envy.nu ("where teens come to express themselves") sucks!

It's slow, tis always down, it detects "offsite linking of hosted files" even when the page is hosted on their servers and it has a pretentious domain name.

And it's host to a whole host of angsty pages with journals in forboding colour schemes and irritating navigation and rants about life and headache inducing stuff.

Bah.

I like today's Lockergnome tip:

Lockergnomaniac Steven Neil Groginsky has submitted more tips to Lockergnome than any other person on the planet. Or universe, for that matter. This time around, he's playing with WinAmp. By default, the media player loads every plugin in the Plugin folder (even though all of them are not needed). Each (obviously) consumes system resources. "I created a sub-folder named 'Not in Use' and moved the plugins that I'm not currently using into it. WARNING: you have to make sure you know which filenames go with which plugins. Luckily, most of them install a text file with the same name. WinAmp may still load slowly, but at least I know I've done the most I can do -- and saved some memory and resources in the process." Along those WinAmp tweaking lines, how many skins do you have? Instead of keeping each in a separate sub-folder, ZIP them up to save disk space. Don't worry; WinAmp will unzip them automatically when you want to use them. But that's not all! Change the extension from ZIP to WSZ and you'll be able to apply the skin automatically by double-clicking it!

Lockergnome is a very interesting and useful computer newsletter.
http://www.lockergnome.com/

This blog entry was posted by blogBuddy. Interesting program.
http://blogbuddy.sourceforge.net/

I stumbled across the Council's webpage and found it amusing.

It's a hodge-podge of the work of 4 years (from 1997 to the present) and it's not very coherent (the present webmaster didn't check the whole page for consistency)

For some reason, I found it quite funny. Among other things, you learn that the Council was the one which suggested the
Return of Associate Flesh Parade in 1999.

The Associate Flesh Paraders look so old:
http://www.geocities.com/rafflescouncil/sportsday1999cheerleaders2.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/rafflescouncil/sportsday1999cheerleaders.jpg

but they are suitably attired in their, um, odd outfits.

4 years of accumulated detritus -

http://www.geocities.com/rafflescouncil/

This is something Xephyris and I have been working on for a while. It needs quite a bit of work.

X habits of highly slack people

1. Procrastination

Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
If anything was worth doing, it'd have been done already

2. Cutting Corners

What they don't know won't hurt them.
Why do anything that doesn't actually need doing?
If it really needed to be done, then you must have done it already.

3. Get others to do the work

Why work when others can do the work for you?
The delegation of responsibility is an important skill.

4. Wait until other people do the work
Patience is a virtue.
If a job is worth doing, then get someone in to do it properly.

5. Pass off other people's work as your own
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
If someone has taken the trouble to do something well, why waste the effort?

Do you like hot socks? I volunteer to cut yours down to ankle length.
Is hazel wong the one referred to as "sheep"?



http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kpl5/Link5_overview.html

http://www.swingsouthflorida.com/swingaction.htm
[Ed: The above are links to sites with information on the 'Swing' dance - the one Flesh Parade, erm, modified for their Teachers Day item]

Yeh. I saw Leong Yew Wah the Discipline Master and his wife at Anchorpoint. I think he remembers me from the time he had a chat with me about the anti-Purple posters thing.

Please, it's "N!�rl�n", not "Norlan".

Is your name "an afterglow"? Hrm?

Hot Socks!
Makes you wonder why they bother anyway.

Medium length ones are loserly? Go tell that to Hualalalala!

Maybe I'll print some cards which say, "Hot socks! Yeah!" and give them out to those I see wearing them.

hey i resent that tirade about hot socks; knee-length socks are worn only by sailormoon types and medium-length ones are plain loserly.

"aha... right..
i did see that outburst from you...
you were lying on the floor like you were engaging in some satanic ritual...
which is also probably the best phrase to describe the dance..."

goodness.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Dance Club invites you to feast your eyes!"

It was probably worth going to school yesterday (not that I wouldn't have, me being very guai about stuff like this) to hear the MCs at the Teachers Day Concert say that.

Already tickled by Flesh Parade's previous item and laughing out loud, this line caused me to throw my head back, smashing it into the floor of the Hall, whereupon I promptly left to compose myself.

Now everyone thinks (knows) I'm crazy.

Hot Socks.

That item of fashion desired by many. Those extremely short socks, so short that they reveal the ankle. They disappear into your shoes, such that you need to observe carefully to see that they are wearing socks in the first place. They often come in odd colours.

My sister used to wear Hot Socks when she was in RJC. She claims that they are comfortable.

In ACJC, just down the road, Hot Socks are a school culture. About a week ago (around Tuesday), I stopped a count that has been on for a few months - a count of how many ACJC girls *do not* wear Hot Socks.

Last Tuesday, I happened to be at Buona Vista MRT station just after one of ACJC's Prelim papers had ended and saw hordes of ACJC people.

Hot Socks seem to be a culture in ACJC. Due to the problems of the length of pants, it was not feasible for me to count the guys who didn't wear Hot Socks (or otherwise).

After an estimated 5 months (I didn't keep track of when I started) of counting, I have tallied the results and the grand total of the number of ACJC girls I've seen *not* wearing Hot Socks is... 35. (Conservatively) Correcting for double counting, the number would be 26. Conservatively estimating that I've seen 1/2 the ACJC population in the length of time since I started counting, I come to the (not so) startling conclusion that in the whole of ACJC, only 50 girls of 800 do not wear Hot Socks.

According to Melvin Tay Poh Huat (whose words must oft be taken with a shaker of salt), Hot Socks are worn by them as they:
"makes their legs look longer, more slender and hotter"

And to think that Hot Socks are banned in Hualalalala JC (aka HCJC) and TJC.