By Wakeupnow, on 30th June, 2009 LEGO, the famous toy that kids around the world played with, is a very interesting toy that I grew up with. In its simpler earlier form, it comprises of identical building blocks, differing only in color and sizes.
The human figures were also modular, meaning that the head-gears, head, upper torso, lower torso were interchangeable. You could have a figure with yellow face and brown hands and any colored legs. The really adventurous can even swap the limbs, but that would make this article PG-13, so we’ll leave that for another article! 
To those who know, LEGO is written LEGO, and not lego, or Lego. It is officially trademarked as LEGO. But there is more to the name as well. According to wikipedia,
The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means “play well”. The name could also be interpreted as “I put together” and “I assemble” in Latin, though this would be a somewhat forced application of the general sense “I collect; I gather; I learn”; the word is most used in the derived sense “I read”. The cognate Greek verb λέγω (lego) also means . . . → Read More: LEGO: There are no cars or houses
By Wakeupnow, on 23rd June, 2009 I read a really interesting post about someone learning his lesson as a child and thought it is a really good example of fine parenting.
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?like_id=1990748&node_id=1953527&op=ilikeit
I was perhaps 9 years old when it happened.
I had a terrible habit as a kid to want to sleep in until the last possible moment. Ok, who am I kidding? I still do that. I’m usually about 30 seconds late for work everyday. But when I was a kid, this drove my mother to the brink of sanity. She put up with it for a long time, always managing to get me roused and dressed, books in hand and out the door for school just in the nick of time. Sometimes she’d peek her head in my bedroom door every 10 minutes and check in, making sure I was on track. And generally I managed to get myself together with seconds to spare. But there WAS that one time…
6:45am Mom: “Sweetie, it’s time to get up and get dressed.” Me: “Uhhhhaaaaaaaaaaamffff…”
6:55am Mom: “Honey, we have to leave at 7:30 if we’re going to get you to school on time. Please get up . . . → Read More: How to discipline your child (part 1)
By Wakeupnow, on 21st June, 2009 In a fictitious company, “OverKillRUs”, a ceiling light just went dead, and so an engineer, an accountant and a lawyer was sent in to take a look. The engineer took a look and said “This is a 100W bi-pin lamp that runs on balast housing. The ballast and starter looks ok, it is the fluorescent tube that is burnt out, we need to replace it”.
The accountant took the tube in hand, checked his notebook for inventory and started punching in some numbers. After some time, he declared “This tube was bought 3 years and 5 months ago, and if amortized over its intended five years would have brought in an … … and therefore, considering everything, we should replace this tube with a cheaper tube so as to defray the overall maintenance cost.”
At that, the lawyer quipped “I say, we sue the manufacturer!”
The above is based on an email joke that I read a long time ago. It was funny then and even funnier now, as I believe I must have inevitably upgraded it a bit. Funny how things get remembered over time. But that is not the point in . . . → Read More: Sending an engineer, an accountant and a lawyer to fix a burnt lamp
By Wakeupnow, on 15th June, 2009 I will not be a Buddhist because it is easy, I will not be a Buddhist because it is convenient, I will not be a Buddhist because it is simple.
I will be a Buddhist because it is meaningful and worthwhile! ^_^
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