Saddam's dead

what are your opinions?

Saddam's dead

what are your opinions?

Camp Details

So far....

Camping : Pui O beach, Lantau Island.
Backup: Nam Shan campsite, Lantau Island.
Camp Date: 25 December,2006 - 26 December,2006

Equipment: Bring ALL this:

- Radio
- mobile phones
- first aid kits
- tents
- sleeping bags (and mats)
- Swiss Army knife
- cooking equipment
- eating stuff
- food
- bathroom stuff
- money
- snacks

Read This!

http://www.afcd.gov.hk/english/publications/publications_cou/files/camp_e.pdf

a joke

A hopeful suitor dropped into a computer-dating center and registered his qualifications.

He wanted someone who enjoyed water sports, liked company, favored formal attire, and was very small.

The computer operated faultlessly. It sent him a XXXXXXX.

XXXXXXX= what?

Samuel: Please Leave a message after reading!

Sharp's Peak

looks beautiful but pretty dangerous. The first pic makes everything look much too easy.

This makes it look like a vertical scramble upwards

Isn't too hard to get up there, but getting down is much too dangerous with this white route

As far as I'm concerned, there are many other routes that are very long but easy.

So, the hardness of the climb is up to us.

Conspiracy of the Adults

There's always a sad theory that keeps floating in my mind.

Is school (nowadays), community service and the things labelled "self-esteem building" and "independance" a sign of parents turning away from their kids and dumping their childhoods to the society and their own devices?

Here's the potential proof:

- 70 or so years ago, teenagers weren't mad like teens today. They were bound by tradition, culture and adults.

- Adults didn't have as much to do as they have now. Parents (mostly mothers) were at home.

- The concept of maids, baby-sitters and helpers has never been more widespread than it is today.

- The feminist movement has only became a major source of change in terms of family in the last 80 years. Same period of time as this conspiracy!

- When and where did the rise of pop music and culture come about? Teens (specifically the baby boomers) and post - WWII

- When did MEDCs decide that the birth rate must fall dramatically?

- When did people start blaming the brain for the wildness of teenagers? When did the need to make this proof up arise? In the last 50 years.

There's something potentially wrong about the first 4 years of children today - they have been exposed to many many people other than their parents. This has rarely happened ever in the history of the human species. Because the first four years are very important in building up the characteristics of a person, they must not be ruined.

"You have to be more gentlemen -ly"

My considerations:

- do I get any incentives for doing so? If not, SCRAM!
- We are boys, not men.
- I don't fancy you. Can I have my personal space back?
- If that is the case for males, why is it not for girls? It's unfair.
- You can pick that up yourself- why ask me? I'm busy.
- There are so many other nice guys around here - ask them.
- If I'm going to get laid anyways, why should I still do it?
- I see a lot of other people who may need some real helping. Why you?

Mind you, I'm quite used to that crap. I count that as the 21st time that have been said.
5 times was from summer camp, where plenty of public flirts roam. I've tried it once, and it wasn't any fun. Got "laid" after just half a day.

Discuss here:

spysheriff removed! (manually)

Just got hit by a really crazy virus - can't remove it with Norton Antivirus 2006. I tried ad-aware se and it half-worked.
I ended up having to change the registry and remove it that way. Later, I got AVG around to double-check.
The malware had caused my laptop to become extruciatingly slow, even crashing with access violations.

The other memory access violations still haven't been fixed.

direct attack at Christianity?

> Biblical deaths caused by god - more than 2.25 to 2.5 million.
> Biblical deaths caused by the Devil - 10.
>
> Numbers of murdered millions by official atheists...
>
> Mao Tse Tung: 65 million
> Stalin: 25 million (Stalin +others in former USSR)
> Vietnam: 1 million
> North Korea: 2 million
> Cambodia: 2 million
> Eastern Europe: 1 million
> Africa (various): 1.7 million
> Afghanistan: 1.5 million
> Others: 10,000

total : 100,000,000

World War III

After 24 hours of thinking, I have concluded that after every age of technology/innovation will come a major war. Wars also occur when there is an extreme superpower that rises above everyone else very quickly. The probability also increases when the situation tension between neighbours of the superpower increase.

You might discredit me and say "hey, for the last 2000 years, only 2 have been called world wars"
NO!!! What about the Romans, the Mongolians and many great conquests? They are STILL world wars. it's because Globalisation was quite there yet when the world had these wars. Anyways, what would World War I be called if you realised it was still a bit of a regional campaign?

So, in the technology part, we can put in "Supercomputers and genetic-engineering and space exploration". In the superpower bit, we can put down "China" and "India".

