Sunday, October 29, 2006

Anecdotal data is very misleading

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Lots of people travel to Europe and then come back and rave about how good the drivers are in other countries and how politely they treat cy...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Review of Prima Taste

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So I went to Prima Taste on Friday with a friend. We're both from Singy/M'sia. Summary: Food is not very good. Far below par of eit...
Sunday, October 22, 2006

Review: Kingdom Coming, by Michelle Goldberg

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I have to admit that Salon Magazine is one of my favorite on-line magazines. It's unabashedly liberal, thoughtful, and has impeccable t...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Dan Gilbert on Happiness

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(Link requires flash) An excellent talk on Happiness by Harvard psychology professor. Very much worth the 22 minutes it takes to watch it. (...

The Omnivore's Dilemna

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The Omnivore's Dilemna should be familiar to most of us: since us humans can pretty much eat anything, how do we figure out what's g...
Friday, October 13, 2006

Joseph Stiglitz @ Google

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One of the best perks of working at Google is the series of authors and excellent speakers talking at Google. Today, we had Nobel Prize winn...
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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Movie Review: MirrorMask

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Written by Neil Gaiman, and directed and created by artist Dave McKean, this is the story of Helena Campbell, a girl whose parents run a cir...

San Jose Rock & Roll Half Marathon

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1:56:19 That's my time for the 1/2 marathon. I actually started with the 2 hours 15 minute group thinking I'll have a hard time kee...

Fall bike parts inventory

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2 Front Phil Wood 36 wheels 2 Rear Phil Wood Freewheel 36 spoke wheels 1 Tandem 48 spoke front Phil 1 Tandem 48 spoke rear Phil (Freehub) 1 ...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

Review: The Polysyllabic Spree

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This book by Nick Hornby is basically a collection of his monthly column about books from The Believer . The column illustrates why Hornby g...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Neil Gaiman Talk @Google

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My second time attending an Authors@Google talk. He was at Google to give a short signing/reading tour (more reading than signing, as he p...
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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Pigeon Point 2006

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Pigeon Point 2006 Sep 30, 2006 - 71 Photos This year's pigeon point run was a lot of fun. Thanks to Lisa's contacts, we managed to g...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Are human lives too short?

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This idea came to me while we were having dinner during our Coast to Coast walk . Human beings live for too short a time. As a result, we ar...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Review: Smallville Season Two

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My big criticism of Season One was that it felt very much like the monster of the week. There was relatively little plot continuity, and wh...
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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Wheelbuilding with the Park TS-2

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I had a sinus infection (on my birthday, no less!), so no riding this weekend. But thanks to my brothers and Lisa, I got a Park Truing Stand...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Guest Poster

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My brother is now guest posting on this blog with movie reviews, etc, so if you see sudden changes in tone check the posted by line. Welcom...

A Moment With You movie Review

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I watched the Google screening of this yesterday. My initial reasons to watch this was that it had a really cool poster, paper airplanes es...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

S&S couplers revisited

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In the year and a half since I wrote the article, S&S couplers considered harmful , I've really been vindicated. One of my co-worker...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Time to plug the gtags internship again

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Those of you who've read my blog before will note that I was looking for an intern for gtags a while ago. Well, my blog doesn't get ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Review: Smallville Season One

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One of the best things about the TV format for a series is that you can really take your time to explore the subject. In this particular cas...