Given my recent review of Suckerpunch, I thought I’d continue along the same vein of films that in which I was “sold” based in large part on scenes from the trailer. For example, the picture along the right here probably goes a long way to explaining why I wanted to see the movie Gantz. Gantz [...]
So what else do you do when you are waiting around the Star Ferry terminal for a meeting? Get a sandwich was first on the list, and then I just made some movies for the heck of it… Yes, I was bored. Arriving on the East Side of the Pier. Arriving on the West Side [...]
UPDATE: Wed. March 23. 8:00 PM. We’ll be meeting to put together the remaining kits at Boot.hk offices. Last night members of the Hong Kong Hackerspace, aka Hong Kong Hackjam, got together at the Boot.HK offices to undertake a quick project to help victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. With electricity out in many [...]
The new iPad 2 arrived today in Hong Kong. Well mine at least… My mom bought it in her hometown in South Carolina. She went to a Best Buy about three hours after it went on sale. I pressed her and pressed her to go earlier but she replied “the people in this podunk town [...]
In an effort to keep people in Hong Kong from panicking and buying up all the salt, soy sauce and seaweed in the territory (and then kill themselves from eating too much of the above), the Hong Kong Observatory now is publishing maps detailing the wind patterns for possible radioactive releases from the Fukushima nuclear [...]
As crazy as the salt panic it is here in Hong Kong, it’s a bit weirder just over the border, where there is a run not only on Salt but also on Soy Sauce.
It doesn’t take much to move a crowd, and in crowded Hong Kong even the whiff of something can stir a rush of panic. Take for example salt. Some salt contains iodine to help prevent against iodine deficiency. It’s been this way for nearly a century and most people (save for the conspiracy theorists) [...]
Just a picture I found while cleaning out my computer today. Thank god the system doesn’t run on Windows. Ummm…maybe?
On Feburary 24, which is still a few days away. Americans may remember this show by the American-ized title of “Star Blazers” where the battleship “Argo” went up to battle the Gamilons. Back in the day the very word “Yamato” still had too many WWII memories I guess. Anyway, will probably go. My neighbors from [...]
As I sit here going through my son’s kindergarten applications to various international schools here in Hong Kong I keep harking back to this TED speech by Sir Ken Robinson. In this speech he mocks and derides the process, extremely prevalent in Hong Kong, of “interviewing” 3 and 4 year olds for kindergarten. “College does [...]
Was at Fat Angelo’s this weekend having some pizza and listening to a pretty good mix of 80′s new romantics bands on the speakers. Kind of a throwback to sitting in Garcia’s Pizza back at the University of Illinois in the 80s and listening to the same music. It’s kind of funny but there are [...]
Had my video cam with me the other day playing tourist. Here’s some video from the Star Ferry.
USB drives to me are kind of silly. I have been living in the cloud when it comes to data for a number of years now and regard USB keys as sort of a throwback to the era of ‘physical media’ when you had to burn something to a disk to transfer it from one [...]
You would think that a place like Hong Kong, which is only miles from the gadget factories in Shenzhen and benefiting greatly from a massive demand for consumer appliances and essentially no customs duties on imports, would have the latest and greatest devices from around the world easily available at the various Computer (grey) markets [...]
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