May 30, 2007
I Can Has Laff Out Lowd Winzday?
No, it is not time for Friday Cat Blogging. But I did want to share another cat-themed blogging phenom I discovered recently, lolcats. (More info here; Slate slideshow and essay here.)
It has been a long time since I have had cats as pets. But just a few moments looking at these images and captions brings back in a flash all the joy and humor of being a cat's human. There are spin-off sites and concepts that are very funny, too. But so far, nothing I have seen tops the feline antics of sites like this one. And lest you think these are mindless, note that you have to master a special language, or at least a pigdin English, to read and to create lolcats. There is also an extensive techno-culture associated with the phenomenon--one I am not privvy to as a direct participant, but that I find interesting from an academic perspective nonetheless. (Info on the language and history here.)
Of course, in Life.2.0 the ultimate mode of being is to be a creator. Thus, I offer my first lolcats, created with this handy generator. ENJOY!
Yup. There must be some missing law of physics accounting for the complex relationships among deadline dates, motivational level, quality of data/writing, necessity of the project for your career, and the deadline's speed of approach...
This is actually a pretty good approximation of how I look after a full day af data analysis with SPSS. There is no avoiding this condition, but a book that always makes recovery possible for me is Discovering Statistics Using SPSS by Andy Field--who, by the way, is also a cat person!
LOL, indeed! Yet, postdoc-ing is still a vast improvement over gradstudenting...
OK: my minute is up! Back to SPSS!
Posted by perry032 at May 30, 2007 10:17 AM | TrackBack| Printer-friendly version
Ooooh! I love these!! And after looking at them and going back to carefully read the post I find out that you created them yourself! WELL DONE!! They're hilarious and truly relevant!! I particularly liked the first one and the postdoc/ money one. :)
And as a cat person (we do have one cat right now, but I want to have more), I enjoy even more these fun photos and pidgin English. Thanks for letting me know about this cultural phenomenon, I'd never heard about it!
Posted by: Lilian at May 31, 2007 11:43 PMI was a bit disturbed when I saw the pictures at first, then I read the entry with it and thought duh, I am a bit slow today :-)They're cool - I like the last one, it reminds me of both myself and my cats :-)
Posted by: Rebecca at June 1, 2007 11:17 AM