Previously...

...Escape Rocket 747 landed in the strange, foreign... uhm, land. As he crossed into the borders, he no longer could call himself Citizen. He was Holder of Foreign Passport. Alien Resident. No longer ordinary. Un-ordinary. Extra, super ordinary. He would live unnoticed among others, yet possess ego and English-language abilities far superior to those of the natives. Not since the Pilgrims or Australia had an outcast the chance to so utterly dominate. Yes. His time has come. Subscribe

Thursday, October 2, 2008

When in Doubt, Go Nuts.

Ever had to sit through a boring dinner for a relative you didn't know you had?

Super-Xpat has.

Ever wish for some way to pass the time in a tasteful, non-offensive manner?

Super-Xpat did.

Do you know a perfect solution to these and other similar problems?

Super-Xpat knows.


BEHOLD!

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

OMFG! 7+7+7=21; Sept.=7; 7+2=9; 21=Two 1s ∴ 777=9/11!!

Super-Xpat cringed this morning at the news of the crashastopic stock market drop. The severe anal raping lowly expat's not-quite-so-super-anymore-portfolio suffered aside, what really brought on the dread was the size of the drop: 777. Or more precisely 777.68 (by some accounts).

Just what we need. Super-Xpat knows the media, and so was unfortunately faced with the prospect of reading hundreds, if not thousands, of sub-par, shoddily scratched-out "news reports" with suck such wonderfully-catchy headlines like "The Market's Unlucky #777" or "Shocker! 777 Not Lucky Number" or... wait for it... "Triple 7's No Jackpot For Dow".

Fortunately, as of today the major publications have had enough tact to tiptoe around this obligato theme.

Unfortunately, Super-Xpat is also the guy that stops by car wrecks just to watch.

A quick google search found up some interesting and funny-if-not-terrifying blog posts, messages, comments etc... on this news. Take a look at what happens when Super-Xpat google searched "777 stock market jesus"

How about "Jesus Hates America".

Free speech is totally awesome.

Up next on the to do list: google search 777+stock+market+Casino+slots

Monday, September 22, 2008

Top 10 Sanlu Milk Crisis Excuses

Look around in both English and Chinese media and you’ll find more than enough news on the Sanlu Milk Crisis / Kidney Stone-gate / Got Melamine Campaign. And even as it continues to develop, Super-Xpat feels that most anyone who has a bit of experience with media, China (or developing world businesses), and a sardonic attitude toward effectiveness of governments can guess how this will turn out. Perhaps when this happens.

But no matter what actually happens, we should all just be grateful that the news actually broke and that more and more people are talking. Or maybe not grateful. Since the first reporting, Super-Xpat has read some crazy "explanations" for the crisis. Some shocking, some shockingly ridiculous. So here for your enjoyment or disapproval, the Top 10 Sanlu Milk Crisis Excuses!

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Next Big Market Collapse...




LOL, ROFL, BWL, LMFAO, LOLZ, 555, ETC... this hilarious!

Don't forget to stay after the trailer for the "bonus" cut scene...

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Good Cookies, Bisquick Makes Not

During Typhoon downtime, Super-Xpat suddenly got a hankering for chocolate chip cookies, but good ones are hard to come by in Taiwan, much less during a Typhoon.

Fortunately Super-Xpat had a box of Bisquick in the home and remembered a catchy commercial that said something to the effect of, "Bisquick can be used to make anything!" So Super-Xpat thought, "Cookies are anything, therefore Bisquick can be used to make cookies."

Bisquick cannot be used to make cookies.

Non-believers and the curious may read on for pictures and the recipe for cookie disaster.

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Friday, September 12, 2008

You say Hurricane, Super-Xpat say Typhoon

And Australians say Willy-willy.

This weekend seems to be particularly eventful weather-wise. In USA Texas, Hurricane Ike. In Taiwan (look at the bottom of your electronics kids), Typhoon Sinlaku. And since even Super-Xpat here in Taipei cannot belittle 184km/hr typhoon breath or surf two meter waves, Super-Xpat decided to do some research.

First, Super-Xpat found that Hurricanes and Typhoons are essentially the same thing, except one forms west of the date line (no not the news show), one east. Both require winds above 74 miles per hour (119km/hr for the enlightened), heavy rains and so on.

But more interesting to Super-Xpat is the etymology.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Smart Decisions...

Super-Xpat can face down hours of mind-numbing work, endless Chinglish, squat toilets, bad KTV singing, other similarly close-minded expats and more, but faced with a choice and a deadline and Super-Xpat becomes yet again lowly expat. Decizionite. Super-Xpat's one (of many) weaknesses!

Case in point: three months ago foolish lowly expat must have sat on his phone because the screen now no longer displays pretty colors. Now Super-Xpat must rely on a borrowed purple Nokia phone designed for girls. Super-Xpat decided to wait for iPhone 3G, imagining how cool he would be among all the other iWannabes, but then El Jobso caved to the telcoms and are now forcing buyers to sign contracts. Currently the going grey market price is ~ 700 to 800 US$ (2 months rent, 30 months Internet Access, 24o comic books, 1,500 bus rides, or 16,000 sticks of Juicy Fruit) , much too much to not mull over first. Then, when Super-Xpat was just about to jump the shark, news of the HTC Dream aka Android's impending release broke. Followed by news of Sony Xperia for end of September. Today, HTC Touch HD. What should Super-Xpat do!!!????

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Monday, September 8, 2008

Yay to Free Comics! Down with Free Comics! ...wait, whuh?

Super-Expat faces a real dilemma here. Super-Expat loves comics... *ahem*, graphic novels. Yet Super-Expat also loves the money for which he works somewhat diligently. But comics... *ahem*, graphic novels cost much monero. Thank God who may or may not exist for scanners and scanslaters. Super-Expat promises to support creators as soon as he earns enough to support himself. And while free comics usually makes Super-Expat creepily happy, last week Super-Expat found a free comic website that made him very angry.

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Saturday, September 6, 2008

First!

Or to be more accurate, fourth. As in fourth attempt to maintain a social-networking tool. Friendster, Xanga, Facebook... tried them all. All have died tortured, unrefreshed deaths. Actually the Facebook account still lives, albeit only in a lonely, unfeeling coma.

Undoubtedly maintaining this social web would be pretty helpful for Super-Xpat in this new "networked" society--in the long run. Especially if Super-Xpat plans to quit Expat's day job. It just seems strange to obsess with blogging, twittering, texting, plurking, deifying Al Gore and so on, instead of really doing stuff to help the world. But Super-Xpat is no liberal hippie. Only self-hating, conservative, expat supremacist.

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