Saturday, March 26, 2005

Meet the Chinese Beatles



I found this great Beatles' album cover at Tony Fletcher's iJamming. There are two interesting details I should point out:

1. Notice all the band member's eyes? They have been changed to make them look more "Asianized" (and in John Lennon's case, more stoned).

2. The phonetic translation of the band name "beatles", actually means "diheveled hair" in Chinese.

= diheveled hair (often referring to an untidy woman)

I wonder if their songs have been changed too. Perhaps to fit the Asian stereotype, and replaced all "L" with "R" sound or vice versa, just like in the movie Team American World Police.

Personally I would love to hear these classics:

"R"ove Me Do
She "R"oves You
Can't Buy Me "R"ove
Ticket to "L"ide
E"R"eanor "L"igby
Penny "R"ane
All You Need Is "R"ove
"R"ady Madonna
"R"et It Be
The "R"ong and Winding "L"oad
Ob-"R"a-Di, Ob-"R"a-Da
Ju"R"ia
"R"ong, "R"ong, "R"ong
"L"evo"R"ution

and last but not least:

Sgt. Pepper's "R"one"R"y Hearts C"R"ub Band

Thursday, March 24, 2005

I Survived the Great Wall in Arizona

There is an American quote: "Why buy the cow, when you could get milk for free?"

That indeed is a great question.

Why would you go to China and climb the Great Wall, when you could just get a t-shirt at an Urban Outfitters store in middle of Arizona?!

It is nice to know that the t-shirts are made in U.S.A. Fighting American jobs from oversea outsourcing one t-shirt at a time!



= China

= I; me; myself
= rise, mount, board, climb
= top; superior, highest; go up, send up
= the Great Wall



Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Ticketmaster's Hidden Fees


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The hidden fees by Ticketmaster is a bit out of control.

I have ordered two tickets to see the band Cake perform this Thursday. The ticket price advertised on Ticketmaster's website and local radio station's commercials said it is $15 per ticket.

But I after I placed the order via Ticketmaster's website, the total became $45 with all the hidden fees! That is $15 of fees, which is the same price as another ticket.

Thursday, March 3, 2005

Weight Estimation



We all know obesity is a problem in United States. Whenever I see a large person, two questions would automatically pop into my head:

1. How much does this person weigh?
2. How did it happen?

The second question is usually very easy to answer, but the weight question is a little tricky. Since it is socially unacceptable to directly ask a person about his/her weight, I usually try to calculate an estimation in my head.

The person in the photo is about 5' 6" tall. Using the drag-along bag as a reference scale, her hip is about 30.5" and her shoulder is about 20.8" wide. Judging by her body shape, the hip's widest point is about 40% of her total height, therefore it is about 26.4" above from the ground.

Assume her upper body is cone shaped with its base diameter to be the average of shoulder and hip width, her upper body volume is:

V_upperbody = (1/3)*(pi)* (39.6")*[(30.5"+20.8") /4]^2
V_upperbody = 6821 in^3

Since her lower body is not as filled of a cone-shape as her upper body, her lower body volume would be halfed:

V_lowerbody = (1/2)*(1/3)*(pi)*(26.4")*[(30.5"+20.8")/4]^2
V_lowerbody = 2274 in^3

The total volume is:

V_total = V_upperbody+V_lowerbody
V_total = 9095 in^3 (or 0.149 m^3)

Assuming human flesh is the same density as ground beef (950 kg/m^3), her body weight would be:

Weight = (0.149)*(950)

Weight = 141.6 kg (or 318.2 lbs)

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

Boobs at Wal-Mart



Prices are not the only things lowered at Wal-Mart.

Sunday, February 13, 2005

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

2005 Work-Place Vocabulary

TESTICULATING: Waving your arms around and talking Bollocks.



BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.



SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.



ASSMOSIS: The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.



SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.



CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.



PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see that's going on. (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake.)



MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.



SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".



STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.



PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.



ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded

"administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.



404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.



OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realise that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all').



GOING FOR A McSHIT: Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.



AUSSIE KISS: Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.



BEER COAT: The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3am in the morning.



BEER COMPASS: The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.



BOBFOC: Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.



BREAKING THE SEAL: Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.



GREYHOUND: A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.



JOHNNY-NO-STARS: A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.



MILLENNIUM DOMES: The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually nought in there worth seeing.



MONKEY BATH: A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo! Oo! Ho! Aa!Aa!Aa!".



MYSTERY BUS: The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.



MYSTERY TAXI: The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.



SALAD DODGER: An excellent phrase for an overweight person.



(thanks to Stefan)