Monthly Archives: April 2010

Boobquake

It began with this post on Blag Hag in response to the fol­low­ing item: “Many women who do not dress mod­estly … lead young men astray, cor­rupt their chastity and spread adul­tery in soci­ety, which (con­sequently) increases earth­quakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as say­ing by Ira­nian media. Sedighi is Tehran’s act­ing Fri­day prayer leader. To …

Monday, 26th April, 2010 – 1518 | By Rewarp | Posted in Atheism, Nonsense | Tagged | Comments (0)

HDTV In Perspective

This XKCD post on HDTV got me think­ing, does the High-Definition in HDTV match up to what I can get on my trusty budget laptop? I have never con­sidered this ques­tion before, prob­ably because I find no need to get myself a chunk of non-interactive glass right now. Here’s an explan­a­tion from HDTVorg: 720p: 1,280x720 pixel …

Monday, 26th April, 2010 – 1451 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky | Tagged , | Comments (0)

“Patent Absurdity” Shows the Patent Absurdity of Patents

Pat­ent Absurdity is a 30-minute short film that charts the growth of the soft­ware pat­ent­ing sys­tem in the United States of Amer­ica. It dis­cusses how the court sys­tem used to treat soft­ware as a pro­cess that can­not be pat­en­ted, which some­how along the way turned into the gigantic lit­ig­a­tion mind-fuck that is the soft­ware pat­ent …

Sunday, 25th April, 2010 – 2151 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky, Social Issues | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

How to Convert WMA Lossless to FLAC in Ubuntu Karmic

About a month ago, I obtained some clas­sical music off the Inter­net. I am not going to delve into the entire “Bit­torent is evil because it is pir­acy debate”, just under­stand I do spend a large por­tion of my dis­pos­able income on clas­sical music, and before I splurge on any CDs, I wish to hear …

Friday, 23rd April, 2010 – 1445 | By Rewarp | Posted in Geeky, Music | Tagged , , , | Comments (9)

“What?”

I am in the middle of my final exam­in­a­tions right now, and as of today, have aver­aged 1.5 papers per day. Bril­liant! Also, I don’t play Star­craft. I just like watch­ing people play it — because I am very bad at it. Per­haps with a dis­pro­por­tion­ate amount of time and money, I too can finally play …

Tuesday, 20th April, 2010 – 1955 | By Rewarp | Posted in Games | Tagged | Comments (1)

Grinding Time

I finally got back from Pulau Tiga on Sunday, and find myself facing a solid wall of reports and assign­ments due this week — which hap­pens to be the study week. Mean­ing I really should be read­ing and pre­par­ing for my finals instead of hand­ing in assign­ments. How­ever, as is always the case with life, you …

Tuesday, 13th April, 2010 – 0201 | By Rewarp | Posted in Stuff | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Maestro Bruno Walter

I am begin­ning to recon­sider Schubert as my favour­ite com­poser — see­ing as I can’t get enough of Brahms.

Tuesday, 6th April, 2010 – 2151 | By Rewarp | Posted in Classical | Tagged , | Comments (0)