Today's philosophical quote by [Viking]:
"Is anyone ever prepared to have their boggle blasted?"

Today I walked down the corridor in uni and underneath the stairs that lead to the office of a teacher of mine I stopped and knew that he was in (he's supposed to be on holiday). Then later I walked past again and he came out of his office. And I knew because I recognised his smell in the corridor. >_> That is scary, because I try very hard to not obsess over him. <_<

Art project underway that kind of needs participation from all you people! :D It involves you receiving a free piece of typographical art. :3 I'll elaborate at the end of next week or something like that.

Addment:
Harporn!
http://www.harpomarx.net/fav20.html
http://www.harpomarx.net/fav21.html

T_T
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*has... no... time...*

Sorry, I keep spammering you all with this stuff :P But then again it's your own bloody choice to watch my house.

I'm in a different computer room today and wheeemz (sorry ally) YouTube works so I'm watching... stuff. o.O

Here's stuff:
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHM8xG6i8o

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You have been awarded the Bachelor of Arts with Honours Upper Second Class in Fine Art.
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Am I going to click them all now?
No. :)

For the attention of American friends (and also for the information of friends all over):
Please save Net Radio: http://www.savenetradio.org/
Contact your Congress representatives to ask them to co-sponsor the internet equality act (S. 1353 in the senate and H.R. 2060 in the house)

Today we had a lecture by David Crystal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crystal ) in uni, about Language and Internet. It was really interesting. And I'm feeling benevolent and organised, so I typed my notes and here you go too. :) Also, someone filmed it (I sawed them!) so if/when I find where they put that (they'll put it somewhere online), I'll link. But now.

Notes from the lecture given by David Crystal:     19th June 2007

(Intro)
-When ever new technology emerges, there is opposition.

-The CMC (computer mediated communication) has developed for about a decade, really. Yet we are already completely infused with it.

(Did internet have an impact on language?)
-Not really: The web added about 500 new words to English language (over a million words in the entire language in total). Text-type abbreviations aren’t that common. No changes in grammar. Web uses punctuation to express emotion instead of syntax or grammar. Old medieval manuscripts didn’t have punctuation or capital letters, so it’s not new to leave it out. Two new-ish plurals: old form ‘en’ (oxen, children) used for a lot of new web-type plurals and ‘z’ instead of ‘s’ for “warez” (not the same as “wares”) and “gamez” etc… Other than that, no massive effect on language and no effect on formal language (people agree that you wouldn’t use text-type where formal language is needed, and people have mutual tolerance for text-type in informal setting)

-Yes, in a way: Internet can save endangered languages. (Language can survive as long as teenagers are interested in it. Teenagers like internet.)

(Internet is constantly called "revolutionary)
-CMC is ‘revolutionary’ because it is a whole new type of communication, which is not talking and not writing.

Not like speech:
-Uses metaphors of speech (chat)
-Speech uses simultaneous feedback, this isn’t there in CMC, even with IM there is a lag.
-Conversation is two-ways. Email is one-way conversation – what an oxymoron!
-In a chatroom you can pay attention to several conversations at once, easily. No way to do that IRL.

Not like written language:
-Something written on a paper never changes. Online text does all the time (updates, scrolling text, pop-ups…)
-Hyperlink! WWW could not exist without it, without it there is no ‘web’! Books have cross-reference or footnotes, but they don’t need them. Internet needs hyperlink. And you can link anything, blogs, www, emails…
-Copy-paste. What an absurd idea IRL (someone sends you a letter, you cut out part of it, paste it on a new sheet of paper, write your letter on the same paper and send it back…?)

(General language/internet observation)
-English is no more the dominant language of the internet: 2003 less than 50% of website hosts were in English.

(Closing)
-Future of the web-language: introducing dialect and accent through audio maybe?

-How interesting for language blogs are: it is pure text from the author, no editors, nobody interferes with it! It’s the most naked form of language!

