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Imagethief has a theory that at any given time, any given American cable TV system will be broadcasting an episode of ''Seinfeld.'' Admittedly, I tend to cruise the channels late, but that's what I see. Recent travels have given me an opportunity to surf not only the channels on offer at my mom's house in Palo Alto, but also those at my ...

On Sunday Imagethief arrived in Beijing from two well-earned holiday weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area. Flying with Zachary), now 22 months, is always an adventure. He's a well traveled kid, but a well-traveled two year old is like a well-traveled troglodyte. Even at their best, social habits are wanting. I'm not especially superstitious, but I ...

Imagethief arrived in China on June 6th, 2004, a naive and wide-eyed whelp of just 36. The last five years have been quite an education, and it's an older and (incrementally) wiser Imagethief who corresponds with you today. China years are like dog years. It's not so much the frequency of events as the amplitude. China seems a nation always on ...

In 2007, Imagethief actually forked over 160 RMB so he and Mrs. Imagethief could see Mike Bay's first Transformers movie on the big screen at Oriental Plaza. This was before Imagethief Jr. came along and little things like an evening out or even eating a airlie meal in peace became remote luxuries only whispered about in furtive tones. I don't ...

My first post on Green Dam Youth Escort has nearly 16,000 page views so far. This is an unusually large number for a blog where a widely-read post gets somewhere between 1,000 and 4,000 web reads. Oddly, almost all of them seem to come from Taiwan. The Sitemeter screen for the locations of my last 20 visits (and it's been like this for a few ...

Just went to the bank to convert a year's worth of RMB savings to Singapore dollars (my main savings currency), where I was reminded by the vast complexities involved that the renminbi is not freely exchangeable. Here's the box score:Documents required: Passport, work permit, passbook, employment contract, income statement from my employer, ...

Chilling news this afternoon that North Korea may have tested a second nuclear weapon. News reports of this incident came with a photograph released by the North Korean government of the Dear Leader at an Air Force inspection. Long time readers will know that some years back Imagethief invented a device called the Mighty Thought-o-Tronic ...

I realize that the last two posts I have written both use the word ''cadre'' in the title. This must mean something. Probably that I'm not posting enough. In fact you have to go back to July, 2007 to find the last time I used the word ''cadre'' in a post title, in a little throwaway ditty about media training entitled ''Media and the modern ...

First, Imagethief feels he owes his readers an apology. Anyone who has been with me for longer than a few months will have noticed that the last third of 2008 yielded a sparse crop of posts. For this I blame a very heavy workload and an increasingly demanding young son who deserves a certain share of my time lest I have to pay for years of ''daddy ...

Charles Silverman of City Weekend had a little chat with yours truly about blogging in general, the China Blog Awards, and Imagethief. Very little that regular readers won't know, but it can be found here if you're interested. A shorter version will appear in print next month. Hiding behind my blog again...