After three trips to the same hotel in downtown Beijing I finally noticed that my hotel was next to the Hard Rock. Now, it is not for not looking. I am usually gazing out of the car window in an attempt to recognize any recognizable landmark that I might be nearing my hotel, the Hard [...]
Entries Tagged as 'beijing'
To GT fans worldwide
December 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
If you ever wondered where Stephon Marbury ended up, he’s playing for the Beijing Ducks in the CBA. Go figure! Share:
Livin’ in a Sideways world
July 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
So, What do YOU do on July 4th when you have a 5 hr layover on the way to Beijing and your knee is throbbing? You figure out why all of your images are posting rotated 90 degrees. The culprit? iPhone!!! iPhone writes EXIF data different then how IE, Firefox and Chrome want to display [...]
Frankie’s Home
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Gotta get this post up quick to scoop Rebecca. Frankie is home! After 6 months, 21 days, and more paper work than you can shake a stick at (pun intended) Frankie has once again rejoined our family. He and Gioia get along fine. They kind of ignore each other. Gioia is a lil “over it” [...]
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What’s in a name?
January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Many of you have asked questions around:What is the baby’s name?How do you say it?What about her Chinese name?Where did ‘X’ come from? But before we get to that… I am reading a book called “Beyond Coincidence.” It is a great book from B that talks about all the crazy coincidences in life. Things like [...]
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BeukTv is back, but still no G – In the mean time…
January 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Hello all and welcome back! You may have noticed that beuk.tv was down for bit. This is because after Startlogic (our hosting provider) decided to change our server with out telling us and then proceeding to take us offline for basically the month of December, we got a lil upset and have left them more [...]
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First the Vowels, Now the Consonants…
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
What is up with all the sites sounding the same? First it was Goo{insert text here}. Then it just became “OO“. Now it seems, as it falls out of fashion, it has become more like “ewww“. I’m talking about all the Google parody sites that sprung up.Such as: frOOgle gOOsynch OOgle etc… Now we are [...]
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