All For You, Gentle Public:
Random Thoughts and Shameless Self Aggrandizement!

Thank you Big Other! You've given me access to the Chinese public. My old website about life in Qingdao, Shandong, China is unblocked.

An old Chinese colleague and friend found the rather extensive rantings of my old reclusive self on the site. I refered to the Chinese teachers at my school as "slaves to the South Ocean" (South Ocean's the school I worked for. She took offense. But almost every Chinese I know is a slave to some job. She called me a slave to travel. How right she is...

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Here's something I don't remember writing, but apparently did so while living in Bangladesh. I like it better now than I did when I first wrote it.

Don’t look at the word “or” too long. As a second grader or an any ager, if you forget how to spell “of”, don’t panic. Group” and “flour” and “four” and “tour” are spelled the same, but don’t share the same vowel sound—why should they? Anguish! English!

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And here's some shameless self-aggrandizement from my days as a construction-crane-climbing columnist for the Michigan Daily.

Check out secret agent man, an "apology" we printed after I got a call from public security for getting a different perspective on the University of Michigan's Life Sciences Initiative.

*Secret Agent Man (.pdf file)