a musing: derivations of a non-conformist idealist

When you’re a hero, you always have to be ready to be called to where you’re needed.  At a moment’s deployment notice, you have to fly or run or swim or whatever it is you do and get the heroic job done.  It’s stressful, of course.  But a hero’s work is never ending…  As long [...]

Ian Thorpe flabby, Daniel Mendez 6 pack, and a limerick-style poem

So I usually do my grocery shopping at Shopwise Libis Sundays after hitting the gym.  And I haven’t had lunch yet so I’d be hungry by the time I get to the grocery store.  Enter Rockets.  I mean, it’s just there.  So it should be “Enter, me!”  Hmm, that didn’t sound too nice, did it?  [...]

A lotto win.  That’s how meeting your lifelong partner can appear to be.  And everyone knows how fast we can burn money in our hands.  Few can control themselves.  Few can save some for the rainy days that come more frequent now. And like in love, it’s easier to take what we have for granted.  [...]

download or upload stuff through the internet?  The below results are via dslreports.com.  My results are pretty lame when you see top speeds of 9402 kbps down and 2773 kbps up for cable connections.  Of course those speeds are in either Canada or the U.S.

Ooh, there’s an archive report for PLDT!  Hmm, highest is 2.8m [...]

Check out tweetpsych.com and find out what your tweets can say about you.  Their analyses provide descriptive tagging based on the cognitive, conceptual and emotional content of your tweets.  Below are some of my tweet-traits.  It says I’ve been positive (in spite of being in a negative rut for a bit) and that I’m agreeable. [...]

It’s rare that I would see a movie twice.  Not that this one was really nice.  Well it was to me- very interesting and funny and horrifying.  And according to rottentomatoes.com, it’s pretty fresh.  So when a group of friends scheduled to watch it, I decided to go again.  And apart from cringing on my [...]

A ton of stars.
Can’t save this film.  Good thing it doesn’t look like there’s going to be another movie in this franchise.
Amy Adams played such an annoying Amelia Earhart, I almost couldn’t stand her.  Hank Azaria didn’t do much better with his lisp-y delivery of an ancient Egyptian ruler.
Ricky Gervais could have been played by [...]