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Thursday, Oct 18, 2007 - 02:45 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Chapalang

Quote?:
"Suppose that today, the stock market goes down..."
(Deathly silence)
"Touch wood." - EC3332 professor does it again


Just relieved that I managed to settle my Denotational Semantics lab exercise more or less on schedule, just an hour after I was preparing for the worst (i.e. a total writeoff and rewrite). Hoping against hope I tried fe=fe.extend(ts, ev.nextElement().eval(e2)); to append the new environment bindings to the function values once, and there was light. The more natural e2=e2.extend(ts, ev.nextElement().evalDynamicScoping(e2)); did dynamic scoping already, so I was done.

Uplifting, this successfully wrestling with a programming problem. At least if the TA's don't use crazy testcases...

So uplifting, in fact, that I'm going to dump all the undeveloped tidbits from my blogging file of inspiration.

The Chinese High School's (now HCI's) school song is set to an 1857 American ballad, Annie Lisle. Yes, that's the tune. It's shared with Cornell and a bunch of other universities, and no I didn't know any of this until recently so shoot me.

HCI has its own Integrated Virtual Learning Environment too. No need to wait till NUS.

Æon Flux. Never watched the 2005 movie (what's new?), but the edgy Korean visual style caught my eye on Youtube - take a peek at War and Gravity for examples. They were on MTV in 1992, so should be ho-hum by today's standards. But entertaining.

Wonder why so few of the original animations were produced, given their obvious popularity. Another case in point was the distinctive-looking wrestler with words all over his body and impressive aerial moves that I remembered glimpsing long ago on WWE. Completely randomly, I learnt his name - Hakushi, and once I got that it was a simple matter to dig out a few action clips. Not bad at all. Strangely enough he lasted only a year or so in the WWE.

Wow, it's been over ten years.

A little more WWE stuff - everyone, or nearly everyone, knows it is all a (well-coordinated) act, with the littler guys often selling moves to emphasize the power of the bigger ones. Shawn Michaels shows how to overdo it hilariously.

When it comes to selling moves, Michaels doesn't come close to the average professional footballer, though. Check out a typical training session. Frankly, after watching a few Rugby World Cup matches, I have come to respect the average no-necked cauliflowered-ear rugger player a lot. One doesn't see them taking completely ridiculous falls or try to influence the referees. Just their luck that they won't ever replicate football's universal reach.

And finally, burning water. What will people manage to do next time, walk on it (Some weak points, but as always a grain of truth. George Carlin rules)???



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