Archive for the 'Musings' Category
The news has been littered with celebrities being jailed and DUI for the past few weeks. You got Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, and yep Britney’s in the news again. One would think it would end with Paris’ jail stint, but it seems to have become a bandwagon. Do they give out ‘I Went [...]
Mobile Phones and Sound Waves
2 July 26th, 2007Kids, Learning, Musings, Rants, Techie, Technology, Tidbits, Writing.
How do you ‘creatively’ explain and tell kids to turn off their mobile phones? Try telling them that their mobile phones emit sound waves and that it stops the speaker from transmitting the signal from a lapel mike to the speakers. That’s the gist of what the girl explaining sound waves.
For the record, a mobile [...]
I had always thought that non-tropical countries would not hit the 30-degrees Celcius mark, but it the news today just mentioned that a heat wave just hit Europe. We are used to a mean temperature of 20-33 depending on the time of the year. We are, after all, a tropical country—hotter, more humid, and more [...]
Coopetition?
0 July 17th, 2007Future, Just Up, Kids, Learning, Life, Microsoft, Musings, School, Technology.
In the news last week was OLPC and Intel bury the hatchet—for the children. It says that:
After years of squabbling, Intel and Nicholas Negroponte have agreed to put their differences behind them and join forces in bringing PCs to children around the world.
Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project is bringing Intel on board as a [...]
High School Musical at the Meralco Theater
6 July 16th, 2007Fashion, Fiction, Just Up, Kids, Life, Musings, TV Shows.
Guilty as charged. I was over at the Meralco theater for an afternoon with the kiddies. Literally. More than 60% of the theater were kiddies probably aged 15 and below. A friend of mine invited me to watch it together with her three year old niece, so there we were four adults accompanying one kid.
Open the Door With …
2 July 13th, 2007Funny, Games, Just Up, Learning, Life, Musings, School, Techie, Technology, Tidbits.
I was having a late dinner with two of my classmates, they shall remain anonymous, for their safety and my own well-being, and henceforth shall be known as #1 and #2.
A little background: #1 is a gamer, but doesn’t look like one (depending on how she poses for the picture), owns her own company, and [...]
Philantrophy Need Not be for the Old
0 July 12th, 2007Learning, Life, Musings, Problogging, School.
I was checking out information regarding the world’s richest because of the recent new in the change of standings. Check this one out George Lindemann Jr, apparently he’s still in his 30’s and he’s a multimillionaire collector and museum benefactor. I’m a few years away from being 30, but I’m not yet at the multi-million [...]

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