Chad Vader Episode 4...

Kimjongilia

You can buy all the North Korean gear you want at this website.

Hard currency only.

Ice Cream is great.

Baskin Robins and all 31 flavors have made it to the big city. Kaia and I hit Baskin Robins on gung-e after the S.I.R. 10/10 BBQ. 90 nt a cone but nice 'n sweet.

10-10

50th anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchus! 45 years later!

Traditional cookies

At the wonderful age of four months 18 cookies are placed around the childs neck. The belief is that this will prevent excessive drooling in the child.

Chad Vader 4 ...

Chad Vader 4 is going to premiere on Good Morning America 0ct. 11th according to the creators in this short update clip. They also read some fan mail...

Trey and Ivo

Bellies Full of Meat

We went by the FuBarBQ last night and man was there some tasty stuff! JW was in his element, had some of his pineapple pork, sooo tender! AJ's wings were delicious and DW and Winnie served up some tasty brews. Even saw Red A, briefly. Dean-o, John Ace and Leanne, the Commander and Malcolm, Sho and Zhu-zhu, Brit Paul was his charming old self. Petra and Tassie were there and Ivo and Trey got to know each other a bit... pics of the boys to come... for now just this grainy one of his J-ness...

Uranus, F*CK YOU

Wanna tell you a story,
About the house-man blues
I come home one Friday,
Had to tell the landlady I'd-a lost my job
She said that don't confront me,
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent,
And out the door I went

So I goes to the landlady,
I said, "You let me slide?"
I'll have the rent for you in a month.
Next I don't know
So said let me slide it on you know people,
I notice when I come home in the evening
She ain't got nothing nice to say to me,
But for five year she was so nice
Loh' she was lovy-dovy,
I come home one particular evening
The landlady said, "You got the rent money yet?",
I said, "No, can't find no job"
Therefore I ain't got no money to pay the rent
She said "I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job"
Said "I seen you today you was standin' on a corner,
Leaning up against a post"
I said "But I'm tired, I've been walkin' all day"
She said "That don't confront me,
Long as I get my money next Friday"
Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent,
And out the door I went

So I go down the streets,
Down to my good friend's house
I said "Look man I'm outdoors you know,
Can I stay with you maybe a couple days?"
He said "Let me go and ask my wife"
He come out of the house,
I could see it in his face
I know that was no
He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, you know"
I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny too"
So I go back home
I tell the landlady I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent
She said "Yeah?" I said "Oh yeah"
And then she was so nice,
Loh' she was lovy-dovy
So I go in my room, pack up my things and I go,
I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go
She a-howlin' about the front rent, she'll be lucky to get any back rent,
She ain't gonna get none of it
So I stop in the local bar you know people,
I go to the bar, I ring my coat, I call the bartender
Said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
So what you want?

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when,
I've been drinking bourbon, whiskey, scotch and gin
Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose,
Need me a triple shot of that juice
Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear
I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

But I'm sitting now at the bar,
I'm getting drunk, I'm feelin' mellow
I'm drinkin' bourbon, I'm drinkin' scotch, I'm drinkin' beer
Looked down the bar, here come the bartender
I said "Look man, come down here"
So what you want?

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
No I ain't seen my baby since the night before last,
Gotta get a drink man I'm gonna get gassed
Gonna get high man I ain't had enough,
Need me a triple shot of that stuff
Gonna get drunk won't you listen right here,
I want one bourbon, one shot and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

Now by this time I'm plenty high,
You know when your mouth a-getting dry you're plenty high
Looked down the bar I say to my bartender
I said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
So what you want this time?
I said "Look man, a-what time is it?"
He said "The clock on the wall say three o'clock
Last call for alcohol, so what you need?"

One bourbon, one scotch, one beer
No I ain't seen my baby since a nigh' and a week,
Gotta get drunk man till I can't even speak
Gonna get high man listen to me,
One drink ain't enough Jack you better make it three
I wanna get drunk I'm gonna make it real clear,
I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer


--I highly reccomend this song

George Thorogood Lyrics - 1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch, 1 Beer Lyrics

"Moon" Festival 2006 - Uranus Style

That pixel is the planet Earth as seen from V-ger, er VOYager, from the rings of Uranus.

Giggles aside, I have to say it makes all my problems seem small when you realize our whole planet is about a pixel in size from inside our own solar system.

BTW, if I had been erect when this photo was taken, we would have been two pixels large, baby.

Happy Gobble Gobble Everyone

Well for all you Canadians out there Happy Thanksgiving !!!!!!! For you Americans , lets hope you dont all celebrate the same way as your fearless idiotic leader!!!!!!!!

