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Why are Vietnam and Taiwan grouped? What happened to Singapore? Also, China 92 lol. Truly the land of, “welcome to Sticksburg, population 5 million.”

Now that the house is complete empty I can really get an accurate accounting of how much cat hair has collected in the corners and shadows over the years.

Yeah, my initial reaction was "this is about the money flows" but it's starting to look like an imperial self immolation. Were no phone calls made BEFORE the plan was announced?

This would have been great, but they were busy making one million versions of Journey to the West, the Chinese version of The Odyssey.

The "Hitachi Toshiba Supreme Consortium" sounds like an organization that went to war with Arasaka Corp. over the formula for maglev superconductors.

As a PR guy, one of my favorite mental games is, "who sourced this story and why?"

Man, I think about this all the time, especially as I confront an imminent move back to Asia.

Important cat relocation update: I am informed that, after a couple of weeks, Bucky and Kaya are settling into their new digs in Singapore and there is less tragic cowering under the bed.

Well, I can report that I do not in fact have Covid, I just have an obnoxious cold.

So this is amazing and gross and it is astounding that any halfway competent PR person would do this. The explanation is very sketchy. Our industry's (sometimes deserved) reputation aside, our ability to be successful, especially at a high level, is entirely trust dependent.

This UEFA statement about the FIFA plan to sell stakes to private investors is quite something. Dripping with outrage. But I wonder if in the end this mostly boils down to where the money flows. I guess we'll find out. www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associationsUEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.www.uefa.com

Painstakingly making a terrain-appropriate ghillie suit to catch people texting while driving.

“Transactional” is one of those bloodless words that can be used to smooth over a multitude of sins.

Me popping out of a Time Machine and yelling at myself 60 seconds ago: “Stop! You’re really going to want to cover that piece of salmon before You microwave it!”

Singapore should have turned the Marina basin into the superyacht harbor, so it was right downtown, which would have been very Monaco indeed. But they put in the Marina Barrage and turned it into a reservoir. Good for urban planning, but bad for glamour.