May 2012
M T W T F S S
« Jan    
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  

highlights from hong kong

For the first time, in picture format!

….Except this still isn’t the way I wanted them…Ryan, can you tell me sometime how you embed your Flickr photo albums into your blog posts?

  • Share/Bookmark

QDUD #1

(Is anybody old enough to remember MS-DOS? The command prompt OS that existed before Windows? When doing a report on Microsoft once in grade school I read that Bill Gates actually bought the code for MS-DOS from the guy who wrote it, who had instead called it QDOS. That was literally short [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

memory, writ in water

The writing project is going very well, even though I still haven’t actually gotten around to bashing any of it out. It takes an hour to get to Chinese classes in Futian using the combination of Bus 72 and Line 1 of the Shenzhen Metro, and I use the time to sit there and [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

as comprehensive as sea

I was sitting on the bus and quietly gazing out the window. Because it makes a stop practically twice a minute, the 72 takes a half hour just to get to the subway station, but I trust that other salaryworkers riding with me have found the most efficient way to get there. Still, [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

vanquishing my to-do list

Besides musing on the distasteful news of my brother’s university enjoying a fluke football win against my alma mater that happened while I was unconscious (which, I contend, should somehow diminish its significance), I hadn’t planned on doing much today. Yesterday had already been eventful enough: with Carolyn I went to the gargantuan Book [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

maslow’s first need

I know that this is something I could be yelled at for, but I’m still having some difficulty finding food on weekends. The school cafeteria closes and I haven’t yet found enough kitchen utensils to be able to cook for myself (I need a bucket to put dirty dishes in…and then I suppose I [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

road bump

My love affair with taxi cabs has ended, because I think I left my wallet in one last night.

Coming back from Ikea, Kami, Hunter and I jammed into a taxi cab with all our Ikea stuff (mostly Hunter’s). While juggling everything in the backseat and getting out my wallet to pay, I must have [...]

  • Share/Bookmark

logo changes

Bear with the ugly thing up top; I’m still trying to tweak it in Wordpress. Don’t have much time now though – must meet the others at Shijie Zhichuang for our lunch at Ikea. What’s an Ikea doing in Shenzhen? What’s an Ikea not doing in Shenzhen, is the question. The [...]

  • Share/Bookmark