If you’ve seen the blurbs for Version 2 of Google Maps mobile version, then you’ve read how they use triangulation between cell sites to provide your location if you don’t have GPS. Naturally it doesn’t work in Hong Kong, at least not on the so-called Smartone-Vodafone network (which of course is owned by a real estate developer).

Someone asked me at lunch, apropos of nothing, where I’m planning to retire. I thought about it for 20 seconds and decided that my best option is prison. Free room, free clothes, free food and medical care. So when I’m done with working, I just need to rob a bank or a jewelry store and hang out long enough to get caught. I believe I have enough money saved up to buy a lifetime supply of Marlboros to use as bribes and trade for other goods.

Now I just need to decide on a country where they don’t whip you every day and where the prison food is halfway edible, some place that has some emphasis on prisoners’ rights so I get access to a TV and the internet from time to time. Suggestions appreciated.

I suppose a mental institution would be an acceptable alternative and I believe I could qualify.

Hongkie Town
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