I like walking around, but Shanghai, at least where I was walking today, isn’t really suited to walking. Of cities I’ve enjoyed walking around before, I’d definitely put Boston and New York toward the top. I didn’t spend enough time in DC to walk around much, but it seemed more suited to a [...]
Entries from March 2007
anywhere is walking distance, if you’ve got the time
March 31st, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: personal crap · quotes
took a walk today
March 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments
I took a walk today. I tried to walk from my apartment to near where I work, but I didn’t succeed. I only got as far as the Maglev station at which point I got frustrated by walking along highways and decided not to try and cross any more in getting to my [...]
Tags: china · personal crap
illinoise
March 31st, 2007 · No Comments
I wonder if I will ever listen to Sufjan Stevens‘ Illinois (wikipedia, metacritic) album without feeling incredibly nostalgic.
Ah, 2005.
It was a good year.
(what the hell, nostalgic for two years ago, at my age?)
founder paradox
March 30th, 2007 · No Comments
hmm…
Tags: links out
History Boys
March 27th, 2007 · No Comments
I wasn’t really watching, just sitting in the room while somebody else was. I was not terribly impressed by what I did see.
One quote that I caught:
a: Do you ever want to go back?b: To Oxford? I’m not not clever enough. I’m not anything enough, really.
something in the air?
March 26th, 2007 · No Comments
The last couple days it has been warm and more polluted than usual. Perhaps there is something affecting the people, maybe it’s just warm weather and sun, Id on’t know, but on the way into work this morning, in the last leg on the shuttle from the subway to the office, I saw some [...]
Tags: china · personal crap
team fortress 2
March 26th, 2007 · No Comments
Ok so maybe this makes me a huge nerd or something but part of me wants to be back in a country with excellent internet access come Fall 2007 (rumored) just for this.
Team Fortress is arguably the game that got me hooked on computer games way back when it was for Quakeworld, and these trailers [...]
“rugged vinyl with a heat sealed PVC zipper”
March 25th, 2007 · No Comments
I haven’t been flying in the US lately, but I didn’t leave so early as to have missed the chance to be told to throw away my deoderant, toothpaste and shampoo on account of them being improperly packaged in plastic bags in small containers or whatever the official regulations are. I actually still don’t [...]
Tags: links out
“gift” giving
March 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment
The traditions that seem to govern polite displays of gratitude strike me as incredibly inefficient and more simply, stupid. I’m pretty sure I’ve complained about gift giving before, and I’m going to do it again.
I can understand that in the case of gifts that some portion of the value of the gift [...]
Tags: china · personal crap
Bracketology, Part 3
March 14th, 2007 · No Comments
I found one that gave me a nice printable pdf.
So there you have it.
Tags: personal crap