Henri

Brilliant video of a cat experiencing an existential crisis.

And here's the auteur, who also pens brilliant cat haikus.

*KABOOM!!!*

The lawyers just got two very different islands mixed up.

(My head just exploded.)

BIZARRO!

It's been weird today. I spent the first half of my day looking at charts, mulling over colourful lines and pontificating over rocks; being scandalised by the internecine squabbles of the nation's distinguished legal counsels, and rolling eyes over the military's paralysis provoked by the lack of clear and written instruction. My mission was simple - do not commit to anything we can't commit to. To display grit and backbone in the face of adversity by hiding in the lee of bigger ships when enemy cannons are afiring. Easy peasy.

Not that I care anymore, or have at all. Peace and brotherhood and respect for the common heritage of mankind, are more my kind of style.

Sped through lunch to make it to the next big meeting of questionable worth - a "dialogue" session with the King of the Ivory Towers, who wanted to better understand why we're finding it difficult to swallow all that's being rammed down our throats. There are many ways to make it easier - liquid form vs capsules (pound it to a fine powder if it's a tablet and stir it into food or water), honey-coated or administered with a spoonful of sugar, tilt your head back close your eyes and shove it in as far as possible, and if all that fails maybe we can try the intravenous route. But nobody's really explained why we're doing all this beyond a few motherhood statements that assume none of us have been to university.

Bah. I don't care. I do what I do (mostly) because I believe it's right and that's how I fall asleep at night. I'm just working each day to get closer to my next holiday - this time it'll be topping up my tan on the white sands and diving in the crystal clear waters of Redang! I love it when you're jealous. Of me. =)

Bernoulli's Principle states:

The pressure in a fluid decreases as the speed of the fluid increases.

The Principle accounts for the fact that passing ships run the risk of a sideways collision. Water flowing between the ships travels faster than the water flowing past the outer sides, so the streamlines are more compressed. Water pressure is reduced between the ships. Unless the ships are steered to compensate for this, the greater pressure on the outer sides of the ships then forces them together.

More here.

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I rather wish I had pursued a technical proficiency at university, instead of a catchall degree in economics. Not to say that being a generalist is strictly less desirable than being a specialist. But I reckon there's a stronger sense of satisfaction from the work done as the latter. There must be a delicious power in possessing an esoteric knowledge that necessarily shapes pivotal decisions by virtue of the fact that, like it or not, we're all subject to the laws of physics.

Secret (Signed & Encrypted)

Maybe it's just the hormones, the terrible heat or the ill-advised coffee, but these nights that are kidnapped by an endless cycle of the same questions and answers have become too frequent of late.

Do you think that what you're doing is fundamentally right?
Not really.

Is there a possibility of changing things so they will become right?
Almost definitely no, at least not in my lifetime.

Do you at least try, even though you may know that it is in vain?
I'd like to think so, yes.

Do you feel good about what you've done today?
No.

Have you ever felt a sense of achievement from your work?
Relief, yes; material gratification, recently yes; personal vindication, on occasion; achievement, NO.

Describe your role defined by your work in the context of society-at-large.
Hypocrite?


(Sigh.)

Via con dios.

My heart skipped a bit when I saw the headline that a local group will shoot Point Break 2 in SE Asia. The article reports that the sequel will be financed and executive produced by a Pore-based production company - and that a certain Pore regulatory authority would also finance the film.

Now, Point Break was a movie that espoused the philosophy of a human spirit which cannot exist within the structural and psychological rigidities of prevailing social systems - a concept anathema to the Pore. I dread to see how the nexus would be drawn between PB2 and the Pore's own cold and soulless objectives. Already it has been suggested that part of the movie would be shot in the Pore, to show the - get ready for it - vibrant landscape of SE Asia. Somebody's gotta justify the financing hey.

Filming starts in mid-2008 and it looks like we won't be seeing Johnny Utah again, although some sites have suggested that Bodhi will be making a comeback. I'll try to reserve any strong feelings until I've seen the movie.

Brah!

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This just made me want to go diving again, soon...

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/holland-text

:-D

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I just felt that it was necessary to provide an excerpt from the most recent piece of tautological donkey shit an official document submitted by my former (but still very much nonsense) boss:

"...to increase our competitiveness vis-à-vis our competitors, it is critical that we broaden the breadth and deepen the depth of our services."

BRAVO!!! This woman has just claimed the position of being The Most Wasteful Waste of Space in this Spaciousness!!!

And another one gone

I CAN'T WAIT FOR MY TIME TO COME.