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Kevin Kline

The Dirty Dozen Lee Marvin

MM...........Marilyn Monroe. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Tony Curtis Some Like it Hot

The Great Santini

Sorry in advance..Bruce Willis

He can have an opinion too, can't he? Are you suggesting he might be biased?

Try the rockhouse, Soi LK Metro. It comes with very high recommendation on Facebook, to wit:

I'd rather not go into specifics for obvious reasons. Let's just say, if there were a banned book I wanted to read, it could be obtained over the internet in ebook format easier and more safely than being shipped here in physical book form.

12 Monkeys

Another nice thing about the kindle is you can get and read books banned in Thailand.

Tim Roth Rob Roy

I'll keep that to myself.

Yeah sure , Paul...err, Midas. They sure are easier to carry around. It's the words, not the weight that makes it for me. I'm sure Guttenberg had the same problem when people started saying they preferred illuminated vellum over paper and ink.

Ebooks aren't that big really, so even if you have a slow connection, you should be able to download ebook torrents overnight...don't let that stop you.

Check out this post, Gary.. http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/index.php?/topic/58593-Darkside-Bars#entry1063532

If I ever take the GPS out for a drive, I'll check if there's any new parking places other than the well-known ones.

There's a standard "Power of Attorney" letter that you can pick up in most Thai stationary shops ... you need that in addition to the normal paperwork to enable you to act for the (real) owner.That might have been there, but with the ID card not matching her name, it was a non-starter.

Yep. I still don't get what was going on, but the real owner was happy to sign the papers. Note that I think I sent the money to the lady who was not the owner. I think she was acting as an "agent" for her friend/relative in the house.Maybe she thought she could deal with me since she spoke English fairly well.

I'm guessing you know all the parking sites in Pattaya, but it would be useful in a strange town or someplace huge like BKK.

None of the issues I mentioned had to do with firmware or map updates, did they? That's pretty basic stuff. The issues were with new features and software that goes beyond that basic functionality.

Okay, so here we are at Bushcraft's house while I am thinking up various vengeance plans and Pin is calling one of the girls she knows who knows the lady who sold the bike to me. The girl comes over and says that person is her aunt, and no, she doesn't actually own the bike, but the legal owner lives in the same house, so off they go to the house. I was still not convinced this would help or that anyone would sort this out..and it was getting late in the day. A half hour later, Pin comes back with a sheaf of papers, and says "it's all okay now". The real owner was sort of surprised that her friend thought she could sign over the bike, and apologized. This is looking better Off we go to the shop to do the transfer again, to many grins from the staff there who thought I'd been bamboozled and were waiting to see what would happen. Pin handed over the paperwork, they started perusing it...10 minutes into this, Pin starts writing the same Thai word on a piece of paper and then shows it to me and asks if I can write that. My Thai penmenship, even copying, is atrocious...as is my English to be honest, and I tried and obviously failed. I said "what's this for?" and she told me that the word was "Nong" นาง meaning "Mrs." and the lady had forgotten to sign the transfer papers with that prefix...but the green book said นาง, so it had to match. My god, how quibbling are these people! So, she proceeded to add, in her best copied penmenship, the letters นาง in front of each of the signatures she got today. I didn't think of it as forging, but it wasn't something anybody was happy to do. Once done, all other paperwork was completed, and the fees changed hands...and I was now the proud owner of the bike. Real paperwork and tags should arrive in between 2 weeks and a month. So, sometimes it can be easy, sometimes it is just amazingly difficult. I'm happy to report there was no scam (aside from the prior year's tax not being paid), and that alls well that ends well.

I probably bought the nuvi 2567LM on the same day as Gonzo got his top of the line model. I've been working with it for a couple of days, learning how to use it in simulation mode rather than while driving. One thing I have to say is that Garmin has absolutely awful support for their product on the internet or in the box. The manual is all in Thai...great. The English manual from Garmin is for another model (close, but not the same). I'm guessing the ESRI modifications have changed some things so they don't match any online documentation, and all ESRI documents appear to be in Thai. I chose the 2567 because the sales girl (the heavy one...she's good, but not expert) told me that it was the only one of the five models shown that had Smartphone Link...that rules out the one Gonzo bought, though it had features I would have liked. She showed me the smartphone link on her Iphone (I didn't notice it was an Iphone at the time). It was awesome. It can get the map from the device, show it on the phone, and you can program your routes/waypoints using your phone interface rather than the touchscreen. Unfortunately, that map doesn't show up on my Android phone...I took the phone and the 2567 into the shop the next day and they couldn't make it work either. Still, with the smartphone interface, you can go to Google maps, search for something, and then send that location to the 2567. It is then available for you to add as a destination That is pretty awesome, since many locations/businesses are not in the ESRI maps yet, but google maps has them. I'm sure there's other stuff you can do with the interface that will give me hours of joy tinkering with it. I might even use it to drive somewhere Over in the Darkside Bar topic, forcebewithyou has put together a map of all the darkside bars. He converted it to .gpx format, and using POILoader (free from GARMIN), I managed to send all those locations over to the Garmin. Now they show up in the device, and I can build a route or trail or whatever it's called to them. That's all pretty much terra incognita to me, so that's cool. You can also get trip planning stuff from the garmin site that shows interesting routes you could follow for signtseeing. As I said, I might even use this to drive somewhere....

Yes, you can, but they are about twice as expensive as they are when bought from Amazon... As far as buying books.,.there are many older books whose copyrights have expired and are free to download. Additionally, if you are into torrents or newsgroups, you can find whole libraries of books online...no charge. I like the idea of being able to download all of one author's books and read them sequentially, esp if they are serialized. When going to second hand shops, I would take whatever I could find, but I was seldom able to read a series in order.

Friday, I got the certificate of residency...but I couldn't get ahold of the seller before the Mityon shop closed (where I planned to take the transfer paperwork). So, early this afternoon, all my papers in hand, I called the seller and asked her to meet me at the Mityon. She said she was out of the house, but had left the signed papers with someone staying at the house. The missus said she would go with me, though I was thinking it'd be a cake walk and I'd pop into Rose Apple for a massage afterwards. There went that plan. It turns out it was a godsend for her to come along. Here's why. We went to the house, picked up the papers, went to Mityon..passed them over to the lady there and she went thru them. Then Pin (my wife) and she started a heated discussion..when they came up for air, I said what's up? Pin said that the name on the ownership book wasn't the name of the lady who had signed the papers this morning! WTF? She used someone elses ID card, someone else's tabian baan, and there was nothing to connect her to the owner name in the green book. Okay, so I've just been had, is that it? The lady who sold me the bike, who I sent the money to, is not the owner, right? Right she said. Great. I'm trying to register a stolen bike I guess. Oh, and it had back taxes due as well, when she had assured me the taxes were paid for this year but she had just "lost" the tags. There's a lesson here. In order to foster and element of trust, since I had physical possession of the bike, I had paid her in full already...no deposit crap...the full amount. So, we took all the papers back and headed to our friend Bushcraft's house nearby to try to puzzle this out. To be continued...