Can I take back all the nasty things I said?
Yeah, these sporadic isolated weeks of joyful weather are truly wonderful.

Mother Nature | 3 Comments »

Walking into work today, I saw a hand-written, machine-copied notice stuck inside of the alligator newspaper bin in the north lawn of the reitz union. It said:
Dropping bombs for peace is like f**ing for virginity.

I was slightly provoked, slightly offended, and slightly amused. Of course, I’m also slightly sick and slightly tired. [...]

Politics | 14 Comments »

One (maybe the only, besides the actual real world living it implies) of the advantages of not posting in a while is there’s a lot of backhistory with which to use for new posts. Typically the sorts of things I would immediately post about but instead forget slowly settle to the buttom of my [...]

Gratuitous Tech | 6 Comments »

Wednesday is National Day, the 54th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s speech in Tiananmen Square that proclaimed the People’s Republic of China to be a nation. It is very much like the Fourth of July (or whatever, depending on your nation of origin), except that the Chinese get an entire week off — at least [...]

China | 2 Comments »

Suspects detained in massive sex scandal is the headline story on this morning’s China Daily online edition. It’s funny simply because of the lingering anti-Japanese sentiment that so many Chinese, even younger educated Chinese, still hold.
Official from the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Public Security yesterday confirmed that some suspects involved in a scandal [...]

China | 2 Comments »