January 2012
2 posts
Spartacus! →
Spartacus! January 27th! Woohoo!
December 2011
8 posts
Office party was fun.I fun. I feel food coma is about to set in.
iNuke Boom →
700 pound iPod dock… Why?
Auto-correct fails →
I know a few people who can relate….
Condom Dress →
Latex fashion.
Dog shoots hunter with shotgun. →
Ouch.
November 2011
5 posts
Exploding iPhone... →
Watch“Snow White and the Huntsman” I may have to see this….
Halloween
Halloween afternoon we went here: Rheinfall. Halloween evening we went to Bora Sauna in Germany. They had a Halloween special. We did 5 different types of sauna:
A normal one for 20 minutes
“Chainsaw” 4 guys come in wearing hockey masks, one with a toy chainsaw. They cut off the head of the “tall” guy which turns out to be a block of ice. They throw the ice on ...
October 2011
8 posts
Swiss Security
It seems the Swiss are VERY serious about security. Some might say “fanatical”. To access wifi I need to enter a 16 character passphrase.
For online banking you need an 8 character minimum password, with at least 1 number and 1 special character, and a 6 digit pin number. After entering the password and pin on the web page, a text is sent to your phone. You enter the pass code...
Switzerland
I made to Switzerland. The trip here was pretty good considering it didn’t start out too well.
I arrived in Sacramento airport 2 hours before my flight. I went to the airline located in the brand new terminal B (Nice terminal BTW), specified by my itinerary. Found out it was the wrong airline. I was on an airline terminal A. Luckily terminal A and B are connected via the parking...
How do you order a vodka cranberry in Swiss?…. My bad, Swiss-German.
I’m in Switzerland!
Sake Fest 2011
Sake Fest was excellent. I didn’t take any pictures because I was too focused on saké, shochu, and sushi… with the occasional Japanese malt.
September 2011
1 post
Treehotel →
Looks promising. If they get more “rooms” and add a few more activities, I might visit.
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
4 posts
Elephants in Reception →
It seems when the Mfuwe lodge in Zambia was built, they unwittingly built it on a path that a herd of elephants take to their favorite mango trees. Instead of walking around, the elephants cut through the lobby.
I may have to visit here…
WatchSan Jose goalie scores 90 yard goal.
Foursquare Teams Up With Living Social, Gilt For... →
June 2011
4 posts
Tumblr Logins Stolen In Widespread Phishing Attack →
Sake Fest 2011
Sake Fest 2011 will be held on Wednesday, October 12 at the Sheraton Grand Hotel. Woohoo! More info to follow.
WatchAnother “Don’t try this at home” video.
Woman Dies At Her Own Funeral →
She wasn’t quite dead yet, but her funeral did her in… Really, read the story.
May 2011
1 post
Canceled Shows
CANCELED SHOWS, BY NETWORK: ABC ‘Better With You’ ‘Brothers & Sisters’ ‘Detroit 1-8-7’ ‘Mr. Sunshine’ ‘My Generation’ ‘No Ordinary Family’ ‘Off the Map’ ‘V’ NBC ‘America’s Next Great Restaurant’ ‘The Cape’ ‘Chase’ ‘The Event’ ...
April 2011
122 posts
Thailand trip
For those of you who didn’t get the link to my Thailand pics and short blog, here it is:
http://home.surewest.net/richard916/4201/4264.html
Dam time zone change. I still haven’t readjusted….
WatchI meant to upload this days ago. Technical difficulties. Anyway, here’s a clip of one leg of the zip ride.
Mellow day
Today is my day to relax. It started off with a 30 minute herbal steam followed by a 90 minute Aromatic massage. Need I say it was great. Then lunch: spring rolls and wok-fried rice with crab. Afterward, I walked around the resort and took a few pictures. I think I’ll spend the rest of the afternoon on my outdoor pavilion watching the rice grow.
Songkran
I attended the first day of Songkran. I made it to Chiang Mai, but I didn’t make it to old town. It rained for a bit but that didn’t matter because this is the Water Festival.
I still didn’t get all the pictures I wanted. The wasn’t due to a lack of water fights because they were on any main street. It was just everything happens so quickly, by the time I’m ready...
