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Friday, Sep 07, 2007 - 01:02 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

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Eggsplosive News

I think I'll submit myself as a poster boy for anti-punting campaigns. Tottenham to beat Fulham was in the bag, with them comfortably up 3-1 after an hour much as I expected. Then Fulham pulled one back, no biggie - and then in the 90th minute they get busted again.

I have absolutely no sympathy for their plight whatsoever.

This week's Management & Organisation tutorial class had us building a contraption to safely receive an egg dropped from about two metres, out of twenty drinking straws and as much masking tape as we had brought; I did some reading beforehand but mistakenly prepared for the more common variation that had the contraption travelling with the egg (that was all I could infer from "Young Chickens In Space"), so our group had just twenty minutes to conceptualize and build the device from scratch.

The four groups came out with varied designs, but in the end all did the job.


1. Cradle-like
2. Suspension legs
3. Triangular (pretty small target area)
4. Two-layered basket (ours)

By the way, an intriguing solution for the version where the device contains the egg is by just stuffing the egg pointy side down into a newspaper cone (filling the space beneath it with some soft padding beforehand), perhaps with fins on the cone to guide it into spinning when it falls - The idea is that although the egg will impact the ground hard, the force will be evenly distributed around the circumference of the shell, which would be strong enough to handle it. That beats the usual parachutes for freshness.

Next up, the NSF rifleman armed with SAR 21 at Cathay Cineleisure Orchard saga. Feels almost surreal - an automatic rifle outside an army camp in Singapore? I can't even recall the last local firearms case. Strict gun laws do have their upsides.

It was reported that he was apprehended dressed to the nines in a suit and tie, so some style points there. Dunno what was going through his mind, especially since he was due to ORD in a month anyway. Sad case. Not sure why the media can't seem to find any other photo of him, though.

This incident reminded me of a dilemma posed by an army friend during some guard duty of our own - if your prowling buddy goes mad and threatens to shoot you with his rifle, what can you do? If you don't shoot first you may be dead, but if you do it's your word against a dead guy. Classic lose-lose situation.

Managed to squeeze in some sketching/painting recently, and I've moved on from being blender-brush only to airbrush. Currently partway done, but of what? Figure it out yourself :)


Solve the Jigsaw



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