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What the World Eats

June 6, 2007

Time has an article out entitled “What the World Eats”. Fascinating.

For China, they pictured the Dong family of Beijing.

Food expenditure for one week: 1,233.76 Yuan or $155.06
Favorite foods: fried shredded pork with sweet and sour sauce

It is now official that Chuxiong is not like Beijing. People think of China, they think of Beijing and Shanghai, then there are those who think of the entirely different Hong Kong.

In little Chuxiong, I haven’t seen have of the things pictured above. Dinner is made from vegetables, rice, and some meat. Purchased every morning. And I think our food expenditure for one week is ~~100 Yuan, or about $14 USD~~ 49 Yuan, or about $6.50 USD.

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3-4 More Months in this Lovely Place

May 12, 2007

I’m just guessing at this point, but I’m sure I’m not coming back in May. Whoops! That’s what the lawyer told me, but that’s not what the US Embassy in Guangzhou told me.

Just fyi, for all the people asking, “Where the hell are you Bob?”

– In China, for now.

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Off to Lugu Lake (Lugu Hu)

May 1, 2007

Will post some pictures when I get back on Friday.

Photos of Sheraton in Sanya Hainan [pic]

April 30, 2007

At one of the bars in the Sheraton, overlooking the South China Sea.

An unedited picture of one of their many pools, with the annual Sanya Jazz Festival being set up in the background. That’s what the water really looks like, so I guess it really is “China’s Hawaii.”

In other news, there was a small disaster in Oakland, CA about 24 hours ago (dubbed the “MacArther Maze Meltdown”, god), where a gas tanker exploded and collapsed a freeway overpass. Then Arnold announced free transportation for the day.

Well, they have free transportation in China, too. This was taken on the Kun-An Expressway (the only freeway in Kunming) on the way back to Chuxiong, at 50 mph.

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Old Lady in China [picture]

April 28, 2007

Old Lady in China It has been slow lately, so I went back and found another shot I took a few months ago in the mountains of Yunnan of an old family friend.

I’m now studying the Photoshop RAW mode in black and white. Perhaps if I knew anything about photography I could intelligently manipulate B/W photos, but as it stands, I’m just sliding knobs. We have lots of photos of Sanya, Hainan coming up soon.

I’m testing this in Contribute to see how nice it works.

E Jia.

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Busy

April 19, 2007

Busy working, getting ready for the return to the US, a trip to “the Hawaii of China” in Hainan (we’ll just wait and see about that), getting ready for our exit interview in Guangzhou, cleaning houses, cleaning crystal glass, practicing el violin, listening to bad pop Chinese music, listening to good jazz albums (did I mention Turtle Island’s “A Love Supreme? Wowzer), and other stuff.

I’ll post some pictures soon of China’s Hawaii and we’ll most likely revisit the Su family to see how that water buffalo is doing.

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Cosmic Crusader: The Answer is Yes

March 27, 2007

Note: Use at your own risk (but it works for me)

My brother asked me this question over two years ago. Tech support has arrived.

Question:

I wish I had a computer slow enough to run [Cosmic Crusader]. Anyone know how to slow down a P4 so this game will run? And where I can get a joystick?

Answer:

1. Download Dos Box (a fully functional Dos emulator that runs on your Mac or PC)

2. On a Mac, unzip it, then double-click the DMG, then drag the ‘DOSBox’ application to your Apps folder

3. Whoops! Their site is mysteriously down. Google ‘cosmic-crusader’ and find the Zip

4. Create a directory called games here: Users / You / games