Posts RSS Comments RSS 1,005 Posts and 478 Comments till now

Archive for July, 2007

A beatboxing recipe

Easily, hands-down, the most entertaining beatboxing video I’ve seen. Check it out!

hidden images in the last supper?


hidden images in the last supper?

Originally uploaded by Silvr.

Making its round on the intarnets today is the news that if you overlay a copy of the last supper with an inverted version of itself, you get three (possibly four) startling discoveries.

Needless to say, I had to try this for myself. (because, hey, why not?)

Click on the picture to visit the Flickr page, then mouse over the photo to view notes on what to look out for.

———————————————
After Da Vinci finished painting The Last Supper, the pope commented that half of it looked very vivid, and the other half quite dull. Leonardo explained that he was running out of paint, and had to use paint thinner to finish the work. At this, the Pope became very upset, and in a loud voice told the artist: “Repaint, and thin no more!”

Golf: straightforward?

Fore!

Breaking news

Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die

The Onion

Study: Iraqis May Experience Sadness When Friends, Relatives Die

BALTIMORE—Are Iraqis capable of experiencing grief on a personal level, like Americans? A new study suggests yes.

The Onion, once again displaying their finest.

Jetski!


Jetski!

Originally uploaded by Silvr.

My first OOB attempt. Not too good, but it’ll do, I guess.

flight delay


flight delay

Originally uploaded by Silvr.

Window-seat view while waiting for takeoff en-route to Phuket, Thailand. The two photos were taken at 8.45am, and 9.45 am respectively.

I couldn’t make this up even if I tried…

Originally scheduled for flight at 7am, the plane made it halfway down the runway on time, before suddenly aborting takeoff due to a systems fault indicating the parking brake was on. We returned to the gate for a checkup.

Minutes later, we tried again - with the same result.

We returned to gate, and the Captain later informed us that the problem was more “involved” and that we would need to change planes.

30 minutes in the departure hall.

Aboard new plane, we sat around twiddling thumbs while it was getting refueled.

It started to rain.

We taxied all the way to a runway really far away because there were no free ones nearby. This time, before we could even move, we had to return to gate because the radio was broken, and the captain couldn’t tune in to ATIS for weather info.

Our 4th takeoff attempt was successful, and we made it into the skies at 10.30am.

Upon final approach to touchdown at Phuket, we had to abort once because a thunderstorm swept in and obscured the airport at the very last minute - and I mean last minute. We were just clearing treetops by that time

We circled for another 15 minutes, waiting for the downpour to lighten up.

Finally touched down at Phuket, 4 and a half hours late.

I’m not knocking the airline or anything… it was just a whole series of unfortunate events, and I’m glad everyone else onboard took it well too.

Quack

duck.jpg

A yellow spot on the horizon slowly approaches the coast. People have gatherd and watch in amazement as a giant yellow Rubber Duck approaches. The spectators are greeted by the duck, which slowly nods its head. The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relief mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!

Linky.

Xinhui in Swansea

Just happy to be there, I suppose.

Muslim juror used Hijab to hide iPod

It is thought to be the first time that a juror has been accused of listening to music during a trial. John Cooper, a criminal barrister, said that people found guilty of contempt received an average of three years in prison. “It follows a long pedigree of contempt cases including jurors falling asleep and, in one case, jurors who used a Ouija board before they found a defendant guilty,” he said.

Linky.

burning trash


burning trash

Originally uploaded by Silvr.

some bloody idiot tossed a cigarette butt into this bin at a bus stop near my place.

A bus pulled into the stop, and the driver got off the bus and put the flame out with his fire extinguisher.

This public-spirited act took less than 2 minutes from start to end, but unfortunately managed to elicit very loud, harsh, selfish, sarcastic and completely uncalled-for remarks from an elderly couple on board. They made comments such as:

“If I were rushing to work, I’d be late!”
“No one is paying you extra, why are you firefighting?”
“I bet if the extinguisher were his own, he wouldn’t use it.”
(Woman, to husband) “What do you think he’s thinking of?”
(Reply) “Firefighting, what else??”

People like these make me sick.



I actually had a series of shots with the flames taking various wondrous, beautiful shapes, but I accidentally erased them ALL.