Your pin is WANTED!!! [ I am nuts. Let me be. It is not an easy thing to finish three term papers in 10 days. ]

It doesn’t look as delicate as those on iPodMyPhoto.com, but it saves me $20. Spent 45 minutes playing with Photoshop and procrastinating. Just for fun.

Via Alex Halavais.
I am a Handholder.

You go out of your way to build bridges with people of different views and beliefs and have quite a few religious friends. You believe in the essential goodness of people , which means you’re always looking for common ground even if that entails compromises. You would defend Salman Rushdie’s right to criticise Islam but you’re sorry he attacked it so viciously, just as you feel uncomfortable with some of the more outspoken and unkind views of religion in the pages of this magazine.
You prefer the inclusive approach of writers like Zadie Smith or the radical Christian values of Edward Said. Don’t fall into the same trap as super–naïve Lib Dem MP Jenny Tonge who declared it was okay for clerics like Yusuf al–Qaradawi to justify their monstrous prejudices as a legitimate interpretation of the Koran: a perfect example of how the will to understand can mean the sacrifice of fundamental principles. Sometimes, you just have to hold out for what you know is right even if it hurts someone’s feelings.
What kind of humanist are you? Click here to find out.

In case you don’t know it:
Baidu (百度) (NASDAQ: BIDU) is a popular Chinese search engine. Its design resembles that of Google and features the capability to search news and images, among other functionalities. Baidu claims itself the biggest search engine in Chinese language. Its name translates to “hundreds of times” in English (Wikipedia, 2005).

A parody of Stephen Chow’s comedy Flirting Scholar [ 唐伯虎点秋香 ]. Tang Yin [ aka Tang Bohu ] is a renowned poet and painter in Ming Dynasty. This commercial mimics a scene in the movie that Tang was forced in competition with another poet. The game ended up with Tang’s victory and the poet’s hematemesis. In this commerical Tang plays some tricks with a Chinese sentence by seperating the words in various ways to mean different things. His competitor, a foreigner who knows nothing more about Chinese but keeps claiming “I know” , is totally defeated by the trick because Tang “knows Chinese better.”
This is the original sentence on the board:
我知道你不知道我知道你不知道我知道你不知道
I know you dunno I know you dunno I know you dunno. [ Sorry for my lame translation ]

Read the rest of the entry…

Just in case you haven’t noticed it. My new Frappr! map has been up and running for 2 weeks but… so far I’m still the only one who signed on it [ I added the three cities I have lived/ am living in. Just to make it look more crowded ].
Bravenet Guestmap is a cool service. I’ve used it for about 2 years so now it reaches the limit of 100 visitors. Please feel free to pin on my new map again even if you’ve signed on Bravenet map before. Frappr! might not look as cute as Bravenet does but you can locate your position more accurately on it. Give it a shot.

Not only do we students talk about professors behind their backs [ It's not always bad-mouthing. Actually we say lots of goods things about them. ], professors do that too!!! In fact it’s not that bad as it sounds like, anyway, “it’s better to complain about students who fail to meet our expectations than to be indifferent to them.”
Some highlights:
1. Insatiability will send you to hell. Asking for extension first then for leave is not a wise decision. Ask for leave first so your overdue assignment will be justified.
2. If a professor signs her/his e-mails with initials, that means s/he prefers to be in the middle of formality and informality. Call her/him Professor XXXXX is safe.
3. The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome* is outdated and now The Computer Crash/Laptop Stollen Exam Syndrome is in now.
*. The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome is defined as “a student’s grandmother is far more likely to die suddenly just before the student takes an exam, than at any other time of year.” (Adams, 1990)
Adams, M. (1990). The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society. The Connecticut Review. Retrieved on November 17, 2005 from http://www.cis.gsu.edu/~dstraub/Courses/Grandma.htm

Oscar just went back from freezing Minneapolis. She’s too tired to keep her eyes open but has to turn in a paper today. So now she’s in her dreamland whle I’m on duty as an A.I. clock. I’ll wake her up [ by all mans ] at 3 am so we can switch.
Fourteen minutes to go and I am half-awake now. [ Yawn ]

You might have helped Cameron Marlow get his Ph.D. [ He got it! Congrats, Cameron! ]
Now you can give a hand again. Jiali Ye is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at Georgia State University. She’s conducting a survey on the maintenance of friendships developed on the Internet. If you are currently having a friendship (not romantic relationship) initiated and exclusively maintained online, you are welcome to participate in the study.
To participate in this study, simply go to http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwjou/esurvey/consentform.html
Your responses will be confidential. The survey will take about fifteen to twenty minutes.
After completing the survey, you can send an email to jye1 at gsu.edu with subject “participation” in order to receive information about the survey results when they become available.
Jiali’s study focuses on Chinese and American users. A chinese questionnaire will be posted soon. Please feel free to spread the word.

Megger…Megger…Megger…
Can you hear my voice?
Can you look into my eyes?
Can you read my mind?
You can’t. I know it.
All those can’t stop me from loving you. You are the one I’ve been dreaming of since childhood. Oh, dear Megger, you are so DEAR to me. I have to steal your photo and lie to myself: you are with me.

Via Happy ant’s blog. Have you found your Robot Charming?

Hey Oscar,
It’s sooooo sweet to get the invite to your commencement. I know you will succeed one day coz you are so googly [ Google rocks!!! ]. Congrats on graduation [ hey you survive!!! ] and best luck to jobhunting!!!
I’m so proud of you!
Dan

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

[ Courtesy of Ningzi Wang, a.k.a. Oscar ]