In reading the Washington Post’s favorite stories of 2018 a couple weeks ago, I was struck by one in particular – Suzanna Walter’s “Why can’t we hate men?” article on why women do indeed have every right to hate men, if they want to. The article starts out slowly and builds steam, and then in […]

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A few days ago, I gave “floating” (also popularly known as sensory deprivation) a try. Christine had given me a gift certificate to a local float company last year, and after returning from a vacation in China (and a 14 hour time zone difference) I thought it might be just what my frazzled brain might […]

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In my previous entry, I touched a bit on the ability of QR codes on shared bikes, as a convenient and very cheap way to get around major cities. Shanghai has 24 million people in it, but we also visited the nearby Hangzhou, which “only” has 7 million people in its urban core. We saw […]

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Looking at China’s technological expertise firsthand during our week in Shanghai is simultaneously awe-inspiring and unnerving. We know that we’re in China’s most expensive city, which arguably pushes tech even further than it might be in other parts of the country, but even with that in mind, I sometimes felt like it will take the […]

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I’ll make no secret of the fact that this blog is 10 years old; something I’m very proud of. However, I’m less proud of the fact that my theme, based on Talian 1.0, is also 10 years old. The maker of the the theme, Steve Arun, seems to have entirely pivoted away from themes to […]

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Since returning from Jordan back in 2010, my musical tastes have changed quite a bit. One of my go-to melodic electronic bands in the past decade has been El Ten Eleven. They were at […]

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