Category: pretty things

pretty things on the web

this is entirely about STUFF

i love that couch and shelves and everything.
amazing design

totally hot dish design:
cups

all these clocks are from bed bath and beyond (ohmygosh so cool)
melting clock
THIS IS LIKE CANDY (i could so hang 1.. or 3 on our kitchen wall)
CANDY CLOCKS. *drool*
and this would go into the bathroom:
retro clocks

and one of these (or all 3) in the entrance way so that guests know they’re entering a screwed up place:
stretched clock hanging man clock another stretched clock

PS

and what did i eat today?

Kraft Dinner.

the one and only : kraft dinner

i love you tim, who eats it with me at 2am.

and i love you, kraft dinner, who makes me feel so happy with cheesy goodness.

reading titles of papers

this is one of those “if i never had to work what would i do (beside photography and travel)” things.

BBC posted an article on Romantic love ‘lasts just a year’ citing a research article. i love these kinds of news as they lead to a fantastic amount of facianting research.

so, again, upon reading such an article i jet to e-resources of u of t and try to find the original. unfortunately news articles cite their sources very liberally (i.e. mention the author and journal, but not paper title or anything like that), thus it involves some looking up.

the moment i open any given journal on scholar’s portal (biggest collection of online research journals and articles at u of t), i start to drool and wish i could read alll of them. i still haven’t found the original of the BBC article, but here is a skimming from today’s “casual research”; the articles i’d love to read just to gain the knowledge:

  • The role of the amygdala in human fear: Automatic detection of threat
  • Stress hormones in health and illness: The roles of work and gender
  • Coping with critical life events and lack of control—the exertion of control
  • The effect of a low dose of alcohol on allopregnanolone serum concentrations across the menstrual cycle in women with severe premenstrual syndrome and controls
  • Weight loss strategies, stress, and cognitive function: Supervised versus unsupervised dieting
  • Prenatal stress and children’s cortisol reaction to the first day of school

    • these are from Psychoneuroendocrinology journal.

    i couldn’t find the article there (grr, and google scholar ain’t helping either), so i looked up “romantic love” in the u of t scholar’s portal. results (ohmygosh! hesi i think you’ll like this) – there is a journal called Psychology and Marketing .

    articles from that:

  • Romantic love and sex: Their relationship and impacts on ad attitudes
  • Direct evidence of ending-digit drop-off in price information processing
  • On-line product presentation: Effects on mood, perceived risk, and purchase intention
  • The dark side of discounts: An inaction inertia perspective on the post-promotion dip
  • A cognitive and behavioral hierarchical decision-making model of college students’ alcohol consumption
  • Memory for advertising and information content: Comparing the printed page to the computer screen
  • The interaction of retail density and music tempo: Effects on shopper responses
  • A cross-cultural exploration of attitudes toward product expiration dates

    • the The Journal of Comparative Neurology Volume: 493, Issue: 1, 5 December 2005, pp. 58 – 62 has an article titled Romantic love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice

    i want to read them all, collect them all. and this is just from a 15-20 minute casual browsal/search of just one of the many (at least 10 major, 50 minor) online collections of journals, all searchable.

    and each article has references, which lead to more facianting stuff, and and and this is just the latest research (all of these are at most 6 months old – nearly nothing, given how my friend published a linguistics article on a book written in 1973!)

    i wish i could be one of those people who writes news articles based on these journals. that’d be FREAKIN’ SWEET!

    P.S. Tickets to Australia bought. Tickets to New Zealand bought (open-jaw – flying into Auckland and leaving from Christchurch). Residence secured (the mixed orange roof thing around a big tree). All that’s left is visa (easy), and figuring out the pleasantries of what to do in NZ, and what and how to pack. i foresee a lot of pleasant shopping for bags for me.

    update: boingboing to the rescue! they posted a link to the original paper i was looking for

    random reading

    “…Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand…” (the Skin Horse)

    i miss my teddy bear!

    2 days, lots of links, and soup

    my ohmygosh glitzy shoe. its REALLY far sparklier than the photo monday:
    wore: was a super nice stylish warm day. i’m feelin’ great lately, and i decided that i’m not going to bother dressing up for halloween and just use the warm weather to be happy. long peasant green skirt (mm, france), brown long sleeve cotton shirt, with an embroidered v cut (its not v, its a rectangle, and its deep ;) ), with feather decorations, a load of bracelets, brown boots (oh how i love thee, brown boots), and a grey sweater (to cover up the indecency of the low cut, and for warmth). and i think a red jacket (yes-it-doesn’t-match-but-i-still-love-it). and of course the paul frank bag.
    did: headed downtown, talked to oleg and organized stuff about australia for a long time. ran out my laptop’s battery, which at this point runs out *more than twice as fast* as oleg’s far younger computer of the same make (thinkpad x31). then headed home, gave out candy to the HORDES of kids that came by, and then headed downtown and got drunk with tim. mmm, einsteins and there was a seriously crazy lady! the whole room was laughing at her crazyness. it was awesome!

    tuesday:
    wore: brown shoes with the chain loops (see picture), blue jeans (mm comfy), an oversized white guess dress shirt and a smaller brown jacket (the one from france, awesome silloutte), with a beige scarf on top (thin, from tim’s grandma). in the evening aforementioned grey sweater was added for warmth. very shaggy, multi layered look is happening – white shirt is peeking out underneath it all, and i think it looks awesome. oh and a red beret completes the punch of color.

    did: morning (aah, hangover) was pancakes at bahen – cssu was organizing a pancake sale. it was tasty and i ate too much (which is good). morning is 12pm. at 1 i went to databases… the prof is lesser of two evils, but she blames us on half the class failing. i say its her fault for shitty teaching, and hard tests. my other classes (during which, as right now for example) have normal averages. afterwards jetted to history of philosophy of science, which was reasonably fun and interesting.
    then i went to get teh best soup. blissfully alone. so awesome. i so need this time to spend with myself. an hour of reading scary stories on fark and eating soup and being happy. then i went to current class of philosophy of science.

    time wasting – not:
    free software to block your temptation programs. smart idea. i’ll use it!
    best. website. ever. its about ORGANIZING LIFE. cleaning up LISTS. aaah, yesss. joys piled on top. and then there is this for an organized home. how am i supposed to do any work with all this great organization reading!