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Having worked in a coffee shop in a past life, I remember getting a lot of questions about what has the most caffeine. The assumption was that espresso has more caffeine than drip coffee and drip coffee has more caffeine than tea. Wrong. Many people (who are into this sort of thing) will also spend…
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Since I have a little free time to spare these days, I’ve been trying to catch up on all the Chinese films I’ve missed out on during the first 32 years of my life. Before coming to China the only Chinese films I had seen were the Hong Kong variety–inevitably dubbed and starring Jackie Chan. …
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I guess we’re not the only ones feeling the heat! Tomorrow the high temperature here is supposed to be 99 degrees. I’ll be staying inside close to my fan…
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If you are selling electric fans in Xining today you are a very happy person! I paid my $7.00 for a small fan to put in the bedroom and believe me I wasn’t the only buyer! Now being from Florida the idea of Xining being in the midst of a heatwave is pretty laughable. I…
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As she lay dying, I was watching The Lord of the Rings. Somehow I just knew… I started the journey from the Shire at 7:50 p.m. (Beijing Standard Time). By 11:30 p.m. Frodo and Sam were on their way towards Mordor, Merry and Pippen were captives of the Uruk-hai, and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli were…
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The ring must be destroyed…again! I’m going to do it. I’m going to accompany Frodo and Samwise and the other members of the fellowship to the very molten edge of Mount Doom. (Hey, somebody’s got to do it…) The running time for the extended version of the trilogy = 682 minutes (a mere 11 hour…
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You can just make out Sarah and my silhouette in this picture. We had to climb a pretty perilous and narrow set of steps to get to the roof of this rampart.
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