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Arcade Fire: The Wilderness Downtown
- This is pretty awesome. An interactive music video written in html5 by the Arcade Fire. It takes you on a trip back home.
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A lot has been happening in my life recently. In fact, it's been exceptionally exciting. And in the midst of all of it, I've learned something.
Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called, and they're running out of
[29 August 2010]
A tale of the Chinese Jerk Store
On Thursdays, Sundays, and Working in China
[26 August 2010]
While in Houston a few weeks back, I noticed that all of our Chinese servers were going down for huge chunks of time without anyone notifying us. Turns out that, due to energy shortages, the Chinese government has ordered that we close the factory on Thursdays, and we'll work on Sundays to make up for it.
I'm tired of being wet.
[25 August 2010]
Since I came back to Hangzhou on Friday, I've been loving almost every minute. The minutes I don't love are the ones where I'm soaked from the 90+ degree 95% humid weather. No exaggerating, I sweat through my clothes less than ten minutes after being outside, even if I'm doing no sort of physical activity.
Another Travel [Almost] Snafu
[16 August 2010]
For the last three years, I've had more or less the same annual schedule. Home for Christmas in Chicago and a quick business trip afterwards, then home for the summer to renew my Chinese visa. I'm in Houston now as part of the latter requirement — here for over two weeks to get a visa and meetings and stuff.
A first for my geocaching log
[14 August 2010]
After work yesterday, when it was 105F and there wasn't a cloud in the sky to protect me, I decided to go geocaching quickly before going up north to crash my colleague's weekly mexican food party.
The difference between 120 and 240
[13 August 2010]
Hint: it's not 120.
My Abduction
[10 August 2010]
Contrary to what you may think, I was not abducted by aliens and probed. Ive just been super busy for the last few weeks. I'll try to write up some stuff in the next while, now that daisy's been gone for two hours and I'm already dreadfully bored.
Chicago Bound
[23 July 2010]
We've got a full tank of gas, a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it.
Good Morning!
[19 July 2010]
Living in China, as a white guy, makes for some interesting linguistic studies. Take, for example, how people somewhat not horribly bad at English may greet me with "Good Morning" at morning, noon, and night.
Hot is Hell
[13 July 2010]
Apparently I'm just not made for hot climates. I can't take it anymore. It's been hot and humid every day for too long. First i split my pants, every day I get so covered in sweat that I freeze my bottom* of
Bad People Suck
[07 July 2010]
On my way home from my date with daisy and buying new shoes today, I was walking by the Feiyunjiang bus station when I saw four guys, two on each of two mopeds, grabbing moped batteries and riding off. These batteries are not cheap. Really, they cost probably about half as much as a new bike costs.
Where is my Mind?
[04 July 2010]
Took a quick trip with daisy this weekend to a Buddhist mountain called Putuoshan. It's an island in the pacific, near Zhongshan, home town of my buddy Integral. Apparently, I left my mind somewhere else.
Just Another Day...
[26 June 2010]
So today was just another Saturday like any other. Here are a few of the things that happened to me:
On iPhones, Materialism, and Frugality
[26 June 2010]
So a Scot, a geek, a nuclear physicist and his wife walk into a bar. The wife says to the geek, nice to meet you, I hear you're very frugal. The geek, of course, replies with something witty and brilliant that can't be posted online.