Thorbjörn Holmlund kicks ass. He is working on a truly amazing project that cannot possibly be overlooked for its contribution to human civilization. Echoing Chares of Lindos, the Greek sculptor charged with constructing the colossus on the island of Rhodes, Holmlund’s legacy will be a modern day Great Wonder: a colossal moose. The moose is [...]
Sometimes you read something that just utterly depresses you. I have been sick lately, and I didn’t especially need more depression, but today I read this story at Wired, and it made me sink even lower. To summarize, researchers have studied some supposed dinosaur flesh that was recovered with some fossils and concluded that it [...]
Just returned to Beijing after a little mini-visit to Chongqing and Shanghai. The trip was good; Chongqing is probably the #1 up-and-coming city in China, and Shanghai, it turns out, is much better when you have friends there. (Go figure.) This being my second visit to Shanghai, I wasn’t as concerned with traipsing around gawking [...]
According to this article at CNN, during trade negotiations with the United States in 1973, Mao Zedong offered Henry Kissinger 10 million Chinese women, saying that “We have too many women…They give birth to children and our children are too many”. I’m not sure what Mao wanted in exchange, but to me it certainly sounds [...]
Once I again I want to chime in on the uselessness of tradition. And in this case, not only the uselessness, but the actual net negative that comes from getting set in our ways. In the United States, we have this idiotic tradition known as Daylight Savings Time. The tradition works like this: twice every [...]
Today’s mantra is simple: just let us fuck on airplanes. Let us go into the bathroom and do it. Let us fool around under the blanket. Sex doesn’t hurt anybody; in fact, it’s vitally important to the expansion of the human race, and it’s a right that should be protected everywhere. And on the new [...]
I’m going to be a little “mushy” today and write a short note about friends. Normally, I am a pretty self-sufficient person. I don’t usually ask people for much, and I try to wriggle out of sticky situations on my own. Sometimes, it seems people are even a little put off by this, as if [...]
Yeah, I get what they were trying for…but I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw that slogan on a girl’s tee shirt on the subway in Beijing. Surfer Dreams Is Wet. Indeed.
I decided to pop into The King tonight and purchase a delicious double cheeseburger. There was a rather large, and, as it turns out, rather surly man in line ahead of us. We walked in right after he ordered, and the girl behind the counter was giving him his tray of food. The man wanted [...]
Truer words have never been spoken. This BBC article quotes Time Asia, reporting about a unique new tourist attraction in India. Apparently run (and started?) by one man (Peter Dorje), this “sport” entails going up on a mountain with a bunch of yaks, attaching yourself to a rope and a pulley mechanism, shaking a bucket [...]