The smell of “Stinky Tofu” is sometimes described as rotten garbage. After hearing that, I had to try it. I’ve had it before in the United States, and it was indeed a little stinky. I was told that real Stinky Tofu is in Taiwan, so what better place to go than a Night Market in Taiwan!

The taste of this local fare was quite good, but the smell is quite the opposite. I think “rotten garbage” is kind of a harsh description. To me, it smelled more like old, musty, and slightly mildewed gym socks. The image on the right can be enlarged if you click it, but alas, it is not scratch-n-sniff.

(The other dish in the picture is fried eel noodles…also good.)

June 15th, 2009 by DS2 | 2 Comments »

Ever since the “literal versions” of music videos on YouTube, I have become a huge fan of related works. This video by Mike Polk was an attempt at making a tourism video for his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. But, instead of jazzing it up and going all out, he hastily put it together at the last minute. Instead of embellishing on the truth, he sticks to what is literally in Cleveland and what is factually true about it. Really! It only has two buildings!

Alas, the tourismn board did not like his 1st video. In his second attempt, he reveals more truths about Cleveland and hand-crafts each line to be comedy gold!

“Our main export is Crippling Depression!“

May 29th, 2009 by DS2 | No Comments »

There’s a lot of fancy technology nowadays that makes our lives a lot safer. For example, my friend told me about a cruise control system on a new car: it will sense that you are approaching a car, automatically slow down, then resume your previous speed when the car is no longer an obstruction! 

But with all of that, treadmills today simply cannot shut off after sensing that a human body has just slammed into it. But maybe it’s better that way…

 

…because the videos are just pretty funny.  =)

May 19th, 2009 by DS2 | 1 Comment »

I’m not a mathematician either, but I would think that if I were Verizon and billing customers was my business, then I would train people to know how to convert cents to dollars. Imagine if you this conversation was between someone who uses a LOT of internet bandwidth…both of the representatives would be SCREWED!

“It’s obviously a difference of opinion.”  LOL!

April 24th, 2009 by DS2 | 1 Comment »