User Comments - mongo
mongo
Posted on: Reading Faces and Shanghai Architecture
September 21, 2008, 04:02 AMstanding by the river, next to the sticky tofu vendors... I would have to say the old side of Shanghai looks a bit like parts of New York City from a distance. It has sort of an Art Deco Style from the 20's... lots of concrete style buildings, dressed up with red Chinese banners running down the face of the buildings... turning the other direction is the skyline everybody is familar with the wall of tall modern glassy buildings with futuristic Eiffel-tower like structure... i'm still wondering how they project the TV on the side of the one building...
I would characterize china as the wild west of building construction...
Posted on: Editing a Photo
September 16, 2008, 04:18 AMthanks for that... was looking for some techical computer related vocabuary...
Posted on: Fortunate Cookies
July 01, 2008, 09:33 AM> Clay, Is it technically possible to automatically show an English translation / pinyin pop-up for all the Chinese characters used in comments here...
try Popjisyo.com ...
Posted on: Are you OK?
November 03, 2007, 02:07 AMFor those who missed the TV reference from the 1980's: http://www.ifilm.com/video/2746222
Posted on: 为“龙”正名
October 24, 2007, 11:50 AMspeaking of online Chinese dictionaries, I really like this one: http://www.nciku.com It has really cool feature were you can write a character with the mouse and it will looks it up for you without needing to count stoke strokes or find the radical....etc...
Posted on: Studying Japanese
October 10, 2007, 12:55 PM
Posted on: Studying Japanese
October 10, 2007, 12:53 PMabove in response to, "I believe it's only a matter of time when the 中华，car company will begin flooding their cars into The States as they are also comperable to Nissan, Toyota, Honda and Hyundai. yikes...I didn't realize you could embed html into comments.. using triangle brackets causes strange things to happen...
Posted on: Studying Japanese
October 10, 2007, 12:49 PM<> In a way, GM and Ford are already flooding the market with cheaper cars built with Chinese made autoparts and are still losing market share to Toyota and Honda who charge a higher premium for their cars... I can't imagine an entirely Chinese made car would fair any better than the domestic variety...
Posted on: Don't Never Say Never
September 21, 2008, 04:17 AMI'm impressed, Stinky Tufu was one of the few foods that even Andrew Zimmer could not eat without gagging. (for those who watch Bizzare Foods...then, you know what i'm talking about)