I will never do this systematically, so I'll keep jotting them down at random. As I repatriate, I notice: - Not as many very fat large Americans as I was expecting. Am I looking in the wrong places? So propagandized into thinking that all of my countrymen are obese that expectations are off? Something...
Following this item yesterday: 1) Demonstrating the mathematical theorem that TSA+Google Ads = unintended comedy, reader Andrew Hall shows what happened when he clicked on the trailer for the Hilary Swank / Amelia Earhart film: In case you can't read it, the pop-up ad says: " Homeland Security...
I am no longer based in China, but am not yet actually based anyplace else. So this might be the last dispatch for the next week, and it's on the fly from yet another airport wi-fi site. Sketchy for-the-record remarks: 1) After 60+ hours in America (and on the way out again): Life is so abundant...
I'm aware of a ton of loose threads to be gathered up (about Air France updates, Obama's speaking style, urban design in China, design in software, boiled frogs, you name it). Soon. But three years in China have now come down to three days; the movers arrive in nine hours; and I've happily...