January 2008
last minute preparations for party - not sure why we’re hosting, no furniture, glassware, etc. very “college” - still going to be fun
December 2007
having trouble fully adjusting back to EST - processing 1,425 photos
1024+ unread messages in 2 weeks, only 218 actually pertinent. forward to inbox 0 (or a close approximation thereof)
thankful that spam comes in easily to manage “batches”
last morning in China - doing some bargain-shopping then catching long, long flight back to Michigan
Great Wall ascended, hoards kept at bay, Christmas dinner soon to be had. Holiday Baozi?
http://isitchristmas.com says “SHI” (yes in Mandarin) - yay for web confirmation of holidays! (US still says “No”)
back from crazy Christmas Eve chinese insanity in downtown Beijing. Peking Duck consumed, up early for trip to the Wall on Christmas morning
back from the Forbidden City, not so forbidden anymore, for a price, too big to see in 2.5 hours l:Beijing
off to see thousands of Terra Cotta Warriors from the Qin Dynasty - I’ll make sure and say ‘Hi’ for you
back from huge dinner with duck and baozi, largest water and music show in Asia, and very cold solstice in l:Xian
22 mile bike ride along rice paddies and through the ultra-local villages along the Yulong River. Incredible perspective achieved.
breakfast in l:Yangshou, China - heading out to bike ride amongst the karst mountains and along the Li river
4 days into my trip and still no luggage - airlines rule
newly arrived in l:Guilin, now officially behind the ‘Great Firewall’, fortunately there are still beacon networks or some such
many harried adventures crossing into China, can’t wait to tell my kids (once I have some to tell)
#agenda receive luggage, dim sum with wife at city hall, 10k buddhas monestary, HK heritage museum, fly to Guilin
no, I do not want to get tailored suit/fake rolex/massage/place to stay - just b/c I’m a caucasian tourist does not mean I’m an easy target
‘freshly’ arrived in l:Hong Kong sans luggage. clear skies in the vertical, haze on the horizontal
major flying difficulties and lack of caring by gate agents - arriving day late to HKG, but spending intervening time in air{port,plane}
covertly sitting outside northwest worldclub to piggyback free wifi at l:Detroit Airport
enroute to airport, enjoyable convo with Pakistani driver
I have a problem of playing with travel-related-tech and apps when I should be packing
interesting, the new twitteriffic is slowly showing me a dozen personal messages sent on Dec 2 that never arrived
@factoryjoe one framework is much like the other, stick with one and all is good
ocarto →
Anthropogenic Biomes →
Anthropogenic Biomes
last minute booking flights and hotels for HKG, KWL, SHA, PEK
both funny and annoying that the most recent 3 linkbacks to my blog are from sites just republishing my articles or articles that ref’d me
PlaceEngine →
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Our Stories →
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cat-sitting crisis, plans fell through - recommendations for pet sitting for Dec 10-27 ?
off to begin finishing a long road
thows his hat into the “What is Neogeography” discussion, but armed with proposed definition: http://tinyurl.com/2lgzfd
@fantomplanet: no, it’s not high enough quality yet
apparently Geoweb (R) is a Restricted term in the US, owned by Alcoa - a US Aluminum manuf.
Best of Technology Writing →
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SourceForge.net: yamamap » home →
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On the bus to North Campus, running from one meeting to the next
A(the) Case(s) for Peace →
A GEOMAT Project by Esmaeel Reza Dadashzadeh
having trouble saying a project is “done” it’s like yak-shaving a bald yak
anyone have knowledge or suggestions on how to get email that has been sitting queued for 5 days to pass through more quickly?
Tags: Database schemas →
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bah, have to upgrade Parallels just to test IE
Tinkerlog » Blog Archive » Interfacing an AVR... →
My goal is to build a kind of a mobile tracker. There are many different use cases you can think of but one of the obvious is a device, that is able to report where it is. This device can be put in your car and it could trigger an alarm, if the car got st
Icon Image Sets - Google Mapki →
terra IMS > mapicon Factory →
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