old habits die hard .. but they still die, right?

just now i was leafing through my online bookmarks, deciding on how best to be idle. under my most visited bookmarks was mathscιnet.

for the last week or two, every time i've been in front of a computer, i'd inevitably need to check a reference ..

.. which means an author/title/year search,
or clicking on the links to references of familiar papers [1]

today, even though i had nothing to look up,
i was still tempted to load the webpage ..!

maybe i need a vacation. if so, then that's bad news for me:
the job application season has just begun.

[1] it actually reminds me of how you can view the profiles of friends of your friends, on faceboοk.com.