I just suck at multi-tasking. Are CCS students supposed to be good at multi-tasking? If that is so, I should just be a jeepney driver. With an MP3 connected to a blaring speaker that shouts “Alabang, Alabang, malapit na umalis!” so that those barkers, who leech on other jeepney drivers because they think they were the ones to call the people riding the jeepney, won’t go near my frigging shiny jeepney. But that’s just me.
After a smorgasborg of events, here I am, posting useless jibberish on my Tumblr. I can still remember the time when Ryan and Kevin introduced me to Tumblr, and I was happily posting away, and reposting some of the good stuff as well.
But going back to the topic at hand, I just suck at multi-tasking. Or rather, managing sites where I have given away a username and a password. Well, it’s not that I have boatloads of them..
- Pinoy Gundam forums -> for my new found hobby
- Wordpress
- Blogspot -> Active blog about programming and how we can still connect to Life itself
- Plurk -> which took my online life unknowingly full of cuteness
Hmm, maybe the reason why I updated this Tumblr is because so that I could include it in my blogroll. SOWWWEEEEE!
For the past month, Globe and I were pretty much over, because of their sucky contractor service. Damn them, really. Nevertheless, I survived, landed on a job in Makati, and finally started my new hobby: Gundam.
~This was my first try, and I made it in 11 hours. Yes, I counted. Haha, still incomparable to what people have been showing off in the Internet, but hey, I’m still proud of it. :D
Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen in Maastricht, Netherlands is a bookstore inside a 13th-century Dominican church. The Guardian called this curiosity, designed by Dutch architects Merkx + Girod, “the world’s finest bookshop”.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. If there was a bookstore like that around here, I would never leave.
More photos at dezeen.com.
A manufacturer had a problem with one of the older machines on their line. It shut down the line and held up production, costing many thousands of dollars in lost production. Since it was older equipment it was hard to find someone knowledgeable in repairing the machine, and nobody on-site knew what the problem could be. They found a technician with knowledge of the machine and hired him to come in and fix it.
When the technician arrived on site he listened to the client’s description of the problem, examined the machine, opened a panel, and turned a single screw. He restarted the machine and it was back to full function. The line was up and running and the manufacturer was happy.
A week later the manufacturer received a bill for services: $1000. They called the technician and demanded an explanation - after all, they reasoned, he had only turned one screw to fix the problem. He agreed to re-bill, this time with itemized charges. The next bill contained two lines.
Turning the screw… $1
Knowing which screw to turn… $999
Hidden Radio. Lift the lid to turn the volume up, push it down to lower it, twist the lid to tune. The LED light in the base becomes brighter or darker with tuning. That’s it. Cleverly minimal. (via kottke.)
