My Lazy Cells

So I found this meme on the internet (I know, that NEVER HAPPENS) but I thought it was very interesting. It purported to be a list of books that the BBC only expects you to have read six of or something like that. The tumblelog I got it from had the wrong list, though, and I don’t know where the number six came from, because it’s not on the BBC’s version. The meme tells you to x those you’ve read, + the ones you LOVE, and * the ones you want to read. This is way too complicated for me. But here you go: the BBC top 100 books. Because British people are the best judge of fine literature. (The italicized grey ones are ones I haven’t read.)

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It’s the beginning of spring semester, although I always feel a little weird referring to it as “spring semester” when it is still so very obviously winter. This semester I get to ditch nasty physics classes for some nicer ones, and although I am taking on a bit more difficult semester (18, maybe 19 credits) I think it will be more fun by virtue of the classes themselves.

Over the break, I had a very short-lived Tumblr account, before a friend introduced me to soup.io. Mine, under augustine, has become where I’m filtering most of the stuff I look at on the internets, mostly design-, illustration- or architecture-related. The nicest thing about soup.io is that it includes built-in automatic feeds for most common and some less common Web applications (last.fm, vimeo, youtube, del.icio.us, vi.sualize.us, and flickr are the ones that I find the most useful.) Its interface is lovely, and it’s easy enough to post things directly to your soup. It’s nice to have everything I find in one place, with a search box for easy finding.

I also did a wordle for this blog. The dominant themes aren’t all that surprising.

I plan on writing a little more this semester, partly because I will be writing things like response papers for art history anyway and I thought perhaps I could subject the internet to my thoughts on the history of film as art, as punishment for all its sins and wrongdoings. In the meantime, I’ll be posting things to my soup.

Taking a quick break from finishing my last (!) exam paper to post something exciting. A photo of mine was posted on Deleted Images today, check it out.



My brother Paul. Or rather, my brother’s nose and lip, and a bit of his bright green plaid shirt. Also found on Flickr.