I’m sitting here at the Red Carpet Club in Seattle Airport, waiting for our flight to San Francisco. Tonight we’ll be in a hotel in Palo Alto, and in a few days the movers will be delivering our stuff. Another move completed. The last few nights have been characterized by broken sleep: a combination of…
Read More All the places I've livedI’ve just finished up my two week visit to Huawei’s HQ in Shenzen with a delightful dinner with my opposite number on the HQ team. (Many thanks!) Tomorrow morning, bright and early (6:15am), I’ll be heading home: a taxi to the Shenzhen Shekou ferry terminal, ferry to Chek Lap Kok, a United 747-400 to SFO,…
Read More Heading homeI’ve added the Google Translate widget to this blog. If you want to read my writings in Chinese, choose your favourite version from the menu (Simplified or Traditional) and it should load in a few seconds. 我已ç»æ·»åŠ 了谷æŒç¿»è¯‘工具这个åšå®¢ã€‚å¦‚æžœä½ æƒ³é˜…è¯»æˆ‘çš„æ–‡ç« ä¸ï¼Œé€‰æ‹©ä½ 最喜爱的版本，从èœå•ï¼ˆç®€ä½“ä¸æ–‡æˆ–ç¹ä½“） ，并应负è·åœ¨å‡ 秒钟。
Read More For my Chinese readers – 对于我的ä¸æ–‡è¯»è€…Coming on Wednesday to this part of the world: WAITING FOR THE ECLIPSE: On July 22nd, the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century will take place in Asia. […] On Wednesday, the Moon’s shadow will linger over [Shanghai] for nearly six full minutes, giving residents a stunning and lengthy view of the Sun’s ghostly…
Read More Oi! Who turned out the lights?!As I was planning for my new job, with its regular travel to China, I realized that I wouldn’t be able to rely upon my AT&T iPhone. Yes, it would be OK (but expensive) for calls to and from the US, but I couldn’t really use it for local calls and text messaging within China,…
Read More A thoroughly successful day…My first week in Shenzhen was accompanied by the expected hot weather: high temperatures around 90-95F, high humidity, heat index around 105F, oppressively sticky at night, occasional afternoon showers. It sounds unpleasant, but it was actually less of an issue than I’d feared. Yesterday, all that changed. Typhoon Molave arrived. From Window on China: Molave…
Read More A change in the weather(Via PZ.)
Read More What a brilliant idea!I had been warned before coming to China that real coffee was hard to find, and quite expensive. Those who know me and my caffeine dependency might have wondered how I would survive. I arrived here in Shenzhen with a pound of espresso-ground coffee from Starbucks in Santa Barbara and an Aerobie Aeropress. Unfortunately I…
Read More EspressoI’ve been commenting on a thread over at Thinking Christian about Sean Carroll’s Discovery piece on why science and religion are incompatible. It’s an odd kind of discussion: the resident Christians excoriate Carroll, and in the same breath they assert that Christianity is always, authoritatively correct, which seems to rule out science as a way…
Read More Values, science, and contingencyFrom Dan’s report on the “symposia on faith and religion” sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation as part of the Darwin bash at Cambridge University: The second talk was by J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, a Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, and it was an instance of  “theological anthropology,†full of earnest gobbledygook about…
Read More Dan Dennett in fine form