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Mexico

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

Hannibal Buress summed up the arbitrage of love in his Netflix comedy special Comedy Comisado: A dollar bill isn’t worth that much in England but it’s worth a lot in Mexico.  We all mean different things to different people, is … Continue reading →

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Terminus XVI

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

 I was excited about this one, too.  One of the farthest flung of all the Shanghai Metro lines:  Line 16.  (Why there is no Line 14 or Line 15 is a mystery that I have not been able to solve. … Continue reading →

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Terminus XV

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

I thought this one was going to be exciting.  This new, eastern extension of Line 11 is supposed to go all the way to the (long delayed and as of yet still under construction) Disneyland.  But since Disneyland isn’t open … Continue reading →

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Terminus XIV

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

Spent a day on terminus adventures in Pudong.  First up was the southern end of Line 8. Okay, wooded area with bridges, smokestacks, and cooling towers in the distance.  Yeah.  I got right back on the train and left. Previous … Continue reading →

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Snow

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

That’s snow covering glass canopy over the mall next to work.  Sometimes it snows in Shanghai.

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Wrap

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

We had a Hollywood-style wrap party for Kung Fu Panda 3. The view of Pudong out the window of the venue was killer.  Looks like something out of a William Gibson novel.

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Science

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

Robyn & I also had the chance to visit Shanghai’s gargantuan science museum. Here’s an exhibit on cloned goats that caught our attention. We were disappointed that the bat cave was an exhibit on bats.

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Garden

Posted on February 13, 2016 by d4vid

My friend Robyn was in town a few weeks back and I (finally) visited the Yu Yuan Garden.  (But since “yuan” means “garden” we’re sort of in a “the the tar pits tar pits” situation.)

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Solitude

Posted on January 7, 2016 by d4vid

Amazing how all these structures grew out of Superman throwing a crystal in the snow.

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Chrysalis

Posted on January 6, 2016 by d4vid

I’ve eaten some strange things in China — a chicken head, grilled scorpion, grilled cicadas, cubes of coagulated pigs’ blood — but this might be the most Chinese: Fried silkworm chrysalises.

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Hubris

Posted on January 6, 2016 by d4vid

 I got cocky today.  Instead of wearing thermal underwear, jeans, wool socks, hiking boots, undershirt, sweater, winter jacket, scarf, and gloves like I did on my first night, I foolheartedly decided to visit St. Sofia Cathedral and Zhongyang Rd. wearing … Continue reading →

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Lego

Posted on January 6, 2016 by d4vid

Liquid Lego bricks, frozen in place.

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Carvings

Posted on January 6, 2016 by d4vid

Zhangyang Street is another major focus of the Harbin Ice Festival. I tried to get a terrier to pose next to this ice sculpture of a gramophone, but he was having none of it. This one is a reminder of … Continue reading →

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Sofia

Posted on January 6, 2016 by d4vid

Remember our discussion about Angela Lansbury?  Well, here’s St. Sofia’s Cathedral in Harbin.  Clearly heavily indebted to Russian architecture. Not sure how to say “tuppence” in Russian…Tiny, but majestic.  (Feel free to use your favorite dick joke here.)  Apologies for the … Continue reading →

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Rome

Posted on January 5, 2016 by d4vid

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

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