Like many big cities, Beijing is plastered with billboards advertising computers, mobile phones, soft drinks, etc., and along the ring roads, giant advertisements tout the city’s latest upscale housing developments and apartment buildings. While all of these places try to appear upscale and chic, targeting an appearance-conscience population, I always end up amused by their [...]
With a few gourmet food shops and import groceries in town, one of the things a lot of people miss most is their junk food of choice from back home. One of the things I usually take for granted, is potato chips. There are millions of chips here, and Lays has built itself a large [...]
For the first time in weeks, I can finally start getting back to my normal sleeping schedule. Since the World Cup started last month, it’s been an endless stream of late nights as we tried to take in as many games as possible. Unfortunately, due to those troublesome time zone issues, the final matches all [...]
This morning’s (or possibly yesterday’s, since it’s a US source) news headlines included an article from Motley Fool announcing that “Google” has been added to The Oxford English Dictionary as a verb. The article goes on to discuss whether becoming a verb is a good thing, and it reminded me of an amusing problem I’ve [...]