Category Archives: technology

Superstitions a la Carte

November 13, 2020 – 1:43 pm

Thais have more superstitions about food than the Irish have about the clúrachán, a mischievous fairy, messing with beer and Whiskey. Here’s a short list of Thai don’ts. Eating a double banana will give a woman twins, which must be tough for those showgirls doing the banana tricks at go-gos. Eating before your elders will […]

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Untying The Knot Of Thai Wires

December 11, 2017 – 6:02 pm

Last year Microsoft’s Bill Gates visited Thailand and upon seeing the tangles of wires hanging over the streets complained about the masses stealing electricity from the power companies. The Harvard drop-out is considered to be one of the richest men in the world and in his youth spent hours developing new phones and computers, so […]

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Sex Space No-No

July 24, 2016 – 4:19 am

Newton’s 3rd Law of motion is succinctly described as every motion creates an opposite motion and scientist have cited the absolutism of this law as proof that man can not have sex in Space. The more you try to enter the farther you go from your destination in the state of weightlessness. Foreplay should to […]

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Where Are We?

July 4, 2016 – 10:57 am

I spotted these four tourists on 6th Avenue and 58th Street in Midtown Manhattan. All four were on their cell phones, trying to figure out where they were. I almost helped them, but realized their impoverished sense of direction was a curse of GPS and they were better off lost. Stupid. Of course, since no […]

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Edison Versus Tesla

June 8, 2016 – 9:23 am

Edison created the lightbulb. Tesla discovered the universe. More than light.

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