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The Laowai Psychological Street Fight

I’ve always been a lousy liar. Remembering whom I’ve told what to is difficult for me when it’s the truth, but add in the complexity of deceit, well… forget it. About five years ago my buddies and I started up a weekly Texas Hold’em game, and this taught me the “bluff”. Now here was a …

August 28, 2007
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Chávez’s War On “Democracy”

Big tip of the hat to my friend Tom for suggesting I give War On Democracy a watch. The fantastic film by award winner John Pilger aptly displays the American government’s involvement in manipulating Latin America’s leadership over the past 60 years or so. Nearly half of the film is spent exploring the topic of …

August 23, 2007
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The Humanaught v3 Has Arrived

My eyes are cooked, my ass is numb, my fingers are cramped… the redesign is done! For anyone not reading this in their RSS feed reader or on a splog, the changes should be pretty apparent. But I’m going to run through some of them anyway 🙂 First, I should mention, I’m not a big …

August 17, 2007
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The Humanaught v3 – Coming Soon

Just a quick note to apologize for being so craptastic about frequent updates lately. I’ve been bogged down with work for clients (yeah, I’ve got “clients” now, I’m cool like that). I’ve also been fiercely working on a new design for this site. Should be up by end of the day today. Bear with me …

August 14, 2007
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Am I A Racist?

I’ve been pondering this question a bit lately. First I/this blog got called such in the comments on Time‘s rather prominent The China Blog. Then, lately I’ve had a bit of a dimwit spamming my comments with this drivel. I got three separate notifications of his comments being posted. Each notification gave the text of …

August 10, 2007
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More seasons than a spice rack

One of the toughest things for Maggie and I to get used to about living in Suzhou over living up in her home town in the north-east or mine in Canada is the weather. We are both used to four distinct seasons running from a warming spring, a hot summer, a cooling fall and a …

August 8, 2007
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The China Blog Awards: Third To None!

The China Blog Awards winners for 2007 have been announced! It appears I have no taste when it comes to these things, as none but one of my pics took home a trophy. As for myself, I came in 2nd to Beijing Boyce in the Personal Blogs category. I’m tickled, really. I mean, the fact …

August 2, 2007
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Born To Be Mild

Picture, if you will, a slight breeze trying to muster the strength to ruffle your hair as you glide deftly through the wilds of Chinese traffic at a cool 35 km/hr. The slight buzz beneath you hums into your thighs with all the power of an electric pencil sharpener. For only a few thousand kuai …

August 1, 2007
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Damn The Censors!

Anyone that reads this blog often enough knows that I’ve no love for censorship. I down-right loath it. Freedom of speech is the apex of [*hr*]. There is not a situation I can think of whereby I feel a person should have their ability to speak on any topic they desire taken away from them. …

July 26, 2007
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China Blog Awards 2007: My Picks

Ok folks, we’re in the final week of voting for the 2007 China Blog Awards. I hope you’ve all gone and voted for the blog you think is the best. I have been meaning to run through my picks for a couple weeks now, but continually seem to get distracted. As I’m distracted by shiny …

July 25, 2007
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The War On Fat: The Way of the Samurai

A little over a year ago I declared war on the softness of my exoskeleton. May 3rd, 2006: Seems everyone has got their “War On” these days – and I’m a follower of the Faith of Conformity, so I’m starting my own war. Dubbed “Operation: Reclaim Waistline“, my War On Fat shall combat the Axis …

July 22, 2007
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