February 2009
54 posts
“If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door.”
– Paul Beatty (via simko)
Watchsimko:
I know it’s old news by now, but for some reason I kept thinking about Sam Fuller’s Flying as I was bouncing around the city today.
Artist Sam Fuller opens our eyes to the vertical beauty of the city, in this case New York, by filming the flight of a paper airplane as it descends from a tall building. Fuller takes a rather mundane act, the folding and flying of a paper airplane, and...
“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”
– Fran Lebowitz (via simko)
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road: Strategic...
markherrmann:
By Joe Mahoney and Christos Pitelis:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
“We must first study the chickens in aggregate; once we understand the chicken industry, then we can explain the individual chicken’s conduct.” — Joe Bain
“We must study the potential mobility barriers of a meaningful strategic group of chickens to understand the individual chicken’s conduct.” — Richard...
“How is it even possible to screw [up] something so simple like a shopping cart?...”
– /. $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available
“So this is going to go onto your blog arh?”
– Someone who can’t distinguish between RL and SL
cufón - fonts for the people →
Text replacement with CSS magic (canvas and VML) – no flash!
WatchThe Crisis of Credit Visualized, by Jonathan Jarvis. The animation is beautiful and definitely beats the whiteboard explanations :D
“Being an expert isn’t telling other people what you know. It’s...”
– Coding Horror: Are You An Expert?
“The economy is circling the drain.”
– Pointy Haired Boss
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean
Of Hives
STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive (file): SystemRoot\System32\Config\SOFTWARE or its log or alternate. It is corrupt, absent, or not writable.
GG.
Adium 1.3.3 is 52MB! Ugh.
I just had dinner in Carls Jr for the first time today – the portions are big, I like the chilli cheese fries (which taste more like Japanese curry), I can’t get over the ginormous 32oz cup, and the prices vaguely scale accordingly.
Having exhibited before, it doesn’t feel as awkward this time standing around and wondering when to approach people. It helps...
“Cause of depression: faulty weighing machine.”
“I’m thinking about switching to canon to see what all the noise is about.”
– V for Vitriol: dSLR joke.
Now and then, more often than not when I’m brushing my teeth, I wonder where I would be and what I would be doing now if I had turned down that thick brown envelope, way back in P3..
“Decades ago, you had to master the science of photography before you could even...”
– The Third Bucket - James Duncan Davidson
“It’s better to burn out, than to fade away.”
– Neil Young (via simko)
Color Scheme Designer 3 →
This is like Color Schemer Studio, except free and JScripty. Decent selection of schemes (?).
teacher: how's everyone surviving without lunch?
Air
Sweet Valentine is around the corner!
We can make this romantic day more meaningful.
Remember to send your deep affection to your loved ones.
A nice little gift for your colleagues, a warm wish for your long time friends, a surprise for your dear loved ones..
Because on this sweet day, it is the best way to express your love and deliver your blessings .
China Airlines would like to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day!
Today I have acquired the dubious achievement of having climbed over a school fence on the inbound segment. Well, in the presence of ~50 student in the immediate vicinity.
Heh.
“I speak two languages, Body and English.”
– Mae West (via simko)
Meta
It’ll be non-trivial for a non-technical user to download a browser on some future version of Windows that lacks both package management and a browser..
I used to respond with a wan smile whenever one of my Scout classmates bring up the perennially nearly-forgotten incident of me explaining a knot to him in sec 1. He eventually rose to Patrol Leader and Quarter-Master, and is now in Ventures, and I stayed where I was far far away.
I am content.
Where do those non-climbing carabiners come from? I want one.
I’ve just elevated my monitor by two encyclopedia volumes (7cm), to see if it helps my shoulder pain.. if it does then I’ll elevate my laptop too and get a nice keyboard (or a proper monitor mount).
I’ll give portrait mode a try for a few hours, but I suspect the much shortened menubar will be a problem as usual. It won’t get much better with a 20”, but a 24”...
Are you interested in a xkcd store mass order/spree?
bloodied waters
gk: (reading from slide) The Influence of the Pacific Ocean on World War II
gk: i think this has to do with blue ocean red ocean strategy
gk glances around exaggeratedly for cameras
gk: ... i think blue ocean is a good thing!
“Fan Xiao, the chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau in...”
– Chinese earthquake may have been man-made, say scientists - Telegraph
Will this guy get fired?
ACSIB results
ACS (Independent) IB Diploma Programme Class of 2007
235 responses from 357 candidates in inaugural cohort.
Acceptance (?) to universities:
NUS: 43.4%
NTU: 4.7%
SMU: 18.6%
SIM: 0.1% (!?)
United States: 9.7%
United Kingdom: 15.5%
Australia: 5.4%
Canada: 0.8%
Offers from universities:
Uni (# offers) - lowest aggregate point
NUS Architecture (7) - 33
NUS Arts/Social sciences...
“bullshit is spelled O-R-I-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N”
– I wholeheartedly agree.