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Isn’t Neil lovely and obliging?
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w00t! Someone made a snowman!
Happy Christmas!
Beep beep baby
This is great:
I don’t have any good pictures of the snow
So I’ll rant instead about how no one in power will give a shit about Liu Xiaobo beyond making a few noises — if at all — and it’ll be business as usual with China. Happy Christmas!
No chords can express it
AAAAuuuugggggHHHHH!!! Flash Forward is real!!!
(Oh, wait. This is a print of the right hand. Haha. Silly me. It’s really just science fiction. What was I thinking?)
Knitting is harder
Hm. All I can say is it’s generally those who deal with rights the first time round (you know who you are) who have an issue with giving away ebooks for free. As far as I’m aware, anyway.
π (Pi) and Where the Wild Things Are
Over the weekend, we saw π (Pi) on DVD. Hmm. I’m not too sure why it’s classified as sci-fi when there should be a genre for weird instead. It’s about a mathematician who seems to suffer from extreme migraine while searching for patterns in the stock market. I’m not exactly sure why it’s titled Pi except that 3.142 (etc) is an irrational number and the main character’s computer is nicknamed Euclid.
And I saw Where the Wild Things Are on Sunday night with my friend Rebecca. I’ve never read the book or known anything about it, so I’m not sure how to talk about the film. I can see that it was made by someone who loves the book, so perhaps this is a movie for the adults who loved the book as children. My favourite character was Douglas — anyone who’s seen it will know why!
The real Christmas no. 1
It may be good old Rage Against the Machine this year (haha!), but this is the song that seriously needs to be re-appreciated by the yoof of today:
Country Driving
I finished my proof of Country Driving last night. This is a great book. It delves into the lives of ordinary Chinese who aren’t the pink-cheeked, chubby and adorable poster children for modern China.
Peter Hessler knows what he’s talking about. Neil dipped into the book here and there and was highly impressed with every excerpt. Anyone who’s lived in China will completely understand every experience he describes. The Self-Important Brigade will sniff in a superior manner and tell their friends they could have written the book if they’d wanted to, and they’d have done it better.
Read this book, especially if you’ve spent any time in China. It’s good.