by Tom | Sep 13, 2011 | General
Respect to 798 gastropub in Times Square. Post-hike, pre-dragon comfort food. Fish and chips together in a greaseproof bag, all the better to take the vinegar. Where do we live again?
by Tom | Sep 12, 2011 | Business, Hong Kong / China
Harbin Pharmaceuticals Plant Looks Like European Palace. Clearly some craziness going on, given that this is a state-owned factory. I don’t think I’d mind going to work there, though.
by Tom | Sep 12, 2011 | View
Samurai on the toilet is i) marvellous and ii) proof that emoticons have been around for a while.
by Tom | Sep 12, 2011 | Business
Are jobs obsolete? Clearly not, in that it is where so many people e.g. meet their partners and find validation for their lives. But if the no growth economy is to work, might we have to rethink what we do in our working lives?
by Tom | Sep 10, 2011 | Personal
We started discussing Star Wars the rugby was so dull.
by Tom | Sep 10, 2011 | Reading, Science
This is something we all need to understand, and to check whether studies use it or not. You can’t just compare differences in outcomes between two populations, you need to compare the difference in differences. This tends to reduce the size of the effect and...
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | General
I love that our paddling next Sunday is taking place alongside A Kung Kok Street. So much to giggle about in Cantonese street names.
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | View
Cracking SMBC. No wonder programming takes so long.
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | Reading, Tech
Apparently old technology doesn’t die and new technology is still too hard to get our heads around.
by Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | Reading, Science
Cracking Economist piece on science: The whole brouhaha over mobile phones causing brain cancer is a monumental irrelevance compared with scofflaws who insist on using their handsets to text or talk while driving. Regretfully, that is a far more likely cause of death...
