all the kids are doing it

Back to real blogging

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:27:56 +0800

Back to real blogging: If you read this, you should go back to reading Biesnecker.com. This tumbleblog stuff was fun, but I wanted to get back into some real writing (I won’t delete the tumbleblog, though, I just won’t use it much if at all).

I was just thinking how sad it was Game Neverending was never completed. Flickr is neat, but Game...

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:37:33 +0800

I was just thinking how sad it was Game Neverending was never completed. Flickr is neat, but Game Neverending was visionary.

Ric Flair Finance

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:30:20 +0800

Ric Flair Finance: I really, truly, seriously hope this is for real.

"空気が読めない"

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:30:47 +0800

“空気が読めない”

- In Japan, Stagnation Wins Again, meaning cannot read the air.”

sklar.com : PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:29:03 +0800

sklar.com : PHP and the OWASP Top Ten Security Vulnerabilities

Introduction to the Paleolithic Diet

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:58:46 +0800

Introduction to the Paleolithic Diet

"等咱中国强大了，全叫老外考中文四六级！文言文太简单，全用毛笔答题，这是便宜他们。惹急了一人一把刀一个龟壳，刻甲骨文！论文题目就叫：论三个代表！到了考听力的时候全用周杰伦的歌，《双截棍》听两遍，《菊花台》..."

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:51:43 +0800

“等咱中国强大了，全叫老外考中文四六级！文言文太简单，全用毛笔答题，这是便宜他们。惹急了一人一把刀一个龟壳，刻甲骨文！论文题目就叫：论三个代表！到了考听力的时候全用周杰伦的歌，《双截棍》听两遍，《菊花台》只能听一遍。告诉他们这是中国人说话最正常的语速！阅读理解全是政府工作报告，口试要求唱京剧，实验就考包粽子。”

- Some random ChinaRen post

Creating OpenSearch Plugins for Firefox

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:33:44 +0800

Creating OpenSearch Plugins for Firefox

Philosophy Bites

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:25:12 +0800

Philosophy Bites: A podcast about philosophy (thanks Lennet!)

You’ve been translating in China for too long when you’re able to describe anything and...

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:20:40 +0800

You’ve been translating in China for too long when you’re able to describe anything and everything as “harmonious” without out the least bit of self-consciousness.

I love Taiwanese newspapers.

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:04:15 +0800

I love Taiwanese newspapers.

Hong Kong is astounding, in a way that makes me wonder what the hell I’m doing anywhere...

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:25:05 +0800

Hong Kong is astounding, in a way that makes me wonder what the hell I’m doing anywhere else.

The difference between Hong Kong and Shenzhen probably makes the impression all the more striking.

On the road

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:28:39 +0800

Tonight I get on a plane for Shenzhen, arriving at about midnight. Tomorrow I’m going to spend the day in Hong Kong because my wife’s going to be working. Saturday through Monday I’m going to see Shenzhen with her. Monday night I’m flying back, arriving in Shanghai around midnight.

Tuesday morning, back to work.

Test run

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 06:16:08 +0800

My alarm sounded at 4am this morning. I’m planning to start biking to work, and I needed to know how long it will take. My route was:

Changning Lu + Zunyi Lu (where I live) > Yuyuan Lu > Jiangsu Lu > Fuxing Lu (with a 30 second detour on Huashan Lu that wasn’t apparent on the map) > Huangpi Nan Lu

It took 25 minutes of constant but not particularly strenuous biking. I now spend about an hour getting to work every morning, so this seems like a really good alternative.

At 4:30am the city is a totally different place. Lots of foreigners out and about, but I think I was the only one that had already slept a full night. There was guy carrying dozens of live ducks hung by their feet on his moped, and dozens carrying crates of vegetables stacked three meters high on the back of their flatbed tricycles.

On the way home I took a more circuitous route, biking down some roads that you wouldn’t really be able to bike on later in the day.

The stale smoke and beer stench from Windows Too wafts all the way out to Nanjing Xi Lu — what a hole.

自行车族

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:11:09 +0800

Today I bought a bike for about 800 RMB. I rode it this afternoon just after lunch, and the sun beat down on me, and the wind went through my hair, and it was good.

Science vs. Faith, the flowchart version (full-size)

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:23:23 +0800

Science vs. Faith, the flowchart version (full-size)

"做事是要花费成本的。政府做的事情，理应由政府结账。如果政府做事，公众结账，那政府就会想出很多事情来做，其中许多注定是无聊甚至有害的。"

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:25:02 +0800

“做事是要花费成本的。政府做的事情，理应由政府结账。如果政府做事，公众结账，那政府就会想出很多事情来做，其中许多注定是无聊甚至有害的。”

- 单双号可以，请退还养路费

Character counter

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:30:19 +0800

Character counter: I whipped this little character counter up today, in response to not being able to find anything decent of OSX. It counts ASCII and non-ASCII characters, and can be used (for example) to count the Chinese characters in a document.

dirtystylus » Locomotive on Rails, with MAMP as a Caboose

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:14:29 +0800

dirtystylus » Locomotive on Rails, with MAMP as a Caboose

Shanghai Scrap

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:34:39 +0800

Shanghai Scrap: This is one of the best blogs I’ve found recently.