griffinn's Quotable Blog

From Wikipedia:

Melamine is combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic, and melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product. The end products include countertops, dry erase boards, fabrics, glues, housewares and flame retardants...

But it turns out it's still a bit of a shock when you actually know you are eating from Melamine wares...

摘自維基百科：

三聚氰胺是製造美耐皿的原料。該樹脂有時也被俗稱為三聚氰胺甲醛樹脂，常用於製造日用器皿、裝飾貼面板、織物整理劑等，在日常生活中最常見的應用是塑料碗碟...

但始終知道是一回事，見到是另一回事。用三聚氰胺甲醛樹脂碗碟吃飯，總是覺得要鼓起勇氣才可以撐下去（吞下去）...

I read this:

Class of 76 'cleverer' than kids of today

Clever teenagers of today are not as bright as kids in the class of 1976, according to researchers.

The intellect of even the brainiest 14-year-olds has deteriorated dramatically over the decades despite an increase in the number of pupils achieving top grades in exams...

And then I read this:

Eight-year-old shoots self with Uzi, dies

WESTFIELD, Massachusetts (AP) -- An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair...

Is it wrong to find comedy in there somewhere?

發現自己竟然已經沉睡了好幾年。不是開工打瞌睡，而是把靈性與智慧都關掉，讓做一天和尚撞一天鐘的工作態度佔據了自己。

現在每天早上上班途中都在心裏反覆的唸：「醒來吧、醒來吧...」用催眠法誘導自己的心靈甦醒，有點諷刺。但好像開始見點成效。

希望大環境也幫助我：在這康復的過程，希望多點好事發生，別讓不公義的事情來打擊我。

又有機會到 Pepper Lunch 享用黑椒牛肉飯，呵呵呵。下單的時候，看到職員正忙於把汁料注入 unit dose droppers 樣子的小膠瓶... 難道有外賣？！但又提不起勇氣去問...



這次終於說服了自己，不要甚麼新嘗試：別去想有咖喱還是沒有咖喱好、不要另外加黑椒、調味汁料各一半好了，四平八穩最好吃。

下次再來，可能又會重演三心兩意的掙扎過程... 下次再算好了。

簡簡單單，其實最好。午飯如是，大概人生也如是。

Old video, but worth viewing again:

(Source)

Train goggles:

This is supposed to be a neat idea. Tell people where you're supposed to be off the train; be woken up at your stop; avoid oversleeping. But imagine an entire carriage of zombies wearing the hideous thing. Besides looking scary, if everybody is doing this, there's nobody around to wake everybody up.

(Source: INTER News)

Spotted this on Valleywag:

Scanner stacked on top of a shredder: Good for digitizing physical documents and making sure everybody will use only the electronic copy from now on.

Printer stacked on top of a shredder: Good for obsessive-compulsives who just have to print out a PDF even if they don't plan to read it.

Printer stacked on top of a scanner stacked on top of a shredder: Hardware implementation of a DOC-to-TIF converter.

上次和老婆到 Dan Ryan's ，提醒了我這裡其實有吧檯，可以獨個兒坐也不怕突兀。公眾假期，決定去體驗一下。

臨出門，我說坐吧檯，老婆說不准撩女仔。

到埗，就要了一客 potato skin 、一杯 chili 、一杯 lemonade ，大快朵頤。



為防被女仔撩，故事也編好了：「重陽節獨個到此，是為了紀念喜歡 Dan Ryan's 的已故江湖兄弟...」，然後開始澆 lemonade 、唸經。

幸好用不著。