Archive for July, 2007

Gorey photo

Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Here’s a very literally “gorey” photo of a disturbing Man-bull encounter. Amazing to see such a moment captured on film (or more likely a CMOS sensor).

The moral of the story is “you reap what you sow” with a nice hint of “let’s see how you like it Mr. cruelty-to-animals-for-the-sake-of-entertainment!”1

I didn’t post the photo here inline because I figure you, the visitor to this blog, might be in the middle of eating a nice bowl of muesli and don’t want to have a photo of a bull goring a guy shoved in your face. But the photo really is worth a look, and I’m sure the human in the photo survived the encounter just fine.

  1. I look forward to the day that The Running of the Bulls is replaced by The Running of the Robotic Bulls. The robotic bulls, incidentally, will all look like cute plush toys made by Sanrio, designer of fine Hello Kitty products [↩]

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On being sick in China, or not

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Today is one of those days. I’ve got a slightly sore throat, irritated nasal passageways, and a bit of a cough. If I felt like this in the US I’d know I was coming down with a cold, but here in China I know this is more likely a reaction to the higher-than-normal amount of pollutants spewed into the air today by the local battery factories, magnet factories, and sulfur processing plants.

I’ll just be over here, playing the ancient Chinese guessing game, “disease, or just choking”?

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1000 Compasses, why not?

Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Famous world traveling blogger David Wong, king of White Center and spiritual leader of the Garfield Underground Student Organization, passed through Hengdian for a visit a couple of months ago. He has since posted a blog entry about our visit to the city of Yiwu, wholesale market to the world. Read it and wonder no longer how I ended up buying a ridiculously large number of compasses.

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