Panda painted onto single hair
Wow, quite amazing stuff really. There are actually 'micro-artists' out there? So what do they do when they're not painting? Draft contracts? LOL
Friday, 24 March 2006
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
new uses for existing stuff
Came across this link:
Best Way to Clean a Shotgun
and found it pretty amusing. Does this mean that we're going to get tampons as part of our rifle cleaning kit? LOL
Best Way to Clean a Shotgun
and found it pretty amusing. Does this mean that we're going to get tampons as part of our rifle cleaning kit? LOL
Car vid of the day
Saw this car video of the Ferrari doing the equivalent of the Mercedes F1 vs E55 vs A-class. Looks quite dated but still fun to watch.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Friday, 17 March 2006
great headline
'Black Cocks' pound flaccid Jamaicans
Good gosh, it was hard to keep a straight face when i was reading this bit of news from the Commonwealth Games. I just love New Zealand humour, more examples from my previous posts here, here and (my fav) here.
Especially liked this bit:
Good gosh, it was hard to keep a straight face when i was reading this bit of news from the Commonwealth Games. I just love New Zealand humour, more examples from my previous posts here, here and (my fav) here.
Especially liked this bit:
Meanwhile, the Jamaicans had no problem with New Zealand supporters wearing polo shirts emblazoned with "Black Cocks - Expect Something Big".
Sunday, 12 March 2006
IT fair 2006
Went for the IT Show 2006 at Suntec. It was utter and complete madness and chaos. The funny thing is, I actually went in not once, not twice but three times! LOL
The first time was on Sat night 'cos we went to Suntec for dinner and decided to pop in at 8 to take a look since wibblewamble wanted to buy a new phone (21 months into her Singtel plan). It wasn't too crowded and we managed to find out what we wanted to find out (basically, that we couldn't buy the phone without ww's dad 'cos the line was in his name (long story, dun ask)). Didn't really buy anything, although i did buy a couple of CDs at Tower later, including Johnny's (of 'Zhng my car' fame) fav band Ace of Base for 2 bucks! Score!
Was supposed to meet wibblewamble today (Sunday) with her dad to get her phone, as she had spent the previous night researching on the internet after sorting out the various brochures, adverts and quotations we received. i think an entire Mac Ritchie worth of trees died for this exhibition, not exactly a very worthy cause, especially with the amount of paper being thrown out. i suspect less than 1% of the adverts were actually translated into sales, but then a Singaporean response to this statistic would be "Print more paper! Give more customers! 1% of 10,000 people is still 100 sales transactions! Woohoo!"
Anyways, back to the story, so i was going to meet wibblewamble at Suntec, but was there early. To save time, i went to gather more detailed information for her, now that we were more informed after the recce trip from the previous day. Fighting my way through the crowd, i ended up at a booth which sold computer peripherals and ended up buying a mouse, theLogitech MX610, a really cool mouse, using it now, great features. Smart mouse, but i have yet to see it surf the web for me, despite several commands given to it (in a strong tone too i might add!). It can even be used up to 15m away, although at that distance, i would find it hard to actually read the stuff i want to click on 'cos i'm using a lap top. LOL.
At the same shop i also bought a notebook cooling pad so my bed won't be so warm after i finish typing up this post. This was actually a great feature when i was in NZ during winter, 'cos my bed would be nice and toasty, but here in sunny Singapore, it's just irritating to have a warm spot on the bed.
Bought the seagate 250GB for 200 bucks for ww, which was quite a good buy IMO (please dun flood my comments section with "oh, but i bought it for 100 bucks!" type of comments and leave me naive and happy. LOL)
Managed to stop myself from buying more products as i fought my way out to the main entrance to meet ww at Marina Square for lunch. Saw the xbox 360 on the way out, man the games looked good!
