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Not to be a sniggering bastard, but quotable quote is quotable.

“My parents had jumped into the swimming pool thinking that the water would only come up to their feet. Now, it seems like there is a black hole in the swimming pool that is sucking everyone in and drowning them.”

The universally-understood (astronomically not-so-understood) metaphor of the black hole, coupled with the absurd image of a swimming pool with water which only comes up to one’s feet makes for Sensational Literary Device! Furthermore, the allusion to suffocation highlights the helplessness and desperation of the victims, drawing on the basic human fear of being sucked in and drowned simultaneously!

Can it be Hugo Award time nao?

Gary :: Oct.13.2008 :: Bitchin', A thousand words, All the news that's fit to print, WTF, Sad :: No Comments »

In 2005, 21 year-old Katie Kirkpatrick Godwin married husband Nick Godwin. What made this marriage so different from others was that Katie was suffering from the final stages of cancer. These 12 photos will tell you the saddest story you’ll hear this year.

More back story

Gary :: Jan.20.2008 :: A thousand words, Sad :: No Comments »

Day 17 - Chair in the Corner (With Socket) (2008)

It can get really, really boring during meetings.
The chair in the corner, like many attendees of this conference (me etc),is supposed to be part of a whole, yet is contemplating the goddamn wall.

Gary :: Jan.17.2008 :: Bitchin', A thousand words, General, All the news that's fit to print, Sad, Photography :: No Comments »

Srsly, no offense to stutterers everywhere, but this sounds like it could potentially be a looooong podcast…

Gary :: Jan.08.2008 :: Sad :: No Comments »

…but not for the reason you probably have in mind. I can’t complete it because at the exosuit battle (the second last one!!), my framerate drops to a disgusting 1 - 2 fps. At that point, an immersive 3D game becomes an interactive slideshow, and no matter how practiced I am, no matter how much ammo I have, I can’t hit shit, and hence, can’t finish the game.

I have even tried, in desperation, to set every single setting to Low and to run the thing in 800 x 600 - but to no avail. The game freezes up just as much as when I run it at 1024 x 768 with everything on Very High. At least then, it’s a prettier slideshow.

Fuck. Waiting to see if the kind folks on the forums have any tips for me; else I’ll have to wait till the patch arrives sometime mid January to see if the problem goes away.

Gary :: Jan.03.2008 :: Bitchin', Games, General, WTF, Sad :: No Comments »

Teary faces around the tables - The joss sticks were green, the candles white. It was crowded… so crowded in fact that many just stood idly around. Expressions were blank. I met many I hadn’t seen in some time. They’d changed. We’d all changed. He was young and fit, with a first class degree and a promising career. 9 months into marriage. He collapsed in a swimming pool and drowned. A million miles from home, In China. Alone. The body didn’t look like him at all. Wtf. It started to rain. And in the gusting wind and rain, friends, acquaintances, colleagues - past and present - gathered for a final look, and one of life’s most important lessons.

Gary :: Nov.20.2007 :: Sad :: No Comments »

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Gary :: Nov.15.2007 :: A thousand words, Sad :: No Comments »

Did you know that Charlene’s 1982 mega-hit (also one of my all-time favourite songs) was originally written from a man’s point of view? Neither did I - apparently it was originally penned as advice from a beggar to a young man who was “raising hell” the way he used to do.

After some Googling and Wiki-ing, here are the original lyrics. Very streets-of-london-esque… I like!
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Gary :: Oct.26.2007 :: A thousand words, Music, All the news that's fit to print, Sad, w00t! :: 2 Comments »

Scene: A McDonald’s counter. Lao Beng, a thirty-ish fellow with a dark complexion, extended pinky fingernail and a buddha bracelet around his neck is attempting to place an order with the Auntie behind the counter.

Lao Beng: Ah, gim me de ah, garlic jiken.

Auntie behind counter: Hah? Wat garlic jiken??

LB: De garlic jiken! (points)

ABC: Orh!! Grilled jiken ah?

LB: Ah..? (pause) Ah ya la ya la grilled jiken la.

ABC:Folover hah?

LB:Ah dio… foh over!

LB looks uncertain

ABC: Loti bao bak eh si boh?

LB: Ah dio la… dio… dio.

finis

Lesson number wan ah, si gina. Stay in skoo. No excue hor. Skoo sibeh impotent. Espeslly plamy wan. Damn easy to pass one la… don’t scared.

Gary :: Sep.25.2007 :: A thousand words, General, Sad, Fucked up :: No Comments »

Gary :: Sep.15.2007 :: WTF, Sad :: No Comments »