Archive for May, 2006

Overheard: “You ever heard of waitress service?”

Monday, May 8th, 2006

I decided to pop into The King tonight and purchase a delicious double cheeseburger. There was a rather large, and, as it turns out, rather surly man in line ahead of us. We walked in right after he ordered, and the girl behind the counter was giving him his tray of food. The man wanted [...]

Note to self: never shake the bucket of nuts before you’re tied to the yak rope

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Truer words have never been spoken. This BBC article quotes Time Asia, reporting about a unique new tourist attraction in India. Apparently run (and started?) by one man (Peter Dorje), this “sport” entails going up on a mountain with a bunch of yaks, attaching yourself to a rope and a pulley mechanism, shaking a bucket [...]