Little houses made of ticky tacky

This past post has been sitting in my drafts for over a day. POST TIME.

This Chicken & Fries tee looks like a bundle of joy to wear. Yes, a bundle of joy! Buy it at Karmaloop.

Karmaloop looks cleaner.

“Distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is doing“, says researchers. Which leads them to conclude that good TV really is bad TV because good TV makes you FAT!! I need to start leading some of these retarded research studies.

These are nice Abercrombie & Fitch swim shorts. But I would rather stab myself in the arm than pay $50 for swim shorts. Still, they are nice. Hollister has the cheaper and not-so-vibrant version. Hahaha!

OMG, these Penguin Robo Board Shorts are awesome! I LOVE ROBOTS.

Mario Strikers Charged is a new type of battle game for the Nintendo Wii. Watch a video of some German folks playing it here. THIS GAME LOOKS TOTALLY FUN. It reminds me a lot of Super Smash Bros. (except for the “soccer/football” part of it).

Cole Rise is a pretty looking site. Thanks Tiff!

This New York Times article about how we waste time at work describes my work ethic almost exactly! It’s not that I’m a lazy worker at all (in fact, contrary to what some — or even I — may believe, I am actually a very hard working employee/intern/etc.). It’s more that I work better when I can have some time to do my own “distracting things” at the office.
Check this out:

American workers, on average, spend 45 hours a week at work, but describe 16 of those hours as “unproductive,” according to a study by Microsoft. America Online and Salary.com, in turn, determined that workers actually work a total of three days a week, wasting the other two. And Steve Pavlina, whose Web site (stevepavlina.com) describes him as a “personal development expert” and who keeps incremental logs of how he spends each working day, urging others to do the same, finds that we actually work only about 1.5 hours a day. “The average full-time worker doesn’t even start doing real work until 11:00 a.m.,” he writes, “and begins to wind down around 3:30 p.m.”

Searching through clutter is another diversion, says Peggy Duncan, a “personal productivity coach” in Atlanta, who maintains that rifling though messy desks wastes 1.5 hours a day.

So how to reconcile the seemingly conflicting trends — the fact that we are working harder and wasting more time? A crotchety boss might say that we’re working longer because we’re wasting time, but the opposite may also be true. We are wasting time because we are working harder.

Yeah, so basically, it really just comes down to this sentence:

“The old thinking says ‘the longer it takes, the harder you’re working,” says Lynne Lancaster, a founder of BridgeWorks, a business consulting firm. “The new thinking is ‘if I know the job inside and out and I’m done faster than everyone else then why can’t I go home early?’ ”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. :) Be sure to read the article if you can sacrifice a bit of distraction at work!

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