Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

We are still waiting for baby to arrive, and the waiting can be frustrating. Will today be the day? We thought it would be, but now it doesn’t seem to be. Baby will come when it’s ready, but in our over-scheduled world it is hard to accept something will just happen without your planning or knowing exactly when it will happen.

I am finding it hard to get motivated to write about Fahrenheit 451 for the Big Read. I’ve written a few drafts for part one, but nothing really sticks. I don’t want to continue on with reading part two until I have written about part one, so this may take longer than I originally anticipated.

In the meantime here are some things I have come across on the interweb:

The Hello Experiment (via In Java Literally): Remember that Lionel Richie video with the blind girl making a creepy Lionel Richie bust out of clay in the Hello video? Well this is a bunch of people trying to do the same.

Right Brain or Left Brain (via techyum): Which way do you see the dancer spin? That is supposed to tell you which side of your brain is dominant. I mostly see clockwise spinning, although the first second is counter-clockwise and then it switches.

Barbie pushes credit cards to kids (via Consumerist): This commercial and product display everything that is wrong when capitalism and consumerism are taken to extremes. “You never run out of money!” one of the children says in the commercial. Of course not, just keep using that credit card to buy, buy buy! Don’t worry about looming debt or crushing bills. Don’t worry about selling your future for instant gratification. Just swipe the card and shut up! Great message Mattel.

I can’t remember where I stumbled upon this game, but it is kind of fun. It is a satirical look at the fast food industry and what it does to the world.