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	Yak Shaving Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yak Shaving Day is a fictional holiday popularized in 1992 in the Ren and Stimpy cartoon program as a parody of the Santa Claus legend.
		Once a year, children decorate the hallways with diapers, stuff their dad's boots with coleslaw, and leave out a pot of shaving foam.
		While they are fast asleep, the Gilded Yak sneaks into the home to shave, and leaves scum in the sink as a gift.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yak_Shaving_Day (111 words)

	Broadmining: Yak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The yak (Bos grunniens) is a long-haired humped domestic bovine found in Tibet and throughout the Himalayan region of south central Asia.
		Domesticated yak are kept primarily for their milk (to make butter for lamps in Buddist monastries), meat and they are used as beasts of burden; transporting goods across mountain passes for local farmers and traders as well as in support of climbing and trekking expeditions.
		Yaks are used to plow fields in much of Asia.
	lowide.com /Yak (198 words)

	Chicken or Beef? » 2005 » July
		In a wonderful example of yak shaving, read this post, and then realize that I found another post on the etymology of yak shaving about 2/3 of the way through writing my post.
		Shaving the yak is a difficult, pointless, and punishing task given only to a young monk who needs to learn the hard way about useless tasks.
		Yak shaving is a very human, very ancient tradition, one that I have felt today in more ways than I ever intended.
	www.chickenorbeef.net /wordpress/archives/2005/07 (1798 words)

	The Work Better Weblog / An Unexpected Yak Shaving
		That same day, Seth Godin introduced me to Yak Shaving.
		yak shaving: Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you’re working on.
		Walking into this, I had no intention of shaving a yak.
	workingpathways.com /workbetter/archive/an-unexpected-yak-shaving (481 words)

	NevOn: Yak shaving and other blogosphere tales
		Today's one of those Sundays when yak shaving seems to be the order of the day.
		Yak shaving is defined as "Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on."
		Until I read you post on Yak Shaving I was wondering what I was doing this afternoon - then I suddenly realised I had got frozen stiff watching my 'football' team Millwall draw 1-1 with Leeds United, one of the great sides of yesteryear.
	www.nevon.net /nevon/2005/03/yak_shaving_and.html (993 words)

	Ren & Stimpy Quest for the Shaven Yak Walkthrough - IGN FAQs
		The Great Shaven Yak must have left them here last Yak Shaving Day.
		Shaving Cream - This is very rare and grants you an extra life when collected.
		Ride the nearby log right and continue in that direction past a few enemies to reach the next fire hydrant.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/533/533921p1.html (5272 words)

	autrijus's Journal
		To that end, the ObjSpace coding was delayed for a day, but I think it's worthwhile to apply the same Q/A treatment for PIL, Object Space, MetaModel and the rest of Pugs jargons.
		Sorry for the lapse in the past few days; part of it was due to traveling, but also because Programming Ruby (deadtree edition) is much too enjoyable.
		From the brief investigation, I think Dylan is even closer to the "Perl 6 without advertisement" mark than Ruby, largely due to its incremental soft typing system, where one can start rapid prototyping with full dynamism, then generate more efficient and robust C code by adding type annotations.
	use.perl.org /~autrijus/journal/rss (8567 words)

	genehack.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He ended up spending the whole day at the vet's, due to an unfortunately timed bout of throwing up (while in the carrier waiting to come back home).
		This was one of those days where I knew what I needed to do, I wanted to do it, and I kept getting interrupted with other crap, making it impossible to get things done.
		This is frustrating, and it leads to 12 hour days, because in order to get crap done, I have to work three hours past the point where everybody else has gone home.
	genehack.org /index.cgi/2005/03 (2700 words)

	Urban Dictionary: Yak
		Yak coke cocaine blow puke snow spew vomit yay hurl powder white yakuza
		Be sure to leave some shaving cream by your sink.
		Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=Yak (274 words)

	the evangelical outpost: Yak Shaving Razor Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig.
		I noticed that there were numerous times throughout the day when I would have unproductive downtime that could have been better spent catching up on my reading.
		Yak Shaving is a term that was introduced by Ren and Stimpy and coopted by the MIT AI Lab to refer to any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /archives/cat_yak_shaving_razor.html (13556 words)

	Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/January 15 - Uncyclopedia
		5000000000000000000000000 BC - The Yak begats Adam and pulls out his rib to give birth to another yak.
		This is widely regarded as a bad move.
		1992 - Yak Shaving Day replaces Festival of the Yak.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Uncyclopedia:Anniversaries/January_15 (128 words)

	Yak Shaving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Yak shaving." Our very own Carlin Vieri invented the term, and yet it has not caught on within the lab.
		This is a shame, because it describes all too well what I find myself doing all too often.
		You see, yak shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly little task that bears no obvious relationship to what you're supposed to be working on, but yet a chain of twelve causal relations links what you're doing to the original meta-task.
	projects.csail.mit.edu /gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html (320 words)

