By Mark
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
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.
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
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
A Love Letter to My Wife
Dearest Stacey It will be 22 years in June, actually 26 since we met in the winter of 85 at The Breakfast Club. All the cliches about the years flying by are true, especially when you stand on the precipice of a now that has many years behind it, and those years just keep passing … Continue reading
Driving to Mongolia
I have friends who used to work in Alaska fish factories in the summers.  They would drive from Utah to Anchorage and we used to joke it was like Driving to Russia. It seemed an impossibly long distance to drive.  The phrase “Driving to Mongolia” conjures up similar notions and even though it’s a scant 450 … Continue reading
Best of May 2011
A list of what I thought were the best photos I took in May of 2011. Click on a picture for more details on where etc. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16