Is there anything more annoying than the jet set expert on (pick any foreign country)? I just read a guide to eating sushi by a self-proclaimed successful author who visited Japan a few times and was probably taken to nice places to eat, and now seems to be a full-blown master of sushi, sake, and Japanese table manners (among MANY other things).
Shabure, shabure, Mr. Roboto.
Category: Web
nifty word cloud generator
This is a cloud generated from every title of every post in my archives:
Solar-barbecued chicken
This sounds interesting.
As a sidenote, Thailand is more “green” in some ways than first world countries. For instance, they sell B5 diesel here at major gas station chains – B5 is 5% biodiesel. And Hi-octane gasoline (95) is all but gone around these parts, supplanted by its E20 (20% methanol) equivalent. Whether this is truly better for the planet in the long run or not is up for debate. It sure isn’t better for some older cars!
I met a fellow who has made a small-scale biodiesel production facility in his garage; this is an area I am interested in.
I also want to try building a solar chicken barbecue array – as cheaply as possible. Maybe I’ll attempt an Archimedes’ death ray out of bits of broken mirror.
The purpose of the Internet, revealed
Did you know you can download PDFs for and print out your own Monopoly money from the Hasbro website?
I have no idea why just the idea of doing so appeals to me so much; I don’t even own the game and haven’t played for years (there is only one true way, though: Fines for Go to Jail go into the pot; free parking takes it all).
Anticlimactic story of the year
5/27: Japanese customs dish out free dope
5/28: Japanese customs reunited with lost dope
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I was just thinking:
1,000,000 Yen / 142 grams = 7,042 Yen / gram
Bob Marley is spinning counter-clockwise in his grave…
Man Babies?
This is one of the stranger sites I’ve come across for a while: http://manbabies.com
Real life neko bus
craigslist rocks. One of the things I miss most about Japan is Yahoo auctions. Thailand, or for that matter, most of the rest of the world simply has too fiendish a mentality for any kind of shopping/auction system employing the honor system to work.
Male Breastesses
The fourth pic down in this very uncleverly-titled gallery is what I believe to be a prototype of the breastfeeding vest my sister described on Skype the other day (The overall feeling of that page reminded me of chain emails from eight or nine years ago.).
UPDATE: Link fixed!
Underneat this
Okay so this is how I imagine this conversation went:
Walmart Employee: “Hello ‘dis be Walmarts, how can I help you?”
Customer: ” I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.”
Walmart Employee: “What you want on the cake?”
Customer: “Best Wishes Suzanne” and underneath that “We will miss you”.
(original link)
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Bonus question: Which is better, Walmart cake or third-world cake?
New Jared Diamond Article
Over at the New Yorker: Vengeance Is Ours What can tribal societies tell us about our need to get even?
Have to run, baby is crying.