Dead or Alive?

The other day I tried this Celebrity are they dead or alive quiz and managed to get 17 correct, how did you do? You might be surprised to see who is or isn't dead these days. Sadly the quiz had no mention of undead celebs. If you're really keen on keeping up with which celebs are dying when it's news you can always sign up for the Celebrity Death Beeper. If you sign up for the service they'll email you headlines/news when a celebrity dies, be prepared though, it's not just a-listers who buy it.

Speaking of dead celebs this past weekend at the age of 69 Evel Knievel died, sadly of natural causes. With him gone who will pilot, or at least attempt to pilot, our rocket powered motorcycles over the gorges and canyons of the world?

If you've got someone on your giftmas shopping list who's into the strange & unusual you may want to consider getting them something from the Ship of Fools 12 Days of Kitschmas list, a collection of some of the finest gift ideas ever assembled on one smart ass website.

If that doesn't do it for you, how about a board game based on the classic Christmas movie, A Christmas Story? Maybe this year I'll finally get that Daisy Red Ryder 500 shot carbine action BB gun I been asking for so long.

If a Red Ryder is a little to butch and underpowered for you, maybe you need something from the good people over at Glam Guns like this sweet Hello Kitty decorated AK?

Well that's her for today - how's about I leave with a little video of Adam West Batman rocking a little sweet Batusi action?

Until Next time.

Back in Black



Well after over a month I'm back on the blog; where have I been you ask? Well what's it to you? You a cop or something?


No matter I've been halfway around the world and back again brothers and sisters, I've been to the Hong Kong Airport (twice), Singapore, the Gopeng/Ipoh region in Malaysia, Betong Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, Wapekeka and last week Toronto & Thunder Bay. So I've been busy . . . and lazy . . . and not that motivated. It happens.

But yeah I'm back now and hopefully will be more regular on here . . . but we'll see no promises eh. But at least I'm here today and today we're going to explore some stuff on Google Maps. We'll start with a map showing the hotel we stayed at in Singapore, the Perak Hotel. Here's a map of our home base in Malaysia the town of Gopeng.

Here's a map showing our Thai stop over Betong.

This is a map showing where we stayed (the Mariott) in Kuala Lumpur which was a short cab ride away from the Petronas Towers (5 Ringatt to get there, 15 to get back). If you haven't seen the towers here they are on a map.

Enough vacation, how about some work stuff? In alphabetical order here are the communities I go to for work, starting with a map of Kasabonika Lake and here's the community website. From Kas it's off to Kingfisher Lake and here's their community map. After Kingfisher it's off to Wapekeka (aka Angling Lake) to check out their community from space. These three communities all have pretty good resolution in their maps and you can zoom in quite close although I can say for certain that the map of Kas is over a year out of date.

Now we're off to Wawakapewin (aka Longdog) their map doesn't have the detail of the last three but the community is pretty small with a road, a few other pubic buildings, a water pump house and a diesel generator. And trust me it's not the best place to get weathered in over the weekend.

Our last stop will be Wunnumin Lake, where again their map is lacking in a lot of detail. I can only assume that there isn't much mineral exploration going in the area.

Ain't Google Maps grand?

Until next time.