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Etsy ♥’s of the Week – 04/06
Weird Restaurants – Something to read on Monday morning.
I was reading an article on strange restaurants in America, and was quite amazed by the weirdness of the establishments featured. Here are a few I found to be the most strange and intriguing.
This Japanese restaurant, with a dining room built to look like a feudal ninja castle, allows guests to be served by stealth and mysterious ninjas. The plates don ninja stars, and according to the travel channel, this place is also home to one of the most extreme restrooms…
Opaque restaurant offers up a complete dining experience in complete and utter darkness. You order in a lit room, are guided to the dining room where you are then served by blind or visually impaired servers. The experience is meant to allow diners to use all senses aside from sight, causing the flavors and scents to become of foremost importance.
Quadruple bypass burgers, Butterfat Shakes, cigarettes and beer are all on the menu. You wear a hospital gown, the servers wear scantily clad nurses outfits. The pictures below say enough.
You must travel out of the US to visit this s*%! can. Hong Kong is home to Modern Toilet. You eat out of a toilet and eat foods that look like they have come from one.
Toy Stories
Tagged aled lewis, animals, art, bunnies, prints, rabbit, snakes
Weird food things
I saw this pillow while online window shopping today. It made me curious about other food things that people buy.
pizza pillow front
pizza pillow back
nacho wallet
can i get a shake with that burger (inevitable pick up line)
my dog ate my homework
for the meat eating hipster
sushi friend
Let’s trash some brackets.
ON ON U OF K!
This happened the other day.
I enjoy it when twitter makes you feel famous.
Rachel, Nevada
I was sitting in the GIS lab last week listening to a guest speaker get excited about remote sensing, LiDAR and all sorts of craziness. Even though the guy knew his stuff, I found myself drifting off into that strange sleep you can only experience under fluorescent lights in a computer lab. To keep from embarrassing myself, I started checking all of my social network addictions. First I checked my email. My instructor had sent us a few links related to our guest speaker, as well as an article from PCWorld about bridge distortion on google maps. Instead of reading that article, I clicked on the recommended reading link below the bridges. It took me to:
In Pictures: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth
This slide show was entertaining, so I proceeded to click on the second installment, Strangest Sights II. This is where I found out about Rachel, Nevada.
Google maps image of Rachel, Nevada
For some reason, in Rachel, Nevada, they have a giant likeness of Colonel Sanders that can be seen from space. This triggered my interest in the town because 1) my name is Rachel, 2) I am from Kentucky, where a space sized KFC advertisement seems slightly more conceivable. From there, I began my research on the first town I had ever heard bare my name, and wasn’t quite prepared for what I found.
First off, Rachel, Nevada is located on the world’s only extraterrestrial highway and currently has a population of around 100 people. The town is known as the “UFO Capital of the World” according to Rachel’s website. The only business in the town is the Little A’Le’Inn Restaurant and Bar. Rachel is known for its plane crashes, its proximity to Area 51, and was featured in the movie Independence Day. Rachel has an unofficial speed limit of Warp 7.
The Rachel, Nevada website is quite interesting, I recommend it highly.
A few pics from the Rachel Day parade held annually in May:
Asheville Trip + Beginning of Spring
…in cell phone pictures.
Downtown skyline in Asheville, NC
Birthday breakfast at Mayfel's - best breakfast in Asheville
Cute poster at Screen Door in Asheville
B-day cakes at French Broad Chocolate Lounge
Sehr gut
Warm day walk in Waco, KY 03/20/11
Smack talking duck at the office pond 03/21/11
hello spring
