Roy Tang

Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart.

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  • 2011 in Review. Sort of. I guess.

    Somehow the years seem to fly by more quickly nowadays. They all seem to blend in together too, at least in my memory. When I was thinking of what to write for this post I thought that this was the year I had taken my break from working. That was actually last year. I don’t think it’s a sign that I’m growing old. Maybe more of a sign of the fact that I’ve settled in to some sort of routine that makes it difficult to tell the days or even years apart.

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  • Hi, About this new website design/whatever. I am glad that you know have 2-factor authentication to protect me from fraudulent online transactions, but please check the following problems ( I gave up trying to post this using your messaging system, see #3 below): Please fix or replace the horribly unusable custom combo box control you have. When using it to select a payee while making a payment, it’s difficult and counterintuitive to scroll up and down the list (it seems I must hover my mouse over the up and down arrows on the scrollbar).

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  • So Metro Manila is at the peril of heavy rains, flooding and traffic again (as often happens this time of the year) and I thought I’d do some actual blogging for a change. I didn’t want to brave the rush hour traffic last night so I finally got around to watching X-Men First Class (luckily it was still showing at Mega). I had actually seen Green Lantern first despite X1C showing two weeks before the DC movie.

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  • Haven’t done a tournament report in a while. Heck, I haven’t really played tournament Magic in a while, not seriously at least. For that reason it may have been a bad idea to run with a deck that requires a lot of matchup knowledge to play. The tournament was Grand Prix Singapore 2011, the format was standard and my weapon of choice was Caw Blade: Lands 4 Island 3 Plains 4 Celestial Colonnade 4 Glacial Fortress 1 Inkmoth Nexus 1 Marsh Flats 1 Scalding Tarn 4 Seachrome Coast 4 Tectonic Edge Creatures 4 Stoneforge Mystic 4 Squadron Hawk 2 Mirran Crusader Spells 4 Preordain 4 Spell Pierce 3 Mana Leak 3 Into the Roil 2 Condemn 1 Sword of Feast and Famine 1 Sword of War and Peace 1 Batterskull 1 Jace Beleren 4 Jace the Mind Sculptor Sideboard 1 Sword of Body and Mind 1 Sylvok Lifestaff 2 Spellskite 3 Flashfreeze 2 Divine Offering 2 Celestial Purge 2 Day of Judgment 2 Dismember I actually ran this deck through a couple of grinders, both times losing to RUG variants, and that was practically all the playtesting time I had aside from a few random casual games the Friday before the GP.

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  • Singapore

    I was in Singapore from June 2 – June 6, mostly to visit friends who are getting married and compete in the MTG Grand Prix held there last weekend. I like bullet points, so here’s a summary of my trip: Props: public transportation. One thing Singapore and Hong Kong have in common: well-defined, convenient and tourist-friendly public transportation systems, namely trains and buses. It makes our local buses and trains here pale by comparison.

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  • Maybe I'm just heartless

    … but I feel like this country has spent far too much energy pleading and praying for and glorifying and sensationalizing three drug mules when we should be trying to figure out how they got past our airport security and immigration officers in the first place.
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Photos

2011 December

Pizza again?
Credit: http://nedroid.com/2011/12/pizza-by-the-slice/
The next summer movie blockbuster

2011 November

Skyrim screenshots dump 2011
Skyrim screenshots dump 2011
Skyrim screenshots dump 2011
Skyrim screenshots dump 2011
Skyrim screenshots dump 2011
Skyrim screenshots dump 2011

2011 July

Pizza! #camote
Batman’s enemies use only the most modern software
Posted on r/pics: This is Michael Bay directing Transformers

2011 May

Posted on r/pics: Can anyone tell me what the graph/formulas on the whiteboard in the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory refer to?
He’s going to be late!
I didn’t have a Game Boy but this feels oddly familiar…
Something I drew during a meeting (don’t ask me to explain what it is). Colored by Raquel Dee. It kinda feels like something an elementary school kid would draw and show to his parents :p

2011 April

Something random I drew on the iPad
Nakaka-highblood kasi ang SC2

2011 March

Posted on r/pics: This is from the UDON comic included in the latest update for Street Fighter IV for IPhone. I kinda hoped professional comic book writers would have better proofreaders =/
Sorry…naaliw lang ako sa magkasunod na post sa news feed ko. Hindi ko sure kung magkapitbahay nga sila. Names/pictures blotted out para walang personalan :p

2011 February

New (well, recycled) office desk to replace the old hodgepodge of small tables I was using as a “desk”

2011 January

I got a stylus for the iPad