I compressed some pictures at 'Best' compression and the archive was bigger than at 'Normal' compression. Gah.

How to solve the piracy problem: make buggy games/software, and then the patches need a valid CD key to install.

Since Price is very much greater than Marginal Cost for information, there is great allocative inefficiency and welfare loss there. Hurr hurr.

How come lottery spam scams are always from Dutch lotteries? Gah.

A friend whose father runs restaurants in Malaysia commented their Jap food and tim sum suck.

The kopitiam where the Clementi Botak Jones is has no photography signs. Wth. The no photography bug has spread throughout the nation. This is ridiculous. MFTTW told me of when she was in an Esprit store and wanted to buy a jacket for her brother, who wasn't there. As such she needed to take a picture of it so he could decide whether he wanted it. She was told it was store policy that no photography was allowed, so Esprit lost a potential sale that day. I need to get a spy camera.

MFTTW went to watch the Malaysian Philharmonic, and agreed with my quip that they're good because "none of them are Malaysian". Besides most (many?) of them having Hungarian names, there's only one tudung-ed woman inside and she's from the Middle East.

I asked my brother in law what they do in fraternities. He said drink, smoke pot and have sex. I asked him what they do in sororities. He said drink, smoke pot and have sex. And bitch about each other.

Copthorne Waterfront's Piano Bar has a Bachelors' Night, in addition to Ladies' Night. Too bad there're no spinster/gentlemen nights.

A rising tide lifts all boats, but if the tide comes in too quickly, your sampans are going to sink. If you have monsoon storms, even moderately-sized craft will sink, leaving only large ships (owned by rich people or companies). And as a friend pointed out, you need to have a boat in the first place; I might add that if you don't have a boat and the tide rises, you're going to drown.

The bizarre PC logic confusing the range of a distribution with its standard deviation can easily be turned on its head and shot right back at them. For example, to rebut a claim that men are better in maths than women, they point to how some women are better in maths than men, therefore you can't say that men are better in maths. Alternatively, they claim that there cannot be a biological explanation for rape because 70 year old women get raped, or that you can't say that short men generally do worse than tall men because there are short men who have achieved greatness. Besides confusing the propositions 'All A bear relation B to all C' and 'Most A bear relation B to most C', this logic somehow does not apply when we look at racial discrimination. To wit, 'Condoleeza Rice is a black female Secretary of State. Therefore racial and sexual discrimination do not exist.'

There are playing cards with articles of Catholic Doctrine printed on them. Wth.

Someone managed to taste the wine in my pizza sauce even though I only put 3 ice cubes of wine inside. Wow.

How Girls Waste Time:
149 - Refusing to tell people when they're annoyed because they want to be nice and then blowing up without warning when they can't contain themselves any longer.
150. Having too many bags and thus having to spend time making sure each has a wallet, tissue paper, sanitary pads/tampons, comb/hair brush etc.
150. a) Walking out of the house with a bag which lacks one or more of the above, resulting in disastrous consequences (eg Running around bleeding).

Mahjong is an example of successful inter-generational cultural transmission across language barriers. The older generation must be very happy.

Frigid Girl's Lenovo laptop came back from the repairman. Apparently it overheated and the motherboard blew. The man said not to leave it on for more than 8 hours. If you needed another reason not to buy Lenovo, that is it.