipei has a "Strange Rock Museum" and I'm sorry I never visited. It's not for international tourists, it's for Chinese.
No penis museum, but their burlesque show had an autofellating acrobat.
Penis museum turns out to be closed on Sundays. Gonna go to the art museum instead. How disappointing. But no more procrastinating! I'm off.
Yeah, the Icelandic blue laws are strict about penisses.
Iceland is on British time: +5 from New York, +8 from the West Coast. It could be only +3, but British hegemony, you know.
33 etc.--there's a natural person to do that survey. Working title: "An ethnology of an online community hosted by a Sucka-Ass Punk."
I'm glad you remembered that, or I would have had to say it again.
(Will answer your question tomorrow, by the way.)
OH REALLY
If you can tell me a convincing story that you need the answer in the next five minutes or you won't get laid, I'll answer it in the next five minutes.
Ogged, if I don't find out soon what the answer to my question is, I'll be SO TENSE FOREVER that I will be a social wreck, and will, therefore, never be able to get laid, not for love or money.
That in itself is an indication of how worked up I already am.
There are more effective ways to take the edge off, you know.
Mill on desirable or valuable or whatever it is just doesn't do it for me these days. I need new philosophical thrills.
Ok, I'll stop reading your lastest post at waste and head over to the B&T page.
my vanity
Don't make me link to another picture of you.
Vanity doesn't have to be justified.
Good point. Can I comment at B&T without being interrupted, please?
I can't really answer this, can I? Except to observe that I'm not making you check your email.
Well it's a good thing I didn't need it in five minutes!
I mean, thanks.
You'll note that I was true to my word.