Every year when the Oscar nominees are announced, there’s that tiny bit of regret that you’re not cultured enough to have seen all of the major nominees. After all, these are films that show particularly artistic merit and value, and having already chosen to see them reflects good taste, right?
Living in Austin, thanks to a [...]
Beijing Drivers
Even the best city planning would be put to the test by the current auto market in Beijing. One statistic claims that an average of 1,000 new cars hit the city streets each day! As automobile companies lower their prices, more and more Beijing-ren can afford to forgo public transportation and drive themselves. This [...]
Beijing Traffic Planning
A few months ago, one of the Chinese news sources reported that in an annual survey, Beijing dropped quite a few rungs in the ranking of cities where people would most like to live. Also, for the first time ever, pollution was no longer the number one gripe detracting from the capital! The [...]
I apologize in advance, but I will be able to make very few updates to my site in the near future. I’m still in the middle of uploading photos from our cruise, but rumor has it that the recent earthquake off of Taiwan damaged some of the trans-oceanic cables across the Pacific. Ever since, internet [...]