Author Archives: Mark Griffith
Best of October 2011
October during China’s Golden Week we visited Vietnam. Click through on any photo to comment or for more details. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
JianKou – The Middle Path
I returned to Jiankou for my fifth visit in October with Miles and some workmates John Rodgers and John Darrow, who were visiting from Seattle. We stayed at the Zhao’s Hostel and arose in the dark. We took the main concrete path past the parking lot heading south to the Wall just to the east … Continue reading
Vietnam
The first week in October China celebrates National Day, the anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China. Â Their equivalent of our 4th of July, except where the US only gets one day they get an entire week. Â We planned to visit Vietnam as a family, we had some old friends from Cache … Continue reading
Information : A review
I just finished reading Information by James Gleick. Its a dense book that is by no means an easy read. (Try reading it on vacation) But its a worthwhile read. It covers the broad topic of information, which I describe initially as the encapsulation and reduction of facts or representations about “things”. This started with … Continue reading
Best of September 2011
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The 9 Eyed Tower
The Bushwhacking Fallacy : Every foot forward into a bushwhack compels you to continue. Every foot forward is gained through pain and would require retraversing the same ground again in pain. You are not excited going forward and going back seems even less desirable, so you push on in hope that it will end soon … Continue reading
Best of August
August saw us spending 3 weeks in Seattle for Work. I took a couple days break to climb the Grand Teton and then we returned to Beijing where we celebrated Sofi’s 12th bday. Â Click through on any photo to comment or for more details. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. … Continue reading
Going Home
We just returned home to Beijing from 5 weeks home in the States. To describe the experience as a bit surreal would be appropriate I suppose. Upon our return to the States it felt as if we’d never been gone and yet that we hadnt quite returned either. Living out of a suitcase for weeks … Continue reading
Best of July 2011
Another month and another set of photos. Â We made a return trip to the US, so many of these are from Utah. Click through for more details. 1 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
6 Months In
At 6 months in China and upon our return to the US for vacation there is a natural juxtaposition to pause and reflect on our time thus far in Beijing and my impressions. When we left for China I got several comments from people along the lines of : “I’m afraid of China”; this was … Continue reading