Archive for the ‘fun’ Category
Bounty on Rice.
as you may know, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be in Auckland this weekend.
I like this idea but this $5,000 bounty is unlikely to be claimed by anyone as it is very unlikely to make a "successful" citizen's arrest of a high level diplomat.
And for $5,000 it is really not worth to risk your own life, but I reckon there will be at least one attempt if there are students who actually work in the hotel where Rice stays.
Just hope no one gets hurt ...
BTW, when I was searching this news in AUSA's site, I accidentally found out that there is a large number of spam links hidden at the bottom of each page. Anyone know how to do this? I need a bit of PageRank boost as well, haha.
How to pass the time in Parliament
I know Parliament debate can sometimes get very boring and making our "hard working" MPs go crazy or fall asleep (David Benson-Pope).
For those who are still struggling to keep themselves awake in the chamber in this harsh winter, this is quite a good way to pass time:
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej passes the time folding a paper crane during the censure debate in parliament yesterday.(Source:Bangkok Post)
I doubt if Auntie Helen got the skill to fold one of those.
Emm....
Somebody just forwarded me this:
Bad guys really do get the most girls - New Scientist
However, there is a down side of it. Bad guys attract more girls, but it is very difficult to have a long term relationship.
Just little bit of my thoughts.
From evolutionary standpoint I think short relationship is a good thing. If you still remember your sixth form biology, you should be able to recall that all living organisms have only one sole purpose: to pass on the genes.
Short terms can produce a lot offspring.
However, that only applies to the prehistoric society.
In a modern society like the one we got here, more children means more responsibility to the father, thus requiring a lot of energy from the father side to raise those children. However, Men are pretty good at escaping from responsibilities, so that might be OK.
But if a father cannot invest enough resource to his children, they are more likely to fail in this very competitive society.
Now those children have two options: be evil just like their father did, or the genes cease to pass on from there.
I think the first scenario happens more in our society.
Compare with that, good guy have enough energy and resource to invest on his children, make his children strong and can withstand the competition, thus has a higher chance to pass the genes on.
From genetic point of view, the competition between the good and bad guys is more like a tie, there's no right or wrong strategy for this. It's just a choice between produce very few offspring and help them survive, or many offspring but let the nature(society) to select who survive.
So be good or bad? Your choice.
But based on my common sense, I prefer the "good guy" strategy. Produce offspring requires a lot of energy too:), especially for the mother side, if only a very small fraction of offspring produced can survive, it is not sensible to produce them at a large quantity.
Nah, I haven't been touching my biology book for years, the comments above are just for fun, don't take it seriously.
Get your name on the moon
NASA's first step of back to the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter will be launched later this year. Public has a chance to participate by submit their names to the NASA website before 27 Jun. All the names will be saved in a microchip and carried to moon by the orbiter.
You'll also receive a certificate for this:)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Project page
About ... my keyboard
I regard input hardwares like keyboard and mouse as important parts of a computer, as important as a video card that allows to heat water or fry an egg for your breakfast on it.
Yes you cannot do those things on your keyboard, but since most of us work on keyboard everday, it is important to have a handy, well designed one that allows you to enjoy work on it; oh, yes, and that ringing music like sound when you press the keys.
Also, please keep it clean ... I clean my keyboard once every three month. However, some people I encountered never clean their keyboard since the purchase, the keys are so dark, full of scums, you cannot even see what's on it.
I cleaned my keyboard today, and found the similar problem, but that's because the marks on the key wore out.
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I expect a four year old keyboard to have some keys wore out. That's not a huge deal, as long as I know where the home row is, I can touch type the rest.
It is interesting to see your most used keys, though.
Most of them are lefthand keys --- not surprised at all, it's the major weakness of qwerty layout, quite a lot of words can be typed use left hand only.
C,V,Z are my three most frequently used hot keys. I'm a really bad writer so I ctrl + z undo and copy and paste a lot.
A,E,D should be the most used keys then. I can undersand A and E, but why D is wearing that badly, no idea.
M,N twin is an interesting case. Those two are the ones I made most of my mistakes on, I'm always troubled to use my middle finger to get the M key.
Qwerty keyboard is the most "historic" part of computer. Its route can be traced back to mid 19th century in typewriters. I found it quite amazing that its about 150 yeras now since the first QWERTY layout typewriter, and yet we are still working on very similar way of input board, with little changes, except few new layout design, like the Dvorak.
In early 2000, I believed that the Direct Voice Input will take over keyboard as the main mean of input fairly soon. Well, vista does have a programme for this, but my accent, which is a mix of kiwi and Chinese English, can hardly depend on it. The programme can recognise my single word commands, like "sleep" or "open" quite well, but anything beyond that, it's almost totally unworkable.
It's still a long way to go before we can no longer have soring wrists after hours of work on computer
Google April's Fools collection
Gmail: New feature that allows you send emails in cutomised time.
Actually this is not very hard to do if you own your server.
In Australia, Google introduced a new service called "gDay", which allows people to search for things that are not happened yet.
In China, Google introduced a new search service called "Human search", which all the enquiries are processed by actual human. It will not appear very funny to non- Chinese. This is a reference to Internet culture in China, real identity of characters in Internet memes are usually exposed by netizens who conducted a real search in real life.
In America, Google Announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture by Google and Virgin Airlines dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars.
