Everybody give a hand to Mark O’Neill, my good friend who helps me maintain this site! He got married last week. Congratulations!
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(Hopefully, I’ll have pictures inserted throughout this long-ish post soon.) The first stage of cultural exchange is commonly called the “honeymoon” period, the time when baby expats get moonstruck by being in a brand spankin’ new place. But when I first got to China, I didn’t feel particularly excited. It could have been a [...] The sonic hedgehog homolog gene “is one of three proteins in the mammalian signaling pathway family.” It also has a repressor protein. Guess what it’s called? Robotnikinin. If I were a biology PhD student my life goal would be to discover a molecule just so I could name it Pikachu. Oh wait. That’s already been done [...] Whenever I come back to Shenzhen from Hong Kong I stop by a magazine stand to pick up some English reading to while away the time spent changing subway/train lines and standing in line in customs. My preferences: GQ and Wired. But it has to be an American – not British – edition [...] The Los Angeles Times is the only paper that I have read which consistently runs the occasional column on Chinese and Chinese-American interest stories, and more remarkably, only about 50% of them are the Communist-demonizing insinuation pieces you usually find in American media. Today’s article was one of the other 50% and speaks of [...] “Of course I think it is very important for young people to know about history,” said Wang Laoshi. The four of us from the English Department were clustered together again at the lunch bench in the teacher’s canteen, and after somehow getting on the subject of family trees (”Family tree is jiapu! Say [...] For the handy price of 1000 kuai (about $146 US) I got two musical instruments, a decent guitar and erhu, both at once – making me a musician again, but with new things to learn. Having all but stopped pursuit of the clarinet and piano studies that defined my youth, I think this cements [...] “WE LOST TO WASHINGTON. 13-16. I TURNED MY COMPUTER JUST TO EMAIL YOU. OMG I’M SO ****** PISSED. – Well that is an embarrassing thing to wake up to on a Sunday morning. When Matthew starts to crow about it I’m going to [...] I installed a tool last week that will keep track of blog metrics such as how many visits I get in a day, which posts are the most popular, and the like. I have not found much practical use for it, but it’s been fun to obsess over. So far, in the six [...] Hey, so I’ve never been much of a sports fan before, but I’m curious about how the new kid is going to do. Does anybody know of a good website where I can watch tomorrow’s SC game against San Jose, from here? |
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