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Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 - 01:18 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Mornin' All

Can't recall the last time I woke at 6:30 a.m. (staying up till five or six, yes), and was pleasantly surprised to find that I kinda liked it - perhaps from nolstalgia, after doing so for most of my secondary school/JC/army years. The air was clear and cool, the world was dimmed, quiet and peaceful, everything seemed new.

Then I arrived at the lecture theatre half an hour early, couldn't find a comfortable position in which to nap, and remembered just why I'm not in the business of waking up at 6:30 a.m. by my own free will.

The professor almost made it worth it, though, lugging in a huge bag with free notes for the nearly 200 people in the class. Unfortunately I had jumped the gun and printed most of them (along with the past year papers as has been my custom). From the looks of those, Environmental Economics should be less of a worry.

Titles to be sold this time round:

[EC3312] A Primer in Game Theory by Robert Gibbons
[EC3353] The Economics of Health and Health Care by Folland, Goodman & Stano
[EC3361] Modern Labor Economics - Theory and Public Policy by Ehrenberg & Smith
[EC3361] Labor Economics by Borjas
[LSM1301] Biology - Life on Earth by Audesirk (x2) & Byers

Got some new direction on my FYP from my advisor. That's good.

Queueing for books/food led me to a strange realisation - let us assume that one has been in a long queue for many minutes, and a guy comes in, strikes up a conversation with his friend just in front of you, and tries to merge into the queue. I would gather that some would be quite pissed at this act, as having an acquaintance currently in the queue should not entitle a person to just cut in, or from another angle, being in a queue should not entitle one to invite others to join the queue at one's position. So far so good.

However, if the guy instead makes a call to his friend in the queue, or even just walks up and tells him what to order, one might find it harder to raise an objection - especially as they could very well have arranged to consolidate their orders beforehand and left nobody any the wiser. This is not exactly equivalent to having both in the queue, one might say, since their carrying capacity would be reduced, but often it doesn't matter, as a person can quite easily cram four plates on a single tray (in the context of food). Furthermore, the time taken to order might even be marginally reduced!

So, it seems that there is really no reason to stop a person from allowing his friend(s) to cut the queue right in front of one's nose, especially as by cutting the queue they would at least be queueing for part of the time. Well, maybe there is a reason - to prevent an unbounded growth in queue-cutters as friends-of-friends join in the act, leaving poor friendless schmucks forever stranded at the back of the line...



occ's contribution to my abundoned bunny collection, taken near his home in Bukit Batok. The quality of the photo leaves much to be desired, but him not being able to send MMS messages forcing me to snap the pic on his phone on my phone should explain it. Wouldn't mind more stray bunnies instead of the usual cats and dogs if they were up to it.

Today's site recommendations: Forumwarz, a parody game based on internet stereotypes (warning: pretty offensive in places) and F**k You, Penguin, a.k.a Cute Overload! for tough guys. The hamsters' favorite post here.



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