CogBlogged Tagged ‘hong kong’

How cool and fast is the net connected world? Last night I snapped a photo on my iPhone, uploaded it to flickr via MobileFotos app, and today it is part of a story on the Discover Magazine Blog: Last night, I guess I was at Mission Control in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, at a Korean restuarant: I had gone for dinner with my friend from here, Nick Noakes and his wife, and over the table top frying of spicy beef and bacon wrapped mushrooms and ribs and thin sliced steak and prawns and… , we looked up and noticed a rocket on the TV screen. I asked when it was lifting off, and someone said, “now!” And sure enough, up went the rocket, and off go 3 Chinese ‘nauts in space, to do some spacewalking and other stuff- see Shenzhou VII Liftoff. Great news day for China (despite snickering about [...]

Thanks for the Typhoon by cogdogblog posted 23 Sep ’08, 8.11am MDT PST on flickr Nick Noakes is the optimal host- he has even arranged a typhoon here in Hong Kong for my entertainment, Now perhaps I can say I am big winded. My timing was good to arrive in Hong Kong Monday afternoon, when it were merely inhumanely hot and humid. It felt like cars were melting. As the old saying goes, “but it’s a wet heat!” Colleague and fiend Nick Noakes met me at the airport and provided a crash course in Hong Kong 101 on the drive up to his campus at the Honk Kong University of Science & Technology. We spent a little time at the uni and then drifted down the hill to a “small” mall (hah) where we had a feast and a half at a Thai restaurant. Mmmm, curry crab. Say that three [...]