Arrived at Marina only to find that ww has started making her way into Suntec! Argh! So i fought my way back into Suntec and met up with ww. We found the queue to buy handphones from Singtel and it was long! Didn't even know which one was the right queue since there was one for the internet sign-ups, one for the mobile phones and one for the lucky dip! Our queue was the longest (naturally) and it coiled around the Singtel booth (which was big!) once before doubling back across two sides of the booth twice, so it took us some time to get to the end of the queue but we managed to save 230 bucks! Whoopee. What a rush! Still, it was quite a good deal (will let wibblewamble elaborate, since it's her phone) but it lacked some memory, so off we went to Kingston to get some SD (and CF too, 'cos it was cheap) cards. The 1GB SD and 512 CF came up to about 130 bucks, which we were happy with.
Off we went to queue to collect our lucky draw forms (for every 50 bucks spent), and we ended up with more than twenty of those. I thought my wrist was gonna break from the form filling, but it was carbon copy paper, so that was a nice surprise and not many details were needed, which was cool. After that queue, we went to redeem a free gift from using credit card from UOB, which required more queueing (i surpressed a silent scream at this point). Mercifully (for our feet, back, neck and arms), the queue moved pretty quickly and we managed to fight our way to the lift. It was funny how we were just a couple of tens of dollars short of redeeming the digital radio. Instead, we got a sports bag, which was quite useful in carrying the spoils of our outing as the various paper/plastic bags looked like they were going to give way soon. LOL.
That's zeenie's round up on the IT fair, the long and short of it are queues and queues. Oh yes, and that IT fairs are unhealthy for your wallet. LOL
The first time was on Sat night 'cos we went to Suntec for dinner and decided to pop in at 8 to take a look since wibblewamble wanted to buy a new phone (21 months into her Singtel plan). It wasn't too crowded and we managed to find out what we wanted to find out (basically, that we couldn't buy the phone without ww's dad 'cos the line was in his name (long story, dun ask)). Didn't really buy anything, although i did buy a couple of CDs at Tower later, including Johnny's (of 'Zhng my car' fame) fav band Ace of Base for 2 bucks! Score!
Was supposed to meet wibblewamble today (Sunday) with her dad to get her phone, as she had spent the previous night researching on the internet after sorting out the various brochures, adverts and quotations we received. i think an entire Mac Ritchie worth of trees died for this exhibition, not exactly a very worthy cause, especially with the amount of paper being thrown out. i suspect less than 1% of the adverts were actually translated into sales, but then a Singaporean response to this statistic would be "Print more paper! Give more customers! 1% of 10,000 people is still 100 sales transactions! Woohoo!"
Anyways, back to the story, so i was going to meet wibblewamble at Suntec, but was there early. To save time, i went to gather more detailed information for her, now that we were more informed after the recce trip from the previous day. Fighting my way through the crowd, i ended up at a booth which sold computer peripherals and ended up buying a mouse, theLogitech MX610, a really cool mouse, using it now, great features. Smart mouse, but i have yet to see it surf the web for me, despite several commands given to it (in a strong tone too i might add!). It can even be used up to 15m away, although at that distance, i would find it hard to actually read the stuff i want to click on 'cos i'm using a lap top. LOL.
At the same shop i also bought a notebook cooling pad so my bed won't be so warm after i finish typing up this post. This was actually a great feature when i was in NZ during winter, 'cos my bed would be nice and toasty, but here in sunny Singapore, it's just irritating to have a warm spot on the bed.
Bought the seagate 250GB for 200 bucks for ww, which was quite a good buy IMO (please dun flood my comments section with "oh, but i bought it for 100 bucks!" type of comments and leave me naive and happy. LOL)
Managed to stop myself from buying more products as i fought my way out to the main entrance to meet ww at Marina Square for lunch. Saw the xbox 360 on the way out, man the games looked good!
Arrived at Marina only to find that ww has started making her way into Suntec! Argh! So i fought my way back into Suntec and met up with ww. We found the queue to buy handphones from Singtel and it was long! Didn't even know which one was the right queue since there was one for the internet sign-ups, one for the mobile phones and one for the lucky dip! Our queue was the longest (naturally) and it coiled around the Singtel booth (which was big!) once before doubling back across two sides of the booth twice, so it took us some time to get to the end of the queue but we managed to save 230 bucks! Whoopee. What a rush! Still, it was quite a good deal (will let wibblewamble elaborate, since it's her phone) but it lacked some memory, so off we went to Kingston to get some SD (and CF too, 'cos it was cheap) cards. The 1GB SD and 512 CF came up to about 130 bucks, which we were happy with.
