Life is a Lab! To Learn, read. To understand, think. To know, write. To master, teach.
These are some pictures of my one day trip to Vancouver BC in December. The weather was not very great, but anyway I still got to enjoy the City.
The following art piece displayed at The Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.
It is called “The Allegory of Youth”, By Domenico Piola.
Allegory of Youth, circa 1680
By Domenico Piola — Genoa, 1627-1703
Oil on canvas
The Suida-Maning Colection, 467.1999
In its undulating rhythms, multi-colored modeling, and softly modulated light, this painting exemplifies Piola’s mature style.
This picture of a beautiful young woman and an aged winged man holding an hourglass and scythe suggests a common Baroque allegory, Time revealing Truth.
In fact, the explicit vanity of the woman, caught plaiting her hair, echoed by the mirror, and the futile gesture of the little boy as well as the frailty of the proffered flower, shift the meaning to the fleeting nature of physical beauty.
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So, has your company started following you to the toilet as well? It seems the idea of “testing on the toilet”, where code snippets and sometimes code testing techniques are printed and attached on the toilet walls, was started by Google (please correct me if I am wrong).
I was surprised the other day to enter the toilet, only to find those one pagers with code testing techniques attached above the urinary gutters!
It is one thing to want your employees to be productive and another thing to follow them to the toilet where they hope to have a moment of peace and quiet while they relief themselves!
What about number two you ask? Well, they follow you inside as well:
Personally, I find that unacceptable. Instead, put some jokes, something a bit lighter and funny! 🙂
Do you agree?
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I received this joke by email. Although I was never married, I can see the responses ringing a bell by observing other married people I know 🙂
A group of women were at a seminar on how to live in a loving relationship with their husbands. The women were asked, “How many of you love your husband?” All the women raised their hands.Â
Then they were asked, “When was the last time you told your husband you loved him?”
Some women answered ‘today’, a few ‘yesterday’, and some couldn’t remember.
The women were then told to take out their cell phones and text their husband:
“I love you, sweetheart.”
Next the women were instructed to exchange phones with another woman and read aloud the text message she received in response to her message.
Below are hilarious 11 replies. If you have been married for quite a while, you understand that these replies are a sign of true love….who else would reply in such a succinct and honest way? Continue reading “Joke: I love you, sweetheart.”
This is the first time I attend the Fremont Solstice Fair in June 19-21, 2015. Apparently, as part of the parade starts with nude cyclists!
Or the direct YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiYHkec7Y_s
The other day I was reading Jamie’s blog and I was intrigued by the post she had written as an assignment for her writing group. She was asked to describe the days of the week as if they were people 🙂
I liked the idea, so here’s my version of characters I give to each day of the week as if they were employees in a big company.
A very motivated, creative and enthusiastic person. I know I may be tired from a long fun day from the day before, but I can’t wait to start creating something new. “Yes boss”, you can count on me. Continue reading “Days of the week as people”
Today Tim Cook and other Apple figures presented the “Apple Special Event – September 9, 2015”
The annoucements were in the following order: Continue reading “Takeaways from the Apple Special Event – September 9, 2015”
Today Apple announced to all new Apple TV. These are the important new features.
Photo gallery at the end of the post.
The Apple TV will be available in late October. Continue reading “Announcing the new Apple TV – 2015”
This is a story from my childhood, a rather funny story that I want to share with you:
Back when I was around 8 to 9 years old, I found a small amusement center where they had a few arcade games, and a couple billiard table.
These places were frequented by what my parents would call: “Thugs, impolite, and people with bad influence”. They did not want me to go to this place because as far as they know this place could be dangerous for a young schoolboy.
Of course, I was afraid too of bad influence but the arcade games are irresistible.
To prevent me from going, my parents will not give me money or they would ask me how I am spending my time and money.
In a sense, after school I should be back home and any other activity should be close by and my parents should know where I am at all time.
As a young kid, I had to find an excuse, a legitimate excuse to justify the time when I am able to sneak out, go to that place and play.
The other problem was that I needed money so I can go there and play!
One day, I was going through my dad’s drawer and I found a bag full of quarters. “Jackpot!”, I said to myself.
This bag had so many coins that no way my dad kept a count of them. I figured if I take a few each day, go play for one hour or so, then no one would notice.
What was my excuse regarding where I would be spending my time? I would tell my parents I have to go to the library and study with a friend. The library was just across the street from that arcade place, a perfect excuse. My friend too, wanted to play with me, so we both had good excuses.
Each time I would go with my school buddy, we would cover each other’s lies and backs. We would make sure no one saw us coming in or out from the arcade place. After all, in a small town, everybody knows everybody.
This charade went on for a while: I would steal a few coins, make excuses and go play Street Fighter, Contra and all those old arcade games that still gives me nostalgia when I think about them!
After a while, the bag of quarters eventually ran out. It took a while for my dad to notice, but when he did, he asked me: “Where did all the coins disappear?”
I was afraid but I had to tell the truth. My dad was not happy about it but he knew that if I had my own video game console then I won’t be spending money outside or go to that place at all.
Two weeks later, my dad returns home with a Nintendo NES System!
I stopped going to the Arcade games place and started playing at home. This started a new phase in my life where I become addicted to video games. I became so good at playing that my friends would lend me a game just so that they sit next to me and watch me play it from beginning to end in a matter of hours.
Continue reading “Where are the coins? How are they disappearing?”
Today I am going to reveal to you a magic card trick that I have been using since a long time ago. I don’t remember where and how I learned this trick, most likely from a magic book.
This trick is really nice and easy to perform. Just make sure you do not perform it more than once or twice (at most) in the same setting, otherwise the participants will start to figure it out. Continue reading “The “21 Cards Magic Trick” revealed!”
I share with you an joke I read back in 2000, it is funny and I always find myself making this joke when talking about Jesus.
I hope you like it!
Jesus and Satan were having an ongoing argument about who was better on his computer. They had been going at it for days, and God was tired of hearing all of the bickering. Finally God said, “Cool it. I am going to set up a test that will run two hours and I will judge who does the better job.”
So down Satan and Jesus sat at the keyboards and typed away. They moused.
They did spreadsheets. They wrote reports. They sent faxes. They sent e-mail. They sent out e-mail with attachments. They downloaded. They did some genealogy reports. They made cards. They did every known job. But ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, the rain poured and, of course, the electricity went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed.The electricity finally flickered back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming “It’s gone! It’s all gone! I lost everything when the power went out!”
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours. Satan observed this and became irate. “Wait! He cheated, how did he do it?” God shrugged and said, “Jesus saves.”