tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61458852009-01-02T19:59:18.790-08:00Help yourself to my "s'more goes blog"! You'll find trackeds and endtrials through S/SE Asia, my Pan-American overland wanderings, SoCal, and always bridges to and through the Middle Kingdom. Expect only occasional updates now from Jets, Journal, Wonder and environs.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6145885.post-319601426342637012009-01-02T19:05:00.000-08:002009-01-02T19:59:18.816-08:00

Movie Mumbai from the Suburban Parking Lot Lagoon: Globalization in Stereo from an American Mini Mall in Grand Rapids, MI The urge to type comes to me often sitting in theaters. Does anyone have links to where I can buy a silent, one-handed keypad? Or need we invent this device? Or wait for commercial scale wink sensors? Or plugs to the brain? What a joy tonight sitting with Mom in a packed

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Reports from Michigan's Beaver At the first Fox on a Hill retreat on Beaver Island, Michigan You'll find Miss Michigan's nicest big island tucked up in Northeast corner of Lake Michigan between the state's two pleasant peninsulas. Before this week, I hadn't been to Beaver Island since I was about 12 (1992). As a youngster, I didn't have to say to friends, “No Beaver Island isn't a lesbian

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Roots & Shoots Day of Peace 2008 A message from the Dame September 21, 2008, San Diego & Los Angeles Here's a message from the dame. Thank you, my friend! I hope to see you either in San Diego, Los Angeles, or digitally via uploaded photos. Let's create peace in our lifetimes!

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Reflections at morning rain after yesterday's hail and the day before yesterday's sandstorms spring's arrival in Beijing My grandparents always talk about the weather. If dinner conversation during infrequent visits languors, the weather topic of weather looks plum. My Yorkshire colleague claims weather is required conversation at his family's dinner table. Wow, what surprise outside the

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Jane Goodall at UCSD April 1, 2008 Not an April Fool's joke! Jane Goodall is visiting UCSD on April 1. Please join us for a tree planting ceremony. Volunteers, invited guests, and ticket holders can take part in an intimate luncheon.

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Happy Chinese New Year Paint the Town Red! from Beijing Dear friends and associates........ After accepting an offer to do sustainable development work in line with my passions, I am now working in Beijing until the Olympics. I did not expect to stay here when I came to Chinese capital last fall...but those of you who know me well could see that this was not entirely unexpected either. Just

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Blog Descriptions: Out with the in with the... Old: You may have followed my "s'more goes blog" of trackeds and endtrials through S/SE Asia, the Middle Kingdom, or months of Pan-American overland wandering, but you ain't read nothing till you read about...grad school. Actually, you won't read much about grad school because, well, it's grad school. Expect occasional updates from Jets, Journal,

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to Beijing! with curiosity, hope, and love from San Diego Ten days in the US now over. A final all-nighter to get my work done. Meeting after meeting. Greeting after greeting. Goodbyes here and there. See yous on Skype or google chat elsewhere. San Diego almost felt like home. There's a reason there are so many midwesterners in this town. Sunday was Roots & Shoots International Day of Peace in

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fortunes read from traffic cameras and other tales of wonder from Paris, London, NYC Before going to Paris, Mom and I saw the Merchant of Venice in "Shakespeare's" restored Globe Theatre. We liked the atmosphere so much that we saw a new play there the next night, We the People, by Eric Schlosser of "Fast Food Nation" and "Reefer Madness" fame. It's amazing to see new plays with 20+ actors

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Realisation: How to Handle the Most Difficult Person(s) in Your Life some tricks to see past the delusion of anger I found this post in my weekly thedailyenglightenment.com email, which often has interesting dharma movie bits and fine zen quotes. I repost here without permissions, thus happy to take it down. It is a most ironic "illusion" that there are many difficult people in our lives out

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Dear friends, This Harper's article presents convincing evidence that our executive branch and our chief executive's ideological handlers are using Fox News to quicken our nation's pace toward war with Iran, just as they did in the lead-up to Iraq in 2003. For the fast, dirty evidence and an online petition asking other networks not to follow Fox New's lead, check out this page.Let us do more

