Word: tediousness
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Robots In 1960 General Motors was the first to put one on an assembly line; before long, robots would invade manufacturing, taking over tedious tasks and unleashing a generation of science-fiction authors who envisioned man's defeat at the hands of the machines...
...soon head for those familiar green-and-white signs. And to my mind there is absolutely nothing shameful about that. Those pseudo-socialists who rail against Starbucks for being “corporatist”—in other words, clean—are deeply tedious, as University President Lawrence H. Summers would say, in effect if not in intent...
...with greater emphasis on the subjects' life stories. "I consider them the stars of the show," says executive producer Michael Klein. "We're watching them turn into butterflies." Unfortunately, just as Americans took scones and supersized them into catcher's mitts, TLC doubled What Not into a bloated, tedious hour, and hosts Wayne Scot Lukas and Stacy London deliver showy put-downs ("She looks hip-py, not hippie!") and lack their British forebears' acuity. If there's a real candidate for the American What Not, it's Bravo's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, which makes its debut July...
...probably the best. It learns to separate the wheat from the e-chaff during a training session, and then lets you fine-tune the results with JUNK/NOT JUNK buttons. Like Outlook and Eudora, Mail also lets you write your own specific filtering rules, but that's a tedious and potentially endless exercise. Outlook users might be better off buying a third-party program, and the market's flooded with them. Ella ($29.95, openfieldsoftware.com stands out for its simplicity. Like Apple's Mail, it uses an adaptive engine to "learn" your preferences--what qualifies as junk, which messages are top priority...
...different from real-world procrastination. In general, we Harvard students don’t wait until the last minute merely because we are lazy or busy; we wait until the last minute because we don’t have the necessary motivation to finish our largely asinine and tedious work otherwise. The challenge posed by intentionally limiting the amount of time to complete an assignment is often the only fuel that keeps burning well into the late hours of those most glorious of college experiences—the all-nighters. It is this deliberate desire for absent motivation, coupled with...