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Thanks FC for the nice message. We got out of Typhoon Talim on JetstarAsia, the no frills airlines that reminds me of Southwest. Trip was a bit bumpy but the flight was pretty much empty. B- and I are hanging out in Terminal 1 at Changi Airport which is 24 hours and [...]

Today is Malaysia’s National Day. Also, one year ago today, YC and B- were married. While I have to say a bus ride 500 miles north from Singapore was more pleasant than a Greyhound from New York to Toronto, it is still a grueling all-night marathon by crazy bus drivers punctuated by wading through [...]

Hmm - with the upcoming Congressional hearing on Judge John Roberts, one wonders what kind of questions will be asked of him and hope it’ll be done and over with a modicum of dignity and interest (and to end the whole speculating thing the media does so well). Bruce Reed, “The Has Been” on [...]

This year typhoon season has come fast and furious to Taiwan. Latest Typhoon Talim and another (Nabi) right behind it is bearing down on us. Here’s another graphic of the storm tracking.
Meanwhile, B- and I are rushing to get on the first flight out of here to make an appointment with the [...]

I checked out the National Museum of the American Indian, at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, at Bowling Green, downtown Manhattan, to see George Catlin’s American Indian paintings exhibit before it leaves on 9/5/05. Fascinating stuff - beautiful colors; he captured a time of American life (1820’s-1850’s) and tried to get past the [...]