People who get excited about Pi are like people who get excited about pie. It's useless geekery.
Apparently it's possible to sous vide an egg, so that the yolk is hard, while the white is soft.
"Philosophy" should be explained to business people as "the vertical integration of thought processes".
2013-03-16 at 5:12 pm
2013-03-15 at 12:47 am
Singapore
Day 1
Balmoral Park. Orchard. Newton. Bay Front. Bueno Vista. Dover. Right.
Camping at the cousins' in Singapore, again. Using the same bottle of soap I bought for business travel, two years ago.
Day 2
LOST IN SINGAPORE
After a day spent half in traffic, and half in coffee shops, I'm on a train home for the evening. Colleagues have gone drinking - I can't be arsed to get into that. I've got ten stations to go till my stop. Briefcase in one hand, railing in the other, I close my eyes, and feel the train beneath my feet, analysing the sounds around me, trying to locate their distance and orientation from me. It is a game, or a sport, and one I should play more often. But I have not been on trains much, these past few years.
I am going home to study Haskell. There is not much else for me to do at this point. Maybe if we get into roasting coffee, I will volunteer. Some do not think it will entertain them, but I do not foresee it boring more than any other work. Sensual work is a good complement to my conceptual studies. It is humbling, because I am insensitive to sensual details, and must make more effort to understand sensual arts. Commerce generally bores me - it is an unchallenging, unsophisticated, game of human emotional dynamics and demi math. There are harder things to play. But one has to earn a living. So nevertheless, I remain grateful for opportunities to participate in commerce where I am welcome.
Day 3
LEGAL PARTNER ACQUIRED.
Multitasking between three highly random projects can be stressful. But fortunately, at least one of them is social. :P
Got some constructive feedback on our internal planning documents, and on our outward-facing comms/pitch documents, from friends.
Day 4
Got a tour of some places in Chinatown. I suppose... there's something to be said for boring, but classic and polished, designs in any field. There's a nice antique shop here, too.
Bye Singapore. Our biennial affairs have been fun.
Other take-aways: CSHH - everything also got; Nylon - nano-sized indy roaster run by ex-financiers; Toby's Estate - Australian invasion; China Town has a couple of cute cafe/diners that say they're coffee places, but are really just neighbourhood hangouts. I did get a good sense, of what difference a bunch of couches makes, to loungify an otherwise pure-dining setting, from Group Therapy.
Balmoral Park. Orchard. Newton. Bay Front. Bueno Vista. Dover. Right.
Camping at the cousins' in Singapore, again. Using the same bottle of soap I bought for business travel, two years ago.
Day 2
LOST IN SINGAPORE
After a day spent half in traffic, and half in coffee shops, I'm on a train home for the evening. Colleagues have gone drinking - I can't be arsed to get into that. I've got ten stations to go till my stop. Briefcase in one hand, railing in the other, I close my eyes, and feel the train beneath my feet, analysing the sounds around me, trying to locate their distance and orientation from me. It is a game, or a sport, and one I should play more often. But I have not been on trains much, these past few years.
I am going home to study Haskell. There is not much else for me to do at this point. Maybe if we get into roasting coffee, I will volunteer. Some do not think it will entertain them, but I do not foresee it boring more than any other work. Sensual work is a good complement to my conceptual studies. It is humbling, because I am insensitive to sensual details, and must make more effort to understand sensual arts. Commerce generally bores me - it is an unchallenging, unsophisticated, game of human emotional dynamics and demi math. There are harder things to play. But one has to earn a living. So nevertheless, I remain grateful for opportunities to participate in commerce where I am welcome.
Day 3
LEGAL PARTNER ACQUIRED.
Multitasking between three highly random projects can be stressful. But fortunately, at least one of them is social. :P
Got some constructive feedback on our internal planning documents, and on our outward-facing comms/pitch documents, from friends.
Day 4
Got a tour of some places in Chinatown. I suppose... there's something to be said for boring, but classic and polished, designs in any field. There's a nice antique shop here, too.
Bye Singapore. Our biennial affairs have been fun.
Other take-aways: CSHH - everything also got; Nylon - nano-sized indy roaster run by ex-financiers; Toby's Estate - Australian invasion; China Town has a couple of cute cafe/diners that say they're coffee places, but are really just neighbourhood hangouts. I did get a good sense, of what difference a bunch of couches makes, to loungify an otherwise pure-dining setting, from Group Therapy.
2013-03-12 at 2:21 am
Eye gazing parties
A.k.a. silent speed dating.
Otherwise, a good reminder: cocking one's head to the right puts the object of vision more into one's left field of vision; cocking one's head to the left puts the object more into one's right field. (What little we know about) the neurological processes which ensure in the subject are well documented. Mirrored insight in the object's brain should also be taken into account.
How it's supposed to go:
trepidation, eyes averted, hope, eyes reverted, boredom, skin trembling, hypotheses about air-conditioning, humourous smiles, goalHow it tends to go:
ew... zits...Otherwise, a good reminder: cocking one's head to the right puts the object of vision more into one's left field of vision; cocking one's head to the left puts the object more into one's right field. (What little we know about) the neurological processes which ensure in the subject are well documented. Mirrored insight in the object's brain should also be taken into account.
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