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Hong Kong -- it's always cheaper than you expect.
We all know life's not, umm, fair in HK if you're foreign (doubly if you're Asian & foreign). Sometimes it can be unfair in your favor, but never where money is involved. So remain vigilant lol! Shop around and no matter how nice someone is to your face, put 2 and 2 together.The first case was a common scenario: special order, imported goods. ( Read more... ) -
Fiasco!!
I imagine many of you have heard, but, I had to say *staring at all Montreal LJers* that the Stooges (of Iggy fame) have had their gear stolen... as in all of it. It was last seen outside a club in Montreal! this site has gorgeous photos of it all. I have to say, I'm pretty out of touch with what the Stooges have been doing for ten years or so, but ( Read more... ) -
More Mechanical Turkic!
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Enter the Mechanical Turk, a new way to lower costs and decrease liabilities! Why pay benefits when you can simply increase Human Intelligence Task efficiency? Remember, your employees aren't human beings like you or I, they're just random moments of brain matter, waiting eagerly to be slotted into your need-fulfillment matrix, then forgotten about ( Read more... ) -
wok!
Poker Teacher (August 21/07)
Cardshark needed!!! (Seasoned, knowledgable player--no impostes!!) I need someone to teach me and a group of my friends how to play Texas Hold'em. We are working on a project and need to understand the game of poker and what research we are doing online an with books just isn't cutting it! We'll pay a one time fee of $ ( Read more... ) -
for every action there is an equal and oppposite reaction?
So there I was, about to enjoy youtube's latest sure-to-be-meme, when I notice a link in the "Related" list -- oddly -- a pretty intense photo illustrated what I presumed to be gangsta rap by a man named KITTY KAT -- so I just had to check it out of course! :D Well, clicking this led to this, which led me to type "b-tight nazi" into google, which ( Read more... ) -
C'est incroyable!
...that's all i can ever think of when I see french. I just love the word incroyable ( Read more... ) -
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Ugh, I am so SO sorry i've been so LJ-delinquent again... coming back here reminds me how hopelessly cool all of my friends are. it's fucking great! :D all I really have to add today, aside from guilt, is that HK may not always feel like much of an adventure, but damnit, sometimes a bowl of COOKIE CRISP in the morning makes one appreciate feeling ( Read more... ) -
i triumphantly return with a copout!
The Case Against Babies
...this is not only the most easy-to-read explanation of this most important, mostmostmost important, most imporatnt thought of all-time, it is also the first use of the word "wombrismo" (seems like it should be "wombismo" but i guess the former rolls off the tongue better!) i have ever seen. Fucking Champ!!!I'm so glad ( Read more... )