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Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties ...is the third in a series of Public Interest Pictures films ... Unconstitutional provides the facts and stories that illuminate administration lies, wrongheaded policies, and the real victims of these actions--the American people. Here, you'll get the real story behind the USA PATRIOT Act and other administration policies and the gut wrenching

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the last days of guqin camp at the Royal Academy of Music London Following from this post. I could write a lot about my week at the Royal Academy of Music's summer school, but I won't. I enjoyed the people I met and being in that atmosphere of exploration and excitement about Asian music. There were many people who had never seen a qin before, and others who had practiced half a lifetime. The

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Future Mediascape? Don't say you weren't warned... Admittedly a bit sensationalized, but still a decent video that adds something to the debate and wonder of our emerging mediasphere.

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first day of guqin camp at the Royal Academy of Music London I met a man from Portland, Jim Binkley, who wrote a new book, and was John Thompson's roommate in Taipei in the 1970s. He came to London just to take part in the Asian Music Circuit's 5th annual summer school at the Royal Academy of Music. Zeng Chengwei is our teacher. Charlie Huang wore his famous hanfu. His newest is on its way from

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mapping the self: new social/search maps cluster the clutter online (everywhere, really) The Firefox experience keeps getting better. For every add-on that encroaches on my browsing space, the world it opens is ten times more mind expanding--or 10x fun, at least. Greasemonkey smiles, Firefox does real-time spell check. Twitter tweets. My latest addition is the StumbleUpon toolbar. The Mozilla

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I like big things with melodramatic music and fast-moving parts like the port in Dalian, China Check out this Dalian China port promo video. Globalization at China speed...with Enya lending some majesty to the images of northeast China's oil infrastructure.

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The truth about climate change? Our worst scenarios are too optimistic says new NASA report [This is from our friends at China Dialogue, originally published in the Guardian.] Fossil fuel-free in 20 years? George Monbiot July 12, 2007 Prospects for renewable power are promising. But it means nothing, argues George Monbiot, if the public interest is drowned by corporate power. Reading a

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Impeach Cheney Now Not a great video, but it gets the point across. Sign the petition before it's too late.

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say goodbye to smoking in pubs Originally uploaded by kafka4prez On July 1st, the UK banned smoking indoors. Here's a funny poem on a pub blackboard.Whether you do or don'tThe time has Come,To Say goodbye.To Smoky pubs + watery eyes.Your clothes won't smellNeither your hair.But bring your Jumper,So you don't freeze out there*from 1st July*(It's also abnormally chilly for early July).

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Getting Emotional About Silk: Guqin Hours with John Thompson in Weehawken, New Jersey Before I left San Diego I got a random message on Facebook from UCSD music grad student Alex Khalil. He informed me that I had just missed events surrounding guqin maker Wang Peng's visit to campus. He blamed limited publicity. I blamed finals. Still, neither despaired, for each of us had discovered the other.

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It Can Be Done! Thoughts on Being Carless in Southern California Before I moved to San Diego for grad school in September 2006, I had many discussions with friends about whether or not I could continue being carless in SoCal. I did not want to buy a car, but most people said I would have to give in. Only one friend was adamant about staying true to my cyclist spirit and convinced me that, even

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50,000 Views: What People Looked At On Flickr I swear this post has nothing to do with flickr being down in China. That event just happened to coincide almost perfectly with my 50,000th photo view. I told myself I'd write a blog post as soon as I crossed that magic number. Instead, I finished a stats project, wrote a survey , and had a finance exam. Now freedom has arrived.... 50,000 views

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Statistics Cross Post from the IR/PS Student Blog Here's a post I did about Craig McIntosh, my third statistics professor at IR/PS.

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No Trace Living an Honest, Simple Life From a Note My Two Meter Israeli Theravada Monk Teacher Gave Me "When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." When we practice, our mind is calm and quite simple. But usually our mind is very busy and complicated, and it is difficult to be concentrated on what we are doing. This is because

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