And what do you get? World War III happening somewhere 80 years from now, when humans enter the space age. China & developing countries (Asia) v.s. NATO.

Maybe Battlefield 2142 is a bit more real than I'd thought...

What do you think? Comments please!

Robotberyl BUG REPORT

### I want to have bug-free FREE software. (at least, bugs that directly affect the user by crashing.)

- NOTE : These bugs are detected after running it for over 40 times. Don't complain if you don't find them.

bug 1: Robotberyl will crash itself if the program editor is clicked when program is running in load mode.

for no reason at all (from me), Robot Beryl will "appear" to crash while running a program when

- the SAME program and map are run for the second / third time without closing RobotBeryl
- it will freeze itself and hang when at certain places.


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one thing : why is the screen layout so much like Visual Basic software? If they DID use V Basic, I'm amazed. Bad software for GCSE?
A very good example for students who want to be programmers in the future! They should use some proper language!

lol!

Sleep over ...

Ha, Samuel. You should have gone there.

Keep an open-mind - you can always get out of the house before sleep-over.

most memorable quotes from teachers

Mr Lee : "Don't do anything I wouldn't do"

Ms Khaofoui: "Geographers like to use long words to describe simple things and to make others sound stupid"

Ms Wathall: "I appreciate your honesty."

add more here!

Trangia vs gas slove

which one do you think will boil the water faster :

a trangia with methylated spirit (or kerosene, in my case)

or

a gas slove burning a butane gas mix

Discuss...

nice joke.

Fair Use Notice: This pic is fromhttp://www.pull-up-a-sandbag.com/cartoons/pages ...

do you any female geeks out there?

no. Almost, none.

Despite billions of dollars dumped worldwide into trying to get girls on equal terms as we boys,

they have failed.

lol.

A clear difference is seen the very moment we started RobotBeryl. Nearly every guy managed to finish task 8 by the end of the lesson. (not including documentation)
Meanwhile, girls were "avoiding" the task and trying to spend an hour on the title of the sysdoc.

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UPDATE: check this out. Finally some sensable feminists. Trying to take a balance between the 2 extremists.

http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/faq.html

However, I've come up with something much better - gender-utopianism.

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Why do you think so? discuss here.

dinner @ camp?

what are we going to eat at camp?

some ideas...

1. the SAMUELIAN DIET:
This means all can food. Can beans + can beef + can tuna + can luncheon + instant noodles.

2. the Martinian diet:
complex. chicken wings, winter-melon soup, seafood noodles, veggie, even fruit

3. the u-genian diet:
just instant noodles + canned luncheon + Tabasco (whole bottle) + tea + power bars

The answer to free will

Free will... does it actually exist?

I have the answers, but no proof. Hence, I shall use debate to provide the proof I need.

I think that whether you have free will or not depends on how you look at something.
If you look at a person, and JUST 1 person, you will see that they clearly have the ability to make choices freely.
On the other hand, if you look at them as a whole, all that free will somewhat cancels each other out, and you are left with no "choice".

Think of the motion of atoms - they are incredibly, extremely chaotic systems. However, when all the atoms - some 6 billion of them, bond together into a liquid or gas. By then, larger, inter-nuclear bonds take over and they become more steady and hence - less free will.

I don't expect anyone to get what I say - we all have different brains.

Way too funny and old

click here!

can you believe it?

Absolute disgrace for all Microsefts and Linux geeks alike.

Jun 15, 1998

My computer test...

I tested mine.. what's yours?




A half-related pic I thought was meaningful. (The code, I mean.)

http://coderoffortune.customer.netspace.net.au/images/leet.jpg

Does this mean trouble or good? Translate the leet code.

Joke

Do you get this joke?

Animal - Randy The Rooster

This farmer has about 200 hens, but no rooster and he wants chicks.
So, he goes down the road to the next farmer and asks if he has a
rooster.

The other farmer says, "Yeah, I've got this great rooster, named Randy;
he'll service every chicken you've got. No problem."

Well, Randy the rooster is a lot of money, but the farmer decides he'd
be worth it. So, he buys Randy.

The farmer takes Randy home and sets him down in the barnyard, giving
the rooster a peptalk, "Randy, I want you to pace yourself now. You've
got a lot of chickens to service here and you cost me a lot of money
and I'll need you to do a good job. So, take your time and have some
fun," the farmer said with a chuckle.

Randy seemed to understand, so the farmer points toward the henhouse
and Randy took off like a shot. ~WHAM~ He nails every hen in there
THREE or FOUR times and the farmer is just shocked.

Randy runs out of the hen house and sees a flock of geese down by the
lake, ~WHAM~ He gets all the geese.

Randy's up in the pigpen. He's in with the cows. Randy is jumping on
every animal the farmer owns.

