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Fire in the Belly
(The last post for a while. It is kind of cool that WordPress for iPhone let’s you store your posts and then push them out.) Fire in the Belly was one of those 1980s, “men are good books” but still an interesting read. I loved two stories that mean a lot to me: bq. One…
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Shanghai Hotels and Restaurants
Well been a little while since my last Chinese lesson: Shanghai Park Hyatt. 上海æŸæ‚¦é…’店。 Shang4hai3 Bai3yue4 Jiu3dian4. This is the really big building. So the Park Hyatt is Bai3 Yue4 and the Grand Hyatt is Jun1 Yue4. Confused yet? Shanghai Grand Hyatt. 上海金茂å›æ‚…大酒店. Shang4hai3 Jin1mao4 Jun1yue4 Da4jiu3dian4. Really directly translated as the Jinmao Grand Hyatt.…
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Drive by beauty
I love camera phones because even though I carry a dSLR whereever I go there are still so many times when I see something heartachingly beautiful. Here I was driving madly to do Christmas shopping. Headed to feathered friends and I turn and see this sunset. Blurry going 100kph but u get the idea.
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Songs
Two years ago a dear friend gave me the gift of really listening to lyrics. In my current mood I’ve been listening to lots of Fort Minor, Lifehouse, Linkin Park and Beyonce. I love the fact that Fort Minor is really Mike of Linkin Park fame doing rap. So here are things to listen to:…
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Geek street
While I love the iPhone. I have to say some of it’s quirks are really annoying. Here’s my list. If anyone can find work arounds let me know. 1. Activesync doesn’t work in airplane mode! Man ur on an airplane reading your exchange mail and it won’t delete messages. Just says can’t do it. Works…
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National geographic adventurer
Wow national geographic has certainly branches out. Love reading third latest guide to adventure travel in their november issue. Some notes via wordpress on iPhone: Arunachel Pradeah India. Whitewater kayaking in real wilderness Mont Bell is an amazing lightweight sweater made of goose down packs down to. 20cm long and just 7.5cm around. Perfect for…
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Home Theater Reviews…
Someone was asking about components for home theater. Man, there was lots of things going on. “Sim2 HT5000”:http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=799229 is an amazing 3-DLP projector. Expensive though. 3800 lumens and 6000:1. Most folks are worried about the 50% drop in light output as the lamp ages. The Sim2 HT3000 is 1-chip 1080p while the Sim2 HT5000 is…
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More Readings
I haven’t really read *anything* in a year. Not the newspapers, too depressing. Not my usual science and non-fiction, too escapist. And lately, not even the web, really escapist. But lately, I’ve had some time to really consider things. Read “Gods in Everyman”:http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC16/Bolen.htm and “Goddesses in Everywoman”:http://www.intuition.org/txt/bolen.htm, “Iron John”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_John_(book), “Narcissism: A New Theory”:http://books.google.com/books?id=AuBnyWBvoHoC&dq=new+theory+of+narcissism&pg=PP1&ots=QeDR3Cf5c5&source=bn&sig=dAcZgCpRYSYE7dHCi8-HpJv_zPY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result as usual,…
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Chile
Well after hearing about the “Atacama”:http://www.cntraveller.com/Guides/Chile/Atacama_Desert/ desert from Quantum of Solace and also seeing Easter Island is out there, what an interesting spot plus the currency has fallen 20% vs. the USD. * “Explora Rapa Nui”:http://www.explora.com/rapa-nui_thehotel.php. If you want to see the famous Easter Island, its five hours from Santiego, but a pretty amazing spot…
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Next trip to Beijing or NYC
There are the usual suspects and then there is the “Hot List”:http://www.cntraveller.com/Special_Features/The_Hot_List_2008/ which are new stylish hotels that Conde Naste has found. Here are some: Well there are the usual hotels like the Grand Hyatt (the pool!) or the harder to find Beijing Shangri-la, but Conde Naste found an interesting spot called the “Hotel Cote…
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