Monthly Archives: February 2016

While rewatching the first season of Community, I had the horrifying realization that my company is Greendale Community College.  Yet I found Jeff Winger’s perspective liberating: We can do anything we want.  It’s Greendale.

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 →

 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 →

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 →

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

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.

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.)