Reboot and Happy Chinese New Year

Tradition has it that children should stay up as long as they can on the eve of Chinese New Year to bring longevity and good health to their parents. Its almost 3am... I am still awake... ( partly because I dont have to go to work tomorrow, partly because I took a long nap in the afternoon, partly I have this nagging belief in 'staying up' for my parent and partly I have too many things on my mind.

I heard about Janine L. accident today (May God Bless and Keep her). I hope Justin is not too upset. I wish I am in Vancouver somehow to help. Together with Mel. T, Roi and Andrea we will send flowers to the wake. I remember each time I stay over at Justin's place in Vancouver, i will be able to see Janine happily walking into the basement, each time with a smile on her face. A very sweet girl.... ah.. she will be missed. ( I believe God has greater plans for her )

HAPPY YEAR of the RAT to all my chinese friends. ( and non chinese friends too! )

To pass time, I was surfing YouTube and I found REBOOT ! And I firmly believe my geeky-ness started when I was 13 ( 1995 was when it aired in Singapore at 5.30pm Mondays and Wednesdays ) The entire cartoon revolves around a place called 'mainframe' with little creatures representing 1s or 0s running around the place. Listen carefully and you will hear more geeky terms. Megabyte, downtime, servers, there is a old 'Readme file', bad files in every sector !..... ah. everything is geeky...... I've added episode 1. And the GEEK shall retreat to more episodes of REBOOT online

REBOOT Episode 1 Part 1


EBOOT Episode 1 Part 2


EBOOT Episode 1 Part 3

I am sooooo in love

I am so in love with the new Macbook Air. The thickest part of the laptop is 0.76inch... you cannot beat that... I am sooo in love. Click on the picture to go to apple store online....

Guess who wants to pre-order it when my bonus is out ?

Mario !

Thanks Stephen ! Really good one !

Bet you didnt know

Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.
A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.
Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
Hot water freezes quicker than cold water.
English soldiers were called Tommies because the example name on the soldier forms was Thomas Atkins. (The example name on US forms is John Smith.)
Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously.
Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years - but so does winter.
The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.
Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.
The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.
On every continent there is a city called Rome.

On a different note...

I want to buy a BINARY CLOCK !

I know its geeky and I know only the elite geeks can read it ! BUT I still want it because it is so awesome and its so freaky cool to have a clock that only a few people know how to read.

I have already put in an order for one ! Evil Laughter !

Geek or Non-Geek.....

Since I saw this on my sister's blog ( I vist her blog like once every year ! ) I saw this....and took the test.. hahahhahahaha

My brain is yellow !

Your Brain is Yellow

Of all the brain types, yours is the most intellectual. You crave mental stimulation, and your thoughts tend to very complex. Your thoughts tend to be innovative and cutting edge, though many people don't understand them. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about science, architecture, and communication.

What Color Is Your Brain?

You Are 68% Nerdy

You are a pretty big nerd, and you're getting nerdier every day. Don't worry if you don't have friends... there's always robots.

How Nerdy Are You?

PI

3.
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I have been extremely facinated with pi for a long time now. I read up on pi when I can and I like to know what the geeks out there have to say.

What is Pi ? Really ?

If you take any perfect circle, pi is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. Simple yah ?

Now look below for a more complicated answer....

( from Dr.Math )
About Pi


Pi is an infinite decimal. Unlike numbers such as 3, 9.876, and 4.5, which have finitely many nonzero numbers to the right of the decimal place, pi has infinitely many numbers to the right of the decimal point.
If you write pi down in decimal form, the numbers to the right of the 0 never repeat in a pattern. Some infinite decimals do have patterns - for instance, the infinite decimal .3333333... has all 3's to the right of the decimal point, and in the number .123456789123456789123456789... the sequence 123456789 is repeated. However, although many mathematicians have tried to find it, no repeating pattern for pi has been discovered - in fact, in 1768 Johann Lambert proved that there cannot be any such repeating pattern.
As a number that cannot be written as a repeating decimal or a finite decimal (you can never get to the end of it) pi is irrational: it cannot be written as a fraction (the ratio of two integers).


A very brief history of pi

Pi is a very old number. We know that the Egyptians and the Babylonians knew about the existence of the constant ratio pi, although they didn't know its value nearly as well as we do today. They had figured out that it was a little bigger than 3; the Babylonians had an approximation of 3 1/8 ( 3.125), and the Egyptians had a somewhat worse approximation of 4*(8/9)^2 (about 3.160484), which is slightly less accurate and much harder to work with. For more, see A History of Pi by Petr Beckman (Dorset Press).


Maybe I am highly irrational like the number, maybe this is the reason why I like it ?

Signing off,

A Irrational Geek memorising Pi.