Archive for May, 2008

Tiffany was recently a part of Viviana’s ICS Lifesource program, and the clip is below. I laughed out loud several times when watching this, since I’m friends with everyone in the program, and to see them act so unnaturally while trying to act naturally is a bit of a riot. So is the little “narrative” [...]

Last week I finally found people who wanted to rent my apartment. They are a youngish couple from Hong Kong, and when I first met the wife and listened to her verbally stagger through basic Mandarin, I asked if she wanted to speak English instead, an offer which she appreciatively accepted.
We went over her [...]

Want to see what the food editor for a city blog in a major international metropolis looks like when he’s eating?

This picture was taken by a photographer for a Chinese magazine during the luncheon at the Four Seasons with the Zagats. This is probably the first that any professional photographer has wasted an entire [...]

I got back to Shanghai yesterday afternoon after three nights in Suzhou, where I attended X|Media|Lab’s “Wealth of Animation” conference. The coolest presentations of the Day 1 Keynote were from Michael Johnson (Head of Moving Pictures Group, Pixar), Duncan Brinsmead (principal scientist, Autodesk), and Dale Herigstad (Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Schematic). It’s clear [...]

Not that she’s Hitler or anything, but this is still pretty funny. My favorite line: “Hurricane Katrina would have made a better campaign staff.” My next favorite: “I’m surrounded by ignorant eunuchs…with cunts for eyes!”
Waking up last Wednesday morning to see that Barack had won North Carolina by a landslide was the highlight of last [...]