The farmer is distraught, worried that his expensive rooster won't even
last the day. Sure enough, the farmer goes to bed and wakes up the next
day to find Randy dead as a doorknob in the middle of the yard.

Buzzards are circling overhead.

The farmer, saddened by the loss of such a colorful animal, shakes his
head and says, "Oh, Randy, I told you to pace yourself. I tried to get
you to slow down, now look what you've done to yourself."

Randy opens one eye, nods toward the sky and says, "Shhh. They're
getting closer...."


I don't quite get the last bit.

And a really cool picture

My nerd test...

Your Score Summary

Overall, you scored as follows:

10% scored higher (more nerdy), and
90% scored lower (less nerdy).

What does this mean? Your nerdiness is:

Supreme Nerd. Apply for a professorship at MIT now!!!

Current IQ: 105

I'm a freak!

I'm 74% freak!!

The making of Eugene (III)

Physically:

How have I changed physically in the past 5 years?

You might think that this is pure propaganda, but I am starting to feel more competitive physically. I didn't think I'm anywhere near the standards of any others in my classes at Primary School, but I am just starting to feel that I am actually growing a bit in terms of muscles.

However, computers are making me ever less physically worthy. Even though I do go out on hikes at least 6 km long at least 2 times every month.


To be continued...

What will our classmates begin to behave at year 11?

There are many paths...

But I believe the path to more "sex-related" activity will increase.

Hardly anyone will be a virgin in 20 years time. That is, unless you're really, really, really busy.

We may well be just as crazy as the others in 10M1 in 2 years time...

DISCUSS HERE...

Making of Eugene : Part II

Anti-authoritianism:

As you have seen in Part I, I've not always been with good teachers or leaders. Some are extremely demanding, while others are favouritist. Hence anti-authoritianism. I do not like to have someone that has too many powers over what I do, what I say, what I hear and any of that. They are extremely unfair and unhuman things and they will be dealt with when I grow up to be a ferior match to them. Only one difference: I will try my best to share my power.

So, why do I do when I'm faced with that? I'll build up my self-discipline, mental and physical health and reinforce my self-esteem (not build it up: I'll be too high profile). In short, I go into full "war-mode", ready to bust the fortress of authority. I'll try to get more people on my side too.

This is the path to the cool side of life.

The making of a eugene!

Kindergarten...yes....kindergarden. Today (26-8-2006) was the day I stepped through the door of the Hong Kong education system. It was a life-changing day and will be what turned me into what I am now.

That first day was absolutely exciting. It was the start of a social life, of having friends and also of dealing with some pretty bad teachers who shouldn't have been in that job. They were what I would soon learn to call favouritist- teachers were biased because of stereotypes and their first impressions. I was a kid who couldn't sit at a specific spot for very long before having to get out and have a chat with someone else. When I talked, I actually stammered. I couldn't really control it. People teased me for it, and I was soon a rather repulsive kid. I didn't like the teasing and all that stuff. But I loved it when I was the one doing it. I didn't like being excluded from the slides on the playground and that stuff. So guess what I did?
I kicked someone (I can't remember the gender, but I think it was a girl) right off the platform when they denied access. She cried really badly, and when the teacher came out to the playground, I just stood there, starring down, trying to be sorry. And the next thing I knew, I got pushed off by another kid. I somehow managed to land on my feet, but the teacher was just standing right in front of me. You can guess what happens next. (Hint: my parents were involved)
There was nothing glorious about that, but that was, at the time, a great boost of ego. I also thought that maybe girls were considered better than any boys at the time. A statistic that I thought I saw confirmed my suspisions. You too can guess what that was.

I wondered why there was so much coloring and stuff in kindergartens and schools, why those kids that look different from what we were, why they seemed to score so much higher than we do in stuff like Chinese.
Of course, I didn't know what was unfair, but I did know what was gender and the differences.

THinking back, I knew I had to get this stuff out of my mind before I got too angry. So, I hope you know why I can be a bit gender -ist in thinking.

Steve Job's speech at Stanford

I happened to receive this e-mail from a friend I made here in the US. He's a Stanford graduate student and he sent me this speech. I'm not allowed to forward this to anyone, though, so I'll take a few quotes out of it.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

"If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. "

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much."

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Loose Change

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7218920724339766288&q=Loose+Change

It's a video introducing a conspiracy theory that I have long thought of.

Tahoe

This is the tundra patches on the ski slopes. (left-up)
This are my cousins and relatives (right-up)
More tundra patches.

Camp Photos

This is Eugene at camp. On the right is me trying to tackle a bulging piece of the wall.

surprise!

