Tortoises are the cutest creature in the world!!!

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When I was in middle school, I found I have the talent to speak without moving lips. The only flaw is I have to keep my lips seperated a little bit to let the airflow out. Nevertheless, the pseud-ventriloquism is cool enough to make my friends burst into laugher. Sometimes I look into the mirror and speak to myself with a poker face for fun. Anyway, I was so proud of the skill because I could gossip with my deskmate without being caught ever. That was the way I thought I had put it into good use.
Nowadays teeangers use high-tech to trick with adults. David Herzka, a high school student in New York, puts a ringtone online for teenagers to download to their cell phones. The ringtone is inaudible to most aged ears but young peopoe are sensitive to it. You can have a test on hearing here.
Kids are happy because now they can have text messages in class with [senior] teachers knowing nothing about it. Interestingly, the idea of highring roots from a device called the Mosquito, which was used to repel teenagers from congregating in the U.K. “The Mosqito works by emitting a very high-pitched noise, which would be very irritating to children and teenagers while being silent to adults.” So what’s this? To give adults a dose of their own medicine?
BTW, I can hear it! I can hear it!! I can hear it!!! YEAH!!!

Yesterday I discussed with Katherine over dinner about our blogging patterns. She’s got a Livejournal and updates it from time to time. What she covers are her news, interesting experience, and something she’d like to share with specific people–some entries are password-protected while others remain open to the public. I couldn’t help asking the way she blogs since my master’s thesis looks closely at the reasons why people blog. Her case falls perfectly into the keeping-others-posted type as I discovered in my research. Very typical.

“What about you?” She asked.

“Well,” I grinned, “the busier I am, the more I hunger for blogging. Basically, blogging is a way for procrastination.”

On the surface it seems so. My blogging peak time usually coincides with the hectic days on my schedule. I blogged three entried from June 1st to 6th. At the same time I was finishing three 25-page-long term papers as well. BTW, do you know what the worst term paper writing experience is? Writing an awful paper is like giving birth to a toad. What’s worse, you have to show your baby toad to everyone you want to please and claim “hey this is mine!”

Maybe I need to think it twice. Was I blogging to procrastinate? Or to gain a sense of achievement regardless how minor it is? Maybe both. In my thesis, I termed the statement “I blog to get away from things I should be doing” as escape. That was directly imported from previous studies on more consumable media use, like TV or radio. A second thought is needed to give it a new label which indicates that at least getting something done. Your opinion?