Month: July 2014

  • Robo-cutter To Change Landscaping Landscape

    I was invited to check out a demonstration of this machine called the “Robo-Cutter” and I got really excited because, WTF, it’s a robot that cuts grass, right? No it wasn’t what I expected – there wasn’t any artificial intelligence about it, and it couldn’t deploy itself automatically where it sensed the grass was tall.…

  • My Paperless Pledge

    Not too long ago, I instituted a paperless policy for my office – I have another hat I wear as a start-up and company consultant – where, as far as possible, I’d force my clients to go paperless as well. There is no reason to get something printed out on paper when the electronic version…

  • My Birthday Wish? A Sea Of Tranquility

    When I was in kindergarten, I told my friends I was born on the moon, because I was confused by what my mother and relatives told me. The Apollo 11 mission had landed on the moon about three hours after I was born, and the excitement was such that my mother said she was asked…

  • And Tango Makes A Fascist Chief Librarian

    And Tango Makes Three and The White Swan Express were taken off the shelves by The Chief Librarian Tay Ai Cheng because they were not “pro-family”, which is now the same thing as anti-gay and anti anything other than “1 father + 1 mother + 3 or more children (if you can afford it)”, as…