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The tiny pleasures

yy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:29:56 +0000

Most of us miss out on life’s big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we’re all eligible for life’s small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. Don’t fret about copping life’s grand awards. Enjoy its tiny delights. There are plenty for all of us.

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Fatherhood

yy — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:37:39 +0000

To all the fathers and sons out there: treasure your time together…

Personal MTV

yy — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:53:25 +0000

Will be going to a friend’s wedding tonight. Guess too late to suggest to them? But pretty neat, wouldn’t you say?

Stopping

yy — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:10:07 +0000

Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.

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A single step

yy — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:49:37 +0000

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
American Author, Poet and Naturalist

Laws of physics

yy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:25:23 +0000

Happened to see this bit of info on the Discovery Channel on Sunday which kind of got stuck in my head. The show was called “Time Warped” which consists of a crew going around different places to camera high-speed action using equally high-speed video cameras.

The last segment had a brief physics simulation of the male urination process, or simul-pee if you like…

The set-up consists of a filled water tank and a thin rubber tube which acts as the urinary tract. Now if the urinary tract is suspended in free space, once the, uhh, “tap” is opened, the flow as expected is consistent and on-target. Basically “the spot marked X” has a direct hit every time.

However, as if to play a joke on 50% of the world’s population by none other than God himself, our bodies are not hollow and there are internal organs/fluids, etc., which leads to pressure on the rubber tube which changes the shape of a perfectly round tube. The net result is that, without manual intervention to redirect, once the tap is open, the water will consistently overshoot the target at the beginning of the discharge, stay on target during the bulk of the flow, and then undershoots towards the end. This means that, at both extremes, the unfortunate toilet seat will be hit…

Moral of the story:

1) Don’t complain about the toilet seats being up. There are good reasons why they are there.
2) It’s a law of nature that toilets will occasionally get wet. There is no use fighting it.
3) Subscribe to cable. You will always learn something new from the Discovery Channel.

Don’t miss your flight

yy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:46:59 +0000

Having been in this situation once, I can certainly sympathise with this lady who apparently went off the boil when she missed her flight to San Francisco at the Hong Kong International Airport.

Linux

yy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:25:26 +0000

Why do people choose to use Linux? To be part of the movement…

Edible love letters?

yy — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:06:05 +0000

Learned something new today.

Kueh kapit (also spelled kuih kapek) is a thin, crisp cookie emblazoned with auspicious words and symbols. Also known as love letters, kueh kapit takes an inordinate amount of effort to make, and is thus only prepared during Chinese New Year. For many people, though, the wait is worth it.

Actually, from what I can see, it is available more or less all year round these days.

ps. Will try to find a photo of this some time later.

Free content management softwares

yy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:07:18 +0000

I have been down that road before. I mean, even now, from time to time I still get the urge to completely replace what I have now – WordPress – with something that seems more interesting! Well, for people in the market for a content management system to manage their new websites, the folks at Linux Links have compiled the following lists which are very, very useful.