DrAjao

Typecasting must really suck for an actor. And it's a potentially sad result of humans' lazy dispensation towards summary judgements based on appearance and first-impressions. However some other actors dream of being so lucky to even get a role memora ble enough to lead to typecasting. On the less harmful side of typecasting is the notion that you created a character so real that it overshadowed your real self. Jim Parsons will have to work extra hard to not be Sheldon Cooper in the eyes of the public... ...or he could just cash his cheques smiling all the way to the bank knowing his betters could possibly be bussing at coffee shops as I type.

The ETs now have me where they've wanted me...at my wits' end and on my knees, completely at their mercy. They have my attention alright, howbeit not undivided. My wife is dying in excruciating pain and it's all their doing. They'd implanted the alien pod that had been growing inside her and was now trying to claw its way out of her belly. Okay maybe it wasn't all their doing. If only I hadn't been so stupid to get us in such a compromising situation. The aliens should never have captured us in the first place. It should have been some poor unlucky slob in my place. I'm a trained soldier, my instincts have been honed to avoid scenarios like this. Funnily enough they'd treated us nicely. None of the lower gastrointestinal probing we hear about in those abduction stories. Just strange heavenly lights and strange heavenly sounds. It was like heaven for the relatively brief period we were there. We were grateful to have been spared. Not many make it back t...

Have you ever found yourself trying to force yourself to finish all the food on your plate simply because you're reminded of images of near-death-starving children in less privileged situations? You feel that pouring that food away while others are starving makes you nothing short of a devil so you stuff your body with unneeded calories. Problem is, instead of refrigerating or dumping the leftovers in the trashcan, you dump them in your body, hence making your body the trashcan. Your body, 'thinking' you're storing up for a rainy day, converts the excess food into fat. You then either live with the untoward effects on your body or you go through weight loss regimens to 'burn' the fat into energy that is at best, for only your benefit. Thus, you 'burn' the leftovers that may have fed a hungry alley cat or better still been used to nourish the soil to grow food that can be shipped to starving children (this of course assumes that you're eating healthy...

Do you heart Zappos, too? I'd already heard aobut Zappos state-of-the-art customer service and their high ranking amongst the "best places to work" , but when I visited their site something in particular struck me...their pricing. A $100 shoe costs just that. Not $99.95, not $99.99, but $100. Their prices looked so much neater and so did the photographs of their products. One could argue that the extra cent pools into hiring a competent photographer like...ahem...myself. Another could argue that the rounded numbers somehow save a tangible amount in arithmetic convenience and easiness on the eyes (fewer employee and customer headaches I presume). A competing store shaved a cent off their prices and at first their price looked as if it was a whole dollar cheaper (which is the point of such pricing in the first place), but once I noticed, it felt as if someone was trying to pull wool over my eyes and something inside me didn't appreciate it. I then knew I wasn't goin...

The person credited with inventing the internet is still alive. That tells me the internet is still very very young. We're still trying to figure it out and we likely haven't tapped anywhere near 1% of its full potential. Not that such is a completely bad thing because a fully grown internet is sure to be a scary thing ( The Matrix comes to mind). We haven't seen anything yet. The oldest people who have had Facebook present all their lives are only seven years old! These are people who will have so much to deal with that they won't have time to be saddled with old technologies that we have held on to simply because they were ingrained in our culture. Soon all generations who have lived a day before Facebook (yes including me) will be gone. The lifespan of technology (and I dare say, cultures) will be much shorter. Any invention or way of doing things we have held on to for centuries (because they 'work') will be replaced. Sorry newspapers and movie theaters bu...

Have you ever noticed how the poor are virtually the only unprotected class. They are so openly discriminated against, it's not even funny. When you go to a place of business you know you're not likely to see signs like "Coloreds not allowed", "No Women Allowed", or "Non-Christians Only", but you do see signs like "Price: $1000". Tell me if that isn't some form of discrimination against the poor. After all you're not likely to hear that the phone company cut someone's line off because he is gay or that the Landlord threw a tenant out because she is 55 years old. Moral of the story: Don't be poor.

What if, on one cold winter night, it started snowing circles, and rectangles, and triangles? After ruling out math loving aliens or the Ghost of Maths Yet to Come, I'd probably think someone was having fun with special effects and start looking around the corner for Mr Kutcher (the fact that I'm not yet a celeb probably won't cross my mind). I guess what would freak me out is the fact that scientific rules were suddenly changed...and not the fact that geometric shapes are falling out of the sky. Waitaminute...snow falls as waaaay more complex geometric shapes! Somebody up there must really be having fun.

What’s your ‘No’ number? How many times do you have to hear “No” before you give up? Some people have a ‘No’ number of 1; ie they give up trying after hearing “No” for the first time. Others have a ‘No’ number of zero; ie they don’t even bother to ask. A few have been known to have a number of 0 Others yet have ‘No’ numbers that tend towards infinity. They either just don’t understand the word, or have a selective amnesia for it. I suspect such people also tend to be a tad wealthier than the rest. Do you know some people have a ‘No’ number of minus one? Yeah…they hear a ‘No’ even when the response is “YES!”. What’s your ‘No’ number?

The sun is said to be getting hotter and hotter. It's said that a mere billion years ago, it wasn't even hot enough to sustain terrestrial life on planet Earth, and sadly, in another billion years, it will be too hot to sustain such life. What I get from this is that man has a billion years to figure out how to transport it's entire population to mars and sustain a breathable life sustaining atmosphere there.

