Posts from October 2004
October 31, 2004
Good financial advice
I was looking through Forumosa today and saw this post.
Forumosa.com Forum Index >> Business & Money
rassie: I saved some money during the past 2 months. How can I double it before spending it again.
Bu Lai En: Save for another two months.
Now that's funny.
October 28, 2004
A dream come true?
Today I happened to stumble upon this interesting headline: "Mexico Drafting Army Of Cats."
This seemed especially relevant because a dozen years ago I sat down on a pebbled beach one morning in Nice, France, with my future wife, Irene, and told her about this really amazing dream I had the night before. "You have to write it down!" she said. So I did, and actually got it published in a book.
Here you go..."The Great French Cat Army."
Your case or mine?
A friend was asking me about what ever happened to Beauty4, a pop group I started and produced a few years back, and then I remembered this article I wrote for the newspaper about people being busy in Taipei, and how it all started, sort of.
October 27, 2004
#1 in something...again
Hey, this is quite a month. 3q2u is #1 on Google again for this interesting combination of words - "gooey scented erasers." Woo hoo.
October 24, 2004
She'll get over it...
I told Maria to stop calling me, that it was over for real this time. I was going back to Anna.
October 23, 2004
Double-u-tee-eff?
Jeroen told me about this hilarious flash animation done by some 18yr old kid. Nike thought it was way cool, finds the kid, and has him do a whole Nike series of similar animations for them. Nice sell out.
Note: When you watch the first animation, there's a blatant I-know-nothing-about-Asia-at-all-doh blunder, where he talks about the Chinese, but depicts them bathing in an onsen under a Japanese flag. I found that pretty funny. Maybe this is the true hidden Chinese psyche. It sure is for the Taiwanese.
October 22, 2004
5 Japanese jazz musicians
2 guys from Hokkaido, 2 guys from Nagoya, 1 guy from Okinawa.
October 18, 2004
Bush + Busey + Ferrets = ?
"Leave it to Bush" is a weird little flash cartoon that uses ferrets and the real voices of Gary Busey and George W. Bush to make a point about campaign finance reform. Or butt sex. Or maybe both.
[From: memepool.com]
October 17, 2004
#1 in something
Hey, it always nice being #1 in something.
Today 3q2u is #1 on Google for the search term "cool jail entertainment."
You never know what you will become #1 for...
In other news:
--the weather is finally to the point where you can actually put on something when planning to go out rather than thinking about taking something off.
--it didn't rain for the first Double 10 day in 15 years.
--my dogs have learned that chasing scooters out of our alley is cool jail entertainment.
--tonight the staff are going to Sound of Music. I'll pass and veg at a coffee shop or hang out with Jerry, or maybe just sit on the corner of Ren Ai and Keelung and watch traffic. The hills are not alive for me tonight.
--I've transferred some of my jazz improvisational skills over to shot making.
When Keiji and Eiji were in town (see below) we drank far too much, and part of my 3rd stage of enlightenment was creating shots based on the names of famous jazz standards with some color in them. (On Green Dolphin Street, Society Red, Kind of Blue, Black Nile, etc). 2 of the shots were actually delicious, and will probably make it to the Living Room menu.
October 15, 2004
Top of Taipei 101!
Today my friends Keiji and Eiji visited from Taichung, where they are playing the Taichung Jazz Festival with jazz singer, Akiko.
They were the first people to get to the top of Taipei 101!!
Here are 2 photos to prove it!
October 09, 2004
Grease on the go
Albert is one of those friendly spammers who puts you on his gee-my-friends-would-love-to-see-this list and bombards you with garbage. So he gets filtered on my server, and on my local machine.
So I figure, if it gets through 2 spam filters, It's worth a look.
Today I got the McDonald's truck, which I thought was pretty funny.
Warning: Toxic grease can get through two spam filters.
October 06, 2004
200.23.9.90
This entry in my search logs was kind of funny in a geeky sort of way...
2004.09.06 21:47:27 200.23.9.90 Search: query for '200.23.9.90'
Kia K2700
The K2700 is also quite good for hauling farm girls back and forth to the city to work at auto shows...
October 02, 2004
Hit No. 258
I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
