The Self-Representation

This summarizes most students. Sure, we think about a few other things, but a lot of the time we are thinking about pizza. Mmm...pizza. Oh right. That comic is rather funny and is worth checking out regularly: PhD comics.

The One Liner

Take Two.

I have just witnessed the movie known as Annie Hall: A Nervous Romance. I think any normal person can relate to it on some level. The abnormal can probably relate on several, if not all, levels.

Here are some key lines.

Alfie Singer on life: Two women are in the Cat Scales (a spa resort) and one woman says to the other, 'the food here is terrible.' The other replies, 'I know and such small portions.'

Alfie Singer on his life: I don't want to be a member of a club that will have me as a member. (Though he sites this as being Groucho Marx)

Alfie Singer: Don't knock masturbation, it’s making love to someone you love.

An exchange between Alfie Singer and Annie Hall.

Annie Hall: Hollywood is so clean.
Alfie Singer: It's because they don't throw out their trash, they make it into television shows.


I am glad I purchased this movie. If anyone would like to see it, I am willing to lend it out. Things of substance to come in the near future I hope. There is no time to do anything, I find; though I just spent a week procrastinating. It was wonderful.

The Adventure

So there will be no posting for a short while. I will be gone. To where? Out of this snow bound location and onto greater and warmer places: Florida. The count begins within the hour, then a full day in the car with 5 people. This is going to be ridiculous.

Take it easy everyone.

The Bottom Line

Monkeys go ape for a little allure

Robin McKie, science editor

Sunday February 13, 2005

There is nothing they enjoy more than sitting in front of the TV, watching celebrities at play and images of well-formed female bottoms. Human males, of course, are keen on it, too.
Scientists reported last week that male rhesus monkeys will 'pay' to check out pictures of female monkey bottoms or images of socially dominant members of their species.
The insight into monkey urges was arrived at by researchers at Duke University in North Carolina who gave male macaques the choice of looking at images on a computer screen of either a female's posterior or of a socially-dominant monkey. They found that the monkeys would take a cut in their fruit juice allowance for glimpses of either alluring vision. As they report in Current Biology magazine, the pleasures of pay-per-view television appear to be shared by more than one species. However, when the monkeys were offered visions of a social inferior monkey they refused to look unless they were paid extra rations.
'It is human nature to pay attention to powerful people,' said researcher Robert Deaner. 'Now it seems other primates share the tendency.' As for the bottoms, 'they reacted like men faced with a large billboard of a lingerie model,' said his colleague, Professor Michael Platt of the university's neurobiology department.
Platt and Deaner argue that these tendencies show how important it is for social animals like macaques and humans to be able to check out the status and reproductive prospects of fellow members of their species. 'This is not simply monkey pornography,' added Platt.

However, these tendencies are not necessarily those of female macaques. 'We have only done the experiment with males,' said Platt. 'Now we are preparing to do it with females. We may find they have similar attitudes but that is not really the perception we have of human females.'

The Shine

This is just something interesting to know. Nothing huge.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6988

Sorry for the lack of posting. I've been busy being with working and being sick.