Off we went to queue to collect our lucky draw forms (for every 50 bucks spent), and we ended up with more than twenty of those. I thought my wrist was gonna break from the form filling, but it was carbon copy paper, so that was a nice surprise and not many details were needed, which was cool. After that queue, we went to redeem a free gift from using credit card from UOB, which required more queueing (i surpressed a silent scream at this point). Mercifully (for our feet, back, neck and arms), the queue moved pretty quickly and we managed to fight our way to the lift. It was funny how we were just a couple of tens of dollars short of redeeming the digital radio. Instead, we got a sports bag, which was quite useful in carrying the spoils of our outing as the various paper/plastic bags looked like they were going to give way soon. LOL.
That's zeenie's round up on the IT fair, the long and short of it are queues and queues. Oh yes, and that IT fairs are unhealthy for your wallet. LOL
Friday, 10 March 2006
These days
Well, i'm inbetween jobs now, considering my options. In the meantime, I signed up for broadband and this video was the first video i saw. Laughed myself silly. Enjoy! (via the master of all links Lancerlord)
link
Changed it to a link instead, 'cos i couldn't view the webpage myself via Firefox! Abit malu that i can't even access my own webpage! LOL
link
Changed it to a link instead, 'cos i couldn't view the webpage myself via Firefox! Abit malu that i can't even access my own webpage! LOL
Wednesday, 8 March 2006
singaporean invention
Students create plant that glows when thirsty | Reuters.com
Next up, an automatic plant feeder that is hooked up to the optical sensor so that 15 different varieties of plant food can be fed depending on the intensity of light, frequency of the emitted photoluminescence (ie, colour of light), rate of growth and phases of the moon.
Also in the pipeline are plans for a comprehensive bao-ka-liao system where the plant is mounted on a turntable so that all the leaves get some sun equally. The windows will also be connected to the system to control the amount of sunlight, air and water (rain?) to your pampered plant.
If you want, the system can also SMS you various updates throughout your day and you can view a live-feed of your bao-bei shrub either off the internet or on your 3G phone. *facepalm*
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people -- by glowing when it needs water.
The students said on Tuesday that they have genetically modified a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from jellyfish, so that it "lights up" when it is stressed as a result of dehydration.
The light is hard to detect with the naked eye but can be seen using an optical sensor developed in collaboration with students at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.
The development of such plants could help farmers to develop more efficient irrigation of crops.
Next up, an automatic plant feeder that is hooked up to the optical sensor so that 15 different varieties of plant food can be fed depending on the intensity of light, frequency of the emitted photoluminescence (ie, colour of light), rate of growth and phases of the moon.
Also in the pipeline are plans for a comprehensive bao-ka-liao system where the plant is mounted on a turntable so that all the leaves get some sun equally. The windows will also be connected to the system to control the amount of sunlight, air and water (rain?) to your pampered plant.
If you want, the system can also SMS you various updates throughout your day and you can view a live-feed of your bao-bei shrub either off the internet or on your 3G phone. *facepalm*
Tuesday, 7 March 2006
$$!!
Wow! Wow wow! Wow wow wow!
I remember taking a look at Trademe when it first started and merely thought that it was interesting. The years and the money (wow again!) has proved me wrong. It is a freaking cash cow! Holy cow! Wow! (yes, this is zeenie's attempt to exhaust his 'wow's for the year)(not related to world of warcraft, this is just a general expression of "why didn't i invest in them?" or "why didn't i start something like that??")
That is some serious dough! Wow!
Ok, going to stop now. I need to go lie down from seeing too many $$ signs and saying too many Wow's. WOW!
I remember taking a look at Trademe when it first started and merely thought that it was interesting. The years and the money (wow again!) has proved me wrong. It is a freaking cash cow! Holy cow! Wow! (yes, this is zeenie's attempt to exhaust his 'wow's for the year)(not related to world of warcraft, this is just a general expression of "why didn't i invest in them?" or "why didn't i start something like that??")
