Devoid of Anything Useful

Just thought this is better in a separate post.

RSS life rocks.

I currently have so many feeds that the equivalent of going to each website to wait for updates would take a whole day.

Now I know how lame some people are with Wikipedia. Just subscribe to the "Recent Changes" feed.
Found that the people at our place are pretty lame too, through WikiScanner.

And also, Eclipse lagged! Last week their Clannad AS 9 was out pretty fast, but it seems AS 10 needs a bit more time...

What defines abnormal? (in this context, a person in public)

Just a TL;DR here: I tio Bishan Gay. Happy? Wtf he follow me on 74 and 157. Like he purposely detour from his usual 156 to gay.

Is it the ability to conform to a socially acceptable "norm", or is it simply not being disruptive or disturbing?

What is the socially acceptable "norm"?

It is a question dependent on the people around. In America and many "friendly" countries, helping someone you met on the street is common practice. It just feels normal. In previously communist/oppressive states, no one looks into each others' eyes, much less help another, for fear of the other person being a suppressor. In Singapore, I feel that the norm is to help when no one notices, but when trouble strikes in an highly accessible location, no one stops.

Enough about helping people. Those were just examples. I am rather more interested in behaviour on public transport. More particularly, Buses or Trains.

Let me start with seats. When it is during the rush hours, the only people who actually get to seat are those who have their starting location at the ends (or beginnings, if you prefer) of the particular routes. Once you stand, you don't sit and once you sit, you don't stand (unless you are giving up your seat). I don't know how most of you choose how and when and where to sit, so I shall not fake public opinion. What I do observe is that people usually sit whenever there is a "free seat" (no one else), less than half will hesitate to sit when there are no free seats but there is nobody standing, and more than half will just stand when there are no free seats and there are already people standing.

For me, personally, I go by the number of seats left. If after I sit down the next person who boards has no free seats to choose from, then I will not sit. Unless of course I am beat.

Then next is talking. Or actually to be more generic, "producing sound". I digress yet again, but in Japan it is rude to have your phone ring while on the train. Back here in Singapore, it seems that it is merely an amusement (okok for me at least) to find out what other's ringtones are. Talking on the phone usually blends in with the engine noise well, the only thing you will know is that a phone convo is going on. Then there are exceptions, but of course being in Singapore exceptions are always exotic and fun (okok for me at least).

Then of course there are those "crazy" guys who talk loudly for no reason. Happens one in every 75 trips (not that I counted). That is my focus. Not the reason that I wrote this though.

Do they really belong in the asylum? I don't think so. Some may be irritating, but as long as they don't really pose a public danger, it is a reality check that we still have such people in society that do not conform. Not exactly that I'm a non-conformist, but I do not believe in doing so just to conform or not to. Safety in numbers does not apply.

Just a note, I usually keep a straight face while on the bus alone (as in, without people to talk to). Only when people are in my circle then I let loose.

Details of the Bishan Gay attack:
Waiting for bus after training (opposite HCI).
Noticed him after I walked past the tree.
Hid behind bus info for a while. He adjusted himself to peek through the gap. 気持ち悪いだ.
I just let myself get full blasted by standing in front of the bus stop advert. I was facing the advert, keeping watch by means of reflection (a skill I had mastered).
Too creepy. Went to back of Advert. Kept watch at sidea but got me twice.
74 came. planned to board it.
When another hci guy boarded, I feared the worst. He followed.
I went upstairs, he didn't
I got of at matrichie (whatever is the damn spelling) stop, he follow.
Went to the other stop for 157. He followed soon after.
157 came under a minute. He followed too.
Got off and ran behind the info panels.

Spooky...

I fail...

I succumbed to temptation...

I added Code Geass (both) to my Plan to Watch list.
I also added NGE to my Plan to Watch list.

But I swear it is not for the mecha.

It appears everything I have done so far has followed a certain pattern.

This is only an example. Actual curves may vary



Now, first the introductory trigger + phase. This is when you learn about it/whatever. You stary trying and may be a little noob, or maybe still can manage. Whatever. Try it once in a while for "practice".

Then comes the secondary trigger. Usually marked by "mastering" or others doing it too. Then the frequency of activity would escalate to a high peak.

This peak would then be there for a certain amount of time. The kill trigger would then bring this down to zero. The time of decline could span from a week to a day.

This period of non-activity would be followed by the restart trigger. Quite the determining factor. Like the life (or actually death) of a star, 3 things could happen: Rebirth, Replay or Dao.

Dao is easy to explain. You dao the trigger since you decide to give up already.

Rebirth also easy to explain. You play it like a newbie. The graph restarts.

Replay is slightly different (thus illustrated in the diagram). Firstly, a period of turbulence. Then a period of stability. Then again, this could result in any of the above states. Therefore, it will be too complicated.

Let me just give a few examples. DoTA (for me), N and LF2 followed this. LF2 was started, somehow, by me. I dunno why. I had one too many connections. I think it was some guy on the N forums who had Julian as his avatar, and another with Firzen as his avatar. Whatever, they played and played, then Mdm Math came in to stop. Then a few pockets of activity, then it eventually declined to nil. DoTA I still play sometimes, but you can't really call that playing. N i still touch occasionally.

Things that have already stabilised are my Ubuntu, Juggling, laming and Jappiness.

Yays another post

Whoops, I'm terribly late. I accidentally procastinated...

