Every time Christmas season rolls around I start thinking about whether or not I should perpetuate the Santa Claus myth when I have children of my own. I know I know, it’ll be a while before I have my own kids, but that doesn’t mean I can’t think about it. I’ve finally developed my opinion [...]
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November 25th, 2009 | Religion | 4 comments | Rate this post:
Tags: atheism, Christmas, God, Santa Claus Although I’ve never been a big fan of group work, I am a huge fan of final projects. I much prefer final projects to final tests. Fortunately for me, almost all of the finals for classes in the Digital Media major were final projects. So come finals week when the rest of the school was [...] After being immensely disappointed by both the indoor skiing slope and the science museum in Shanghai, I really didn’t expect much from the Ocean Aquarium. Which is why I was so shocked to discover the best aquarium I’ve seen yet. The aquarium has multiple levels full of tanks of exotic aquatic life. The wonderful thing [...] November 17th, 2009 | China | One comment | Rate this post:
Tags: garden eels, Shanghai Ocean Aquarium Chinese people tend to assume that it is difficult for me to get accustomed to their food. Truth is, I love Chinese food. Sure there’s some strange stuff I won’t touch, but there’s a lot of good stuff too. Hell, I sometimes even crave eggplant now, of all things. That being said, western restaurants are [...] November 17th, 2009 | China | 2 comments | Rate this post:
Tags: Burger King, Dico's, KFC, mcdonalds, Papa John's, Pizza Hut, Subway, western restaurants I’m terrible when it comes to managing money. In college I didn’t even bother trying to match my spending with my income (mostly because it was impossible given the cost of rent and how little hours I worked). I’d buy most anything I wanted or needed so long as it didn’t break the bank, which [...] As if Valentine’s day wasn’t enough of a sore reminder that I am and always have been single, Singles Awareness Day (SAD… get it!?) comes around once a year to point and laugh. The Chinese equivilent of SAD is Guang Gun Jie, or Singles Day as it is refered to in English. What’s that? Singles [...] November 11th, 2009 | China | 3 comments | Rate this post:
Tags: Chinese girlfriend, dating, Guang Gun Jie, singles day Most video editors probably have their opinion of logging clips so deeply embedded that they don’t even think twice about their actions when importing footage from a tape. I however have heard great arguments from both sides, and every time I capture a tape I have to spend several minutes debating with myself how I [...] November 4th, 2009 | Technology | Leave a comment | Rate this post:
Tags: Avid, capture now, DV, editing, log and capture, video
On halloween we decided to take a day trip to Yixing to check out the Zhangong cave. Ooooh spooky, right? Right!? Guys? Ok so let me get this out of the way right now; the cave was pretty lame. There wasn’t very much as far as cool rock formations, and what was there [...] Employing foreign English teachers is a really bad idea. Let me clarify; it’s not always a bad idea, just most of the time. If the students know enough English that they can converse with the teacher, it’s not such a bad idea. It gives them an opportunity to get used to hearing native English speaking, [...] Women in China are all about looking good, which of course is fine with me, but there are some fashion trends that are just a tad bit ridiculous. Chinese women have pretty good fashion sense for the most part, but there is one trend in particular that drives me crazy; the enormous fake glasses. Somehow [...] |
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