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I was going to take a bunch of photos of the food and people at the [tag]Thanksgiving[/tag] dinner party my parents threw in Beijing on Saturday the 25th, but both because I wasn’t taking enough photos in general, as well as the fact that I still suck at using the phone to take pictures, about [...]

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Now that I am a bit more settled, I thought I’d show the world my accommodations. I’m currently living in an apartment owned by some relatives of mine who live in Shanghai. As I understand it, the apartment is vacant for much of the year (normally including now), and so until I can [...]

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Today was my first day of work. It was fairly uneventful. The software my company is developing, however, does not work at all with OS X (or any non-Windows OS for that matter, I believe) so that was a source of some figuring (as it took a while before everybody realized that ActiveX [...]

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I’m in China.
I’m in China.
It’s really not sinking in yet. I’m waking up tomorrow morning to meet with some family to get the keys to an apartment, then I’m going to spend the rest of the day probably trying to figure out how to get a phone.
Then the [...]

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Every time I pack up and get ready to move, be it a quick trip across an international border, or a all-out every-posession-I-own kind of move, I spend between 30 minutes and two hours in a state of absolute total fucking panic, trying to remember where I tucked away my passport for “safekeeping.”
Tonight [...]

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Tomorrow is the last day for a while that I’ll be spending in the US. Tuesday, I fly to Shanghai and I expect I’ll be there for some time.
I’m pretty much totally not packed yet, and instead I am sitting here by myself playing video games*, while the rest of my cousins and aunt [...]

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From “A Bigger Bang“, in Guardian Unlimited:
It struck me that everybody on the net is sitting alone at a computer screen, and many of them are wishing they weren’t alone, while also, often, in some deep way, preferring that they are alone and being nervous of the alternative. Sit someone at a computer screen and [...]

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I am a big fan of the show [tag]Weeds[/tag].
Just now I rewatched the season finale of the second season, and I’m still sitting here thinking “Wow, what crazy shit. I don’t want to wait until next Summer!” But, this is unfortunately how it is, and so I shall wait.
Anyhow, [...]

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“As writer John Seabrook put it, “This may be the most depressing thing about the casual movement: no clothing is casual anymore.”
In general, I’d say [tag]The Paradox of Choice[/tag]: Why More is Less by Barry Schwarz has been a very interesting read. It addresses all sorts of things related to how we [...]

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