I suppose I shall tell a different story then. Pixs not resized... I feel sorry for those with a slow connection.

Woke up at 6 am
Left house at 8 am
Reached City Hall at 8.30 am
Waited for FX till 8.45 am
Walked to Suntec via Citylink (passed Bowie) and reached the convention centre at 9 am

Queue was liek this. I was liek Haha wwww.


Then we got the Tickets at about 9.59 am and went to niao the rest first (funny youall dint bother to mention that in your posts). Edward told me to get stuff from KKnM, and I queued. Comiket style. Takashimaya had a long queue, but KKnM's was soon growing to be twice of that.

While team tagging with Fangxu for queueing for 40 mins, I got a Kyon Figma ($30), chatted with the Magma Heritage store's owner (my mum actually bought dolls from them) and went to see the SnS exhibit. Pics:





Then After the queueing, I got FX to grab some Rei Ayanami stuff for my senior who, after watching just that Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 movie I also watched, got hooked to Rei instantly. A poster which costs $11 (which I bet someone will cut out only Rei and discard the rest) and a Keyring that costs $14.




At Latendo, I grabbed Miku and Rin for myself ($58 for a set). Then I found a 10 nendroid set that cost $100. I only brought $50 that I blew, so I went to the nearest POSB (quite a distance) and drew my limit for the day ($200). I got it, and also a $10 Rei Figurine.









That Rin Pic edward asked me to take:


Went around to where the Figurines were all displayed. Shana Nendroid which cost $55 at one of the Stalls:


Nice Mikuru...


We were going out for lunch, but caught the holy sight of the crowning of the Gundam:


I really took so much time because of the pics you see...
Seriously, enter this industry when you grow up. Reccessioned and I see ppl still buy more than me. More pics will be available soon as I edit and upload to photobucket. I also took quite a bit of time assembling the Petit Nendroids...

Ok, so I have been using Ubuntu for about 2 weeks already. An updated review is apparent.

Things that have remained approximately status quo:
Mozilla Firefox
GIMP
Pidgin (almost the same as ymsgr)
Stepmania (just that it took a little more configuration)
µTorrent (Running fine on wine (rhyme not intended))
IME (input method editor)
Golly (Game of Life Simulator)
Veoh Dl (with VeohProxy)
VBA
Arduino (perhaps excluding the fact that I still can't create a panel shortcut)
Hardware (external and internal)

Things that did not turn out so well:
WoW (anyway I dun play DoTA so much anymore)
Portal (anyway I almost completed it anyway)
Touhou Games (I was able to have a match running on wine, but I couldn't see the HP, Spirit or number of cards I have)
Keyboard Shortcuts (at least getting used to the available ones and to config them)
Hearts, Spider, Pinball, Inkball (I can get the Linux vers but I am just too lazy)

Things that have turned better:
EyeCandy (including xeyes, "Exposé" (Window List), "Spaces" (Workspaces) and rollup of screen)
Mouse Locking

That is already my TL;DR, so I shall actually slack off and not finish this post.

Ok i is posts here too with stuffs i has found in 5 minits. Reimu wants de rite?

Dango Daikazoku (Touhou Version)

Some comment there is so nice.

rainingcloud689 (7 months ago)
So the saying is true.
'If it exists there will be a touhou version of it'

I have been called off slacking from posting by Reimu (how honourable). I have been busy with Robocup Junior, and with 3 weeks (close to that) taken up by OBS, Class Chalet and YFC Control Line racing, I doubt I can pull off a win for this week... And "look at me, still talking when there's science to do..."

I got a laptop that cost SGD699 the week of our class chalet, and after modding XP to look like Mac I guessed that I would have a go at Linux. Therefore I reserved 20 out of my 40GB harddisk for Linux. I have been officially using Linux for about a week now, and I shall give a largely non-technical (at least for me) review of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).

I first had to download a LiveCD to install it. I actually torrented the ISO and it took about 5 hours. After that I had some issues with a stupid option on XP which "Gets the file ready for Archiving" which totally screws the MD5 hash.

Then after installing I had to install stuff. I did not even need to care about drivers for hardware. My Volume buttons, Bluetooth module, Wireless Adapter and special function buttons were already configured. Firefox, GIMP and Pidgin were already installed, I added on VLC and wine. I also got all the extensions for Firefox (my only qualm is that IETab is not available for Linux, which actually doesn't really matter as I do not really think I need it. Pidgin was configured quickly, and so was all the other apps.

The next best thing were the games, but I soon lost to the comp too many times and got bored. There was Solitare, Blackjack, Chess, Reversi (Igano), 4 in a row, 5 or more, Tetris (Gnometris), Freecell, Minesweeper, Nibbles (a multiplayer snake-like game), Robots (evade and teleport from robots), Sudoku and some games I did not bother to try.

Eyecandy was surprisingly good, considering my 1ow ram of 512MB and 1.4GHz. There is actually a nice Spaces like default program (Workspaces) which gives a nice switcher (you can't really see the effect as there are only 2 workspaces. I didn't resize so you can see everything.)


There is also an Exposé like feature.


And this shall conclude this long post. Nothing much.

EDIT: Oh SHI... Forgot to talk about running WoW on Linux...


Laugh at me. I was playing Techies, I had boots (which appeared as Sacred Relic's sprite), and the Mines got shown as Statis.