Monthly Archives: May 2008

a spanner in the works

Damn it. Another charge-back.
Terry Bennett ran a home-based mail order company selling a famous brand of spanners. Terry had worked for a major steelworking company before his company had been bought by a larger company who manufactured in China, and already had their own sales force. When Terry looked into the Chinese manufacturer, he came [...]

random internet sightings

Just some cool things from around the internet:
“There’s nothing more better for mine own mental health that the throwing of a great party.”
-Sigmund Freud
Freud loved nothing more than a get together with his friends. What if I told you there was a way to have a great dinner party without: cleaning your house, cooking a [...]

margaritas and donuts, man

Last night, I enjoyed the spoils of ill-gotten goods. There’s an ezine here that has a competition to guess where a picture was taken. This week’s was obviously inside a gogo bar, but of course being the upright citizen that I am, had no idea, so didn’t even bother entering a guess. Last week Mint [...]

and lo, he did fix the email subscription

So yeah. If you rely on email updates, you should probably know that I broke them, and only just fixed them.
These are the posts I made while emails were broked:
http://www.chuckler.org/blog/2008/05/23/hollywood-disappointments/
http://www.chuckler.org/blog/2008/05/20/american-breakfasts/
 
Peace!

Hollywood disappointments

I’m getting kinda disenfranchised with Hollywood.
You may recall, a while ago I read “The Devil Wears Prada” and enjoyed it. Then I saw the POS movie and thought “wtf?”.
Maybe a year ago I read “Bringing Down the House” and thought it was awesome. This week I saw the POS movie “21″ and thought “gay.”
I couldn’t [...]

American Breakfasts

Many three to five-star hotels advertise an “American Breakfast”, usually as part of your room charge. It’s commonly a buffet-style setup which also includes Thai-type foods grouped in their own section.
Often, grouped with the “American” breakfast foods are the following:

Grilled tomatoes
Baked beans
Hot dog frankfurters or Vienna sausages
Salads (lettuce with all the veggie additions you can add, [...]

Flights for Christmas 2008

I’ve got my flights for Christmas 2008, folks. You know what they say … be prepared, plan ahead blah blah.
11-Dec-08 dep Bangkok 1320,  arr Brunei 1710 on BI516
12-Dec-08 dep Brunei 1115, arr Brisbane 1950 on BI071
28-Dec-08 dep Brisbane 1225, arr Brunei 1720 on BI072
29-Dec-08 dep Brunei 1045, arr Bangkok 1230 on BI515
Free hotel in Brunei [...]

New Lee Child book out

I can’t believe I’ve just noticed the new Lee Child book, Nothing to Lose, in the bookshops. I think the problem is that a lot of the titles sound the same, and a lot of the covers look the same, in design. So I think I’ve noticed it for a while now, and though, “oh [...]

May Day

Time for an update to the ol’ blogarino. It’s May Day in Queensland today, so most of my peeps are off work today, luxuriating in laziness. It’s a holiday today in Thailand too: Coronation day. Which is unfortunate.
You see, last night our air con stopped spitting out cold air. Which in Bangkok, in the hot [...]