Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

I paid $2k for WHAT??

November 01, 2006, 4:15 am

So an interlude between China stories, with pictures. I come home after two weeks to this:

Which eventually became:

Without, as you can tell by his position in the pictures, any help with the other occupant of this room.

And yet with a treat of a Green Tea Red Bean Icee from Ten Ren, the aforementioned bum bribed me into getting this present:

To which he used up the extra hour gained over the weekend, and then some, to promptly add XP and Fedora to it. There was a moment of panic when, upon restarting after the successful installation of XP, the system automatically booted Windows without any prompt. Nooo! What have you done?? It’s...ruined!