Category: The Ride
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Subsidize Traffic
Metro Manila traffic is as bad as it is. We motorists make it worse when we employ “offensive driving” instead of defensive driving. All types of vehicles, from the most expensive to the rusted ones, can get stuck altogether in the sweltering heat of the sun or the drenching gush of rain. The least one could do…
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The Value of Photographs Over Time
The value of a photograph doubles over time. At the moment of a moment’s capture the value to the owner is close to zero. It’s only for sharing directly to someone. It’s only for posting indirectly to an audience. It’s a smile-maker or a cringeworthy cue. Its value to machine learning is immense and future-proof.…
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We Stop and Go
Driving along a highway. At hundred twenty. It feels like god is watching you. The auto – buck naked – it’s only the chassis, the steering wheel, the seat, and you. You feel invulnerable in that speed because you see the rain speckles streak upwards yet you don’t feel the violent current of air that you’re…
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Sandals Na May Medyas
c. 1997 Nauso ang topsider na may medyas. Nauso ang balat na sandalyas na may butas-butas at strap na may medyas. Baduy daw sabi ng tiyo ko. Hindi ko sila ginaya. Jeprox ba? Baduy. Jologs sa panahon ngayon. May kilala akong nagsusuot ng Birkis tapos medyas. Nagmula siya sa Davao at nag-aral sa Ateneo De…
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How Meralco Will Make Bill Payments Even Easier
Update – 31 August 2017 Meralco + Bayad Center = Success! With an overdue bill on hand, I went to Bayad Center to pay for my Meralco bill. And I was able to do so. — On April 8, 2014 I wrote out my frustration about failing to pay my electricity bill – I discovered…
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Of Oddness and Obsolescence – The Twilight Zone No. 153
The Brain Center at Whipple’s Technician (T): Mr. Whipple, have you looked around this place lately? Mr. Whipple (W): Looked around? T: The cafeteria, for example. It’s like a cave. Not a soul in there. Just a few vending machines and music coming thru a loud speaker. You walked around the parking lot? It’s a…
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Bad boy no more
I’ve had this poster for the longest time on my bedroom door in my parents’ house. Planning to repaint the room, I took it down along with other magazine pages that acted as wallpapers.
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Migration to Flickr
All of my internal and external hard drives are being consumed by media files like fungus to a rotting tree trunk. I confess that I’ve been hoarding files from my camera that never see the light of day (or get shared to people involved).