Blog posts in Just for Fun

Does Your Christmas Tree Need a Diaper?

Posted February 5, 2010

We are living on the 10th floor of an apartment block here in Singapore and moving a 3-Meeter tall christmas tree that is half-dead and shedding half a bucket of pine-needles with every shake requires a unique kind of social edict.  

If we just drag the tree from our house to the first floor dum…

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The Math of Boarding a Train

Posted January 23, 2010

Time TicksI have been wondering if there is any time-benefit to the shoving onto a train often seen here in Singapore. After some math and a day of counting train-trips, I ended up with these calculations.

Taking Turns:
Avg 10 Seconds - time for the last passenger to exit a train when no-one is trying to get …

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The Logic of Boarding a Train

Posted January 22, 2010

Boarding a TrainHere in Singapore there is an interesting q / line cutting found at every train-stop. People wait for a train in a mass around the train-doors instead of in a proper line or q. When the doors open, the people inside the train have to shove their way out against the boarding passengers. Those same ex…

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We are Hollywood

Posted January 10, 2010

Hollywood is full of stereotypes: Women are Weak, Men are Strong, Germans are Criminals, Native Americans are Gods, Geeks always get Hot Girls, the list goes on and on. For every new blockbuster movie, there is always conflict about what the movie "represents". If Hollywood creates a movie about a m…

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Connor's Nutty Newsletter July 2009

Posted August 2, 2009
Connor's Nutty Newsletter (2 Times a Year)

See the origional Newsletter set out on 1/8/2009? View it here.

Hello!
Here it is! My first half-yearly newsletter. Let's get started...
 

What's Inside?
- Updates from Singapore
- Songs!
- Links and Articles
- Story! Becoming my Parents
- Movies
- Books
- Bye Bye

Rambles from Singapore

Life is…

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