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Jimmy “Omnipresent” Wales

hschin — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:13:57 +0000

If you’ve been using Wikipedia lately…

Spirit

hschin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:29:44 +0000

The real story behind the Spirit rover’s longevity.

Peak Productivity

hschin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:28:00 +0000

This is so true! Especially now that I don’t live by myself.

English as it is broken

hschin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:51:00 +0000

So I was in Taiwan for a week over summer, and I couldn’t help but notice examples of ‘Engrish’ (aka ‘Chinglish’) in many places. As it was also my first week having a camera phone, I decided to document every occasion of ‘Engrish’ that I spotted.

Apparently, they decided to clamp down hard on offenders who violate the rule. So yes, you better know what THE RULE is.

They had better be pretty sorry that their equipment was out of control. Luckily its just a screen and not some robot with a mind of its own.

This might be a little hard to decipher during an emergency.

After reading their explanation, I think I’m pretty unpuzzled.

Pretty self explanatory, this one.
Surprisingly, when I got back to Singapore, I spotted a few excellent examples as well. Usually, these are pretty hard to come by in Singapore.

I think someone had just learned past tense in their ESL class.

This might also make a really cool tag line for a sex-ed program.

The Science News Cycle

hschin — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:56:00 +0000

Moral of the story: The next time you see a news report about scientific discoveries on TV, take it with a pinch of salt.

Goaltending is a sucky job

hschin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:00:00 +0000

This quote from a hockey website made me laugh. “Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and … Continue reading →

Funny Physics Lecturer

hschin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:52:00 +0000

Men + Sports

hschin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Apparently Ricki doesn’t like the fact that most guys watch sports (a sweeping generalization here). She was blaming everything on men’s penchant for watching sports.

Here’s an extract of the conversation we had that got us laughing so hard in the library…

Ricki: Why did Eve eat the forbidden fruit? Because Adam was not there to stop her! He was too busy watching sports!!

All the guys: ?!?! What sports?!

Ricki: Animal sport! Like 2 ants fighting or something…

Guys: -_-”

Later on…

Me: The United Nations are ineffective. They are going to go the way of the League of Nations.

Ricki: How can you say that?

Me: There’s going to be World War 3 and they won’t be able to stop it.

Ricki: What?

Me: Yeah, coz you women prevent men from watching sports SO WE HAVE TO FIGHT A WAR INSTEAD!
(Ricki thinks that sports is just a substitute for war, so I just turned her theory back on her. )

Ricki: … …

Simpsons at a ‘Mapple’ store.

hschin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:58:00 +0000

Here’s the Simpsons’ take on Apple – the basic premise being that the Springfield Mall gets a “Mapple” store and everyone buys MyPods, MyPhones, and MyCubes. There’s even an announcement by Steve Mobs!

What if the Matrix ran on Windows?

hschin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:42:00 +0000

This is hilarious!!

On the other hand, I should be studying instead of watching online videos. :S