I’m getting a little overwhelmed by how much press Google is getting lately. Every time a turn around (or scan a news feed), someone is accusing Google of something, or Google is defending themselves against some earlier accusation, or Google’s stock is going up, or Google’s stock is going down. I like Google. I always [...]
As I was sipping a cup of hot chocolate this afternoon (I felt calorie-deficient; consuming any hot beverage in the sweltering Sahara of our office is foolhardy), I trolled a few RSS feeds for the local Chinese and Beijing news. Some article sparked my interest, and I followed a link over to the English Xinhua [...]
For my slightly-belated Christmas present, I went to Yaxiu market in January and had a traditional Chinese dress tailor made. It’s the first time I’ve ever had a piece of clothing tailored from start to finish, and a lot of the fun was just the experience. When I went in for my first fitting, I [...]
Since I don’t know how much coverage this received in the mainstream news back home, I thought I would write a post on what’s been a hot topic lately in the Chinese internet world. If you didn’t know, the US legislature held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the practices of US internet companies doing [...]
I just really loved that headline from engadget! How can you not click on that when it shows up in your Gmail Web Clips?!
Butterscotch the robo horse set to scare small children this fall
The actual write-up isn’t all that interesting, but some of the comments about potential hacks for the robotic pony are slightly amusing.
Our first heavy, lasting snow was earlier this week! We made snowballs and I actually made a snow angel outside the gates at Tsinghua (I think I thoroughly amused the passing locals)!
However, the snow is almost all gone now. All that’s left are a few dirty piles along the roadside. I wish it had lasted [...]
Or at least, what China needs now!
The Beijing fashion powers that be (aka the suppliers for the clothing markets) have a predilection for low-rise jeans, and often extremely low-rise jeans. I know that the insanely low-cut jean issue is not, in fact, a conspiracy to make buying pants in China even harder for me (and [...]
Xin nian kuai le!
I’m back from a few days off for Chinese New Year’s. We get a 3-day holiday, although most of our Chinese colleagues choose to take today and tomorrow as vacation to make it a full week. So the office is pretty empty except for a handful of ex-pats and a [...]
A Whole New Perspective on Fireworks
This past weekend was Chinese New Year’s, and the festivities began on Friday night. Most of the ex-pats still in Beijing (a lot of people took the opportunity to travel) got together to celebrate with a dinner of, oddly enough, primarily Indian food, a lot of alcohol, and in keeping [...]