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My fellow Xining blogger and teammate Neil sent me this funny article from BBC News about a German art student who decided to enlist in the ancient Terra Cotta Army located outside of Xian. Here’s a link to the article OR you can just read it reprinted below: New recruit joins Terracotta Army The terracotta…
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The blog gurus say that it’s a bad idea to blog about what you had for lunch or how your bowel movements have been lately. Generally, I agree with this, but if I can’t write about how I’m doing I really don’t see the point. (After all, a majority of the readers I have are…
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I debated about posting this article. Most people (more mature than I) can read an article like this (courtesy of boingboing) frown with empathy and move on. Me, well, I read something like this, go, "WHAT!!!" read it again…and just laugh out loud. It’s not right of me I know. I need prayer. The sad…
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Just wanted to give a hearty congratulations to my friend Bert and Company at Global Nomad ITS Services! Tomorrow they will officially be celebrating their first year of business. If you don’t know about Global Nomad, please go take a look at their website. I’ve met some of the Tibetan workers who are now designing…
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"There’s always a story," she said. "It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world." Terry PratchettA Hat Full of Sky Being sick has a tendency to make me even more introspective than normal (which is saying something.) I…
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Well, the power is back on. I’ve been running around the house turning lights on and off obsessively just for fun. We went without electricity for almost 42 hours. It was nice to finally shave off my Amish beard and Bob Marley dreads. Have’t done one of these lists in a while, so I thought…
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Today our block is without electricity as they are putting up new electrical poles (huge metal monstrosities) on the main road. Right now I’m blogging on a dial-up connection with the remaining "juice" from the laptop’s battery. It’s amazing the types of things that require electricity (electric stoves, electrically powered light bulbs, electric TVs and…
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I once heard that Tony Campolo made this statement: "Love the sinner, hate your own sin." I love the way he puts it. The other adage (love the sinner, hate the sin) has obvious pitfalls, i.e. being judgmental. I find that we humans are not nearly as good at hating sin in ourselves as we…
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I keep pretty close to my cave here in Xining. Some people have a hard time believing this. Some people claim to have seen my footprints as far away as Russia… Here’s one article about it. And here’s some muddy pictures… C’mon! My feet are way bigger than that and not nearly so narrow. (Although…
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Well, we’re here (in Xining) for another year. (Hooray?) I think so. We recently had our student visas renewed (good through August 2007) and we started classes this past week. Christa and I both have Tibetan teachers this time (different ones) teaching us spoken Chinese. Crazy, huh? I am pretty happy with my spoken language…
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