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- Pattaya Rag Quiz sponsored by Club Blu (opens in just 6 days)
I will post questions most days from my Jan 19 post until Jan 30. You should e-mail your answers to me at pattaya.rag@gmail.com . You can e-mail me each time there are questions are you can mail me one time with all answers before midnight (Thai time) Jan 31. The questions will be sequentially numbered so you will know if you've missed any. Include in the mail the name you want to be known by if you win. I don't want to use a mail address to identify the winner. The winner will be announced on Feb 1.
The prize for the most correct answers is a free 'barf' in Club Blu so it will be of most interest to residents and regular visitors to Thailand. Here's the next two questions:
Q12. What are the first names of the twin girls in Bart`s class in The Simpsons?
Q13. What was the name of Yuri Gagarin`s space ship?
Note: Barf covers the barfine only and not ST/LT fees. Also, it's up to you to get your choice to say "yes".
- A bus packed with passengers heading to a funeral tumbled down a mountain in western Thailand on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring 26 others, police said. The accident occurred after the driver lost control of the bus in Kanchanaburi province, about 131 miles west of the capital, Bangkok, said police Gen. Raewat Klinkaeson. The driver then fled the scene, he said.
"It is a steep path down and we are investigating if the accident occurred because the brakes failed or if the driver was negligent," he said.
About 40 passengers from Pathum Thani province near Bangkok were on their way to a funeral of a respected abbot in Sangklaburi district when the accident occurred, he said. [via L.A. Times]
- Thai pharmacist Krisana Kraisintu has been named Reader's Digest Asian of the Year for 2008 for her tireless work on researching and manufacturing generic HIV-Aids and malaria treatment drugs [via Bangkok Post]
- Major Police and Army Operation took place at the Samaer San Beach area in Sattahip. A sweep of the area took place and at the end of the operation, the Police informed us that 28 illegal immigrants, 7 suspected drug dealers, 10 drug users and 2 men were caught with guns. 214 Yabba Tablets were seized in the operation which was declared a success by the General. [via Pattaya City News]
- Julie Benz on Rambo - "In Rambo," she deadpans, "I play ... Rambo. Okay, okay, I play a missionary, and I come to the northern part of Thailand, and I want to go into Burma with my missionary pals to bring medical supplies to the people who are being massively killed, because there has been mass genocide in that part of the world for over 60 years. "So we convince Rambo to take us into Burma, and once we get there we end up being kidnapped by the Burmese military, and then he has to come back as a mercenary to try and kill them all."
After all those weeks roughing it on location in Thailand, she was just as happy to leave it all behind. And that's all of it ...
"They told me I could keep my wardrobe, that it was in my contract," she says, rolling her eyes. "And I'm like, `Who put that in?' I mean, seriously, a dirty, smelly tank-top, with bugs crawling in it? My wardrobe from Rambo could have walked away on its own." [via TheStar]
- Google Document Uploader - Google has just release a document list uploader to help you upload your stuff in large batches, and this is one smart move, since I had some frustration a while back because of this. Nevertheless, this application is much more that meets the eye.
All you need to do is enter your email address, your password and off you go, you can even get it to place a menu entry into the right-click menu, so you can upload things on the fly. Ok-ok, so why is it more than meets the eye?
The reason I think this is so awesome is that this app is just a sample of what you can do with the Google Api. You can find this app in the articles and tutorials section in the Google Code FAQ, and they have a very extensive and helpful article on the subject. Apart from letting you get to know the uploader, it shows you how to modify the code, how to create balloon tooltips, system tray apps, and a whole host of features.
Google is earning more and more respect in my eyes (it already has a lot) with these new steps they are taking. A few years back we would never have dreamed about this, can you imagine Microsoft creating a public api for anything? Well perhaps in time they will, all thanks to Google. [via gHacks]
- Preview file information with InfoTag Magic - wish you could find out more about a file without actually, you know, opening it? InfoTag Magic is Windows shell extension utility that lets you read file information for certain file types just by hovering your mouse over a file.
For example, with music files including MP3, WAM, OGG Vorbis, and other audio types, InfoTag Magic will show you the ID3 information including artist, title, album, duration, and year.
With plain text files including TXT, INI, LOG, and BAT files, InfoTag Magic will display a preview of the text contained in the file when you hover your mouse. The program will also display properties like target file name and location for Windows shortcuts and version information for executable files. [via DownLoadSquad]
- Aden Bianco in Playboy
- Keley Hazell and friends in 2008 Page 3 calendar outtakes
- The best Lady Boys in Bangkok on YouTube
- A stand-in minister is doing the rounds and goes into a Scottish hospital as a stand-in for the hospital priest.
He's being escorted around one of the wards, goes up to a patient who immediately launches into a rendition of "Wee cowerin' timourous beastie".
The minister, not being able to get a word in, goes to the next bed where the patient launches into "You take the high road and I'll take the low road and I'll be in Scotland afore ye!"
The minister, now rather troubled goes to the next bed and gets assailed with "On the bonnie banks of loch lomond" followed by "Get down South you Sassenachs!"
Finally the whole ward resounds to "Wahay the Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie and Rabbie the Baird and the Lord of the Isles!"
The minister looks at the Doctor and asks "Why are they all spouting Scottish poetry and the like? Is this the mental wing?"
"No," says the Doc - "this is the Serious Burns Unit!"
[Sent in by ChangFai]
- Two friends, a blonde and a redhead, are walking down the street and pass a flower shop where the redhead sees her boyfriend buying her flowers.
The redhead sighs and says: "Oh crap, my boyfriend is buying me flowers again".
The blonde looks quizzically at her and says: "You don't like getting flowers from your boyfriend"?
The redhead replies: "I love getting flowers, but he always has expectations after giving me flowers, and I just don't feel like spending the next three days on my back with my legs in the air".
The blonde says: ........"Don't you have a vase"?
