And why is it that when I wake up, nothing is ever better?

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Incredibly fun, that’s what it is. Leisure time for the last week or two has been spent mostly on kiting. The kite in question is a Rush III 300 which has a wingspan of 308cm – a trainer kite really. There are a few empty fields near work which makes for a great hour of kiting. The winds are not strong at all since I have yet to try flying it at the beach but it does drag you along if you carve it through the air the right way.

I think I might have gotten the hang of its controls but not so much the technique of increasing the dragging power. I’ve had some air time once which is very exhilarating and does make me want to get a larger kite to go crazy with.

Very addicted.

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It’s time for the annual acquisition of cheap kicks. This year, we have…

… shin-high boots that are horribly inappropriate for Singapore weather and in a color that goes well with almost nothing BUT which cover all the scars on my shins and are, most importantly, kind of pretty.

And this is just to make you jealous, Nathan. Puma Popart Lo. They’re a size too big but should fit fine with socks and are ridiculously cheap. I’ve been waiting for a price drop since a year ago so this is kind of the sort of price I’d be willing to pay for it.

Heehee.

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This is a photography experiment with Juggling Mike. We were talking about double exposure photography and the idea is to each take a set of 10 photos and trade half of them before merging them. We had a theme each – mine was summer (given the equatorial climate in Singapore) and his, winter (it’s -30 in Montreal).

My suggestion was to go for film but Mike’s right, digital is definitely the way to start because there’s so much you can learn before committing to sending film back and forth. (off-topic note: for some reason as I’m typing this I’m getting a sense of deja vu).

Here’s my set of 5. I’ll wait for Mike’s post before linking his.

There’re some pretty good ones that came out from this – Mike’s got a better set in my opinion. Very fun and I definitely want to do this with film.

*Edit* Here’s Mike’s set

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Guess what I bought in New Zealand!

Now you know why Grumpy Bear’s grumpy.

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One of the soon-to-be unicyclists brought his bike over last week. It’s got a three-speed geared hub. Very cool but I can’t seem to go straight. I also think I’m supposed to lean backwards more than I am in the pic.

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My big kite is in the mail. How big is big? I’m not talking about moderately big kites that are as wide as your arms’ length. I’m talking about giant mofos. The one I got is a trainer version so I can learn the basics of flying and hopefully fly around a bit. It’s really more of a baby power kite so as to speak (ie. meaning to make it sound cuter than it probably is) and has a span of 3 meters.

I insist this doesn’t qualify as an impulse purchase since I’ve actually been looking at ye kites periodically for a year or so now. Besides, oh my goodness look at the video! It looks more fun than merely jumping around waving your hands on a large grass field. Not that I do that but I’m just saying.

Will update on this once it arrives. It is very expensive so it had better be fun.

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Apparently I chipped my tooth between 8 and 17 January.

And I can’t figure out how and when.

I do recall that there were 2 days when I woke up with a very bad toothache on a front tooth which I blamed on my retainers. It was bad enough that I didn’t wear my retainers for the next 2 days. That kind of falls within the time frame but it STILL DOES NOT EXPLAIN how I chipped the tooth.

I THINK SOMEONE’S WHACKING ME IN THE FACE WHILE I’M ASLEEP.

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This story from The New Paper made me smile. I’ve written before about the laughable standard of journalism in that paper but this one’s actually pretty ingenious albeit unintentional.

The story’s titled “Too many burdens on local students?” and laments the amount of time students spend on activities (like school for one). It’s hard to justify that students are spending too much time on school when the writers (yup, there’s two of them!), presumably educated, consider burden a countable noun.

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I sold off my set of 5 juggling clubs today. They’re Mr Babache Flip clubs that have probably 2 or 3 months of use to them – I still have the invoice on my desk dated Jan 09. I still have a set of 4 plain white clubs somewhere so it’s not like I won’t have anything to throw around when my hands get itchy but they’re nowhere as light as the Flip clubs even though I don’t exactly like the feel of the Flip clubs either. The idea is to offload toys I don’t really need so I can amass enough money to buy a GIANT KITE that I won’t feel bad about splurging on.

Such tough decisions.

There was a good reason though why the Flip clubs weren’t as well-used. I just couldn’t get used to its spin for numbers-juggling. A friend’s tried them out once and had no problems with them so it’s probably that I’m not skilled enough. Still, if I do get another set of clubs – and believe me I’m quite keen on – I’d probably get a set of PX-3s. I like their look and feel better. One of the things that drew me to the Flips initially was that they weren’t gaudy. It’s almost like prop-makers had a bunch of sugar-infused 9-year-olds to decide their color scheme. Henry clubs have the ugliest colors even though they’re quite highly regarded. I like my stuff plain and one-colored. The Flip clubs I had were black which sounded good in theory but were horrid to juggle with at night. White ones get dirty very easily and I’m sort of partial to red.

We’ll see. It’s probably unlikely I’ll acquire any new props soon unless someone wants to share.

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DID YOU KNOW…

… that FTP clients for Macs are generally slower than getting Starcraft 2 released if you don’t change the default settings of the clients?

Apparently, each file upload requires a new TCP connection, that is, your client needs to

1. Connect to the server
2. Authenticate your session
3. Upload a file
4. Disconnect your session
5. Repeat 234761 times til your files are done

Compare this to connecting with Windows where your client

1. Connects to the server
2. Authenticate your session
3. Upload ALL files
4. Disconnect your session

In short, you’re pretty much wasting half your life connecting and disconnecting.

See, aren’t you glad you’re reading this and learning something new from me?

*Edit* I forgot to state the solution to the problem. Most FTP clients (I actually don’t know one that doesn’t have this function) have an option somewhere in the menu that allows you to increase the max number of simultaneous uploads. If you’re getting webspace from a host, check what the maximum number of connections they allow and fill that into the field. That should significantly increase your upload speeds.

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