Saturday, October 7, in front of FuBar, we will be breaking out the grills and rendering different meats delectable. Arrive around 3 (or earlier) and start your fires so we can get to the eats. D-Wayne will be supplying a few small grills and I will bring a hibachi. If you have one you can bring, then do so. And don't forget meat. Captain Beer has all the aluminum foil you would ever need - if we can pry it loose from his head.

Nice

Rye guy the other side

"I'm gonna soak up the sky and spread these." Gotta wonder if that is a threat or a promise. Rye's student was wearing this after her mid-term. I really wonder what he does in class to peak (peek) his students interest in English. He told me he got bored of his students saying DIY, so he took it upon himself to teach them Jack-off is for boys and Jill-off is for girls.
If Molding young minds works out his future plans are to run for senate. To assist him in his new goals he is purchasing a new cellphone that displays pictures and stores loads of text messages.

almost a holiday

About everyone getting the Monday the 9th off... in exchange for Saturday the 14th...

This wasn't in the original playbook for next week. It was supposed to have been, Friday the 6th off for Moon Festival, back to work on Monday and then Tuesday the 10th off for 10/10. I know people who said , "Well, it sure would be nice if we had that Monday off to round out the 5 day weekend." or "I'm gonna be sick on the 9th..." or "...if we were in Canada we'd get it off..." and on and on...

Me, I was gonna work, no big deal and everything until this past Monday the 2nd when, amid rumours of the government giving everyone a holiday that day, I get the news from my school, no school on the 9th... great, wonderful, no objections here...what? There's a catch? I gotta come here on the 14th to make it up? I'm doing my Monday schedule on Saturday? Fine, I guess, it's fine in exchange for a 5 day uninterrupted holiday weekend, but why?

I've heard a couple of different theories... a) the gov't suddenly announced the bonus (with a catch) holiday in anticipation of a general strike on Monday that may or may not be inspired by or related to the current DAO BIAN shennanigans going on around the island b) people like to not know about a public holiday until the last minute c) no one had any plans for the 14th anyway...

...except for the thousands of people who had planned to get married on the 14th, as it is a very auspicious day according to the lunar calendar... I see big spreads bought and paid for with no one attending 'cause they gotta work... so no red envelopes to help pay for the parties... ouch...

Anyone hear anything else 'cause all research for this post is either conjecture, hearsay or rumour...

Happy M.F. Day!

Tomorrow the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, starts the first day of a 5-day holiday for us in Taiwan. The story can be found here, but it's basically a confluence of several legends and a ceremony. Most people just focus on grilling, eating pomelos and wearing the peel as a hat and passing on the Fruit Cake of the Orient, Moon Cakes. I enjoy them only because I score points by re-giving my box of "so yummy" moon cakes that my school gives me to others (foreigners excluded). I hate the things so much that moon cake and making moon cakes have become my favorite euphemisms for excrement and the process of extruding it, respectively.

Pomelos are larger than grapefruits and their taste is not as strong or tart. The character for pomelo (柚) has the same pronunciation as one character for blessing (佑). The pomelo season coincides with the Moon Festival and thus has become part of the ceremony. They make a hat of it because they really need a good reason to include this B-list fruit in something. Too bad durian isn't indigenous to Taiwan. Now there's a hat.

Grilling in Taiwan, as usual, is done with all the forethought of...oh say, including the Wonderbread headgear of fruit into a major festival. Because of the utter crappiness of their grills they recommend covering either the grill or food with foil. If you covered your grill, that would be baking or roasting, which could be indoors in the oven as well as on a flattop grill or in a device very much like a pan. But that would deny us the chance to squat in the street and burn things. So to clarify things, our good friends at The China Post ( no link because I know by now you already have it bookmarked) on Tuesday, page 20 instruct us that:

Zinc will melt at 460 degrees. The heavy metal, which is poisonous, is often
used to galvanize iron...Meat or fish have to be roasted at a temperature above
600 degrees Celcius.

That my friends, is 1112 degrees Fahrenheit. Safe holidays.

RIDING WITH KEVLAR

Watch the video

I WEAR A HELMET TO WORK!

Pit rock Money

The rock picking continues. In the background are fields of rice with all the rocks removed. This little patch kept one excavator and four trucks busy three days. Profit almost half a million nts. I can't figure out why the rocks are worth so much. I think I must be losing something in the translation. Do Tea houses buy these large boulders by the pound?

Don't step on the shoes!

What do you think of these shoes?

Humor

As week 4 of the NFL quickly approaches here's a link to a pretty funny article about Phil Simms.

Read and enjoy, thanks G for passing it on.