Disney used to have pictures for you to buy after completing your ride, but now instead of paying $20 for a crappy quality print, they let you email yourself the pictures for free.
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To Infinity And Beyond
Month: July 2008
Singer David Lin (æž—é“é ) Starts Subway Diet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeVC0970T-I
“Taiwan Idol” singer David Lin is going to spend 60 days on a Subway diet to try to lose 10kg. Above is his first video report on going to the hospital for his first weigh-in.
Going back to cali…
For those not paying attention to my twitter account, we’re headed to California tomorrow morning. We’ll be visiting Santa Barbara, San Jose, and Anaheim. I’ll be there for two weeks and Maggie and Emily will be there for four weeks. Emily will spend one week at Summer Camp in San Jose and another week of Summer Camp in Santa Barbara. I’ll leave it to your best guess what we will be doing in Anaheim. 😉
I’ve set up a trip schedule wiki so you can see what we’ll be up to. If you are around we would love to get together with you. The wiki is editable so you can pencil in a suggested meetup if you want to do something. Just hit the edit button next to the day and write whatever you want. Please give some idea who it is that is talking though.
YouTube: SUBWAY™天天6å‹$69(97å¹´å¤å¤©ï¼‰
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2tf2Tnj-s
SUBWAYâ„¢ Taiwan offers the TW$69 Sub of the Day for a limited time at all participating restaurants. This is the new Summer 2008 TV advertisement used for this promotion.
The SUBWAYâ„¢ trademarks are owned by Doctor’s Associates Inc. and the independent franchised operator of this restaurant is a licensed user of such trademarks.
What a real public transportation system looks like
This exercise probably won’t be very enlightening to my readers in Taipei who are used to good public transportation, but for those in the US who are saddled with barely functioning public transportation systems, I’d like you to imagine a trip like the following and estimate how long it would take you using solely public transportation of the sort you have in your city.
Let’s pretend that a tomato slicer at your Subway restaurant has a broken blade and the manager needs to replace it but can’t loosen the screws, so you have to go take some tools there to help replace the blade. You leave the house, walk down to the nearest bus stop. You take a bus to the next MRT (read subway/elevated train) station and take it to the station near your restaurant. While there you remove the old blade, thoroughly clean the slicer, put in a new blade, discuss some business with the manager and wait while she puts together some paperwork and bank forms you need to take home. Include that time in your calculation. You then walk to the nearest bus stop and take a bus back home. Each way you need to travel 2.9 kilometers or 1.8 miles for total travel distance of 5.8 km or 3.6 mi.
How long does it take you from the time you walk out your front door until you walk back in the door?
I know from experience that you’d often spend a couple of hours or more making such a trip in the US. I recently read one friend’s blog recounting spending an entire work day traveling to a brief doctor’s appointment by public transportation. So what is the answer in this case? A grand total of forty four minutes total time. That’s what public transportation should look like.