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- EC3383 lecturer, without the slightest hint of irony Quite an eventful week - played badminton (strings still broken), tennis and basketball; attempted to teach, still not very good at it; came across my sister (a fellow Econs major) in NUS for the first time (Feb 4); attended all lectures, though something inside me whispers that it doesn't really make a difference (for certain modules, anyway)... Also bought the Macroecons textbook with a bought-from-wenhoo co-op voucher (checked very carefully beforehand, goes without saying):  One thing about lectures is that, even if the content may be miserably rehashed, which to be fair isn't really the fault of the lecturers since the spread of familiarity towards related material may be quite wide (though going through basic supply and demand in a Level Three Economics module is a bit too much for me), they at least are decently entertaining, whether intentionally or not. We got to hear how one doesn't bother to write a textbook as buying the rights to parts of an existing one is cheaper (perfectly rational, btw), for instance. And smile wanly when "Special Economic Zones" is mistakenly abbreviated as "SEX". And listen to accounts of how modern Chinese wariness of foreign economic influence stemmed from past injustices, e.g. the Boxer Uprising ("Why must you shoot me when I box?") - all of which made attendance almost worth it. Other stuff: Wizards of the Coast recently released a new Magic: The Gathering set called Conflux (as I once mentioned in passing), and out of nowhere the website of the fan-set created in 2005 garnered nearly 50k pageviews (in comparism, this blog has just over 70k views for now), thanks to it occupying a high spot on Google due to its age. Amusingly, there were even a few comments defending some of the cards I designed as authentic, but since deception was never my intent, I changed the name of my set to clarify matters. On the subject of Magic: The Gathering, there seems to be some cross-fertilization of ideas going on, as the original concept of the card Progenitus was inspired (see Question #17) by DotA's Antimage. On the subject of Google, wenhoo introduced me to the wonder of letmegooglethatforyou.com, a superb riposte to acquaintances who expect you to be their search engine middleman (ok lah, that has some social value at least I guess) Amusing football moment of the year so far has to go to Chelsea's Bosingwa, who also deserves awards for "discouraging timewasting at the corner flag", "how to walk away nonchalantly without getting booked" and "THIS IS SPARRRTTTTAAAAAAAA!":  And United just beat the Hammers 1-0 (yeah!), classic Giggs goal. Hamsters still stewing. Sedition in Singapore? The Straits Times recently ran an eyecatching article on a couple who were arrested for "distributing seditious tracts", thanks to an aggrieved member of a (different religion). Their lawyer read excerpts from God Is Not Great (I bought it), The End Of Faith (nope), The Da Vinci Code (sort of read) and The God Delusion (bought) in their defence, reasoning that if these attacks on religion were openly available, why not the tracts? The counterargument was that the tracts were more blindly partisan and moreover graphical in nature, and thus more likely to sway the young and vulnerable. On principle, I would say that the couple should have freedom of expression, but sensitive polito-religious realities mean that this sort of thing is just not done (their conviction has to be admired, though). Notably, the official website for the Chick tracts they were accused of giving away is banned in Singapore - or more accurately, made slightly inconvenient to access in Singapore. If a guy really wanted to access the potentially inflammatory evangelical fundamentalist Protestant material, he could maybe Google for something like, I don't know, a free anonymous proxy service. But I wouldn't know anything about those things, of course. Being the seeker after wisdom that I am, I obtained a brief outline of the offensive tract in question ("The Little Bride"), which may or may not be accurate:
... Is there anything wrong with this at all? Hell no! It is, by some distance, the funniest comic that I've read in many a week - seriously, I would be wary that nonbelievers with a sense of humour would actually convert due to the laugh factor. I move that the distributors just place it alongside Dilbert and Garfield on the shelves with the good God-fearing folk on both sides shaking hands and wishing goodwill to one another. Now, that would be the sensible thing to do. Another day, another storm in a teapot. [Further reading: on biological and cultural Gods, and on mirthless heathens and the incongruity thereof] Next: Homework All Done
tpk said... ah got comment function ah so high tech
C.wenhoo said... where u obtain that tract from? i catch u then u noe ah
gilbert said... i dunno anything about anything ah btw nowadays my comments sometimes got pple i dunno posting funny links, dunno y liddat oso...
anonymous said...
anonymous said... HAI i posted those links, i has no name and i love easter bunnies boing boing
anonymous said... is there no such thing as IP trace?
anonymous said... wait ah, i am confused. is this anonymous myself, or is it a new anonymous
anonymous said... got, if FAKEBERT check the server logs then will expose us all...unless we are FAKEBERT
P.S. my captcha reads
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