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Matched Sets
06.03.2002
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A New Kind Of Science
06.05.2002
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Nostalgie
06.09.2002
Even the cats, I am sure, would be classier in France. They would eat , and we could call them . ...
Liberace
06.21.2002
On the subject of cubes, have you noticed how the Apple design mafia has taken over? I was thinking about this when I went to see — a truly excellent movie — where the main character has a cube tucked away in his swank apartment. It seems like every onscreen computer these days is a Mac...
Strange Noises
06.24.2002
A beastly hot night, and the cat is doing pirouettes, trying to catch a moth somewhere. I have been listening to the pleasant 'ping' of the , as people run searches and poke around. Listening and reading the Sunday papers.
And what interesting things there are. For one, the gigantic...
Sam Spade
06.24.2002
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Hot
07.02.2002
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Watching the NYC Marathon (2002)
11.06.2002
Elite female runners
Kenyans
Very very thin white men
Buff fit people with shades
Buff fit people in funny hats
Holstein cow
Man in clown nose
First of many annoying cellphone users
Santa Cla...
I Will Go To China
11.12.2002
I am a cheapskate and a control freak who feels lost at sea if he can't speak the language, perhaps not the best travel companion if you are headed to central China. But my boss (who is Taiwanese) went this spring to see the , and told me that I must go and see them, too, before they get f...
Letter From Sichuan
11.20.2002
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On Haggling
12.04.2002
"Hello!" is Chinese for . Alternatively, you may also hear the phrase "Rolex!", which means .
A proper response to "Hello!" and "Rolex!" is to say "bú yào!", which means .
To begin the haggle dance, point to something...
A Tour Of Chongqing
12.07.2002
As a college junior, I spent a semester living in Paris, occupying a prim little room in the 15th arrondisement. My French landlady, the widow of a Hungarian nobleman, was a decorous older woman with a complete collection of green Michelin guides to the various provinces of France. Apart from the f...
It's Always Christmas in Wuhan
12.10.2002
Fifth, Wuhan taxi drivers are wonderful people, and they have all been equipped with a cassette tape entitled (direct quote), . This tape contains the alphabet, days of the week, numbers, and a host of useful phrases, such as "Welcome to take my taxi", and "Bom voyage!"...
Sex in Shanghai
12.13.2002
If you are looking for the "Sex In Shanghai" blog, you are in the wrong place. You can find a cached copy of it
Are you a dusty old fetishist interested in Asian women, medical fantasies, and the delights that only a lover of a certain age can offer? And are you are interested i...
Dictator Architects
12.14.2002
A crazy in today's New York Times about totalitarian hijinks and the new "Mother of All Battles" mosque in Baghdad:
First, the minarets.
Inside a special sanctum, treated by the mosque's custodian with the reverence due a holy of holies, there are 650 pag...
We Don't Know What We're Doing
12.23.2002
I am in Maine for Christmas, far from the madding crowd ( or its Vermont equivalent ), and I feel vaguely silly writing a serious post about agribusiness. One of the many infuriating things about modern industrial farming is that it makes you feel like a crank just for writing about it. You sta...