#SGTipsyTrivia Jul Edition (Thu, 25 Jul 2013)

Thu, 18 Jul 2013
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I’m organising this with a bunch of friends so come on down and join us for the only pub quiz in Singapore with a Singaporean theme!

Singapore-themed Tipsy Trivia

Not everyone bothers about the important things – like what the name of the dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus is, or how many MRT interchanges there are in Singapore.

But if matters like these are everyday knowledge for you and your friends, then come on down to Via Mar @ SAM on Thu, 25 Jul 2013 at 7.30pm for a night of Singapore-themed Tipsy Trivia!

It’s the only pub quiz in town with a Singaporean theme – each category has six Singapore-themed questions and four international-themed questions.

For $5 per player, your team of six players gets to flex your brains over six rounds of trivia.

What’s more – the winning team stands a chance of bringing home six drinks vouchers courtesy of Via Mar @ SAM, along with 60% of the pot for the evening!

So join us – because, really: how much more fun can you get up to along Bras Basah Road on a Thursday night?

NOTE: Via Mar will be moving from their present location at the Singapore Art Museum to another location next month.

Join join us to bid farewell to them during their final month at the SAM premises!

Singapore-themed Tipsy Trivia!
(Event Listing on Facebook)
#SGTipsyTrivia

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Via Mar @ SAM: 71 Bras Basah Road, #01-03, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore 189555
Price: $5 per player (max. 6 players per team. Teams with more than 6 players will have 3.5 points deducted per extra player.)

Top Prize:Drink vouchers from Via Mar @ SAM + 60% of evening’s pot
Second Prize: 30% of evening’s pot

Fill in this form to reserve a table for your team. Spots fill up fast; ‘chope’ your place today!

Kukubirdedness

Thu, 11 Jul 2013
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Graduating from pictures of cats in enclosed spaces to pictures of birds…

Upon a ledge; into the abyss
Upon a ledge; into the abyss

The pigeons are perched upon an air-con generator and just being bird-brained, as usual.

But I like to imagine they’re actually giant mutant pigeons standing atop a block of flats having a conversation about breaking up right before they swoop down on the puny little humans below them.

Fat bird feeling sad; wondering: "Why does it always rain on me?"
Fat bird feeling sad; wondering: “Why does it always rain on me?”

Yet another exercise in avian anthropomorphism – this time, a mynah waiting out the rain was standing on the ledge at my kitchen window.

It was all wet and looked a sorry sight indeed.

I was very tempted to sympathise with it, but I couldn’t bring myself to, considering how these mynah bastards enjoy entering my house, eating my food and shitting all over my kitchen floor.

Much like my friends, actually, except my friends enjoy making racist remarks in lieu of shitting all over my kitchen floor.

Actually, that’s almost akin to shitting all over my kitchen floor, so I guess I have bird-brained friends too.

Stuff you must read today (Wed, 10 Jul 2013) – The TechNostalgia Edition

Wed, 10 Jul 2013
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For Tara and Lucas, with quite a bit of New Yorker thrown in for good measure.

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  • The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink | The New Yorker
    A damn good analytical recount of how web browsing has evolved over time from the perspective of the <blink> HTML tag.

  • EpicMealTime: The Early Days – By Mooky Gwopson | EpicMealTime
    “The next video on the lineup was a self-challenge to smash the shit out of a KFC sandwich that was labeled the Double Down. It was said by the crew at the time that they wanted to make a sandwich so insane, so greasy and delicious that no one would ever pay attention to the KFC creation again…the team created a 2 foot layered sandwich, that when placed side by side with the Double Down, created an embarrassing food vision of Twins, the movie. The EpicMealTime monstrosity smothered the little KFC sandwich. To this day, we are convinced The Colonel stopped selling his puny sammy because of us”.

  • Hello Laptop, My Old Friend | The New Yorker
    “Laptop’s air of general anachronism makes this cultural detritus doubly strange… . His Web syntax is charmingly outmoded: I was a relatively early arrival to Facebook, and the standing bookmark still goes to TheFacebook.com, the site’s Mesozoic incarnation. Two of his three browsers are so out-of-date that Web sites think he is an early smartphone; home pages answer him with giant type and stripped-down formatting, as if yelling, at full voice, into his digital ear. The Internet has a cruel nose for obsolescence”.

  • Goodnight Hotmail, You Sweet Prince | The Bygone Bureau
    I never used Hotmail – I was adamant that I’d never use Hotmail because (1) everyone was using it (I was quite the hipster, on hindsight); and (2) it didn’t cater for POP3 usage (definitely a hipster), so I ended up using all sorts of other email messaging systems, like Geocities and MyRealBox. But Hotmail’s presence as one of the pioneering forces of the ’90s Internet revolution cannot be denied.

  • The Ongoing Story: Twitter and Writing | The New Yorker
    “Most great writers could, if they wanted to, be very good at Twitter, because it is a medium of words and also of form. Its built-in limitation corresponds to the sense of rhythm and proportion that writers apply to each line. But…[n]ot everyone is primed to be a modern-day Heraclitus, like Alain de Botton, who starts each day, it seems, by cranking up his inner fortune-cookie machine and producing a string of tweets that are, to varying degrees, sour, funny, fatalistic, and bitingly true”.