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Kaifaqu: Well Developed

In my roughly year and a half of living in the Dalian area I know I’ve mentioned Kaifaqu 开发区 a half dozen times, but I don’t think I’ve ever done the place proper justice. I love it. It’s everything Dalian claims to be but isn’t. It’s clean(er), has more greenery and less people. It’s quaint, …

July 2, 2006
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Oh… Canada!

Hey, so it’s my nation’s birthday today. Good on it for making it to… what is it now… 139 years old. After proudly exclaiming to Maggie this morning that it’s Canada Day! (and in turn having to explain that means it’s Canada’s version of National Day), she informed me of the origins of my flag. …

July 1, 2006
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Respokenly Bespoken

I've always been rather impulsive with the things I want to say. This blog tends to be a written testament to that, as I've more than once just spouted off on something with entirely too little thought as to where I was going to go when I got into the idea that was trying to …

June 26, 2006
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iPod? Naw, iPoor – uPod

Ok, so I keep returning to this topic again, and again, and again, but it’s not my fault really… people keep reporting on it, I keep responding to it. It’s a shaky system, but it works. This time the point of focus is on none other than Apple. Like Google, I think Apple’s marketing people …

June 25, 2006
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‘Push Me Pull Me’ Media

Since I was a kid I have always had a pretty active interest in both the world around me and the world inside me. I would consider myself somewhat well-educated, somewhat well-read, and somewhat well-intuned with my spirituality. I’m by no means claiming to have mastered any of these to any remarkable level… just somewhat.Lately …

June 24, 2006
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The Hypocrisy of Animal Rights

[in translation via ESWN] Chickens were turned into meatballs for hotpot meals and the slaughter of the chickens took place right on the street not far away from the diners. This scene occurred at a newly opened restaurant “Fangji Chicken Meatball Restaurant” in Shenzhen. Yesterday afternoon, almost one hundred animal rights defenders gathered in front …

June 20, 2006
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Thanks Dad

So… thanks for being a great Dad. Thanks for being there when I need you most, and letting me sort it out myself when you know I can. Thanks for knowing when to speak and knowing when to listen. Thanks for never being patronizing, and always offering thoughtful and useful advice. Thanks for trying to …

June 19, 2006
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Dalian: As Seen From Outer Space

So, Google Earth has updated their images and now have high res. images of Dalian. As of a few months ago, when I was first introduced to this radalicious technology, all we had was muddy low res. pics of the city. This is super cool. Well, super cool in a very nerdy way (I looked …

June 18, 2006
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Fu Jia Zhuang

After several weeks of planning to go for a walk down by the coast on our mutual day off and continually being foiled by the weather, Maggie and I got our chance to get some fresh air yesterday. Though we had intended to do a bit of a hike along Bing Hai Rd. (滨海路), from …

June 18, 2006
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DPRK vs. PRC

D’Park vs. Prick… ah, phonetics. Anyway… I know I know, I JUST posted like an hour ago or something about the sexy soccer girls (and that other clip… what was it about?). But I stumbled on these photos of a Russian Web designer who took a trip to North Korea (sometimes referred – in jest, …

June 16, 2006
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Football Fever

So, it’s day… something… of the World Cup, and I’ve managed to watch an entire two and a half minutes of a game. The Do-I-Support-Korea game that I was going to watch up in Kaifaqu (on the big screen in the square) was rained out for me – but not for the swarm of Koreans …

June 16, 2006
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