Petra and I have started a new blog, so if anyone ever checks back here please check it out -- aduoadrift

Alive and well and squatting in London, although after enjoying the last two weeks Petra and I have decided to move on from that for now. And so probably next weekend we'll be...uh, doing something else? Haven't decided yet. But will provide the interesting details soon, once I get around to typing it up.

I'm playing with the embed code from YouTube, and wanted to point out a couple of gems that we've found along the way.

First, I think this is just kind of awesomely impressively cool:

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Next, everyone should listen to David Sedaris telling the Dutch Christmas story. Make sure you're sitting, as I started laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. (you'll ( Read more... )

The job in Switzerland for Petra didn't work out. We gave it a try for all of November, but the boss was just an ass /and/ an idiot, which made it just an impossible situation. At the end of November we bounced around a bit in the Swiss and Austrian Alps looking for something else to line up over ski season. We were still getting a lot of maybes ( Read more... )

I apologize for the lack of updates. There have been two main factors: 1) internet prices have been running as much as 20 Swiss francs (about $15) an hour and so we've needed our little internet time to do essential e-mailing and such, and 2) I just haven't felt very talkative ( Read more... )

I have to admit that having my girlfriend named as one of the Seven Wonders of the World is pretty cool. And she has been there, too. She's pretty cool herself.

I have to admit a secret delight that I've turned Petra into a complete and total Nethack addict. I introduced her to it at Mut Mee to her moanings of how she hated computer games and how ( Read more... )

Following up on some of my storm thoughts from last post, it's amazing how much of the news on BBC World has to do with weird weather, and congruently amazing at just how much weird severe weather there is in the world. Similarly interesting is the BBC's decision to repeatedly frame the global warming issue as an ethical one, even with the ( Read more... )

Petra and I have been in Berlin for two weeks now, and this is the first time I've managed the energy to post. We've been leading an extravagantly lazy lifestyle, a welcome respite from our last hectic week in Hong Kong ( Read more... )

So Thursday we wrapped up what we wanted to do in Hong Kong, scoring free tickets for a harbour tour on a junk -- just like the ship in the new "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie. It was nice but not wildly notable; we'd seen a good bit of the harbour already taking the various ferries, and while a junk is a sailing ship, ours actually had a motor ( Read more... )

Well, we've had a number of errands to get done here in Hong Kong, which have cut into the time we would have otherwise spent doing fun things. But all of our errands have now been successfully completed! And to celebrate, I finally found a traditional dim sum place for lunch today -- apparently the /only/ restaurant that still pushes the carts ( Read more... )