Marriage is a covenant and I believe that, more important than the certificate given by the court house, is the covenant between the couple. I believe this covenant is signified by the biological covenant marker that God created...SEX. I believe God is very particular about covenants to the extent that the virginal bleeding is a blood covenant of sorts, which I believe He takes very seriously. I believe God sees the sexual act as part of marriage so you can't really 'test the waters' without getting married. I also wouldn't be surprised if God saw some other not-so-committal things like living together as part of marriage but let's not belabor that right now. Sex is about giving and taking. I believe God's intent was for the giving to be active and the taking to be passive. Sex is a symbol that represents marriage, which is a symbol that represents the way God expects us to live our lives...without selfishness, taking utmost care of the other person's needs....

Once upon a time, a bride hired a photographer to cover her wedding, which was to last 6 hours. They agreed on 6000 bucks for two 11x14 inch 40 side flush-mount albums, and 300 soft images on CD. The bride paid a $600 retainer and one week later, the photographer got a check for $5400 from the bride's parents. The wedding day went very well; the photographer came with all sorts of fancy gear, second shooter, and an assistant. The photographer was a true professional. He was very courteous, and just knew the right things to say to liven up the occasion. His assistant was also very helpful with coordinating things. The main wedding events lasted 5 hours 45 minutes but the photographer stayed with them for another hour, and then took them to a scenic private resort for some groovy portraiture. Everyone, even the staff, at the resort seemed to know the photographer. When all was done, he told the couple how much he enjoyed working with them. All in all, it was a wonderful experience. T...

Data storage capacity will keep tending to infinity just as storage units keep tending to zero in physical size. The compact flash card has essentially not increased in physical size since its introduction but the size of data it can hold has steadily but surely doubled over these few years. In the vain hopes of keeping this write-up up to date over the years, I won’t specify the current maximum size a CF card can hold. If there is a linear progression towards infinity in the capacity of data storage, the internet’s capacity to store data should leap in exponential bounds. I suppose it’s based on a neatly calculated version of this trend that the likes of Google can offer unlimited email storage…and counting. Given these trends in memory storage and access time, I guess we can safely assume that in the near future, cameras won’t even be fitted with memory cards any more. They’ll have a ‘temporary’ buffer space measurable in exabytes and loads more in wirelessly upgradeable permanent me...

Wunmi: Hey! If you had to choose one, which would you pick…wisdom or innocence? Bale: What? Did you just say wisdom or in-house sex? Wunmi: No silly, I said Wisdom or Innocence. Bale: Of course one needs both, but if I had to choose I'd chose innocence. Wunmi: Any reasons? Bale: Well, I thought of Solomon and all his wisdom...he didn't have the best of endings did he? Wunmi: Hmm...Ok which would you choose...wisdom or in-house sex? Bale: Bro that's easy...I choose wisdom...again look at Solomon...his wisdom brought him enooooough in-house… On a more serious note, we have to respect Solomon's wisdom. The kind God said no one has ever had or ever will have. Solomon started by getting God's attention. I can image God going "Whoa! Gabriel did you see that? Outta my way! Outta my way!!..." and whoosh! He's in Solomon's room. "Impressive, boy! Ok What do you want? Just name it". He was ready to give Solomon whatever he wanted...a hundred trilli...

Start a love revolution in your household, let it spread to your work, and then your community...then you'll have the ears of the people...cos they can't ignore the successful environment(s) you've created. Either way before you start any revolution, make sure that you also are totally (I mean totally) without blame.

It takes a lot of a kind of intellectual energy to create a functional product. It takes a lot of another kind of intellectual energy to create a beautiful product. Now talk less of creating a product that is both functional and beautiful in design. It’s so easy to tell the absence of intelligence…by the absence of order. Science teaches us that disorder is a more natural state than order (via entropy). Meaning that situations, left by themselves, tend towards chaos. Yes it takes a conscious effort to produce order…talk less of functional order…then talk less of functional and beautiful order. Logic, as defined within the (narrow) limits of our cerebration can’t wholly exist without faith…especially when it comes to our origins. There really is a sweet blur between faith and logic. One always has to believe either that at some point nothing became something, or that a something just always was. Science tells us that matter is neither created nor destroyed so if nothing became something...

I hear you bro. You've paid your dues over the years, you've watched your step, you've stayed ahead of the game. By your sweat and blood you've hard-earned the right to a good name and good credit...and now you're being asked to throw away your hard earned savings to bailout some bozo who's reckless, irresponsible, outdated behavior landed him in the mess he finds himself. I hear you asking why in the world you have to compromise your hard earned yet fragile economic right-standing for the sake of someone who doesn't even deserve it. The answers are pretty simple...(ok maybe not pretty or simple...they never are and may never ever be)... 1. You don't have to be reckless, irresponsible, and outdated before you find yourself in a mess: anyone could find themselves in a mess. 2. He desperately needs your help: if you don't help him who will? 3. You are interconnected: if he goes down, he drags you down with him. Of course, it's your responsibility t...

one thing i'm sure of is that the recession will get us off our butts and to thinking more about ways to improve our lives/innovate/advance/not merely survive/etc. yes there will always be the occasional serendipity, but many of man's accomplishments will have to be attributed to constantly/persistently/thomas edisonly/etc applying himself to solving a particular problem. and nothing get's man to apply himself more earnestly than pressure. some things we've taken for granted/gotten accustomed to/not bothered to change cos they...well...worked.../etc will have to be replaced. the economy may still get worse yet...but it will emerge leaner (after shedding redundant weight) and more efficient. you won't get away with inefficiency for long...cos the recession is coming to gitchya! cheers DrAW! DrAjao.com

This is my update of a joke mail that's been circulating the internet and for example can be viewed here I suggest you read that version first before you read mine. THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!! Updated for 2070! By DrAW! If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!! ! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up eg taking a bus to school 5 days (5 whole days!) a week ...physically...with notebooks...!  Believe it! Believe it!! Believe it!!!  And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!  But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.  You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a darn Utopia!  And I hate to say it but you kids today you don'...