Daily Archives: September 15, 2008

Twitter Updates for 2008-09-15

@catshanghai dont know if this is related to your current problem but you should get drive genius, disk warrior or TTP, cheap here 10rmb . # just finished watching discovery channel “decoding the secrets of the koran” # Retweet @peijinc: … Continue reading

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Life is still elsewhere

Yes, the title of this post has been overused but it remains the most succinct way of stating a particular phenomenological fact, and that is that despite having lived in Shanghai for seven years and knowing this place perhaps better … Continue reading

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My K-touch iPhone knockoff lets you know the best time to get me pregnant

I recently bought the K-touch A902, which in case the pictures don’t make it obvious, takes its inspiration from some phone designed in Cupertino. Someone noticed that it had a health menu that had several interesting functions. One was the … Continue reading

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Chinese MBA marriage meetups

MBA相亲会数百人参加 女性怨男性“素质低”(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout Hmmm it seems that kwout is having problems with Chinese character encodings…oh well. The link is to an article about a marriage, dating meetup that paired some highly-educated lasses with some not so tall men. Some … Continue reading

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Amores Chinkos: Dog-fighting in China

Just happened across this video in youku when i was looking for my daily animal cruelty fix. This one sure did the trick! The match was between the Shandong and Henan dog…and the Shandong dog won in 10 minutes. addthis_url … Continue reading

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A few snippets from a David Foster Wallace appreciation on Newsweek

This from “David Foster Wallace: An Appreciation by David Gates (Newsweek Books). I suspect that Wallace was a genius who happened to be a writer, rather than a writer who happened to be a genius-Hemingway, for instance. You can’t imagine … Continue reading

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