Hopefully everyone is aware that today (July 20th, 2009) is the 40th Anniversary of the first moon landing by Apollo 11 astronauts. Its probably well before many of us were born (myself included), so we can't remember where we were on this momentus day.... BUT I can remember exactly where I was 20 years ago today, on the 20th anniversary of the landing. I was in the audience here:Read more
I usually end up spending 5 or 10 minutes every morning waiting for the bus, sometimes i see some interesting things:每天我花5-10分鐘等公共汽車.有時候我看到有意思的東西.下面的照片看一看吧:毎日仕事行く時、バス5-10分待てなければならない。時々面白い物を見える。下の写真を見て下さい!This women had one of the more interesting hair styles I've seen in a while... definitely a time-warp from the 80s. I especially like the tail and side burn th...Read more
i picked up my computer last night from the shop, they replaced the windows install, and unfortunately wiped both partitions of my internal drive. luckily i have a back-up, but because of the crashing that crippled my computer in the first place, the back-up files are corrupted and i've got to copy most of the files back manually. :-( (that and reinstalling all my software wasted a LOT of time today....)Anyway, in the meanwhile, one off my phone camera:Read more
Unlike a lot of the Korean films I end up watching, I had actually heard of this one before watching it. 'The King and the Clown' (왕의 남자) set a Korean box office record when it was released in 2005 and also picked up a lot of prizes at that year's film awards. But when I finally saw it, I was a bit disappointed with the film. Read more
Another breaking news tragedy - this time a sports legend has been Murdered apparently!
This time I think this is real, unlike the Jeff Goldbum and other twitter-fed hoaxes of late...
Its on SI and the AP:
hey guys, just got back to the place we're staying in Beijing. We had our big 'alivenotdead+tom.com partnership' launch event up here. It was a joint event with Tom.com's other new web partnership, 'Sharkwave', a sports site..
A LOT of stress on me today... i'm glad its over. the party was great, but also overfilled, so I want to apologize to anyone who wasn't able to get in (especially the person who RSVP'ed via email at 6:52pm for an event that s...Read more
My first night back in Beijing I went to Sunlitun Village to meet some people for dinner. This place was well known as an international bar area back when I was here before, but fast forward 5 years later, and now there's a giant mall filled w/ international brand stores (adidas, uniqlo, nike, puma, apple, etc).
I ran into a familiar face as soon as I got out of the taxi:
Last last Friday Michael Wong organized a charity fundraiser for the UN Council on Human Right's World Refugee Day. He brought his Michael Wong Big Band and they crammed into the small stage area at JJ's:
unfortunately this place is NOT very picture friendly. between the low lighting and the shiny surfaces ...Read more
I'm no conspiracy theorist but he was also only 50 years old! ...
When i was back in the US I was watching some discovery channel show about him called ' Pitchmen', put a human face on an otherwise one-dimensional TV personality (there are also some funny youtube videos of interviews of him talking smack about the 'slap-chop' guy).
I think its too early to rule out that this may have been related to the dangerous tir...Read more
I saw this while clicking around on Tom.com's news section:
An entire 13 story building under construction collapsed at 6am on June 27th. Not sure if they know exactly why yet.
According to this report, at least 1 person died in the collapse.
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