Rule of Life

You're not having fun until security shows up looking confused.

Are we displacing behaviour yet?

I just want the world to know that when I read the following passage, I had reached such a degree of vexation with J. L. Austin's article that I was in fact standing on my head:

Observation of animal behaviour shows that regularly, when an animal is embarked on some recognizable pattern of behaviour but meets in the course of it with an insuperable obstacle, it will betake itself to energetic, but quite unrelated, activity of some wild kind, such as standing on its head. This phenomenon is called "displacement behaviour" and is well identifiable. If now, in the light of this, we look back at ordinary human life, we see that displacement behaviour bulks quite large in it: yet we have apparently no word, or at least no clear and simple word, for it.

I'm trying to start journaling in the morning, but my entries always amount to cryptic variations on "I feel like crap" or "I feel pretty good." Any advice?

puzzle

Why is it that when a candidate promises to change the way an entire nation operates, people get excited, but when an online social networking company changes the way their website looks, people get outraged?

I am weird

Some things I have done recently that have provoked remark, though I didn't see anything strange about them:

1. I shelled an egg into my hat.
2. I can't think of anything else.
3. So maybe I am not really that weird.

Second (and last?) self-referential one-liner

This concept seems to be wearing thin quickly.

Which one of these guys takes himself more seriously?

This is me in 2003:

This is me now: