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Gadgets screen sizes at home

hendrikch — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:46:06 +0000

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

Aircon Attack

hendrikch — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:11:41 +0000

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?

Record Oil Price in the future

hendrikch — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:16:47 +0000

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

hehe…. which one you like best?

China preparing for Beijing Olympics

hendrikch — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:33:04 +0000

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

Poor Grapefruit

hendrikch — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:23:53 +0000

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.

My MSN nick name for the day

hendrikch — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:56:54 +0000

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 …“

Baby Blues CPR

hendrikch — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:06:24 +0000

This is so funny …

Japanese TV Tetris Game

hendrikch — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:03:03 +0000

This is hilarious

Super Duper Tuper Euper Luper

hendrikch — Sat, 12 May 2007 05:28:20 +0000

Yesterday, I changed my MSN nick name to “Super Duper Tuper Luper Sleepy“. Trust me, I anyhow typed the “Tuper and Luper“. Sometime in the afternoon, eMKa messaged me, saying: “You missed Euper there between Tuper and Luper”.
Me: “How can?”
MK: “Somehow I see the pattern there:
S atu (one) -> S uper
D ua (two) -> D uper
T iga (three) -> T uper
E mpat (four) -> E uper
L ima (five) -> L uper”
Me: “Woah, brilliant!!!” And immediately I changed my nick name to Super Duper Tuper Euper Luper Sleepy hahaha……

Two minutes later:
MK: “Ehhhhh…….. got a better one”
Me: “What?”
MK: “Continue the pattern:
S atu (one)
D ua (two)
T iga (three)
E mpat (four)
L ima (five)
E name (six)
T ujuh (seven)
D elapan (eight)
S embilan (nine)

And you’ll get: Super Duper Tuper Euper Luper Euper Tuper Duper Super.
It’s a Palindrome, can you believe it?”
Me: “-.-!!”

Singapore joke

hendrikch — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:42:52 +0000

Singapore, the majority of us live in Highly Dangerous Buildings (HDB), And most people have already got used to Paying and Paying (PAP) ….. Not only do you have to pay, you Pay Until Bankrupt (PUB). If that’s not enough, somebody still Purposely Wants to Dig (PWD) and get more from you. So what more can you do when you are in the Money Only Environment (MOE)? With the current Mad Accounting System (MAS), you are forced to Pay the Sum Ahead (PSA), Which will leave some people Permanently Owing Some Banks (POSB).
And forced to live on the Loan Techniques Always (LTA) system. When you fall sick and happen to be admitted to a Money Operating Hospital (MOH), You might be able to use your Cash Prior to Funeral (CPF) fund. If you are out of luck, you may meet doctors who Never Use Heart (NUH) to treat you, And you will be Sure to Give up Hope (SGH). To help ease the traffic, motorists have to pay Cash On Expressway (COE). If that doesn’t help, they can always Eternally Raise Prices (ERP) on the roads. If you don’t own a car, you can always make a Mad Rush to the Train (MRT), OR get squashed in a bus Side By Side (SBS) ….. Lastly, under all these pressures, there are not many places we can relax, Not even the good old place we used to go because it has become So Expensive and Nothing To See Actually (SENTOSA)!!!