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Settling for Less

Ok, so a few of you expressed some, shall we say, reluctance at my suggestion of the $3 million lifetime airline pass. So, I've lowered my sights just a hair. Checkit:

For a mere $150,000, you guys can set me up with the ultimate Burning Man digs. An AirStream RV bedecked with as much Hello Kitty finery as you could possibly imagine, including a pink faux-fur bed, couches, and all sorts of electronics like a TV and DVD player. As they say in the Yahoo Auction Listing, "From sea to shining sea, travel first class and always in the pink." I luhv it...I want it.

What I want for Christmas

I think I should preface this posting with the following: This is not a joke. This is for real.

For sale: An unlimited, lifetime, first-class pass on any and all American Airlines flights worldwide. Period. Forever. Oh, and it's $3 million dollars. I think the back of the card also says "This card entitles the holder to ask any American Airlines employee to kiss your ass on demand." But maybe I'm just dreaming that part.

This is the ultimate Bomad accessory. And I want it. Really bad. This is all I want this year. In fact, you can all pitch in a few bucks and make it a group gift. I promise I won't whine about not having enough to unwrap.

Click the picture to the left for more details. Or just click here.

Oh, the variety of restaurants...

It's not just the variety of cuisines here in Asia that intrigues me, but the entirely different ways of eating, too.

My Pilgramage

Right now, I'm in Singapore at what must surely be the Mecca of technology--Tecca, if you will.
The photo I took with my Treo doesn't begin to capture the madness in which I'm standing. So imagine this:

A sweeping eight story open atrium mall packed to the gills with innumerable scrappy technology vendors selling everything from flat-panel G5 iMacs to illegal boxes used to clone mobile phones. And filling the void between the virtually indistinguishable shops (each one competitively blaring unsustainable volumes of high-NRG techno in a vain attempt to 'stand out') are even more insane shops selling spindles of recordable CDs and DVDs, stacked by the million (quite literally) in MiniVan sized piles.

I'll never feel this way again.

Un-American

This one came in by email from Kate Madden. I liked it.

"I thought of you after running across this song/music video today, and I
wanted to share it with you. A fellow Disorient camp member from Burning Man
created it...compelling message."

http://www.sharedvoice.org/unamerican/

Signs

Time to play "guessing game!" Yeah! Everyone ready? Let's GO! What's salty, stringy, trichinosis-ridden and fabulous for the health of your teeth and gums? That's right, Pork Floss!

Man, you gotta love the signage here in Asia. Get ready. This is just the first of many to come...

Wife 2.0

She's gone and done it again. Ever intent on improving upon her own natural beauty, my wife has taken on a new...decoration. Click here for a hilarious (and brief) pictorial essay. Moms and Dads, you may want to sit down first...

A victory for P2P

Life is gorgeous here in Croatia, but it's hard to be so incredibly out of touch. I think my last posting was nearly a week ago. As they say, beauty has its costs. While reviewing news, I came across this of interest:

I know some of you are upset with the use of peer-to-peer file sharing technology (Napster, Kazaa, etc) and feel that it only serves to encourage piracy and undermine the hard work of legitimate copyright holders. I hold the contrasting opinion: that overregulation of early-stage technologies in the name of protecting vested interests is the surest way to crush innovation.

Fortunately, the courts agree with me!

Fresh faces

Y'all may have noticed some new names appearing in the discussions lately. Turns out bomad is no longer just a cottage, but a budding village. Thanks to David Allan, "Italy is a third-world country" is now linked from the main page of Fodor's. That, of course, led to many more links in the past few days and...well...let's just say Metcalf's Law holds true.

Welcome newbies...

CIA Asks Bush to Discontinue Blog

"WASHINGTON, DC—In the interest of national security, President Bush has been asked to stop posting entries on his three-month-old personal web log, acting CIA director John E. McLaughlin said Monday."

Sometimes The Onion really hits it on the head.

Click here for the full article.