There are some rules that I didn't think had to be written down, but I was wrong, so here's one of them: If your weblog does not include any nudity, and you regularly talk about feces, and in particular drinking feces soup, I am no longer going to read your weblog. I honestly promised […]
Last night as I was getting ready for bed, there were two very loud booms off in the distance. Which, in Taiwan, is normally nothing at all to even think twice about; these people are shooting off huge fireworks all the time. Store openings, funerals, whatever. But immediately afterwards, six Mirage fighter-bombers […]
Just some venting… now deleted. Suffice to say that a lot of bloggers are ignorant and generally flawed, just like a lot of people.
Last Friday I met a guy from the States who was here in Taiwan visiting my customer to train them on some communication equipment. His company, not so coincidentally, is not far from mine back in Virginia, and he sells us alot of this same equipment, although I had never met him. So […]
Go read this essay by perpetually-intoxicated comic writer Warren Ellis. Right now.
He also posted a link to an article about “The Most Expensive Soup in Britain.” I've had that soup in Taiwan, and although mine (I think) didn't have shark fin, and wasn't US$205 a bowl, it was pretty damn good soup.
I know […]
Tonight on the crappy English radio station they played an old Hall and Oates track (hey, what can I say, it's the only station that plays anything in English,) and after the song was over the crappy English DJ refered to them as “one of the greatest pop duo's of all time.”
And […]
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