As I Xi It v2.3 » Gadgets

Digital regression

XiYu — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:01:32 +0000

Tetris for the iPad was 69p today (I know, I’m a big spender) so I figured, ‘Why not?’

I still have my bulky, old Nintendo Gameboy and it still works! The only game I really ever played on it was Tetris. Unfortunately, the iOS Tetris doesn’t have the classic theme tune!! It’d be cool if had a Gameboy classic mode emulating the original.

The joys of being a 90's kid

Check it out!

XiYu — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:41:53 +0000

“Santa” wants me to delve deeper into myself…at the genetic level. I’m expecting diabetes to be right up there along with fatness.

AT, GC

Mmm macro…

XiYu — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:55:49 +0000

I just love that DoF!

Oooh, buttons

Oooh, speakers/mic

Oooh, aluminiumy

Oooh, homey

New Tent

XiYu — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:11:04 +0000

I’d brought this tent a while ago some months ago but never had the chance to properly pitch it up. I tried to in the living room, but there just wasn’t enough space. According to the instructions, it’s suppose to take 12 minutes to set up but took me about 20 minutes solo.

Up close and personal

XiYu — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:05:40 +0000

Taking aquarium photography to a new dimension.

Like snorkling, but not

Temperature temp

XiYu — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:57:50 +0000

Think my heater might be on the blink. I need the water to be at a constant 26^oC while I’m treating the tank for ich. Noticed that the heating element was still on this morning even though the thermometer read 30^oC, the built in thermostat’s suppose to switch it off once the water reaches the defined temperature. To check, I popped in a spare analogue thermometer and put new batteries into the digital one after turning the heater down to 22^oC just to be on the safe side. A few hours later, I see the values are different between the analogue and digital one and the heater still on. Now, one analogue read 26^oC, the other 29^oC and the digital one 31^oC, but according to the heater, it still wasn’t 22^oC so it just kept heating. I’ve turned the heater to its lowest at 20^oC hoping to compensate for it’s lack of sensitivity. Just to be sure of the temp in the tank, I’ve dunked in my watch which has a built-in thermometer so shall see how that goes.

Haven't seen you before

Geek indulgence – Geekdulgence

XiYu — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:55:11 +0000

I passed my driving test yesterday (yay!) and decided to reward myself with a nice new timepiece – a Casio Protrek 2000 with all the bells and whistles – atomic sync, solar, altimeter, barometer, compass, sunrise, sunset, oh and of course, it tells the time. Now I just need a mountain to climb…

Yup, the manual really is that thick.

It's not as big I thought it'd be.

Mugged!!

XiYu — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:09:38 +0000

Ever since I saw pics of the 70-200mm mug on the web, I’ve wanted a lens beverage receptacle.

When I got home this afternoon, I was greeted with a big box on the porch. Jac had sent Kamil and I the coolest gifts ever!! Mindblowingly phenomenal!

On the way to sushi, Randy, Kwok and I torutured Kamil into guessing what the gift was. Oh the joy. Lol.

Now I have something appropriate to drink out of while editing my photos.

Can you spot the mug?

Champion indeed!

Multi-purpose

XiYu — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:35:02 +0000

Does this not look like the bizzarest contraption? Click here.

It reminds me of kids putting hooded jackets on their heads and running around pretending to be superheroes.

My Sigg

XiYu — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:37:25 +0000

I dunno why I didn’t get one earlier! I need one of those neoprene pouches though, it gets a bit cold in winter.

Swiss Mark Sigg

On another note, the WordPress app is still buggered up. Tried all the suggestions on their forum and no cigar.