Friday, November 12, 2004

"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Robert X. Cringely

Random Playlist Song:

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I formatted my hard disk (again) and twice while installing Windows, I got BSODs. Definitely a hardware issue.

On the up side I managed to flash my router with new firmware (finally!).

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Why does everyone think this is Hillary Swank?!

Someone: its not
she's not so pretty

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On logic, rhetoric and dialectics:


Someone: i don't care if you do history, or you do political philosophy or what have you. i do economics and i don't discuss in equations

Me: haha
so how should you discuss?

Someone: in plain english that everyone can understand!

Me: his (and wt's) method is to raise the level of abstraction so no one else understand what the hell they're talking about

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Who would be on your Power Ranger team? by mirrorkitten
Username
The Red Rangersoccerwally
The Pink Rangerxephyris
The Blue Rangerfaeryariella
The Green Rangereuphyi
The Yellow Rangersmallville_gurl
The Black Rangerrui
You're weapon would be
How likely you'd be to live: 95%
Quiz created with MemeGen!


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Someone who shares my sister's prejudices on why NUS cannot be the 18th top university in the world:

"look at the arts dept. that's the only real gauge of quality. can their graduates speak, read and write? no.

science grads are functionally illiterate for the most part, so we don't count them."

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Interesting guestbook entries from the last 2 1/2 months:

"I love your ban purple uniforms campaign. I think its great that Singapore still has such lively people despite all attempts by the school and NS to kill them. As for insane people in NS, I estimate at least 100 suicide cases (attempted) a yeat as I just came out of the SAF psychiatric ward."

"i have been here oooooooooooooooooooooooo" (?)

"bloody brilliant. it's been years since i last saw any gal school yearbooks. and i do remember having to colour those bloody squares in chong see eng's class. "

"guy men." (?!)

"gosh. you have a TOTAL obsession with the girls from top schools, ie rg, ny, sc...every other entry is about those girls and their...

why the obsession?"

"you are sick. " (heh)
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