What's happening with Inquirer?

Remember this? Well, Inquirer did it again. Look at how they used defense's witness on their frontpage.

http://www.inquirer.net/?page-one=march-14-2012

I mean, the guys is a private citizen... a senior, if I may add. What they did is very unbecoming of a broadsheet. And you know what their reason is? Here: "Spoke with editors. They said intention wasn't to make fun. Those were only photos available.

Lame!

Edit: The guys at Inquirer apologized via Facebook yesterday. And had it been the only apology issued, it was just like paying sony coupons for destroying the dignity of another person. I am happy that they also made another apology in their frontpage today. See it here.

Pi

Warning: Math geeks will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.

When I was in grade school, I was introduced by my father to the value of pi. I only knew 3.14, then. In high school, our math teacher said we should be using 3.1416 for evaluation/solving pi problems. In college, our cruel professor said 3.14159 should be used instead. And just now, before I knew it, I was doing a research on the longest/largest value of pi that we have determined so far. A quick check at Wikipedia will give you the following:

In 1989, the Chudnovsky brothers correctly computed pi to over a 1 billion decimal places on the supercomputer IBM 3090 using the following variation of Ramanujan's infinite series of pi:

In 1999, Yasumasa Kanada and his team at the University of Tokyo correctly computed pi to over 200 billion decimal places on the supercomputer HITACHI SR8000/MPP (128 nodes) using another variation of Ramanujan's infinite series of pi. In October 2005 they claimed to have calculated it to 1.24 trillion places.

My reaction was... WHO CARES.

Kidding. Actually, I do (and many other people as well, I'm sure). I am actually interested how human knowledge can [accurately] paint a model of infinity through numbers -- the so-called universal language.

I have this tattoo design containing a few hundred digits of pi. I'm just trying to complete some projects before I can schedule a tattoo session with a former schoolmate. Anyone interested to join me?

(And the truth is, I am looking for a foam mattress with as many digits of pi printed on it. Sarap matulog na kayakap mo ang pi. :-)

just the way you are

coz you're amazing just the way you are!

Highway 54

I remember a friend of mine having this funny experience. Her boss asked the team if any of them has a smartphone he can borrow. So this guy took his Blackberry and showed it to the boss, "Here!"

The boss looked at him, then, to the other members of the team: Anyone has a SMARTER phone?

Hehehe. It's really amazing how fast technology has improved in the last couple of years. A few years back, only a few people (notably scientists and tech researchers) have access to touchscreeen technology. During that time, audio and web conferencing is more like a myth than a regular thing that we do now. A couple of years after Apple started its iDevices revolution, user experience became the standard in mainstream mobile technology. (Android revolution of course is not after the user experience... it's more into finding the limitations of a system or device an breaking them. Oh yeah this is a biased post. Hehehe.)

Anyway, as I was saying, technology has gone so fast that the once-pioneer BlackBerry is now considered not-so pioneer. :-) It was qwerty keyboard before. Now, it's touch screen and voice recognition. Truth is, I won't be surprised if Google announced a higher version of Android, "Android 5.0: Now with ESP".

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Err... Highway 54... mobile technology... etc. Di ko din alam relasyon niyan. Wala lang ako magawa sa taxi. :-D

Lois Ann

Today, a very good friend of mine is celebrating her birthday. She is the kind of person who is willing to do just anything just to get what she wants in life. She quit her job to follow her passion -- traveling (surfing and meeting people). I remember having a conversation with her and she said: My ideal life is that of a person who is being paid to travel and to inspire people. Well, who wouldn't want that job, right? Well, she is one now. I won't go in to the details (but if you are interested, check this out: We Are Sole Sisters.) but I would say, she probably got more than what she asked for. And for that I am so happy for her.

Happy Birthday, Lois Ann!

Chichi and Lois. Para naman may picture ito. :-)

My birthday gift* to you is I will help you strike out one of the items in your 30 challenges: I will help you strike out #21 (and the child would be me hhehehe).

More waves, more travels. :-)

(Tara, magpagulong-gulong ulit tayo sa Sunken. :-) )

*I want to find her an anniversary gift, I mean, a birthday gift (the former is for her blog) but I guess helping her with her bucketlist is better, right?

Sundays do rock... in its [my] own way.

A few Sundays back, I took a picture of my coffee, bread, and some fruit slices while reading that day's newspaper. I said it was an ideal Sunday morning. Then, this.

I am posting this from a trip I had with my siblings at Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales.

 I have just finished my tapsilog and was having my brewed coffee

when I took this picture (Pundaquit, San Antonio, Zambales).
No need for JBL Subwoofers -- the sound of the waves is rock music at its best!

I guess you won't be disappointed when I say, I did stop and smell the flowers. :-)

Happy Sunday morning, everyone!

beware of dementors

this afternoon, i went to a spa to have a body massage. i feel like my muscles are so tired (even if i did not do any major physical chores today)

i went to the shower, then, went to the steam room (is that how it is called), and tried to relax. i closed my eyes... tried to think of nothing at all... and for the first time in my life, i feel like i don't want to open my eyes anymore.

<expecto patronum!>

edit: i think i'm feeling this way because i want something so bad and yet, i know it's too impossible to happen. no, not an epiphone riviera guitar or any material things for that matter. oh well. :-)