This has nothing to do with anything, especially with so much going on otherwise, but I can’t resist. It comes from Jack Proot’s page on Anglo-Saxon units of measurement. It’s crazy stuff, but what great names! In addition to the below you can find the ell, the tod, the skein, the gill, the pole and […]

We do have a new neighborhood, because (in’shallah) we’re moving, but this post is actually about the second best thing, finding a bunch of new stuff in the neighborhood you thought you knew. In our case, last night the weather finally broke and we were able to walk around after dinner in comfort instead of […]

As some readers may know, HIHO is poised once again to expand, this time because of what demographers refer to as internal factors rather than external: HIHO Shanghai and I are expecting. An interesting phrase, “expecting,” sounds Victorian, because it leaves discreetly to the listener’s imagination what exactly is being expected. And, in fact, I […]

Readers, of whom there appear to be a few since Friday, have started voicing all kinds of demands for image content. Photos of the house HIHO Shanghai and I are trying to buy, photos of HIHOSH herself in the state of imminent motherhood, etc. Well, here are some stock photos, test cases if you will, […]

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 […]