The GT1 Championship this weekend was a pretty soggy affair, but I got to take some photos…
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Last September when I was in China, I needed a harddrive to store all the photos I was taking, plus I wanted to see what the electronics markets in Zhongguancun looked like. Zhongguancun can be pretty
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We went to the Kro’s Nest restaurant yesterday and I noticed they had these custom arcade enclosures running what I am guessing is MAME under the covers. The games seem to rotate on a daily basis, and
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I’m mostly posting this for my own future reference, but if you’d like to get a feeling for the Chinese expat experience, or how to do business in China in general, chinageeks.org has an awesome colle
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No really, its a really big restaurant:
I’ve got to apologize for the cultural insensitivity, because I know its inappropriate, but I find the name of this restaurant really, really funny.
I admit it
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There’s nothing special about this photo, the smog level wasn’t particularly high Saturday (it was ‘320’ according to the US Embassy smog meter and their twitter feed, but it gives you an idea what th
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Sharon and I went for a nice lunch, it was as fancy as any “normal dinner out” in Boston, and the total cost was 54rmb, or about $8. Still, tai gui le! (too expensive!) The menu offered some intriguin
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Here is a brief recap of my first days in China…
Tuesday
Jet lag has me waking up really early. Also, Chinese mattresses are rock hard, which seems odd but I guess its normal here, The mattress in the old apartment was the same. We need to find a memory foam mattress cover because its pretty rough sleeping on this thing.
In the morning we went to the PSB (Public Safety Bureau) to register. All visitors to China who are not staying in hotels or other official locations must register with the local PSB within 24 hours of arrival, regardless of how long they are staying. It was pretty painless though.
We was running late, so rather than going back home, I got parked at a cafe for a few hours where I was able to get some work done on wifi. On the way there we walked past a shop with a painting of Obama with a rabbit:
For everyone who has been asking, I’ll try and write semi-regularly about what life in China is like, and you should be able to find all of those posts in the China category.
The trip over went smooth
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