21.7.05
Lightning strikes twice!
You know there's this box out in the living room that's been perplexing me ever since it mysteriously appeared three months ago. Today i went to have a look and finally realised it's the starhub cable tv box.
No, I don't watch TV much. There's the usual cry of "i don't have timeeeeeeee", but its really beacause there's nothing to watch. Nothing. I mean sometimes i look behind me and watch the CSI my mother's watching, but its plain WRONG. WRONG as in not correct, as in LAUGHABLE. Well I'm cynical/elitist but so there.
Its this big tube/panel with blinking lights on it. If you're lucky they're in colour. And the only thing you have is the red button with the carnal symbol (the line-and-nearly-enclosed-circle), and occasionally a few other numbers. Using it is like paying for a few rounds with Muhammad Ali - really stupid, and bad for the head.
ohwait. doesn't the computer have those also =S
We're also paying more for public transport. Five cents more, and the seats I jam myself into prop my knees against my chin in this grotesque semi-foetal position. Then there's usually the bag, shoe bag, file, file, book, wallet, handphone, space suit, rubber duckie that I pile onto my lap that usually jostles about and falls on people's feet.
Occasionally when I'm pissed I'll sit on the aisle seat and take my time when the guy at the window wants to get out. (i.e. please don't do it if you're smaller than he/she is) Occasionally I sit at the window and this guy next to me moves so damn slowly and I miss my stop. Bloody bastard.
Made the mistake today of going for the rj relativity lecture. Walk in and all i see is white (hinthint - no [or very little] green). I'm not that desperate but still? Like a monastery in the middle of a red-light district (ahem. just a comparison), chanting sutras of ultimate pwnzage. The lecturer opens his mouth and boom! Mistake!!!! alarm goes off for a while before I fall asleep and drool on my notes (to the disgust of x, y and z)
"Betty says the pole will fit into the barn, because the pole is moving at 0.9 c and undergoes length contraction."
"Alan says the pole will not fit, as the pole is stationary while the rest of the universe (and the barn) moves towards the pole at 0.9c, and undergoes length contraction"
Then the answer to the paradox is "both also can lar (or some variant)."
Singapore is going to win its latest gold medal off a non-singaporean ha!
I want to go kayaking and build biceps! (and because kayaking is FUN, and a million other irrelevant reasons). Like with geoff or something...
ate your heart out at 12:42 AM
