Archive for August, 2007

Hulu: Candy on a Stick

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

News Corp and NBC’s joint venture now has a name, “Hulu”.
It brings back the winter memories of street vendors in Beijing shouting out “Hulu! Huuuuu lu!  Bing Tang Hulu!”.  The little sing-song cry is as recognizable to Chinese kids as the good humor ice cream truck music here (If you hear ice cream truck […]

Best Chinese Restaurants near Microsoft

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

We don’t cook at home, and eat primarily Chinese.  We’ve helped many people relocating from China, San Francisco or San Jose find the good places to eat around here.  My wife and I have eaten at each of these places at least 10 times, and much more frequently in some cases.  This is just the […]

Best Pho Places near Microsoft

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

I eat Pho about twice per week on average; more often in the winter.  Pho is inexpensive beef noodle soup: rice noodles, beef, and broth.  A complete meal for about $5.  I usually get a mix of steak, brisket, and meatball, and mix in lots of jalapeno and lime.  My wife gets tripe, tendon, and […]

Anti-China Propaganda Orgy

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

The American news media is now fully in the grips of a bipartisan anti-China orgy of propaganda.  The collusion between parties is far more complete than anything I’ve ever seen in American media.  Every day, the crescendo gets worse.  Today I saw “specials” running on three different channels purporting to cover the “crisis” of dangerous […]

Vote for Fiddy!

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

In an Alec Baldwin-esque move, 50 cent has declared that he’ll quit the rap game if Kanye West outsells him.  Kanye West is a no-talent ass-clown poser with no real poetry, so I’m going to pre-order Fiddy’s new album now!