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My last piece of sentimentality about my trip to Hong Kong, and my trip to Number 8 Old Peak Road, where I used to live happily on the fifteenth floor. *      *      * I took a walk down Read more…

Photoset on Flickr I hadn’t been back to Hong Kong in seventeen years. When I left I was a skinny, comic-book collecting, fourteen year old boy, and it was after living in the fabulous city for two years. Now I Read more…

So we get a lot of crappy TV here in the Netherlands. I think this “America’s Hottest Blah Blah Blah” was on a while ago in the US, but we were watching it tonight and this gem came up. Scenario: Read more…

I know, it’s been a long time since I wrote anything. I got my cast off about a month ago, but was just out of the habit. So I didn’t write about going to Brugges (in Belgium) to play frisbee Read more…

…I think I will subscribe either myself or Darien (who has made the casino his second home while Magreet and the baby are away) as test subjects for the highly interesting Journal of Gambling Studies. Another quality publication from Springer Read more…

Now, I just came back from a week long ski trip with my brother Mark and he never mentioned anything about this, so you can imagine my surprise when I received this (incomplete) email from Alena (xpcemonocg@net.br): How are you? Read more…

Photoset on Flickr  My thanks to Lynn for graciously typing this post as I dictate.  We have just come back from a week long vacation to Tignes, France and unfortunately I returned with the use of only one hand.  But Read more…

The call came on Monday while I was on vacation in France. “I am very happy to inform you that we received the grade from your professor and it was sufficient to allow you to graduate,” said the Registrar of Read more…