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September 5, 2008

Gadgets screen sizes at home

Filed under: Funny-stuff, Miscellaneous, Portables, Technology — hendrikch @ 2:46 pm

There are three persons staying in my house, Eko, Dian, and myself. Each of us have our own gadgets that have screens, and quite a lot at that. What’s so unique about us is each devices that we own have different screen sizes, and three of us combined, we covered potentially all screen sizes you can find for gadgets.

The largest screen in our house is none other than our TV at 21″, followed by three LCD monitors: Eko’s 19″, my 17″, and Dian’s 15″. Going further down the screen sizes are our laptops. I used to have 14″ very old seven-year-old Dell laptop (it’s in Jakarta now with my dad), my latest Macbook with 13.3″, Dian’s IBM Thinkpad X series with 12.1″, and finally Eko latest acquisition Acer netbook at 8.9″.

Smaller than those, we have to look at our portables. Eko and I have Dell Axim X51v with 3.5″ screen, my Canon IXUS 860IS has 3″, and Eko’s Canon EOS400D has 2.5″.
For our main phones, my Nokia E90 has 4″ internal screen and 2″ external screen, Eko’s HTC Touch has 2.8″, Dian has E71 with 2.4″. Each of us also have a second phone with much smaller screens, around 2″-type.

What’s interesting, with Dell Axim being the exception, each of us owns unique screen sizes, and three of us covered all kinds of screen sizes from 21″, 19″, 17″, 15″, 14″, 13″, 12″, 9″, all the way to < 5″ screen sizes.
Also, each of us in the house has exactly ONE desktop with ONE LCD monitor, ONE laptop (or netbook), and TWO phones. Our house has very busy occupants :-)

August 26, 2008

Aircon Attack

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 9:11 am

There was a quiet bedroom, I was sleeping in it, about to wake up, the air-con was already off by timer since 5.30AM.
The time was 8AM. Then out of sudden, I felt a strong wind blowing on me. As much as I tried to ignore it, it was so strong and cold that I had to wake up. Looking up, I saw the air-con was on, blowing at full speed on me. I reached for the remote control and press the off button. Nothing happened, the air-con was still on. It can’t be the remote, on each press, the light indicator on the air-con switched. But no matter what the light indicator said, the air-con was still blowing. I frantically pressed all the buttons on the remote, on/off, swing, timer, sensor, mode, fan speed, anything I could see on the remote.

All commands from the remote control were ignored. The beep sound confirmed the signal remote control had been accepted, but it was still wasting my electricity like nobody business. I had one more idea, the main power switch.

When i went out of my bedroom, I realised, not only my bedroom’s aircon was on, but the ones in living room and other bedroom as well. Funny, odd to say the least. I switched off the main power switch, and all those pesky little aircon duly obliged. I hope they don’t automagically turn on again when I’m away for work. It was certainly the first time during my two years stay here, and I hope it was the last. Did anything similar ever happened to you?

July 10, 2008

Record Oil Price in the future

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 11:16 pm

These are what will happen if oil price keeps increasing at their current rate.

 

hehe…. which one you like best?

April 12, 2008

China preparing for Beijing Olympics

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 11:33 am

Got this from my mailbox.


Thanks, I’ll be careful


Since when bear drinks wine?


Even after you died, you still need to clean the table.


Press the glass if you want to …


Are you smiling now?


This will be hard to digest


Lord of The Rings plays tennis?


Now I am very insulted if I get this as my birthday present


Other children not made in China are safe


Feel like punching someone?


Not
since Abraham’s wife, Sarah, did anyone over 70 gets pregnant


Have a good plan before you slip


If
you are dead, go to the hospital


Cheated of breathing?


Didn’t know pork has souls?


If you don’t want any trouble, don’t call


Very helpful indeed

March 10, 2008

Poor Grapefruit

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 11:23 pm

 
Coconuts are so far down to the left they couldn’t be fit on the chart. Ever spent half an hour trying to open a coconut with a rock?

Courtesy of xkcd.

November 16, 2007

My MSN nick name for the day

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 10:56 pm

I read it from someone else’s magazine in the bus just now:
Marriage is not just a word. It’s a sentence man, a life sentence …

October 6, 2007

Baby Blues CPR

Filed under: Funny-stuff — hendrikch @ 10:06 am

This is so funny …

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