Fun Stuff
Seen in Bangkok - Mecca Cola
One of the first things I do in any new country I’m visiting is hit a convenience store. You’ll never find a more compact display of what makes that country unique. In Korea they have kimchi (fermented cabbage) flavoured fish sticks; in India, they offer little packages of sauces for about 2 cents that taste [...]
A Telling Bizarro Comic
I ran across this online and had to put it up. As anyone who is new to blogging can tell you, it often becomes a bit of an addiction, although I can’t help but feel a bit pretentious when I say to a friend “Haha, I’ll have to blog about that.” This great panel by [...]
Chuck Norris: Badass
Unless you have a life, you’re probably aware of the uber-awesome website Chuck Norris Facts, a bizarrely funny site dedicated to the cheesy action God Chuck Norris who, unexpectedly, has gone from an 80’s tough guy joke to a minor web-celebrity, due in no small part to the site. Back when I was a wee [...]
Thailand’s Version of Workplace Safety
One of the first things many visitors notice about Thailand is that all the construction workers - putting in ten hour days in 38 degree heat - wear long-sleeve shirts, gloves, full-face masks and wide brimmed hats. It often confuses the pasty tourist, already dripping with sweat after strolling a few hundred feet out of [...]
My Favourite Poem
I’ve always been a ‘distance fan’ of poetry - that is, I admire the stuff that grabs me, but often don’t have the experience or (let’s face it) literary intelligence, to really get it. Some poems totally wow me, others just seem like forced and unrelated lines of words. I was at a [...]
Graphing Life
This is a fun new website called Graph Jam, boasting the tagline “Pop Culture For People In Cubicles”, which basically lets you submit your own graphs, referencing anything from movies to comic books to music to TV… anything that falls into the ‘pop culture’ realm. It’s a refreshing twist on the old, boring graphs I [...]
“Jesus, what’s that for?”
Another short one. I found this on the awesome Digg.com a few weeks ago and saved it to my desktop because it was so odd, but didn’t really know what to do with it - so I guess I’ll put it on my blog? Seriously, who thought this was a good idea? What do you [...]
The Ridiculous American Media
This post will be a short one, but I had to put this up after I read it and nearly spewed smoothie out of my nose. Apparently - and get ready for a shock - Sarah Jessica Parker almost got wet on a photo shoot! Seriously! From www.imdb.com:
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker narrowly [...]
Of Rice and Men
My friend John recited something very funny to me today, a quote from around the 15th century from a Thai person describing the then-strange sight of white European explorers. We laughed a lot because, despite being written about half a millennium ago, it’s still an amazingly succinct and strangely accurate description. I imagine [...]
Old School Telephony
So after nearly seven years in Thailand, I finally lost my phone. Fittingly, I lost it in a taxi as I scrambled across the back seat getting out of the door on the other side. It wouldn’t have happened, but a motorbike taxi was parked beside my door and I had to improvise; [...]
