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…
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 …
Music and the Move
So, the move to Taiwan did not turn out to be all Guns and Roses (bad pun, sorry. Read on). My 300GB USB disk drive decided it was time to die. Why it could not die BEFORE we moved I will never get a chance to ask it (sob). This was at the same time …
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
So, see if you can follow this one. Forgetting all about my whirlwind trip through Chicago yesterday I had a whirlwind day! I went from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Taipei to see my house for the first time with our things in it. B has done a great job getting it set and everything …
Bei Si Tui Le
Which means… You’re fired! I just fired my third person in two months since I have been in Beijing. AND it was in Chinese. Apparently, you do not want to be my friend. Two were at work for work related issues, but the third was our driver for a year in Beijing. He could not …
Ghost Bike
My ride to work every day is about 20 minutes each way at a good clip. I have gotten pretty good on my bike. Enough that I can ride with no hands and actually send SMS, take pictures, listen to music, etc. It is quite fun. I figure that if Rebecca can knit on the …
More Polution in Beijing
…and I thought the bugs died from bug spray. Maybe it was because of these guys digging a hole in the street (sorry, the video below is a little bright and for some reason only 1 second long). So, what are they working on so hard that they need to pour black smoke into the …