Iris

Iris. 24. London. Artist, thinker & time waster. This blog contains everything and nothing. More nothing than something because more often than not I am afraid of sharing or doing.

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Free Books!

We’re moving house soon so I’m getting rid of a few books and they are looking for a new home!

If you would like one (or two, or all) please let me know in the comments or email me rrreow[@]gmail.com You’ll have to be comfortable with giving me your address, I promise I won’t stalk you.. [...]

Procrastination Across The Nation

Someone kick me and make me update already! I’ve been toying with the idea of updating my blog for about a month but I keep putting it off. So voila, an impromptu update with no topic or meaningful content whatsoever!

I just bought a Nintendo DS Lite off ebay, so I’m pretty excited about that! I [...]

Interesting Article About Decision Making

Decision Time. This article published on the BBC News site today is pretty interesting. It is about emotion vs rationality in decision making.

Things that especially resonate with me are:

As Kahneman and Tversky put it: “In human decision-making, losses loom larger than gains.”

Loss aversion is now recognised as an important mental bias, with widespread implications. [...]

A Story About Boobs

Let me share with you a story of our highly sophisticated sense of humour. Last night, Andrew and I were in a rather silly mood. This resulted in us going back and forth saying film and TV show titles but replacing one word with ‘boobs’.

I present you with some of the more entertaining results:

The six [...]

Lunchtime babble (and lunch)

I’d just like to share with you this little bit of awesomeness. It is… our breadmaker! Best.kitchen.gadget.ever. Also, if you’re on a budget like us it provides a very cheap alternative to buying bread or prepackaged sandwiches. It tastes great too! The bread, that is, not the breadmaker.

This is just a regular ol’ white loaf, [...]

Snow!

The heaviest snowfall in 18 years apparently! It’s awesome, as even though it usually snows every year, snow in central London tends to melt within hours, but it’s [...]

Amazing & Inspiring

This girl, I want to learn from her and be as amazingly creative [...]