(Answers to questions)
-People don’t know how to use emoticons, there is no emoticon-grammar yet. :) is a smile, but a smile can mean a thousand things! But awesome idea to suggest facial expressions online.

Because of [Viking]'s diary, I've been reunited with PostSecret. And I've found a few familiar ones...

Fish's secret
http://bp3.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/Rl1hwYSft_I/AAAAAAAAA7U/wOelVJFymys/s1600-h/jealous.jpg

Mine
http://bp1.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/Rl1hQ4SftyI/AAAAAAAAA5s/ahQIvLMYeg0/s1600-h/socialist.jpg

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

OO1. When's the last time you ran?
Hmm, a while ago actually. Can't even remember properly. What I really love is when I'm outside without a bag and wearing my trainers and coming home, I usually run the street down to my house, the whole block. It's like flying. So when it comes to running I'm definitely a sprinter.

OO2. Do your jeans have rips, tears, and holes in them?
Yeap. -_- They always alway always tear from the butt. I don't know why, but absolutely all my trousers tear from the behind, on the same part too. Friggin' annoying.

003. What are you dreading right now?
Having to find accommodation for next year.

OO4. Do you celebrate 4/20?
No.

OO5. When is the last time you saw your significant other?
I don't have one, but the last one I had I saw him about a month ago when he stalked me on the street >.<

OO8. Do you get the full 8 hours of sleep a night?
More than that too.

O11. whats your current favorite song?
If I Had A $1,000,000 by the Barenaked Ladies is teh sex as usual... Dang, I just love all their stuffs. :3

O12. If anyone came to your house on your "lazy days" what would you do?
Is lazy days something I don't know of? But if someone came round I'd do whatever we'd usually do: sit, talk, entertain them in any way necessary. I'd be a good host.

O13. Who last grabbed your ass?
Can't remember... my ass isn't really that grabbable. I'm more "talented" in the frontal areas.

O14. Have you ever been in your school's band?
Kinda. And I was always in the choir. But note that in my schooly things "band" doesn't mean a marching band. It just meant a band with people playing music and singing.

O15. Do you own a pair of Converse?
Yeah, somewhere... I'm not sure if they're still wearable, or whether I threw them out already.

O16. Did you copy and paste this survey?
As opposed to...? Making my own questions? Who'd do that? Or typing the questions by looking at them offa something else? So yes, I copy pasted and wrote my answers in.

O17. Do you eat raw cookie dough?
Nope. I eat cooked cookies though.
Hmm, never noticed the connection between cookie and cooking before... o.O

O18. Have you ever kicked a vending machine?
Think so. I often result to the "frustrated player manouvers".

O19. Don't you hate when the radio ruins good songs by playing a slow one right after it?
Why would that ruin it? Sides there are good slow songs too.

O21. Do you watch Trading Spaces?
No, I don't even know what that is and I don't have a TV either.

O23. Have you ever stayed online for a very long time waiting for someone?
Yes, I often do that. But I also stay online for a really longtime out of having nothing to do, so there's hardly a difference.

O24. Are you cocky?
Hmm, don't realy think so.

O25. Could you live without a computer?
Yes, yes I could. I'd do something else. But as it happens to be available, I'll use it. It's a tool.

O26. Do you wear your shoes in the house?
I don't like to, no. I'd rather take them off, and I'd rather everyone took their shoes off in my house too.

O27. At what age did you find out that Santa wasn't real?
Santa is real. I work for him. Everyone in Finland works for Santa.

O28. How many phones, house phones and cell phones are in your house?
In England I have a mobile and my roommate has one, and she can also make calls on the computer by using Skype. And at home everyone has a mobile so that's six in total.

O29. What do you do when you're sad?
Good question, honestly. I get quiet and want to be alone, retreat away from people. Get restless and annoyed by company and possibly go for a walk.

O30. Who would you call first if you won the lottery?
My younger sister maybe.

