Fay Gwai Lo
…or ‘fat white devil’ in Cantonese. You learn so much here!
‘Space Steve from the Future’
…as a co-worker put it earlier. It’s 3pm Thursday in Hong Kong right now, 12:06am in SF.
13 hour flight from SFO to ICN, then 3:30 to HKG… I’m, uh, really gross. Sadly, the promise of an in-flight fashion show did not materialize, but it’s what’d you expect from an Asian airline: cloned, meek and perfect female flight attendants, not one detail over-looked or missed.
My hotel is a-skank-ey…
More later… shower time!
Fashion Shows
So I was on the Asiana website trying to find cabin interior photos, considering I’ll be spending over 24 hours in it over the next month, and all I could find was this goofy video which promises me “In Flight Fashion Shows.” That’s right… a fashion show!
Uh… cool. I guess.
Let’s Bomb Iran!
Bombed Afghanistan, but gave up the Taliban,
Hey at least this rhymes with “stan” and that’s enough to make a plan
To Bomb Iran! Bomb Bomb, Bomb… Let’s Bomb Iran!
You’re a commie if you doubt and my time is running out,
To Bomb Iran, Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!
Hong Kong Ho!
Off to Hong Kong on Tuesday for 4-6 weeks. (15hrs in flight, xfer in Seoul! Joooooooooyyyyyyyy…)
Trying to make a list of things I need to do to be gone that long: hold mail, have someone water plants, but not sure about others: should I shut off the cable? turn off the fridge? let someone run it as a B&B?
Also, trying to dig up as much info on what to do there and in Shanghai while I’m visiting. I’ll have plenty of time in HK, and a couple of days in Shanghai to do sightseeing. So far, my goals include not being arrested by government watchers and not a whole lot else. I’m going to try to find a Canon 30D a bit cheaper there, too, so I can photoblog and capture some choice Engrish. (But that’s really for my Yellowstone/Jackson Hole trip in June.)
Any suggestions you world travelers out there?
TV Shopping
Think I’ll take the plunge and replace the 250lb boat anchor in my living room when I get back from HK. So many different formats, sizes, inputs. Decisions, decisions.
And now I have to worry about snakes. That’s right — snakes.
Stoopid Google
Much hay has been made over Google’s “do no evil” policy vs. China and their zealous censorship fetish.
Oft-cited example: contrast these two image searches for ‘Tiananmen Square’: US; China. No “tank man” in the Chinese version. (FrontLine did a good piece on this recently.)
Funny thing is all you have to do is misspell ‘Tiananmen’ (which I imagine happens rather frequently), and one gets at least some “tank man” pr0n. (Yes, I know I’m searching in English here.)
Look, Google: when you break your own promises, at least be good at it.
Seriously, why does anyone pay Google attention any more… unless you’re insanely wealthy and getting rich on their crap Class B shares? Everything they’ve released in the last 3 years has been ass: gmail (yawn), gCal (Apple circa 2001), Maps (Web 2.0!!!!@@!@!!! d00d! FUCK ACCURACY!), news (company PR IS news!), Finance (Y! circa 98 with an AJAX chart!!!#@!!), Froogle (muddled, repetitive, pointless), local (does anyone know this exists?), blah, blah, blah…
Meanwhile, Yahoo! gets its third Chinese citizen arrested. Hey Terry, you fucknut, gonna throw some of that $174M to that guy’s family or let them starve?
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