Category: At home
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Map woes
Streetdirectory.com is still grappling with some issues, and although I’ve been loathe to use it for navigational purposes, I’ve found it useful lately as a business directory when I’ve searched for businesses like furniture repairers and shit. Today, instead of a blank rectangle where the map usually appears after a painful wait of several seconds,…
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A rude and painful shock
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! So the report is out, and our apartment’s security guard intimated that there were some areas of Singapore where apartment security was stricter, and where security guards like him were instructed to always take down particulars of visitors and their vehicles and not let anyone who didn’t oblige with their particulars…
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Adopting happiness: some considerations
We’ve realised that in advocating adopting cute, loving animals we have neglected to say that in doing so, you’re taking on some form of serious responsibility. Animals are not toys. You need to make sure they’re healthy, and in the event they’re not, you have to seek the best possible solution for them. They cannot…
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Nap good
There’s always something you can learn from cats. Jake has the answer to all of life’s pressing questions.
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Earth Hour
At lunch on Good Friday, my mother’s friend spoke about how her younger son’s school was going about teaching the kids about being environmentally friendly. It’s all good to teach them the message, but this is apparently what happened in practice. The younger son had have a set of folders for class, and thinking that…