Refridgerator Notes
Posted by Ray @ 3:15 pmWoke up today, trudged to the fridge for my morning glass of milk, and was greeted with a picture of Olinda Cho (a Singapore Idol finalist).
Having only just woken up, it took a few seconds for the image to actually sink in. And few more long seconds later, my brain coughed up its first question: ‘Huh?’
This was immediately followed by ‘Who stuck this picture here?’ and ‘I didn’t know we had Olinda fans in this house!’
So I voiced out my confusion to my mother, who’d been watching me stand there staring at the newspaper clipping with a get-out-of-my-way look in her eye.
Me: “Who stuck this here?”
Her: “I did.”
Me: “Why?”
Her (sagely): “So that whenever I look at it, I’ll think ‘I cannot become like that!’ and I’ll have motivation to exercise.”
Heh.
*For the record, my mother, who is in her late 40s, plays tennis at least twice a week, golf roughly once a week, and goes on what I shall charitably call “jogging” (she’s old lah, cannot blame her speed) fairly regularly. She also appropriated 3kg dumb-bells from somewhere and uses them whilst watching TV.
This one time, I got back home just in time to see her using our staircase for - you guessed it - exercise. Up and down and up and down.
So no, I don’t think that fate awaits her.
**Given the recent spat of retractions and apologies and threatened lawsuits, I feel it is only smart to insert some sort of disclaimer here. I present this (and other stories) only as humorous anecdotes; rest assured I do not mean to insult, defame, libel or otherwise piss anyone off. Break a leg, people!
On a related note, I am very sorry to see that Acidflask has taken his blog down. Good luck with your future endeavors, and here’s to hoping everything blows over.
Edit:
Everything (well, as much as could be collated) you need to know about the Acidflask (and nilsinelabore) situation, from Singapore Angle.
Bastard Tetris
Posted by Ray @ 12:55 am
Someone made a tetris game that uses an algorithm specifically designed to thwart your skills as a puny human.
Unfortunately, it’s for linux.
Fortunately, Mac OS X is based on linux unix.
Even more fortunately, some guy on slashdot has helpfully tipped us on how to compile the thing on a Mac.
So I’ve kindly compiled it for Mac users, that you may suffer the agony of being defeated by a lowly game of tetris. Windows users are out of luck.
Before you click, this program is distributed under the GNU licence, and is presented AS IS, with no warranties whatsoever. It’s been tested on Mac OS 10.3.9, but I suspect it works in earlier versions just fine.
Here it is. Unzip it and double-click on “bastet” to play.
[Link, via /. via pressthebuttons]
Edit:
No sooner had I written this up when Zeng informed me the strip had been updated. Enjoy!