Finally when I found some, they were all from Philips. I've never heard anyone recommending Philips' audio products but they seem to be the only brand with all the hook earphones. Or maybe I'm not searching hard enough.
Except I'm not going to search for it too hard now.This search is just to make sure what I want does exist in significant quantities so that they won't be quickly sold out. This means this search hasn't ended yet - I've got to check the newspapers on the 10th for the product catalogues.
After all, I'm prepared to spend several hours browsing through the 2 floors out of the 6 of the event. Since I'm there just for some earphones and speakers, and it's always extremely crowded on the last day (everyone wants to get the best deals available during the final hours of the expo), I don't believe it's going to be worth it to explore the entire 5 floors.
Philips is on the 4th floor, at the back on the left. So I'm just going to explore the 4th and 6th floors.
So I asked the promoters on HWZ last night for recommendations of earphones with hooks. Plenty of them trying to get people to book items from them online there. Anyway the one promoting TDK and Altec products did inform me of two. One cost about $30-40 while the other was over $120, usual price. Obviously they'd promote the expensive stuff.
I'll probably explore the other levels and not just 4 and 6 if I'm in the mood . At this rate I may have to spend over an hour there.
Now I know what to do. Found some old forums where people posted their ideas of how to position the structures for maximum efficiency. I'm too lazy to find out the range of the inspectors and etc by trial and error.
So before, I was placing my roads like a fishbone - a main road through the centre and more roads splitting off at regular intervals.
Apparently that's a very bad idea due to the game's mechanics. In Zeus, the range of an inspector (ancient Greek civil engineer, prevents building collapse and fire) is not simply a giant circular radius around his office, but a certain length of road he can walk.
There's a difference.
In the former, he would cover the same area for both a straight road and a zigzag road. In the latter, he'd cover far less on the zigzag.
What I learnt, according to the wisdom of players from 10 years ago, was to build a loop roughly 4*10-houses big. Any larger and some services may not reach one corner, smaller and it becomes less cost-efficient. Furthermore, the path is at times decorated with Avenues and Boulevards to improve the appeal of the area in order to allow the houses to be upgraded to the highest level.
Things are so much easier now. Even finished the whole Adventure (aka campaign) without doing much. The final stage was so easy I didn't even do much.
Then again, that was the easiest campaign.
This news is pretty nonsensical. So this father was playing peek-a-boo with his toddler when a flight attendant joined in. He then put the boy in a locker compartment on the plane during the game. Everyone laughed except the mother. So 10s later he took him out. Then...
“I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated. I was crying. My husband was in shock. For days on end I was crying.”
Again, this is what happened:
A peek-a-boo game gone wrong resulted in a 17-month old toddler being shut in a plane’s overhead locker for a good ten seconds.
And again, this is what resulted:
“I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated. I was crying. My husband was in shock. For days on end I was crying.”Also,
The airline has also offered free flights to the child’s “devastated” mother, who appears too shaken by the mid-air experience to redeem them.
Riley, who was locked in the overhead compartment in complete darkness for a reported ten seconds, is said to have seen various specialists after suffering from anxiety and withdrawal since the incident.
10s in the compartment. Just ten seconds locked in a tiny place. And you get "anxiety and withdrawal" and need medical attention. And drive the mother to insanity who apparently has spent days crying about how "my son got locked in an overhead compartment for 10 seconds! TEN!"
Sometimes I don't think I overestimate the stupidity of other fellow human beings enough.
So is she going to be suicidal next while the son is going to need therapy for the rest of his life?
No, actually, you know what? The biggest question I have regarding this is this:
Why is this even on the news?
Don't be surprised if someday we get a headline that says "Boy Traumatised by Extra Spicy Curry" whose parents would also be extremely devastated, eventually ending up divorcing each other while also suing the cook for everything he's worth and finally cause the restaurant to go bankrupt. And the boy starves to death due to extreme cibophobia (phobia of food) developed after that meal. That wouldn't be much more ridiculous than the above news.
If 10s in complete darkness had such a great impact on small children, all our ancestors who lived before the invention of electric lights would have been completely insane.
That... would explain a lot, actually.
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