Daily Archives: September 13, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-13

didnt like Jason Mraz new album but liking the LL Cool J album. # shanghai…blech. spent nearly 2 hours in a cab yesterday, spent about 100 rmb too…dont think that’s ever happened before whole time # listening to old Smashing … Continue reading

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I’ve got the munchies for Munchies

I’d heard of this place from various people, not least from that famed purveyor of low-budget gastronomy Eric Hu and decided to give it a try last night. I ordered their Coney Island hot dog which you see above. In … Continue reading

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Movies I’m Watching: Hell Ride

Ugh. Roger Ebert thought this movie was shit and I am inclined to agree … it’s too bad, since in some way, the biker western genre is fascinating to me, if only because I have had so little exposure to … Continue reading

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Books I’m Reading: The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz

I’ve been meaning to get this book for ages and I finally managed it. It’s an interesting book, almost too much so in my case, since it really gets to the heart of many of the issues I face in … Continue reading

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An internet speed test in Shanghai

This shows the result of the internet speed test I just took on Speed.io and it looks like that although the PING speed isn’t hot, the rest is OK. I have noticed, and this is a purely subjective judgment, that … Continue reading

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Onion interactive maps doesn’t have Shanghai

…but it does have Beijing. I learned about this interactive map from Lifehacker (source of all good information in the universe), it’s kinda nifty, for example in the Beijing one the usual suspects are featured — the Bell and Drum … Continue reading

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