While walking around, I have a habit of opening doors for people. I will jog ahead and open that door without any desire for reciprocity, just wanting to hopefully pick someone’s day up.
Lately, I’ve noticed quite a few people who do not even attempt to open the door for themselves, and seem to demand that [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Picking up Featured Album Fridays on a regular basis again I hope! This week, I’m taking a look at Cymbals Eat Guitars’ 2009 album – Why There Are Mountains.
From their Last.FM:
Aside from referencing a piece of Lou Reed’s philosophy about recording rock bands, the name “Cymbals Eat Guitars” is suggestive of a group of musicians [...]
Posted on February 27th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Been mulling over a semi-serious decision over the past few days, an idea that’s been sitting in the back of my mind for years now: starting a clothing line.
Yes, I am pretty serious about it. It would be a clothing line that starts off with mostly hoodies with funky designs and patterns, because that’s exactly [...]
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Well, it seems that reading week has broken me down and took away any hope of productivity on my end, but I wish to change that. I missed out on updates to Trivial Trivia and Featured Album Fridays, but I’ll pick them up again when I can.
For now, I guess I’m going to become hyper-focused, [...]
Posted on February 23rd, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Another day, another new brain teaser! Here was the answer to “Timepieces”:
An hourglass.
Simple eh? The next one will be slightly more difficult, so brace yourselves. I think I’m going to use more difficult ones from here on out, just to make it interesting!
There is a 10-digit number, represented by ABCDEFGHIJ, where each numeral, 0 through [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Received an e-mail from Apple today, here’s the header:
From: devprograms@apple.com
Subject: Re: ADC Membership
Date: February 17, 2009 4:28:41 PM EST (CA)
Wait a minute, when did I send my e-mail to Apple?
From: devprograms@apple.com
Subject: Acknowledgement of your email/submission
Date: February 6, 2009 9:14:05 AM EST (CA)
Oh, good thing you’re quick with your responses, Apple.
Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Here is the answer for Sunday’s brain teaser. Once again, Vijaya came rather close, but not quite. Here is the answer:
The treasurer’s plan was to drink a weak poison prior to the meeting with the king, and then he would drink the pharmacist’s strong poison, which would neutralize the weak poison. As his own poison [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Awesome. They updated the content of the intro to be a little more relevant.
Posted on February 15th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Welp, I got one response yesterday for the logic brainteaser from Vijaya and she was very close! She made an assumption out of nowhere, but she did have the right lines of thinking. Here is the answer for yesterday’s logic problem:
Wait until night time, and then go through the magnifying glass room.
Sneaky eh?
Here’s another problem [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Two weeks ago, during the interviews with LIVE 2009 Candidates, we posed a few interesting logic questions to examine their thought process. Below is one of my favourites, and I will post the answer tomorrow morning.
You are stuck in a room with two doors. One of the doors leads to a room made from magnifying [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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