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On the Road 2007 (Part 6) – The Animatronic Chicken Roasters of Rayong, Thailand
On a previous trip to Thailand, I wrote about the most delicious roast chicken I have ever eaten. I have many special memories of Rayong, and the awesome roast chicken stands by the roadside are certainly counted among them. I had been looking forward to reevaluating the chicken itself since the last time I visited, to be sure it hadn’t been a fluke, or just how hungry I had been at the time. The chicken stands to which I refer are concentrated along a half-kilometer stretch of a long road into town, from the east end of Mae Ramphueng beach. We scoped out the whole stretch a couple times and…
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Fuck Beard Papa
This is what happens when you sell out your successful little shop, open stores all over the world, and try way too hard to make a cool corporate website: The Beard Papa Story Listen carefully as BP admits that his cream puffs taste like hair! File under: Really fucking annoying voice acting
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Canine/Simian Deathmatch from 1799
Answering the most important of questions: A monkey versus a dog. Who would win in a fight?
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Bowie’s in Space
Here’s the background: Flight of the Conchords episode 6 (which just aired 4 days ago) I think I need to see this show.
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Go confuse yourself
Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Just ask yourself, is she spinning clockwise or counter-clockwise? (thx b)
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Riot in Bangkok
The situation described in this article is rapidly developing into a riot on live television. It looks like the anti-coup protesters have erected some sort of bastion in the street in front of the Privy Council President’s house and the police may have used tear gas. The riot police, I must say, are really disorganized and poorly trained. You can tell by their loose formations when advancing that they are not very good at controlling a crowd that is turning increasingly violent. The crowd was originally throwing what appeared to be empty plastic bottles, but have now turned to throwing rocks and other debris they find on the street. There…
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“Here’s the internet – ah, wait, you’re not supposed to see that”
Seen over at TechCrunch: OLPC Brings Porn To The Third World According to a report Thursday from the official News Agency of Nigeria, laptops in a primary school in Abuja “have gone awry as the pupils freely browse adult sites with explicit sexual materials.” Next thing you know, they’ll stop distributing matches in these countries for fear somebody will get burned… Whoever didn’t see this coming from the very beginning is Evian, backwards, to say the very least – how could you forget the entire point of the internet?
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massively attacked
I laid down on my bed for a few minutes to watch this Massive Attack DVD that I brought from Japan. The beats were on and my mind went into caramel dreams mode… next thing I know, I’m laying in a pool of sweat and drool, and I’ve just had the best nap in recent memory – I even fell asleep on my stomach, and that like never happens (I also fell asleep on top of a pile of crap on my bed so I woke up with shapes of a pen, the TV remote, and several CDs imprinted on my body). There are certain DVDs that have this tranquilizing…
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I traded my 100Mbps FTTH for mangosteens and monkeys…
…And I think I made the right decision. This article by Robert Cringely hits home, though. My theoretical download speed is now 1/50 of what it was last year in Japan and the theoretical upload is 1/200. Actual speed ratios are about the same, however, downtime here is pretty awful as you can see by my sporadic blogging – sometimes lasting for almost a week. The whole censorship thing is pretty lame, too. On the flip side, the mangosteens and monkeys sure are tasty! ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Let me tell you a secret about (relatively) insane connection speeds: When you are wired to the net through a $50/month hikari connection, your connection…
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“Thriller” as performed by inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center
I guess this is a lazy Saturday, all YouTube, all day. If you ask me, they look a bit too happy slapping up the ladyboy. (via)
