Daily Dalliances

Chewxy: I am sleepy cfgt: I’m about to sleep. Good night. Not even day9 can keep me awake anymore Chewxy: I need to figure this shit out cfgt: You should sleep too. I don’t really want to wake up and get an explanation for an algorithm that only works with spherical chickens in a vacuum. Chewxy: lol cfgt: Or even worse – an algorithm you claim works on spherical chickens in a vacuum but really only works on alternate universe chickens And hence I shall sleep. [Read More]

For almost 3 years, I didn’t sleep on a bed. I slept on the floor. Why? Obviously, I didn’t have a bed. And beds, in case you haven’t noticed, are expensive. There is really no use buying a 100-dollar bed from IKEA and breaking it from vigorous… nocturnal activities. And mattresses, don’t get me on them – they’re expensive, and the minimum quality mattress I was going to go for was way above my willingness-to-pay.

So, I slept on the floor. Until today. From today on, I shall be sleeping on corrugated cardboard.

Behold:

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– rei – says: they just posted on reddit that they’re going to make an announcement whoever guesses the announcement gets a free t-shirt! LOL Chewxy says: … time to misuse time travel – rei – says: you have a time travel machine? Chewxy says: tardis! – rei – says: where did you get a TARDIS from Chewxy says: Gallifrey – rei – says: and you would know where Gallifrey is, how? [Read More]

My partner made a joke earlier when we went out for dinner. It was something along the lines of “do your duty for God, Queen and Country”, to which I replied, “but I don’t believe or endorse any of those concepts to be good concepts!”. Of course she knows that I am agnostic to all of these, and hence the joke.

The concept of fairness plays a bit part in my mind, and what I consider my values. Yes, despite the fact attitudes may be made up on the fly, I do think that I have some values and attitudes I hold on to – and I like to think I have carefully analyzed and reanalyzed those values I hold to. In short, I think I have reasoned myself into holding some values and chucking some other values. In fact if you had read this blog since its inception in 2004, you would have known I have blogged less, and appeared to be less opinionated on some things – it was partly due to having less time, and also partly due to a lot of re-evaluation of my values and knowledge (essentially there was a period in 2008-2011 when I thought I really didn’t know enough to comment on anything)

Part of why I disagree with the concept of “duty to”, “God”, “Queen” and “Country” is because of fairness, and in one of the cases, a very recent event has left some bitterness and hence triggered this post.

Onwards, shall we? 

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I have many things to do. But I am simply bored out of my mind. These are the things I want to do, and the excuses that I have for them: Work on [Codename: EY], [Codename OX], [Codename PY], [Codename CN] I am too lazy to open Eclipse – it means I’ve gotta get out of bed, go to my workstation in my home office, open Eclipse and write code. I’m feeling a bit too lazy for that Have sex The booty call(s) are unavailable due to multiple reasons. [Read More]

If you have ever wanted to see how my teeth look like:

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The awesome Neil deGrasse Tyson (follow him on Twitter) once said that if you’re scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you. And last night I ate at a place that was very clearly run by a scientist and there are evidence to show for it. What does an eating place run by a scientist looks like? Firstly, superfluous signs that explain even the obvious. For example, there was a sign that says “Dining Area” (the shop had two entrances – one for takeaways and one for eating in). [Read More]