1. Nanjing 1912 is what all of China would look like if Chiang Kai-shek had won the war.
2. Can’t decide which is turning me off more on the Olympics, CCTV 5 turning over all of the air time to Wang Meng or NBC just plowing the Olympic hockey gold storyline right through the snow and into bedrock.
3. Three things in China that are likely to result in an early demise for your correspondent: 1) the mixture of stupidity, explosives, and alcohol that comes every Chinese New Year. 2) Being taken out by a driver with less than five months of experience behind the wheel and who had just enough money after purchasing a car to buy off the driving instructor. 3) That McDonald’s and KFC have competing 24-hour delivery services.
4) Vegas has taken the odds for #3 off of the board.
5) Nanjing is a surprisingly livable city. Of course I’ve only been here in the fall and spring, I understand that in the summer it’s like God’s own curling iron.
6) Toshiba laptop batteries suck donkey di