Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Friday Music: Outwards and Upwards, in reply to Russell Brown,
I am very impressed with Lorde. And out of curiosity I just had a wee look.... it seems quite a few people have been uploading her videos to Youku. I hope she's getting paid for that. Especially considering I had to sit through 30 seconds of ads for Pizza Hutt to watch Royals, and again for Tennis Court.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to merrica,
Having read your explanation, I must admit I am relieved.
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Great work, Nora!
And Jackson, your Singapore shots remind me of arriving in Hong Kong the first time. I made the mistake of taking the train from the airport to Central, but it was a happy mistake because I suddenly felt like I'd accidentally stepped into a sci-fi film set 100 years in the future.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Jos,
car
boot contains a stash of mineral water, a practice I'm very happy to have continued from last summer, especially considering I just saw a post on Weibo from, I think, the Beijing weather bureau, or at least an official Weibo account of some Beijing bureau or another, announcing that the temperature had dropped below 35.
But yeah, I got so many more layers of reflection than I actually saw at the time I was blown away by a bit more than the heat.
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Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to merrica,
Cheap but outstanding in so many ways. Cuts, bashes, useful to scoop up sliced food…probably the single most useful kitchen tool I have.
Oh yes, cleavers are awesome in so many ways. One thing I especially love about being in China is how easy cleavers are to find - and knife sets with two cleavers, which I think of as "his and hers" - my wife prefers the lighter one, I go for the heavier one. And they're great for the reasons you mention and more, though I do find them useless for chopping up a pumpkin - something long and thin applied with constant pressure over a long period of time works best there, I find.
It took me a while to adjust to rice cookers, but once you get used to them they're great for both regular rice and various East Asian styles of porridge. Fill 'em up, turn 'em on, and forget until you get hungry.
but ended up translating it myself using online translator sites.
Oh no, please don't, really, you didn't, did you? I don't say this out of fear of losing an income stream (though I don't do Korean-English, so no direct threat in this case), I say it out of professional pride. Yeah, sure, for something formulaic and technical like an instruction booklet Machine Translation often gives you something close enough for you to decipher, sometimes even reasonably accurate, but outside of these very strict conditions, do you have any idea how badly MT mangles language?!
Having ranted that, I hope you got your cooker working.
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I’m struggling to figure out how many layers of reflection and refraction are in this one. But yeah, my car needs a wash.
Though if I get the right angle, you can't tell how dirty it is.
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The world in advertising.
Under a sun so fierce I thought this’d be all that’s left of me if I didn’t find shade (or: another selfie for rejection). I found shade and checked the weather app on my phone: Thirty eight degrees it said.
Chaoyang Gongyuan Lu, via the Jialong International Building's sign.
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At the hospital, waiting for her pre-kindy check-up.
The world in the wall of Suzie Wong’s.
ummm...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
Thanks, Hebe. I think I'll glue myself to that link for a bit.
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A selfie for rejection.
