Livin' in an 8 bit world

This week saw the thirtieth birthday of Pacman and to celebrate Google turned their logo into a playable version of the game. It was estimated that the time spent playing by bored workers around the world wasted 4.8 million hours of worktime equivalent to $120, 483, 80 of lost productivity.

In the spirit of 8-bit procrastination I came across this excellent short film 'Pixels' by the very talented Mr Patrick Jean.

and this, I couldn't resist.

and for Alex, some real chiptune

Enjoy.

Pro Cras Ti Nation.

The internet, oh boy the internet, all the places you'll go when you're trying to not do whatever it is you're meant to be doing.

Looking at things that are sort of not terribly exciting, but suddenly mesmerising. Like this

L'angoisse de la page blanche from dessert_first on Vimeo.

Wow.

And this

arrived at after watching Ice, Ice Baby and then Vanilla Ice AKA Robert Van Winkle apologise for all the shitty music he made.

And this, to top it all off and sum it all up

The Post It Post

Post-It notes are pretty great.

The Products of My Coursework research

Interior Decoration Possibility?

8-Bit Design Genius

How I fear I'll end up by the end of this year.

Maybe My Essay Would Write Itself If I Put A Bonnet On and Ran Away With A Mysterious Stranger.

Friend

hey

still the pope of procrastination?

18:00Me

hells yes

you?

18:00Friend

no

but i am the duke of doing fuck all

My attempts to study this weekend are a farce. For a little bit more procrastination, here are some pretty book covers I found while looking up dramatic farces in Spanish. 

My Mind is A'Wanderin'

These last few weeks of springtime have had me drunk on blossoms and sunlight winding through bright green leaves. There have been many wide smiles while riding home on my bike in the evening inhaling the heavy scents from sun soaked flowers. 

The end of the university year is drawing near and thusly there are many things to be done involving writing things that sound intelligent and memorising large quantities of information such as exactly what are the functions of third person pluperfect and the subjunctive in indirect speech. 

However, the distraction of life and spring time is making me feel more like this when I try and sit down in front of the books. To quote Bernard Black I can feel a bit of my brain falling away like wet cake.

I have set this as my desktop background and hope that it might just convince me to get something done. You can buy the print from Mary Kate McDevitt here