It was good knowing the curious (China)
June 21, 2022
China let us in homes and hearts, in the coldest North and the wildest West. China fed us and stayed up all night partying with us. It was nice
Music from a lost age (Cambodia)
May 25, 2022
It is fun exploring dilapidated buildings and discovering hidden venues with sharp kids and music from a lost age - the 1960s and 1970s Cambodian
Soviet Nostalgia in Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
April 5, 2022
Back at the Russian market, there is an Uzbek person who bakes black bread. Time for some Soviet nostalgia. Tarkhun , the green drink from
Postage stamps (Vietnam)
December 20, 2021
This one is thin and small, but it’s important. When you had something you wanted to tell someone, you would write it down on a piece of paper and
Travelogues and travels (Vietnam)
December 10, 2021
For some years now, I have received Vietnamese travellers’ messages sharing their experiences or looking for experiences beyond sightseeing. I
A large object that makes familiar sounds (Singapore)
October 20, 2021
In Singapore, my sometimes lunchtime places are in the Korean food neighborhood of Bukit Timah. There is a little mischievous kid who darts in and
The little phone (Vietnam)
February 2, 2021
I was fond of my iPhone 5s. Even after upgrading to a newer model, I continued using it as my travel phone. It felt nice to hold — small but solid.
iPoh (Malaysia)
February 1, 2021
You know you’re spending too much time on Apple stuff when you start spelling a certain Malaysian city as iPoh. I returned to covid just before the
The Fall (Movie)
January 12, 2021
I think The Fall (2006) must be one of the finest films ever made. It is hard to find but someone put it on YouTube. An injured Romanian immigrant
Racism as a predictive model
December 10, 2020
I found this text in the book Weapons of Math Destruction. Racism, at the individual level, can be seen as a predictive model whirring away in
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