Does anyone here know why the IT company Adobe (the one that made Acrobat Reader for pdf documents) is called Adobe???

It's because one of the founders live by a creek called Adobe Creek in Los Altos!
And by the way, he lives right across the street from where I am.

Maybe I should say hello to him next time he drives to work...

I'm in the US!

Mission accomplished!!

commputer built! I just built a PC with my uncle. It uses AMD K8 processor 3500+. It's just so fast. We bought a Seagate 300GB hard drive for it. I'm going to get a hard drive home to upgrade my Compaq computer.

On Sunday, (Monday in HK) I'm going to camp. Might call you soon.

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More screenshots

Thanks to Christopher Sommer for the binaries!

Notice that Tux can now go to different heights. He's falling underground!
















Penguin on forest.















FireTux in SVN! The fly is a kind of checkpoint
that means that you'll be also to respawn there.















Note: Thanks for the Supertux Dev team who have
been working so hard to get us lazy bones to Milestone 2!
*Bug: Game freezes for a while, when Tux is upgrading. (bug fixed)

Next step... to compile the new Supertux level editor!

Supertux SVN screenshots!

Screenshots! (0.2, ice map SVN!)
Notice those fishy coins and those flying things looking at you and debugger console at the top!
(Note: I was running at only 5 frames/second.)

Shek O photos (public domain)

Fizzy drinks war

There has been more and more people (Microsefts, IT people) who prefer pepsi over coca-cola.
I also found a lot of other types of drinks that techies like. (In Texas, Dr. Pepper)

GO PEPSI!!!

At last some Femenists admitting the wrongness of their existance...(or maybe males realising what they should do...)

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed. We now have pretty much equality at least on the pay and opportunities front, though almost nothing has been done on child care, the real liberation … I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men. You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives …This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing. It has become a kind of religion that you can’t criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests … Men seem to be so cowed that they can’t fight back, and it is time they did.

Doris Lessing.

THE MESSAGE??

"We must not behave as mere males and bow to feminists,
we shall not bend down and appoligise for our existance,
we must never accept that feminism is way to gender equality!
We must possess a free will, and an aim to go towards!!"

Trends in the history of the PLA

After reading through every article in the http://china-defense.blogspot.com, http://www.sinodefense.com and http://www.china-defense.com, I found that China is probably heading the right way. I'll describe it bit by bit.

1. The infantry equipment:
Over 40% of the PLA consists of the army, therefore being the most powerful of them all. However, it is actually receiving little of the funds, most of which goes to the PLAAF and PLAN. Despite the fact that I like the army the most, I'd say that that is probably the right way, the major reason being that most critics say that the PLA is rather up to date in terms of crew training. Besides that, the 1 million Type 63s (improved Chinese AK-47s) are still good to have in modern warfare. There isn't the immediate need to change things. (eg. replace old rifles with Type 88s bullpup rifle)

2. THe air force:
The air force is still fairly primative, despite the fact that China has purchased up to 100 Su-27s and other Russian Planes. The J-10s aren't a match against the new fourth-generation planes, like the F-18 hornet and the Panavea Tornados in terms of weaponry and radar equipment, despite the excellent manourveurability and extreme speed inherited in the MiG series of planes.
Whether the air-force is either inadequete and enough for the current state is really dependant on how you look at it. If you see the air force as if it had to be ready to attack Taiwan, I'd say that it's not enough. But if you look at it in terms of defending China, I'd say that it's quite adequete in guarding air-superiority. Supporting ground troops? Maybe, but the bombers are too much of 1980s technology, and are of limited value compared to the B-52.
The most important thing I think, is to quickly upgrade all J-8s to J-10s within the next 10 years. Early-warning radar planes are also important- CHina currently has none.

3. The navy:
The navy is probably the second most important, because of PLAN's Blue water scheme. It states that the PLAN fleet must increase it's fleet size and technology enough to be able to expand it's operating area right out to the edge of the Indonesian islands to the east, to the north, right up to Siberia and to the South, Malaysia and near Australia. Very high target. But I wonder what Americans might think of it. Maybe they'd start to seriously think that Chinese Nuclear Submarines and destroyer flotillas are going to be their next-door neighbours!! THe U.S. might also think that American troops in Japan, Korea, Philiphines, Wake Island and Indonesia are seriously under threat!

COnclusion:
The PLA is nothing to be scared of, President Bush and the World! It's just that little thing called the 2nd Artillery Corps that you have to care about. They are the only ones that can reach almost any part of the world to nuke you! The rest of them just aren't good enough.

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He-who-must-not-be-named...

A person, whose name we shall not mention is currently on the run, setting loose workgroups of computers all around the school. What should we do with him??