That is some serious dough! Wow!
Ok, going to stop now. I need to go lie down from seeing too many $$ signs and saying too many Wow's. WOW!
Monday, 6 March 2006
Errr....
This is either be the most impressive lego i've seen to date, or the most bo-liao thing anyone can do.... i haven't made up my mind which i think it is yet. Any comments? I wonder what sort of petrol does it use, unleaded or diesel? LOL
Special LEGO-version of Volvo XC90 unveiled at New York Auto Show
Special LEGO-version of Volvo XC90 unveiled at New York Auto Show
Friday, 3 March 2006
FilmLoop, Inc. Home Page
FilmLoop, Inc. Home Page
Just downloaded this application that looks pretty cool at first glance. Still getting a feel of it, but it seems pretty nifty. Wonder what the catch is? =)
Just downloaded this application that looks pretty cool at first glance. Still getting a feel of it, but it seems pretty nifty. Wonder what the catch is? =)
overheard snippets
It's the season of Lent. 40 trying days, especially for zeenie, 'cos zeenie is giving up referring himself in the third person alcohol for Lent. Aside from abstinence and fasting in this Lenten season, it is traditional to give up something or volunteer for charity work, hence zeenie's sacrifice (slight dip in takings for my fav pool place Baize i guess)
zeenie still managed to find some humour despite his cranky humourless current state as someone asked him:
"So how long is the Holy Hour this Friday?"
Ranks up there with his all time fav question for Christmas:
"So what time is the Christmas midnight mass?"
zeenie still managed to find some humour despite his cranky humourless current state as someone asked him:
"So how long is the Holy Hour this Friday?"
Ranks up there with his all time fav question for Christmas:
"So what time is the Christmas midnight mass?"
Thursday, 2 March 2006
Cool guns
These two represent the next generation of firearms for tomorrow's soldiers. I think their functionalities sound pretty cool, but i wonder if they have to make it look like something from my GI Joe collection. LOL
The XM8 looks pretty funky and i'm quite interested in the sharpshooter variant. Heavier barrel with better sights? I think they would have done better with just a standard rail for off-the-shelf scopes, but that's just IMO. Never know until you fire the rifle. =) The concept of multi-functional assault rifles were sucessfully (i think) done in the Steyr AUG family of rifles.
The XM312 has been touted as the successor to the venerable Browning M2 '50 cal'. It also looks like something from the world of plastic toy figurines but the rate of fire and weight (less) is impressive, especially when compared to the M2. While all the weight saving sounds cool, our footsoldiers won't be able to handle it and i think it will be limited to being in a mounted version if we buy it.
Just to round up thisweek's month's year's review of firearm technologies, here's a great website on the power of firearms, check out his photos on Level III armour.
The XM8 looks pretty funky and i'm quite interested in the sharpshooter variant. Heavier barrel with better sights? I think they would have done better with just a standard rail for off-the-shelf scopes, but that's just IMO. Never know until you fire the rifle. =) The concept of multi-functional assault rifles were sucessfully (i think) done in the Steyr AUG family of rifles.
The XM312 has been touted as the successor to the venerable Browning M2 '50 cal'. It also looks like something from the world of plastic toy figurines but the rate of fire and weight (less) is impressive, especially when compared to the M2. While all the weight saving sounds cool, our footsoldiers won't be able to handle it and i think it will be limited to being in a mounted version if we buy it.
Just to round up this
Tick destroyer
Tick destroying rover
They should call it an Anti-Tick Autonomous-Tracker or AT-AT in short, 'cos it's going to seem like a multi-footed gigantic beast has come to settle accounts with them. LOL
Down with all ticks! May all these rebel scum be wiped off the face of the universe and may the force be with you!
They should call it an Anti-Tick Autonomous-Tracker or AT-AT in short, 'cos it's going to seem like a multi-footed gigantic beast has come to settle accounts with them. LOL
Down with all ticks! May all these rebel scum be wiped off the face of the universe and may the force be with you!
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