I have been fascinated by History for a long time, and being a Chinese, I am also intrigue of the Chinese History and Culture.  I was browsing through the Wikipedia on Chinese History and came across this page, Timeline of Chinese History, it has a chronology on the History of China since the Peking Man, a 200k-750k years old remains found near today Beijing.  In the Chinese History Chronology, it started with Peking Man, dated some 400k years back.  Then at 7600BC, Archaeological evidence suggested domestication of pig for the first time.  At 7500BC, Analysis of Chinese rice residues show that rice had been domesticated by this time.  It seams to me that the Chinese has been eating pork 100 years before eating rice.  Isn’t it interesting, the rice, a staple food of the Chinese culture were preceded by the pork.  I guess we have been eating pork for so long that some of us has pig brains. 

Having followed the Fail Blog for some time, they never seams to be short of fail photos or events to share.  Here is my attempt to share a Fail situation I capture during my trip to Tokyo.  After considering more, this seams like a parking win than a parking fail, anyway, I was intrigue of the lack of space and the cleaver use of it. 

My next cube neighbor suddenly called out to me as his Facebook turn Japanese.  Somehow, he was clicking some Japanese profile and his entire Facebook page just turn Japanese on him.  He called out to me on how to change it back to English.  After going through the settings with him, I suddenly got an evil genius idea, punk someone who did not lock his laptop and change his Facebook into a foreign language.   A couple of hours passed, too busy to punk anyone.  Then opportunity comes when I was on my way to a meeting.  This friend of mine left his laptop unlock and went for a tea brake.  To my surprise, his Facebook was open tug away in one of his multiple windows.  Immediately, I changed his language to Japanese.  Then it daunted to me that he might know how to read Chinese, which share many characters with Japanese, and so I changed his Facebook language to Korean, which I am pretty sure he does not know how to read.  Unfortunately, I was not there to witness his expression when he discover his Facebook page has turned Japanese.

I later checked out the other languages on Facebook and found that the layout in Arabic was mirrored on the vertical axis.  This makes the entire Facebook page looked totally foreign.  Changing just the language is already funny, imagine if get to change the layout to something different will draw a total blank look.  I hope the person falls off his chair.  And so my evil genius mind sets the target to find a victim tomorrow.  I just can’t wait.  Oh, I also need to check with my friend who got punk today, see what is his reaction.

Note To Self: Lock Notebook all the Time…

A stranger was seated next to a little girl on the
airplane when the stranger turned to her and said,
‘Let’s talk. I’ve heard that flights go quicker if you
strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.’
The little girl, who had just opened her book, closed
it slowly and said to the stranger, ‘What would you
like to talk about?’

‘Oh, I don’t know,’ said the stranger. ‘How about
nuclear power?’ and he smiles.
OK, ‘ she said. ‘That could be an interesting topic..
But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow,
and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass – . Yet a
deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a
flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried
grass. Why do you suppose that is?’

The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl’s
intelligence, thinks about it and says, ‘Hmmm, I have
no idea.’

To which the little girl replies, ‘Do you really feel
qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don’t know
shit?

Source: Joke forwarded to me by mail this morning.

I belong to a club of the few who fought Sylar and walk away to tell the tale.  That’s a tale for another day, for now, I am glad to walk away from Sylar and now recuperating in hiding, for sure, for once he failed, he will try again…