Farrago

Can it! Y’er All Spam and Me As Well!

Sorry for any that commented on recent posts and saw their well thought-out and insightful mind-manifestations disappear into the Ethernet… Apparently my comments' spam blocker program, which usually does a fine job of discerning you all from the pack of mystery-meat dealin' robots, went on a bender the other day and just became a drunkin' …

October 29, 2006
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Laowai Gives Free Driver’s Ed.

I don't know how many times I've watched absolutely retarded things go down in China and said to myself, "I really should kick that guy in the teeth for cutting off that old women shuffling across the street" or "I should have just let that bitch on the bike hit me, instead of jumping out …

October 27, 2006
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We’ve Got A Blogspot Down!

An in-China Internet user’s relationship with the Chinese powers that be is a precarious one at best. Really, using the Internet here is a bit like going to an all-you-can-eat buffet. You go one week and they’ve got that great seafood salad, but when you return the following week, the salad’s gone… oh! But they’ve …

October 26, 2006
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Boycott Chinese Men Who Are Complete F’ing Idiots

I ran across, Boycott Chinese Girls Who Date White Guys, a little gem at the always enkindling The 88s blog. A Chinese guy, generously self-endowed with the moniker TwentyFourCM, is proving new lows in illustrating stupid racial insecurity. And as us guys so often do, he’s taking his insecurities out on women. In translation, originally …

October 22, 2006
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The League of Extraordinary Chinese Women

Hey, I just wanted to give a big shoutout to The League of Extraordinary Chinese Women, a blog set on raising awareness (and money) for the cause of women with breast cancer in China. From there site: Twenty-five percent of breast-cancer patients are diagnosed with the HER2 type, the hardest to treat. Incurable, it can …

October 22, 2006
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Salmonella Is Not A Sushi Complement

Right, bit of an apology for being MIA this week. Between work, running to the bathroom and praying someone would just put an end to it all with something blunt and heavy… writing has not been high on the priority list. That stuff about flu and stomach flu got washed away when I realized that …

October 22, 2006
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Zero to Sicky in 2.5 Hours

I was at work yesterday in a morning long meeting when I noticed I was abnormally tired. I hadn’t had a poor night’s sleep, and was feeling pretty good when I was heading to work, so I was at a loss for what was wrong. By the time I got home around 2 p.m. I …

October 18, 2006
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Debt Free

You know that feeling you get after you finish paying off a decade-old collection of debt and you enter the club of People Who Don’t Own Anyone Anything? I have that feeling. Today. Alright, so I’m not much for metaphors, but damnit – I’m elated. I just went to my online banking account and submitted …

October 15, 2006
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But I regress…

Ok, so if you think posts on this site are disappearing faster than foreign hikers, you’d be right. For some reason my site keeps becoming inaccessible. I had thought it was the wikipedia entry, but now I’m starting to think it might be the article about Japan apologizing. Just when I think I’ve got it …

October 14, 2006
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Wikipedia Unblocked In China, Kinda…

I’ve been caught sleeping. The Chinese blogsphere is abuzz with the news that the flagship to Web 2.0, Wikipedia, is now unblocked in China. (see references below) After almost precisely a year of having to access the site through proxy services (or the secure.wikimedia.org version of the site), all us in China are able to …

October 12, 2006
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