	12256-Ren & Stimpy Series 1 includes Ren, Stimpy, Mr. Horse and Shavin' Yak by Palisades Toy-DollTV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shaven Yak -The mysterious Yak who first appears in his enchanted canoe in the Ren and Stimpy short Yak Shaving Day, Shaven Yak is a fan-favorite who is sure to please in action figure form.
		The mysterious Yak who first appears in his enchanted canoe in the Ren and Stimpy short Yak Shaving Day, Shaven Yak is a fan-favorite who is sure to please in action figure form.
		His accessories include Shaking Scum (which fits on Stimpys finger), a glob of shaving cream, face lather, a shaver, a figure base, and INVISIBLE LOG.
	www.dolltv.com /ccp1148-ren-26-stimpy-series-1-includes-ren--stimpy--mr--h-12256-12256.htm (514 words)

	Everything And Nothing: How To Shave a Yak
		In a world of increasing specialization and minutiae, this blog is about everything that interests me. And it might mean nothing to you.
		Yak shaving - Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.'
		Not to be Confused with Yak Combing - Someone takes hair ball writing and makes it presentable, kind of like what Donald Trump's hair stylist must do.
	everythingandnothing.typepad.com /mississippi/2005/10/how_to_shave_a_.html (261 words)

	PWI Week! : Ren&Stimpy : Shaven Yak :: Action-Figure :: Toy, Collectibles and Action Figure News and Reviews from ...
		Ren, Stimpy, Mr.Horse and Shaven Yak are part of Ren and Stimpy Action Figures - Series 1, due out in July.
		Ren comes with Action Log (the one with the beard); Stimpy comes with Log for Girls (the one with the long hair and the bow); Mr.Horse comes with Log of the Klondike and Shaven Yak comes with Secret Agent Log (in the tuxedo).
		I think the story of Yak Shaving Day goes like this...when all the good little boys and girls are asleep, the Yak quietly sneaks in for a shave and leaves shaving scum in your sink and stockings...hehe
	www.action-figure.com /Article11616.html (411 words)

	Eat at Joe's!: Food and Drink
		Derby Day Coming Up A reminder: The Kentucky Derby is this Saturday, 6 May. The race is on NBC between 5 and 6:30 pm EDT.
		I'll also be shaving yaks in the parking lot of Devines while the yak and I are wearing nothing but jockstraps.
		One day I should write out a list of all the different ways I've heard to cook rice; the list would be longer than my list for "Is the spaghetti done?" The way I've heard most often for long-grain rice is to use twice the volume of water as rice.
	jhv.blogs.com /eatatjoes/food_and_drink (12296 words)

	Usagi Yojimbo Dojo - USAGI YOJIMBO Volume 1, Issue 36
		Now it so happened in the days of old Yedo, as Tokyo was once called, that the storytellers told marvelous tales of the wit and wisdom of His Honorable Honor, Ooka Tadasuke.
		The student was a most likeable young man, but the shopkeeper was a miser who suspected everyone of trying to get the better of him.
		One day he heard the student talking with one of his friends.
	www.usagiyojimbo.com /casl/comics/uy-vol1-nr36.html (3555 words)

	Flocculation: March 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Then I walked past the Afghani textiles store and the owner chased me down, saying that he'd been going through boxes in the store room and found this collar piece, which is an antique tribal piece of unusually good workmanship, and he thought of Walter.
		I'll be getting lots more pictures of it up over the next few days, as Walter lets me. This is the view out the back door.
		Walter can leap up and down to his heart's content--and he LIKES to do this--and when we are so inclined (which is admittedly not most of the time), lights flash and music plays, accompanied by boinging sounds.
	www.goldenappledesign.com /2005/03 (1243 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was my first day back in the office after a two day bender and my mouth felt like something had crawled in there and died.
		Joek Schiven's response: He broke into the stable, took the yak out (who had been treated badly by the Boegermeister, and was grateful to be walking on grass for a change), put it in a logbark canoe and floated it down the Spum River.
		The yak knows that one day it might meet Joek Schiven, the man who freed both it and the village of Copenhagen...
	www.etext.org /Zines/ASCII/Purps/purps41 (7807 words)

	California Internet Access Provider - First Light
		Most of these taglines are dated to the early days of the PC and what seemed like a futile attempt for Mocro$oft to make their way into the market.
		Tomorrow is another day, but it'll suck too.
		You know your're gonna' have a bad day when the bird singing outside of your window is a vulture.
	firstlight.net /index.cgi?page=taglines (1800 words)

	Ren and Stimpy - Nickelodeon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In fact, the show pushed the bounds of good taste further than any cartoon had to its day: its level of gross-out humor, particularly fixated on boogers and flatulence, was exceeded only by the antics of Beavis and Butt-head or The Brothers Grunt.
		His alter ego (or day job) is a deacon.
		The Fire Chief: Has a psychotic hatred for circus midgets and a penchant for slamming his fire axe into concrete as a response to answering the door.
	nickelodeon.wikia.com /wiki/Ren_&_Stimpy (2632 words)

