a frantic little Dutch boy at the dike without enough fingers
The weird thing is that a dike (as in a water-keeping-out-wall-like device) doesn't have **any** fingers, so of course the dike doesn't have "enough fingers". And why would a frantic boy be at such a dike, anyway?!;-)
but the elasticity comes from the sticky quality right? is it possible to retain the elastic quality without it being sticky?
Good question, but as there are lots of elastic yet non-sticky things out there, I would think that it should be possible to make non-sticky clothing out of this stuff.
Maybe the spiders can decide whether or not to add an extra "stickiness" protein to the silk as they extrude it, so they can make non-sticky support strands for their webs. That way they could walk around without getting themselves stuck---or maybe they have some weird foot-based non-stick thing.
Also, is silk from silkworms sticky?
OK, I don't know any of the answers, so those are just a few thoughts on the topic.
Just imagine, if every super-bouncy ball were also super-sticky...:-)
Many universities, at least in the U.S., have a student advice center, or student counseling services. They usually have *free* workshops on time management for students, avoiding procrastination, etc., and I recommend that you try such a workshop. If it's a one-day thing, that's great & can be helpful. If it's more than one-day, or if you can get one-on-one with a student counselor, the help you recieve will be much more effective than random hints from this site---follow-up sessions will allow you to accurately identify which things work for you, what the root causes of your problems are, etc.
I'll admit I only skimmed the comments up to this point, but they seem to center on: better time management (e.g., make reading a part of the work you do before you go home; separate 'work' and 'non-work'; keep a "worry" notepad...), removing distractions, getting regular exercise, and coffee. All these things and more will be addressed in depth in any decent workshop aimed at university students.
BTW, on the exercise thing, no need to spend hours in the gym---and that will stop you from doing work anyway!---it's just to get your blood flowing, so a 15-minute jog in the morning should be fine. And my personal feeling on coffee is that it's great if you're having trouble staying alert, and you need to double your thought rate. But if you are having distracted thoughts, then having twice as many of them isn't what you need right now.
Sure, there's the stigma of going to a counseling center, but compared to accepting advice from quasi-anonymous/.'ers... You weren't going to tell your friends that you asked us this question, so don't tell them where you're going on Tuesdays at 1:30pm. Tell them it's a date.:-)
And if your university doesn't have this sort of student services, then you should get a better book about personal time management. This "Seven Habits" stuff seems like pop-psychology to me. Well, it might work, but I'd look elsewhere.
Try using the "Save to desktop" command in Software Updater. It downloads the updater (unfortunately doesn't allow you to save it anywhere but the desktop, but you can move it after it's downloaded) so you can run it when it's more convenient.
As mentioned before, there's not much reason to run the updater if you're not going to reboot right away. Yeah, yeah, maybe sometimes there's some reason, but generally not.
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yes, of course... I was just deliberately misparsing the sentence.
:-p Oh, well.
Maybe it wasn't very funny in the end but it was pretty damn funny in my head when I thought it up.
zach
a frantic little Dutch boy at the dike without enough fingers
;-)
The weird thing is that a dike (as in a water-keeping-out-wall-like device) doesn't have **any** fingers, so of course the dike doesn't have "enough fingers". And why would a frantic boy be at such a dike, anyway?!
Well, quit copying 17MB files from one folder to another while you run iTunes...
... now I've gotta reboot and install it on my machine.
:-)
Bummer on the uptime, man.
No matter how you cut it--hours, number of iPods filled, Libraries of Congress--that's an assload of music to give away.
OK, how many elephants is it?
"Capricorns are always horny" and "Leos are dishonest"
All right! I am *so* looking for a Capricorn.
Wait. You're a Leo, aren't you? Dammit. Forget it then.
Yeah---stop wearing such unflattering wrinkeledy-ass shirts. You have to iron them. It's elementary.
Too bad "set up an orbiting factory" wasn't one of the poll choices just last week.
but the elasticity comes from the sticky quality right? is it possible to retain the elastic quality without it being sticky?
:-)
Good question, but as there are lots of elastic yet non-sticky things out there, I would think that it should be possible to make non-sticky clothing out of this stuff.
Maybe the spiders can decide whether or not to add an extra "stickiness" protein to the silk as they extrude it, so they can make non-sticky support strands for their webs. That way they could walk around without getting themselves stuck---or maybe they have some weird foot-based non-stick thing.
Also, is silk from silkworms sticky?
OK, I don't know any of the answers, so those are just a few thoughts on the topic.
Just imagine, if every super-bouncy ball were also super-sticky...
Many universities, at least in the U.S., have a student advice center, or student counseling services. They usually have *free* workshops on time management for students, avoiding procrastination, etc., and I recommend that you try such a workshop. If it's a one-day thing, that's great & can be helpful. If it's more than one-day, or if you can get one-on-one with a student counselor, the help you recieve will be much more effective than random hints from this site---follow-up sessions will allow you to accurately identify which things work for you, what the root causes of your problems are, etc.
/.'ers... You weren't going to tell your friends that you asked us this question, so don't tell them where you're going on Tuesdays at 1:30pm. Tell them it's a date. :-)
I'll admit I only skimmed the comments up to this point, but they seem to center on: better time management (e.g., make reading a part of the work you do before you go home; separate 'work' and 'non-work'; keep a "worry" notepad...), removing distractions, getting regular exercise, and coffee. All these things and more will be addressed in depth in any decent workshop aimed at university students.
BTW, on the exercise thing, no need to spend hours in the gym---and that will stop you from doing work anyway!---it's just to get your blood flowing, so a 15-minute jog in the morning should be fine. And my personal feeling on coffee is that it's great if you're having trouble staying alert, and you need to double your thought rate. But if you are having distracted thoughts, then having twice as many of them isn't what you need right now.
Sure, there's the stigma of going to a counseling center, but compared to accepting advice from quasi-anonymous
And if your university doesn't have this sort of student services, then you should get a better book about personal time management. This "Seven Habits" stuff seems like pop-psychology to me. Well, it might work, but I'd look elsewhere.
zach
Try using the "Save to desktop" command in Software Updater. It downloads the updater (unfortunately doesn't allow you to save it anywhere but the desktop, but you can move it after it's downloaded) so you can run it when it's more convenient.
As mentioned before, there's not much reason to run the updater if you're not going to reboot right away. Yeah, yeah, maybe sometimes there's some reason, but generally not.