Cloud Computing

I don't know if you remember a time when the household had only one desktop computer and every member of the household shared that computer.

If I digress, I can make a parallel about how each household had only one telephone, like literally.

If I digress somemore, I can go on and on about there was no telephone once upon a time.

I will not digress, because there was only one desktop computer, many softwares were created so that different users of the desktop computer can use it with a setting they prefer.   For example, you have the option to create accounts on Windows which prompt you to login to the software everytime you turn that hardware on.

Sometimes, you forget to log off and then a powerful user will change all of your settings for you to the point where you no longer want to use the expensive combination of soft and hard ware.

Now, the situation has migrated to cloud computing.  I was invited to join some group, in order to join I was suppose to read the rules.  The invitation was in English, as soon as I click on the rules, all rules were set out in traditional Chinese typeface.  I did not want to read rules in Chinese when the invitation was in English.

I am not sure in what language the original rules were written in and I don't want care to find out.

There are so many times when I have to look for the button to change what I am reading back to a language I prefer.  I could not find such a button on my teenie tiny mobile device with  a shattered touchscreen sceen by the way when I scroll the rules from top to bottom.  Usually the option to change language is at the bottom.

Some members of my household prefer to read in Chinese and I don't know how but their preference have transferred onto some of my online accounts.

Robots are stupid.

I read in Chinese when I want to.

It is too easy to write something online now, go back to reading some classics to improve on your language not some stuff that maybe someone want someone to read to catch some potential errors.

Raddish Cake

Running and Singing

Over the holidays, I bought the family a speaker that has karaoke and disco light function.  I started using it recently and learned that I can sing!  

A year or two ago, I could not sing, I sounded horrible but because I have been running and doing other forms of exercising on a regular basis, I now have enough endurance and lung capacity to sing.

I learned from singing Disney and other musical songs that a song is easier to sing when the correct words are used.  When I sing lyrics I wrote myself, because the sound or tone of the word was incorrect as in it did not fit the melody(?) or harmony between tone of the words and the music did not match.  

I can crescendo easy because the right word was used, I can sing softly because that word is easy to sound.

Anyhow, I am really enjoying my singing and learning about work that I already appreciate.  I used to watch some of the things I am now singing to during lunch time as a child.  I was my own re-run channel.  As in, I rented that laser disc and then recorded it into a vhs for home use and watch it on repeat.

I watched each movie so many times that I can sort of remember the scene from just listening to the bgm.  The music is just very lovely.

Change room etiquette

I have been sharing change rooms with people since I was four years old.  I am now a lot older and some people still don't know basic manners.

Yesterday, I was at the gym that I exercise at on a regular basis.  If I am not there for an extended period of time, it is because I am not well.  My gym is very popular and I tend to go during busy hours.  There are always new members or new faces.; however, I always see familiar faces whenever I go.

I digressed.  Last evening, at the end of my gym session I saw something that bothered me.  The last thing I want to see after I finish working out and showering, is a guy I do not know, sitting at the heart monitor machine but not using it and facing directly towards the women's changeroom with the camera pointing directly at the entrance/exit of the change room.

I did not say anything to this person who bothered me by not knowing where to idle.  There are all these tables at the entrance of the gym for you to be idle with your phone and you choose to sit right at the entrance or exit to the women's change room. WTF is wrong with you!  You see, when I saw him, I was not sure what was bothering me.  I was still busy processing in my head what was bothering me.

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussions about "gender neutral" spaces.  I know from public announcements that at least one community center within my traveling area is installing gender neutral change room.  I hope there are not too many idiots like him at the change room.

I will visit the gender neutral change room, fully clothed, when I have time just to see how it's like in case I have to use it in the future.  I used to goto beaches and some beaches had no change rooms.  It's called towel up!

It's not rocket science. It's very easy to spot people who want their privacy!

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My proposed Ragnarok app

As you may know, I played Ragnarok Online on a private server for a good number of years.  I stopped playing sometime in 2005 or 2006.  I never got back into it and I was loyal to one server and one server only.

Yesterday, I was in YouTube watching some gameplay by noobies trying the game for maybe the first time ever.  In that short ten minutes I see some small changes they made to the game.  It's nice but unnecessary.  The game was already rich in content when I played.

How do you bring Ragnarok Online to Offline?  One way to do it is by opening up physical Ragnarok stores offline.  The mobile application will have to somehow provide old players with nostalgic feeling while at the same time being able to entice them to go to some geographical location that could further enhance the mobile application experience.

For example, the application can start off simply as the Ragnarok Offline Music App where you can listen to all Ragnarok BGM offline once you download and install the application.  This way, people can warp to their favourite online areas through listening to music.  The app will collect data in terms of geographical locations of users to see which area is a hot spot.  From time to time, public announcement about pop up offline Ragnarok locations will be announced and hopefully people will actually show up.

A cheap doable example of Ragnarok offline would be "the start of your game", where you enter a building and see a live size login area, you go into a room to put on your novice costume, you go to the next room and talk to all the NPC at novice land and finally you go into the field and hit live size porings made of jellos.

My feet is healed

The photo posting function is finally working again and I am cleaning storage space on my mobile device.

As you may know, I run rain or shine, mud or no mud.  Below is some photos of the changes my feet go through!

It's fine today...

But a while back, it was like this (and I am only showing you the surface)

is it worth it, you ask, yes..

Did I use any special beauty product to heal my feet? No.

Filter

I have said this many times before.  We have equipped ourselves with a lot of devices to make it more difficult to communicate with each other.

No wonder the price of mobile phone service keeps going up.

Nothing is better than communicating in person, you can see the expression and body gesture of the person, you can hear the tone of voice and you can see whether that person is alone or brought along s friend for support during an argument.

If we would spend less time on the phone maybe we would actually have more time working, playing and resolving conflict in person.

The phone has a great potential for creating a lot of misunderstanding.  I believe there is a lot of evidence for that.

When I look at some application that are developed, some of them are developed specifically to block people out.

It's a quick and painless way for people to hurt people without even showing up in person.

my role

My role in life is to dislike the dreamers.  My role is to tell them that I dislike their dreams because I hate being forced to keep up with them so the royal we can continue to dream together.

Hump Day!

That's why Thursday on this blog is always so bland and plain.