Whitty is really a very greedy little girl. When she is eating hay, she always places her paws on the box so that other rabbits (poor Blackie) know who the box belongs to.
Nom nom nom...this is my favourite organic meadow hay.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Greedy
Whitty is really a very greedy little girl. When she is eating hay, she always places her paws on the box so that other rabbits (poor Blackie) know who the box belongs to.Nom nom nom...this is my favourite organic meadow hay.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Who dunnit?
Which robber rabbit did it?
The rabbits love their wood chews, and I had been doling these chews out one at a time. This, obviously, isn't enough to satisfy them. One morning, I woke up to find the bag, and the chews all nibbled and broken. WHO DUNNIT? This bag was stored safely (or so I thought) on top of their cage, but someone extremely agile had jumped up and ripped it up. I strongly suspect Whitty, because Blackie is too clumsy to do it. Besides, he is timid.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Chiseling
It feels like I am trying to sculpt a statue out of marble - chiseling the outline of the essay, chipping away words, and polishing up unwieldy sentences. Are the parts proportionate? Does the size of the arguments neatly into the whole?
And...how many more words do I have to write? I am tired already.
BusyBunny Hour
Hm...sometimes the name BusyBunny seems like a misnomer for these products, because all the rabbits want to do is lounge inside, for hours and hours. There is nothing they like more than being able to snuggle in the shelter, and they don't seem to get bored.
"Can I help you?"
Curious about my camera, Whitty comes out to investigate. Ok, I get the hint, leaving you alone now.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Insider information
My computer is spying on me.
How else can you explain the uncanny choice of advertisements on my blog? It seems that the ads are on the very topics that I had been researching on online, and this means that the computer is keeping track, and informing someone/something else about it. Is it the work of what they call "cookies"? Are the cookies secret agents planted into my computer every time I go to a website? Yet what an innocuous name this device has!
How else can you explain the uncanny choice of advertisements on my blog? It seems that the ads are on the very topics that I had been researching on online, and this means that the computer is keeping track, and informing someone/something else about it. Is it the work of what they call "cookies"? Are the cookies secret agents planted into my computer every time I go to a website? Yet what an innocuous name this device has!
Friday, May 10, 2013
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Monday, May 06, 2013
Ironman 3
The tricky part for the producer is, how to make things more difficult for Ironman, since Tony Stark is a genius, and his machines are practically omnipotent. If saving the world is effortless, what thrill is there for the audience? The whole showdown could be over in a jiffy. Any action movie worth its ticket price is obliged to elicit collective gasps of horror and accelerate our heartbeats.
The solution turns out to be quite straightforward though - pry the man out of the suit and make him fight like, well, a man instead of a war machine. As Stark says, he is Ironman, whether he is wearing the suit or not. The man has to put in copious amounts of sweat and blood instead of hiding behind metal, or as he admits, his "cocoon".
There were a curiously number of opportunities for the ordinary folks to participate in the great mission, so that it is not the singular achievement of an elite superhero. For once, the mere mortals aren't just screaming victims or gawking passers-by. Every man-in-the-street has something to contribute towards defeating the villians and no effort is too insignificant to matter. Is this an indication of the current political mood worldwide, some sort of Occupy War Street concession? I guess, even a superhero shouldn't have a monopoly in preventing Armageddon.
The solution turns out to be quite straightforward though - pry the man out of the suit and make him fight like, well, a man instead of a war machine. As Stark says, he is Ironman, whether he is wearing the suit or not. The man has to put in copious amounts of sweat and blood instead of hiding behind metal, or as he admits, his "cocoon".
There were a curiously number of opportunities for the ordinary folks to participate in the great mission, so that it is not the singular achievement of an elite superhero. For once, the mere mortals aren't just screaming victims or gawking passers-by. Every man-in-the-street has something to contribute towards defeating the villians and no effort is too insignificant to matter. Is this an indication of the current political mood worldwide, some sort of Occupy War Street concession? I guess, even a superhero shouldn't have a monopoly in preventing Armageddon.
Saturday, May 04, 2013
Polite Potato
King of his wheel! Isn't life good now? He gets his own wheel, sandpit, ceramic cave, tunnels and house.
How does a hamster show manners? When I offer him my hand, he sniffs at it without nipping, and licks me occasionally. Even if I pick him up, he doesn't struggle. If one of us goes near his cage, he would poke his head out of wherever he is hiding, and looks at us inquiringly. And best of all, he has toilet trained himself so cleaning his cage is much easier. This is definitely the most polite hamster we ever had.
Friday, May 03, 2013
Self selection
I stopped visiting Sharejunction.com's forum for stock investors, and it isn't because I am no longer interested investing.
Over the years, there is a general decline in the quality of the comments made in the forum. It doesn't matter that many of these are simply efforts to cheer a stock rally. If that makes an investor in the red feel better, I cannot fault them. However, many of the comments are tasteless, or even lewd. Then there are the inevitable doomsday soothsayers, who are probably don't even own stocks, since they delight in prophesying stock market crashes. And last of all, petty keyboard wars frequently erupt, with childish barbs that fill up the spaces meant for stock analysis.
I can't help attributing this degeneration to the fact that the platform is free, since the free forums have gone down the same route. Anyone can go in to post whatever they like, and if they get banned, they simply create a new avatar. In comparison, the quality of the discussion at another paid forum is far more thoughtful. People post only when they have meaningful comments to make, and don't give silly answers to my questions.
When free platforms are abused in this manner, it only drives the serious investors into gated communities, where people do not misbehave under the cloak of anonymity. Then these free forums would be abandoned by investors who may have genuinely useful advice to give, and whose loss is it?
Over the years, there is a general decline in the quality of the comments made in the forum. It doesn't matter that many of these are simply efforts to cheer a stock rally. If that makes an investor in the red feel better, I cannot fault them. However, many of the comments are tasteless, or even lewd. Then there are the inevitable doomsday soothsayers, who are probably don't even own stocks, since they delight in prophesying stock market crashes. And last of all, petty keyboard wars frequently erupt, with childish barbs that fill up the spaces meant for stock analysis.
I can't help attributing this degeneration to the fact that the platform is free, since the free forums have gone down the same route. Anyone can go in to post whatever they like, and if they get banned, they simply create a new avatar. In comparison, the quality of the discussion at another paid forum is far more thoughtful. People post only when they have meaningful comments to make, and don't give silly answers to my questions.
When free platforms are abused in this manner, it only drives the serious investors into gated communities, where people do not misbehave under the cloak of anonymity. Then these free forums would be abandoned by investors who may have genuinely useful advice to give, and whose loss is it?
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