This is the first Monday since I quit my job.

Oh by the way, I quit my job.

Getting things done never felt this good.

Stay tuned for awesomeness.

Yeah, the fight scenes are cool and Rob D is a delight as usual. But I won’t forgive plotholes, especially if there so many of them in the same movie.

Here I shall list some, in no particular order. Lame answers in italics.

*Warning: there be spoilers*

1. How did James Rhodes get access to Tony Stark’s lab and to wearing the suit?
Maybe Jarvis let him?
2. How can James Rhodes fit into the suit when it was built for Tony’s body?
Maybe the Iron Man suit is just awesome that way?
3. How did James Rhodes know how to use and fly the suit on the first try?
4. How did James Rhodes take off the suit after flying it to the US Army camp? There were no robotic arms! Plus, it was even intact after he took it off! How did they know how to assemble/disassemble it?
5. Why did they allow Justin Hammer to make modifications to the Iron Man suit when the US Army has canceled their relationship with his company?
6. Why did the War Machine appear in Justin Hammer’s presentation when it is the property of the US Army?
7. Why did Pepper Pots and Natalie Rushman attend Justin Hammer’s presentation?
Because it is still part of the Stark Expo?
8. What purpose did Tony Stark’s company serve? Didn’t he shut down the weapons division and blew up the arc reactor in the first movie? It seems that the only work Pepper Pots did as CEO is to take care of Tony Stark’s property and scheduling.
9. How did Tony Stark leave his house without being detected by Agent Coulson?
10. If keeping Tony Stark at home is so important, why was Agent Coulson suddenly reassigned without a replacement?
Maybe the “incident after the credits” was far more important and they became shorthanded?
11. Howard Stark wanted the secret undiscovered element to change the world by using it as a power source. Why did Tony Stark keep it to himself?
To prevent other people from building their own Iron Man suits?
12. Why didn’t Justin Hammer see the potential in the many miniature arc reactor cores that Ivan built other than the purposes of powering the armored combat robots?
Maybe all he wanted is to just put Tony Stark to shame and nothing else?
13. How did Ivan build his final Whiplash suit without Justin Hammer noticing?
14. Why did Ivan ask for his bird when he is eventually happy with the ‘wrong’ one the Justin Hammer provided him anyway? And how did Justin Hammer find out the exact species of the bird?
15. How did SHIELD find out about his Palladium poisoning? *Courtesy of Kevin Khoo*
Maybe Natalie Rushman spied on him?
16. How did SHIELD find out how to temporary cure his Palladium poisoning? Heck, how did they even know that Tony can find the answer in Howard Stark’s old stuff when the real answer is in the scale model?
17. How did Tony Stark buy the doughnuts in his suit without his wallet?
Maybe they gave him the doughnuts out of admiration? Or maybe he has his wallet in his suit?

Yeah, I’m anal like that. I bet none of you can find anymore plotholes other than these.

So the other day I went to Genting Casino for the very first time in years I did actual math. At first I thought I figured out how to beat this so-called game called French Boule. Upon conducting further calculations with my trusty pencil, I have concluded that there is absolutely no way to win money in this game in the long run.

If you don’t know how French Boule is played, it is basically betting on a tile that represents numbers 1-10. And a ball will be rolled to land on a random number. It’s like a simpler version of Roulette, see full info here.

Allow me to illustrate with the following table. The row denotes the number tiles you place your chips on. Assuming you place one chip on one tile every round, there is a 10% chance to win 8 times your bet, and a 90% chance to lose one bet. This means in a simulation of 10 rounds of flatbetting, the odds are that you will lose one bet.

As you can see in this table, the more bets you place on the tiles, the more you will lose in the long run. Even the three-numbered tiles will not help you one bit. I mean, what do you expect? In every game, the house always wins.

The best strategy that I come up with is this. Place a consistent bet amount on a single tile in every round (this is called flatbetting) and just hope for the best. After you have lost exactly seven times in a row, stand up and walk away. This way, the most you will lose is 7 times your bet; the smallest amount would be RM5x7=RM35. This will maximize the potential of your bad odds.

Here’s a better strategy: don’t play anything at the casino at all.