I have angered the petty and vituperative gods of travel. For the second time in less than a week, I am delayed in an airport late at night. Last Sunday, storms in Shanghai resulted in a six and a half hour wait and a 2:00 am arrival in Hong Kong. Now I’m in Ordos, and […]
Look, I am sorry to venture into the political, but I have felt a rant coming on and I can’t hold it back any more.
President Obama (still fun to type) ran on a ticket of being inclusive and bipartisan and all that, and it’s important to keep your campaign promises. Many people (my father […]
One of the great things about New York - or any city where you are actually out on the street with other citizens/gangstas - are the random things you see and hear. Occasionally these are hilarious. I have many examples myself, but because I never had a place to record them, I have sadly forgotten […]
OK, with much tedious backing and filling Half In Half Out now has a new, more unblocked domain name, new blogging software and a new look! Well, the look will continue to be adjusted, but we hope the blogging can now move ahead freed of the base technical issues which have dogged us for the […]
HIHO is back online after an extended absence, the combined result of techincal issues and being swamped by offline events. With regard to the former, HIHO was (and still is) blocked by the Great Firewall, meaning that until we installed proxy software we were not able to view or post to our own blog. Around […]
Here’s a list of encouraging environmental trends I see in my everyday life:
- “Odor-free” paint is widely advertised, and today we found water-based polyurethane as well. In general, indoor air quality actually is a bigger issue here than in the states - possibly because the quality of renovation materials has been so low that places […]
Today I had a meeting in a new place, a digital animation company’s office on fashionable Huaihai Rd. The office was three weeks old, and the decor was so cool it was almost funny. Everything was white and that cool orange, with molded plywood in some places and glass frosted with a cool pattern in […]
“How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?” - Poet Robert Frost
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.” - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle
“All my possessions for a moment of time.” - Queen Elizabeth I
“Our national flower is the […]
For everybody who thinks that global warming isn’t real, won’t affect them, or might not be so bad:
The first hurricane in the South Atlantic ever recorded, in 2004. This appears to support global warming models.
Get used to it.
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What’s the best kind of sports? International sports! The World Baseball Classic, a great idea, is playing out with a host of surprises and upsets, all good, even when the U.S. is unbelievably eliminated in the second round by Mexico, after losing to South Korea and Canada. That would be the game we invented and […]