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Maybe my jokes about the Sars situation were a bit bad. My parents are even getting their temperatures measured when they have to go out and buy stuff... Don't think they're using bras as face masks yet. Hey, that would've made a great money-making idea - sell a load of facemasks to the Taiwanese. I bet someone's done just that already... oh well!

Tags: Sars

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I went to an orientally themed birthday party over the weekend. Had predicted that someone would come in an anti-Sars face mask but apparently they're hard to come by now! All sold out. Did you know that Sars is so bad now that it's been promoted to being called Acute Respiratory Syndrome Epidemic...?

Related: birthday, Sars

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We have this intranet messageboard thing at work telling us about various things we need to fix. Today there was one that said, "Some of the plumes of smoke in the ***** demo are completely black for no obvious reason and the explosions have solid lines coming out of them when very close together..." First I thought "Not another thing to fix..." but then it dawned on me that actually mucking about on computer games all day, fixing them, playing them and getting paid for it is quite ideal really. A step up from not even having a desk or computer at my old job. Now I have a desk with two monitors from computers with a combined worth of ten grand (and space for a fan to keep myself cool).

Did you know that you have more computing power between your legs right now than NASA had to play with to put those guys on the moon? Mine like yours is more likely to make me go sterile than take me to the moon but nevermind.

(At least I haven't got SARS. The incubation time for that is ten days which I'm over now. Bonus!)

See also: Sars

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Got back to Heathrow from Taiwan last night. Didn't get DVT, didn't get SARS and didn't get much NAP! This was perhaps partly because I did actually have a bit of a cough and agitating my nervous neighbours with spluttering fits was quite amusing. But I'm shattered now. I see this whole SARS business has finally made the news over here. Loads of people were wearing face masks on my flight with good ol' Eva Air. Well, I just thought Phuket. You see, I made an observation that Phuket Airlines as far as I could tell didn't have any people in their lounges with face masks. Actually I think they're too small an airline to afford lounges... passengers are probably just bussed on board. But I mean, I share their point of view, those face masks probably don't help to prevent SARS at all. And they definitely would cause people's glasses to fog up. Walking into walls is a bit dangerous isn't it?

I like the Phuket world view. I could almost create an advertising campaign for them (if they could be bothered to have one). No pretty pictures, just text. Even though I can't write those squiggly lines, in English it'd be something like this -

Go from A to B with Phuket Airlines!

All of us here are followers of the "Phuk Way".

Phuk check-in - No need to check-in! And don't worry about Phuket-ting the tickets. Buy for cash at the cabin door!

Phuk safety - We pick someone with good hand-eye-coordination from you lucky lot to be pilot for the trip! And cabin attendants are chosen by a quick popularity contest whilst taking off!

Phuk luxury and style - Share floorspace and chitchat with the 799 other Phuket passengers strapped in with you! No chairs nor toilets means more Phuket friends!

Phuk food - The Phuk experience is such that you won't even have an appetite! Every Baht not spent on sickbags is a Baht off your Phuk boarding stamp! Who would want scolding hot coffee spilt all over you anyway?

Phuk films - Every trip is a drama of its own!

Phuket!

Tags: Taiwan, DVT, Sars

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