Better solved

Just to have some activity on this blog, in case people think this is dead (assuming they care) and to not be accused of being a squatter (as if someone wants this blog name).

9gag recently had a posting, with someone confused about pizzas being round, their boxes being square and the slices being triangular.

Of course without consulting any historical reasons (and hence running the risk of being very wrong), the suggestion is this: It’s easier to roll dough to round shapes, square boxes are easier to manufacture, store and move around, and the “triangular” slices are the only way to split the pizza fairly equally. And if you cut a circular shape along its diameter it’ not a triangle but actually a “sector”. And just for some additional information, cutting a circle along a chord forms a segment.

Singlish

I faint

Came across this on the way home.

Anyway today is 11 Nov 2011: 11-11-11. It’ll be even more interesting at 1111hrs.

let’s play compare

Picture by Carol VanHook on flickr

Exercises in compare and contrast are quite interesting. Never thought myself much of an arts student (but here I am dying in anything remotely related to math), but this is probably a no-brainer.

Here are two articles. Not exactly apples and apples though.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1160975/1/.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15517948

Don’t think this is the right place to put in some personal views. But let’s just say that the fare hike was pretty timely.

shooting star

Picture by neekoh.fi on flickr

We pretty all know something about wishing upon a shooting star. One version says that the wish has to be repeated for a total of 3 times for the duration of the trail. Given that the shooting stars witnessed are actually very short, I guess it would mean some things.

1. Wish for simple/short things.
2. Know what we want very clearly.
3. Always be staring at the sky.

Wonder if vague wishes that encompass almost everything would be effective. At least it would cover the first two points pretty easily.

But I guess we have plenty of wishes, some simple, some downright complicated. And somehow choosing one would be complicated. Perhaps a story whereupon a magic lamp’s genie only grants a single wish, barring lame-ducks tricks such as “I wish for more wishes”, can show the burden of choice, and of the problems of choice and sacrifice.

Except that in the case of a shooting star, there isn’t time to go on a protracted debate in the mind.

How many of us upon witnessing a shooting star can actually get the wish immediately without regret. And of those who can, how many actually see the wishes come true?

Maybe we should keep our wishes simple, or vague so that we may kid ourselves more easily in the future.

幸せになるように…幸せになるように…幸せになるように

久しぶり

Picture by paulmcdee on flickr

Sigh.

still alive

Seems like the weekly posts aren’t appearing anymore.

But in the remote possibility someone is wondering, I’m still alive, with alive being that the heart is beating, brain functioning, organs working (I hope).. Nothing much else is alive though.

weekly watermelon 2011#14

Waiting for 4 GB of files to decompress at work gives an opportunity to do up a post. Let’s hope the boss isn’t reading this.

Tags: Gadgets, Google, Phail, Politics, Soullessness, Twitter

weekly watermelon 2011#13

This entry will mean that I’ve caught up in terms of weekly postings. If I release it early enough, that is.

Tags: Music, Phail, Pointless, Science, Soullessness, Wacky

weekly watermelon 2011#12

Another post at a weird time of the week. Perhaps there’ll be another release this Sunday to catch up. Of course that hinges on whether there are interesting articles to be shared.

Tags: Apple, Games, Google, Phail

weekly watermelon 2011#11

This week’s post is way, way late. Actually, I didn’t feel like making a post at all. But when the frustration at work reaches new levels..

And let’s take a moment to remember the acknowledge the disaster that has befallen Japan, and hope for the stabalisation of the nuclear issue, as well as a swift recovery.

This post will be short and simple, with just a single source.

Tags: Evil, Gadgets, Science, Windows