	Horseplay
		Every other morning he'd come over and kiss me and say something like, "Today is the Feast of Saint Sabriel," or "It's Royal Yak Shaving Day!" or whatever and he'd kiss me, and I'd go look it up and he'd be telling the truth.
		Dryden had missed lunch with me, he'd been in meetings all day, and so while we had dinner together he briefed me on the latest brewing disaster.
		We stayed out all day and I surprised myself by really enjoying it, but it was getting close to dinner time.
	www.lizardlounge.com /Natasha/Didodikali/4minutes/09horseplay.html (2647 words)

	Hit and Run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		New Year's Day is one of the holidays of the season, and if I want to wish someone happiness for ALL the holidays, Happy Holidays is a good, polite, shorthand way of doing so.
		Comment by: John Dendy at December 9, 2005 10:55 AM Church entanglement with the state is worse for the Church than it is for the State.
		Comment by: Number 6 at December 9, 2005 11:38 AM And if Jesus were still around, he'd spend his days retching in revulsion at what has become of his message.
	www.reason.com /hitandrun/2005/12/refreshing_word.shtml (9436 words)

	Festivus \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In references to birthdays during the holidays, my grandmother was one of triplets born on Christmas Day.
		For 70 years she got joint presents, but then on her 70th birthday she demanded three presents, one for her birthday, one for christmas, and one more to copensate for past greviances of people giving her joint gifts.
		Last week they covered Chrismukkah and the other day they covered a dog's "bark mitzvah".
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/38044 (2011 words)

	Atari Explorer Online: 17-Apr-93 #0208
		The manual is going thru the final pass, and then we have to do the printing of it, etc. Purchasers of the Atari Falcon030 will have it sooner.
		In the old days you had to park your drive heads with a "park" program.
		Forgetting to do this was guaranteed to trash as least part of your data as the heads bounced off the platter with every bump and grind.
	www.atarimax.com /freenet/freenet_material/6.16and32-BitComputersSupportArea/8.OnlineMagazines/showarticle.php?366 (19812 words)

	Hour Bonus #8 - Sick Humor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One day, he was being mocked for his stupid hobby.
		The fatal mistake came when Dell'Abate finally retorted that although they were having a good laugh at his expense, he would have the last laugh when it would all be forgotten the next day, and he would still have his cartoon art.
		By dubbing him "Baba Booey," Stern ensured that the incident would NEVER be forgotten by the show's fans.
	wso.williams.edu:8000 /orgs/trivia/genitals/hours/sickans.html (672 words)

	Pugs: Day 257: Massive yak-shaving.
		« Day 247: Final day at Liz's - Coroutines, siglists, rebindable bindings
		Happily, my anxiety level now is at its all-time low in ten years, and commitment to Perl6/Pugs at its all-time high in ten months, so that's definitely improvement.
		Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Day 257: Massive yak-shaving.
	pugs.blogs.com /pugs/2005/11/day_257_massive.html (255 words)

	[No title]
		Ren is saying 'good-bye' to the audience and Stimpy is worried about what they'll do in the meantime.
		Now we get a day in the life...
		RandS always get their yak, and on the way, they're going to find out Canada's biggest natural resource!
	zeroman8.tripod.com /craworld/id1.html (3221 words)

	ClassicGaming - The Museum: Game Gear FAQ (Tips and Codes)
		] ============================================================= "Quest for the Shaven Yak starring Ren Hoek & Stimpy" Rating: 5/5 This is a standard platform game in which you can play either Ren or Stimpy or both on their quest to find the Shaven Yak in order to return his hooves and thereby save Yak Shaving Day.
		If you're a fan of the show then you'll love all of the show's elements in the game, otherwise you'll probably be confused about why anyone would make a game where one of the protagonists coughs up hairballs at his enemies, and after you unpause the game the other is caught picking his rear-end.
		I must like it some--I keep playing it (I got it 3 days ago) I like that you can choose where to go next--you don't get forced into level 1, level2, etc. You can wander thru the mansion and pick your fights as you wish.
	www.classicgaming.com /museum/faqs/ggtips.shtml (13107 words)

	Ren & Stimpy Quick Episode Guide
		As Ren says, "Now it's MY turn!!" Stimpy's Big Day The Big Shot (Part Two of Stimpy's Big Day) Stimpy enters a TV contest for Gritty Kitty Litter against Ren's advice.
		With all the good material available, this cartoon doesn't make it for two reasons: blatant edit with a new scene where Ren is played by Billy West instead of John K. and the material isn't funny.
		Loosely based on Yogi Bear's "Pie Pirates," Ren and Stimpy have one obstacle in their way to the pie: Mr.
	mst3k.booyaka.com /episodes/guides/other/ren_n_stimpy.html (3658 words)

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