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Blocked by the Great Firewall
I can't connect to Facebook or Twitter out here in Beijing. On the plus side, I'm planning on seeing the real Great Wall sometime this trip. :)
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My near death experience in Shanghai 2007
So, I was catching up with some friends' blogs, and my buddy Sean recounts the time we almost died in Shanghai, much more eloquently than I could have. It's even a cliffhanger in two parts!
Here's the SPOILER:
"Because this woman, as gleeful and enthusiastic as she was to be motoring us about, was a lunatic. We would squeeze into lanes that did not exist, squished in between a bus and an enbankment, and she was just smile away. She'd put the car in park and scoot up on top of the steering wheel to wipe away a leprechaun-hand sized corridor of visibility through the fogged up windshield. And I gotta tell ya, there's a part of me that was really charmed by all the effort.
Until she skidded into an intersection like she was performing the stunt routine for a Goodyear Aqua-tread commercial and Froggered us halfway through ten lanes of terrifying cross traffic. That we are, ass-a-kilter pointed at a forty five degree angle inside of the far-easts largest intersection. And traffic is just racing by. Well, that is until one car wasn't as agile as the others in swimming right around us. And slammed on his own breaks and fucking hit us.
So what does she do? "Oh no, I've been in a car accident, I hope my patrons and the other vehicle are all right!" That's what a sane person would think. She fucking giggles. Yep, a shrill little giggle and then she slowly drags our car out of the intersection like some sort of retarded four-wheeled sloth. And away we went.
So that's how we almost died."
BTW, Sean screamed like a girl... actually, so did I.
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Nepal Backpack Contents
Organizing photos and stumbled across this picture that I took in Singapore before we flew to Nepal. Going to tag it with one of those "what's in your bag" photos on my Flickr... Shamefully (or perhaps wisely), after the first day carrying this stuff, I stuffed it into a duffel and let one of our porters carry it in addition to all the other stuff he was already carrying.
Here's a shot of the porters:
http://flickr.com/photos/wangtang/3022924058/in/set-72157608867089739/
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Red Sox vs. Yankees in Nepal
This was an awesome shot from Nepal. We were walking along, and these two dudes were beating the rice pile with these wooden sticks... SlyMartin went back and snapped a few shots with his D300.
Unfortunately, they were no longer whacking things with sticks, but it's still a great shot!
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Street Fighter news is making all my nerdy parts tingle
Street Fighter 4 release date:SSF2 HD Remix:http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55997
Interestingly, SF2 came up in discussions multiple times during our Argentina trip... brought up by hot girl gamers like this one...
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Abu Dhabi
The conference next week which I can't make... :(
In order to enrich the event even further, we established the Interactive Media Circle (IMC), which includes panels and an exhibition focused on introducing new-media technology to industry players and the general public,' Briggs continued.
'The exhibit portion of the IMC will take place October 9th through 11th in Abu Dhabi's Marina Mall.
The combination of cutting edge exhibits and advanced interactive experiences will promote Abu Dhabi as a prime destination for New-Media production in the Middle East.
It will feature virtual worlds, video games, interactive art, narrative tools and internet communication platforms,' she concluded.
'The exhibit portion of the IMC will take place October 9th through 11th in Abu Dhabi's Marina Mall.
The combination of cutting edge exhibits and advanced interactive experiences will promote Abu Dhabi as a prime destination for New-Media production in the Middle East.
It will feature virtual worlds, video games, interactive art, narrative tools and internet communication platforms,' she concluded.
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My current book pile:
HK is biz, technically, but I'm planning on hiking the Dragon's Back.
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