Thursday, April 16, 2009

waste the day away

it took me 3 hours to make the cover page for my forensics report. it only says confidential and my name. but i had to find the perfect font. in the past 52 minutes, i have added the words 'table of contents' to the first page. the thing is, i am incapable of doing a project when there is still a week until it's due. i know i wont have time to do it later because i have four other projects due at the same time, but that doesnt help. i have to procrastinate.

this article has a list of questions you should answer to put off working or studying or whatever youre procrastinating. here are my answers:

Name the two candidates who received the most votes running against Vladimir Putin in the March 2000 Russian presidential election.
Gennady Zyuganov, who got 21,928,468 votes, and Grigory Yavlinsky, who got 4,351,450 votes. Putin got 39,740,467 votes in case you were wondering.

Where do they keep the original fossil of archaeopteryx?
at the Jura Museum in Germany. It's the oldest known fossil bird, presumably the link between birds and dinosaurs, just in case you were wondering.

Disney’s annual profit is equal to the total gross national product of how many island nations?
Their revenue in 2008 was $37,843... you can go compare.

What would your first dog have looked like with green fur? Purple?
i never owned a dog, but i'm sure it would have looked great with purple or green fur if i had had one.

If you ran for president, whom would you pick as a running mate?
umm someone who knew something about politics or government since im pretty much clueless. so mai or arwa.

Who were the eight baseball players who constituted the Black Sox of 1919?
William Thomas "Sleepy Bill" Burns, Billy Maharg, Pitcher Lefty Williams, Centerfielder Happy Felsch, Shortstop Swede Risberg, Thirdbaseman Buck Weaver, Utilityman Fred McMullin, and one of the best and most popular stars ever, Leftfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. They were part of a whole big baseball scandal about throwing games.

How many times is the letter “o” printed in this newspaper?
i dunno about the paper, but on that webpage, there were 279 o's.

How many beat poets had their works published between 1950 and 1959?
There are 5 main ones: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Diane DiPrima. beat poets were one of the "rebel artists" of the 50s.

Who owns the photo rights to the pictures on your textbook covers?
i'm too lazy to look at all my books, but my telecommunications text book cover picture belongs to Tamara Dean.

How many cameras were used to shoot the film “The Last Starfighter”?
i'm not sure, but there were 300 scenes containing computer graphics in the film, each frame of the animation contained an average of 250,000 polygons, and had a resolution of 3000 × 5000 36-bit pixels.

How many doors are there in the MultiCultural Center?
there are 500 million multicultural centers that come up on google. i'm gonna take a guess and say a lot though.

When George Washington Carver invented peanut butter, was it chunky-style or smooth?
smooth. he invented over 300 uses for a peanut, a fact i learned from abdullah's research project.

When was the first edition of your last math book published? How many pages did it have?
1999. It had 398 pages.


it was like an online scavenger hunt to find all of these. who knew you could learn so much from procrastinating??

*Wake Up Call - Relient K

2 comments:

  1. anonymous hippopotamusJune 7, 2011 at 3:55 PM

    interesting .. i guess its a useful way to procrastinate...better than refreshing facebook, youtube, and then your email and finding nothing and then starting over again :D

    but if you're going to search for answers to these questions why not just do the homework..kinda retarded.lol

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  2. um it's easier for me to do stuff that i don't have to do than stuff i have to. duh.

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