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Hi guys!

Edward G Nilges — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 02:52:48 -0800

Loved the South China Morning Post parody. The SCMP reminds me of the San Francisco Comicle and the Chicago Dim Sum Times (the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Sun-Times).

All three are fish-wrap for the most part. Except the job ads which in the SCMP are top-notch because that's what I used to find this job.

We used the job ads in my previous English teaching job to practise our business English. Usually the best written ones were from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.

But as to the rest of the paper...well, after that gal Nancy Kissell (who, for the enlightenment of our non Hong Kong readers, whacked her Yuppie husband upside the head because she wanted to take up with a handy-man in Vermont), I don't know how the SCMP will make it.

I strongly recommend the International Herald Tribune which is how I get my New York Times abroad. It's published by the NYT and mostly reprints from the day's edition of the NYT. But unlike the NYT, the IHT prints my letters. This is because (perhaps) "Edward Nilges, Chicago" sounds like a dork while "Edward Nilges, Hong Kong" sounds cooler, like James Bond or the Scarlet Pimpernel:

They seek him here
They seek him there
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere
Is he in Heaven, or in Hell?
That damned elusive Pimpernel

(Note: the last line MUST be pronounced "demn'd eloo-sive" because that's how Leslie Howard pronounced it in the old film. I got my idea of the typical Englishman from Leslie Howard, who also played Ashley in Gone With the Wind).

With our English teacher serving chopsticks have no place
no no dear no no no dear no no no oh dear no

Greetings from your coworker and neighbor!

Ryan Mak — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 06:07:42 -0800

Hello Edward.

This is your coworker and next door neighbor. I found your weblog out of boredom by getting Google to do a search on your name. Then, I clicked the link to your recent entry and noticed that it mentioned your new employment. Well, my coworkers and I on the fourth floor would like to welcome you on board. I invite you to learn more about my personal interests by clicking on the following links below.

Korean Film

http://www.koreanfilm.org

http://www.hancinema.net

A Canadian Expat's Weblog on Hong Kong

http://www.bigwhiteguy.com

Travelling to North Korea

http://www.koryotours.com

Korean Newspapers in English

http://english.chosun.com

http://english.donga.com

http://english.joins.com

Not the South China Morning Post (SCMP's Parody)

http://www.ntscmp.com

Enjoy the websites and I will see you at work.

Always be abstracting: Nilges goes wild?

Edward G Nilges — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:36:21 -0800

The question is whether such "unlimited factoring," such "always be abstracting," Dan Read's phrase, taken to the max, would not be a journey to The Mountains of Madness. Physicists want to find a Grand Theory and think it must exist for almost theological reasons. The question with regards to code is whether if everything were factored, there would not be strange loops.