Tag Archives: #sciencefiction

Ooo

Advenure Time had a booth!  A BMO kiosk… …plus a Jake entrance… …and, um, a Jake exit. 

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Nerds

Spending time with My People at the very first Comic Con in Shanghai. Here is a list of some of the cosplay I’ve seen today: Chinese Tauriel Chinese Professor Snape Chinese Lucius Malfoy Chinese Captain America Chinese Captain America (gender … Continue reading

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Jaeger

Went to an insane robot restaurant/dinner show in Shinjuku.  Found this photo of Guillermo hanging by the ticket line.

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Asimov

You order your sushi on a personal touchscreen.  Your sushi zips to you on robot trolleys.  This is the future, people: “A robot must not harm sushi or through inaction allow sushi to come to harm.”

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Talisker

William Gibson always said that the Japanese always excelled at lovingly replicating artifacts from the West — down to all the flawed, wabi-sabi details — but improving everything just a little. This dim, basement whiskey bar was perfectly Gibsonian.  

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Jupiter

Hey, I know three of those four Chinese characters! Today, I had lunch at Pistolera and then went to the movie theater next door for the first time. Yes, that’s communist art deco.  Really great theater, despite its long throw.  It’s telling … Continue reading

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Sherpa

China never met a problem it couldn’t solve by throwing people at it.  There’s a service here called Sherpa’s where you go to their website, pick a Shanghai restaurant, order from their menu, and a daredevil scooter messenger brings the food … Continue reading

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