O31. Last time you saw your best friend?
I live with my best friend so I saw her in the morning before she went to work and I'll see her at home in a bit.

O32. Who or what sleeps with you?
In the same room my aforementioned best friend roommate, in my bed no one.

O33. Are you in high school?
No.

034. Is anyone on your bad side now?
I'm not sure if I have a bad side :P There are some people I avoid because I don't like them, but I'm not actively upset at anyone.

O35. What jewelry are you wearing?
A crucifix around my neck only atm.

O36. What's the first thing you do when you get online?
Log into MSN if it's available, if it's not go to Hotmail.

O37. Do you watch Grey's Anatomy?
No, but my family does and they really like it.

O38. Would you wear a boy/girlfriends clothes?
Yes.

O39. Where do you work?
Uni, all my work is uniwork.

O40. What are you doing Friday?
Gonna finish taking down the degree show exhibition, have "farewell drinks" with my coursemates and tutors and then prolly go to a pub with my friends and go "oh noes I'll never see you evers again ;_;" - emotional times.

O41. Is Justin Timberlake becoming the next Michael Jackson?
Don't care really, but I don't think that's possible for him to do that.

O42. Favorite name for a girl?
Lucy is a pretty name.

O43. Favorite name for a boy?
Harrison, closely followed by George :P

O44. Will you keep your last name when you get married?
Not likely, I think I'll take his name.

O45. When is the last time you left your house?
Today morning, I came to uni (where I still am).

O46. Do you return your cart?
Yes of course, it's got my pound in it usually. o.O I do even when it doesn't.

O47. Do you have a dishwasher?
No. I don't really mind washing the dishes to be honest (I know this didn't seem to be so to [Draugluin], but I honestly don't. :)

O48. what noise do you hear?
I'm listening to my Yahoo!-radio and it is currently playing Jamiroquai.

O49. Would you survive in prison?
I think so, I keep to myself, mind my own business and have a fair dose of common sense. But then again if I went to prison I'd go to prison in Finland where we don't treat prisoners like animals, so it'd be very different from what it is like in TV.

I was awayness for the weekend and
-all my friggin' stalkees decided to fill in questionnaires that I generally would like to read but not when they've all done them at the same time.
-over 200 postings in junk, wtf. Ally and PUNK, get off the computer for a week *must... catch... up*

Because I never change my mood, I'd like to mention here that actually my current mood is: "meep!" ^^; *hides*

I'd also like to add that "Diversity Provides A Wide Variety of Scary."

I want to confess to a secret, guilty pleasure: I love reading http://rateyourstudents.blogspot.com/

It's like masochism, because I'm not the perfect student... But I love to read those ventings by college professors, to think whether my tutors might be thinking along those lines as well... and I read those for hours on end, loving it all.

It scares me a little, because I would like to teach in a college or university at some point, too. o.O


One more art project:
http://www.stanick.com/indexsl.html
(I find these through rhizome.org if you care)

I wore a t-shirt yesterday that said "FREE HUGS" and went around hugging anybody who wanted to claim their free hugs that day. (I wanted to wear the t-shirt today also, so I washed it by hand, but because university accommodation office is so frustratingly unfair all the time, the heating wasn't on all day so it didn't dry in time today - and I was trying to dry it with a hairdrier too! But you can always claim a free hug from me, even when I'm not wearing that tee).

Anyways, some may know what it was all about, some might not, so I thought I'd just link you guys to where it originates from. It's the free hugs campaign by Juan Mann, which has gotten a lot of attention all over (he was interviewed by Oprah about it, for example) and it spread far and wide. I came to know about it through the very inspiring video on YouTube - you can watch it
here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

I just thought of writing free hugs on a teeshirt on monday night when I was already half asleep, had to get out of bed to do the shirt and then wore it to uni the next day.

It is awesome and I heartily recommend doing that to everybody.