I So Agree

http://peoplemakelifeawful.blogspot.com/2008/10/sorry-i-didnt-know-this-was-one-way.html

I'm looking at you students from UPLB. I have to either walk on the street or on the grass just to go my way. Even groups of two don't form a single file. Bastards.

Blues Traveller - Run Around

I'm looking for their new(ish) single. I think it's titled I Get Wild. Or something. Help me out here?

Programmable robots

This here's a programmable robot I spotted in a bookstore or something convention at SMX Mall of Asia. I soooo badly want one but this one costs 150,000 pesos. That's right. It's a monetary equivalent of 3 motorcycles. Or a second-hand car. There are cheaper versions. One module with one body segment and 4 wheels costs 15,000 pesos. Oh wait, I'm not sure about the 150,000 pesos for the puppy-bot above. I think the 150K is for the snake-bot. Anyway. I want. For what possible purpose you might ask. For world domination, of course. Von Neumann machines!

Evolved Robot vs Tracker

Here's a sample video of my robot controller that I built with a neural network attached to the scannedRobot event and used genetic algorithm to evolve the weights of its neural network. The opponent is a sample robot that came with Robocode. It's a homing and tracking robot.

The Man Who Can't Be Moved

by The Script

The Joker

Macro Photography Attempt

Olympics Weightlifting (Women)

non-chinese weightlifter: *grunt scream lift teeter balance tada!*

chinese small girl: *looks disdainfully at weights. lifts to chest then up above head. notices dust on shoulder. brushes it off. drops weights daintily.*

Olympics

Go Team Philippines! We're proud of you!

Congratulations to those who have already won Gold medals especially the Judokas.

Password Panic

I turned my laptop on at work today. I entered my password. *Invalid username or password.* Huh? I tried my password again and again. Same. I start to panic. I open my workstation and start downloading ophcrack livecd to crack my password. I shit my pants. It's gotta be a virus. I try all my online passwords. None work. I try them again. Damn. Then I pay closer attention to what I type. Turns out pressing the '5' key doesn't input a character. I think how the hell I'm going to get my laptop keyboard fixed. It's still brand new! Then I hope it's just something stuck underneath the key. I get out my trusty swiss knife and the toothpick in it. I try to pick underneath the key. Yay! It was a freaking rice grain. How the hell did that get there? I'm happy again.

Free books!

Neil Gaiman's free book thingy has got me thinking. I started reading when I was in elementary school. Everything was free for me. I didn't have squat to my name. I had to wheedle my mom, aunts or grandparents to buy me books. I don't remember what started me off to science fiction. Maybe my older cousins left a book around and I started reading it. I only bought my first book in high school from the living allowance I got from my scholarship. It was expensive for me but I felt it was worth it. Now that I'm working I have bought lots more books and many of them second hand so I can get more for my money. My point is: you have to start people reading and that's by making those books available for free. When they can, they will buy more.

Please forgive the drawing. I feel that a blogpost without a picture is a featureless post and I couldn't think of a picture I look for from teh tubes.

PS: I'm currently reading West of Eden by Harry Harrison. Great read. Not much new concepts but Harrison writes well and I don't get stuck or bored.

Freddie Highmore

I just started watching this movie and I believe the chance to make Ender's Game into a movie is too far gone. Freddie Highmore in Spiderwick Chronicles played twins of differing temperaments and pulls it off. Freddie could have easily played Ender and Peter. I'm so sad. I want to watch Ender's Game while I'm still young! Even if they started filming now, Freddie would be too old to play Ender. :(

Kung Fu Panda

I've seen it twice. Awesome Kung Fu plus awesome comedy equals ARRGH! I'm blinded by the awesomeness!