Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Anthony Bourdain on San Francisco: “it’s a two-fisted drinking town, a carnivorous meat-eating town,” and “anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me”. Hear, hear: Q. Favorite city for eating in the … Continue reading →

Orchard Road, Singapore’s rich-git shopping strip (the three near-identical Louis Vuitton stores within two blocks should give you some idea) has a problem: thousands of starlings like to nest in the trees beside the road and do what birds do … Continue reading →

Ten years ago today, self-described “news for nerds” site Slashdot proclaimed it “lame“; the Register said it “isn’t exactly innovatory“; and Wired (not-so-seriously) said “the only ‘breakthrough’ here is a growing desire to break a 2-by-4 over Steve Jobs’ skull“. … Continue reading →

Last week on Glee: Mike Chang gets an A-minus and his father flips his lid. This week in real life: The couple’s son is enrolled in an elite secondary school and has always done well enough to be among the top ten in his class. … Continue reading →

STOP PRESS: GREECE ACTIVATES RESCUE FUND TO SAVE PROTON BANK… CHEMISTRY-MINDED BANKERS PREPARE LAME TWITTER JOKES… “Greece has rescued the Proton bank!” “Are you sure?” “I’m positive!” Greece will rescue Neutron Bank as well, and they’ll do it for free. … Continue reading →

Presented without comment, from the Chaska Herald: An officer arrived and observed the cat was fine, but was stuck tight in the motor area. Tuna was used in order to entice the cat out. The cat loved the tuna, but … Continue reading →

It’s probably not nice to pick on my hometown paper two days in a row, but this one was just too good to pass up. Who says romance is dead? The Border Mail certainly doesn’t, in a probing report from … Continue reading →

STOP THE PRESSES, shouts the Border Mail, on what must’ve been a hell of a slow news day: Ken Edgar has been growing lemons for 11 years but none larger than the 1.36-kilogram giant he picked last week. And the … Continue reading →

Not news: thirteen people were arrested in Vancouver earlier this month – and thirteen cars impounded – for illegal street racing. News: three Gallardos, three Nissan GTRs, two Maserati GTs, an Audi R8, a DB9, a 599, an SL63 AMG, and an … Continue reading →

If you’re looking for great French wine in Singapore, but you want something different from the clichéd (and probably counterfeit) Lafites and Moutons, a mate of mine has recently launched KOT Selections – a niche wine import business that specialises … Continue reading →