You're lucky. I don't even have a bath or a shower. My bathroom is the shower. I have a shower head and drain next to the toilet.

Ugggg... this just drives home the latest statistic that I heard. The housing prices here in Hong Kong have increased 70% in the last two years. Unfortunately these kinds of modifications and specialized furniture usually cost an arm and a leg. Well, the most economical space saving design I've done is to import a Kindle. Lord knows I can't afford the give up anymore space to books.

That's typical Hong Kong. What you see on the exterior is not what you will get on the interior. A lot of the buildings are easily 40 years old but they are built of concrete and tiled exteriors. So there isn't much wear on the buildings and people will renovate the interiors to a rather impressive degree as you see in this video. There are a lot of new housing developments of course but you have to be very wealthy to afford them. If you want to see some of the actual seedy ways of living in Hong Kong, take a look at the wire cage living spaces or the Kowloon Walled City (which is gone now but there just isn't anything like it).

I can't believe the crap that gets put up here these days. None of the poll choices make sense because I know for a fact that I'm mostly phlogiston. Yellow bile indeed.

Don't hold your breath.

Wait... that might be a good idea if you are in Beijing.

Wargames was probably the most accurate. They showed him doing the tedious process of wardialing. To break into the computer he had to brute force the password via social engineering (and this was shown to have taken some time in the movie so it's not like he guessed it in 15 seconds). In terms of hacking and such I'd say Wargames had it down probably the best out of most movies.

Yeah, but when does finally get out of Hell?

"E-u-g-e-n-i-c-s... Eugenics."

"Say it... Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer."

It used to be that all I needed for Honeycomb was a bowl, a spoon, and some milk. I'm getting sick of the superfluous inflation of requirements.

Would you say I have a plethora of puzzles?

Shenzhen was like that when I went. It is really eerie because you know the streets extend for miles but you can't see anything past 100 yards or so. Like the fog in Superman 64 or Silent Hill.

This sounds like a much better idea than that Cone of Tragedy that my local amusement park introduced.

Sure there are libraries that offer up e-books but these libraries are restricted in their membership to within their geographical area. Perhaps similar geographic restrictions on lending may provide a compromise in allowing books to be relended without allowing too much open dissemination. For example, to lend a book in real life requires you to physically hand off the book so perhaps they could allow you to only lend books by direct Kindle to Kindle wireless transfer.

Travelling to other countries, particularly areas of China and India, can really drive home how low the pollution is in most parts of America. There are times that I can't see more than 100 yards down the street and this is due to the air pollution from the cars and factories.

That's if you are lucky though. The problem is that Wikipedia cannot force due diligence. How many articles have you seen that have been tagged for years pleading for someone to add citations or to clean up the article? Here's one I found yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna . Good lengthy article on a very common topic with a lot of detailed information. But ZERO in-line citations.