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24 Hours Hong Kong
A full days' activities of Hong Kong, China as documented in pictures. I started at 5 in the morning and walked, taxied, trammed, and ferried my way throughout the city for 24 hours. Along the way I met old friends and met new ones, hiked the wonderful island of Lamma, watched businesspeople prepare for their day, ate lunch with a gentlemen who told me of his time in a New York Chinatown kitchen as a dishwasher, had breakfast at a Cha Caan Teng, spent a night out in the infamous Wan Chai district, talked to a lorry driver on the highway, played some Street Fighter II, and watched the kids skateboard and play basketball in urban parks.
posted to Projects by sleslie
at 9:59 AM on September 3, 2008
When one goes to jail for a long time, how are the mundane aspects of one's previous life handled? What happens to the pets? If there's a mortgage and no one to assume responsibilities, is the house sold for the prisoner? Who pays the cable bill? Do you have to pay to cut your cell phone plan short of the contractual ending date? Who returns the library books?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 9:14 AM on July 26, 2008
(12 comments)
The Stuff I Like
I'm taking advantage of that "Stuff X People Like" meme. This blog has selfish intents, though. It's all about the stuff that
I like. The reason for its birth? Typing "Stuff Fifth Generation Canadians From Manitoba Like" into the browser is difficult. What I hope to get out of this is some practice in writing with regularity and to formulate a response to this meme that is based upon stereotypes.
posted to Projects by sleslie
at 5:47 AM on April 15, 2008
What would be the best city for me to move to for a job as a Computer Programmer in Canada? The best city would be defined as potential for advancement and suitable for my skillset.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 8:02 AM on April 11, 2008
(13 comments)
An atmospheric experiment with loop based music creation on a laptop.
posted to MeFi Music by sleslie
at 10:27 PM on April 10, 2008
Hong Kong meetup. I need more friends in this connection-crazy city, so I'd like to propose a meetup. March the 22nd, somewhere in Soho?
posted to MetaTalk by sleslie
at 10:14 PM on March 10, 2008
(12 comments)
Readers of traditional Chinese: Does
this scan of an article imply that the company being discussed is a MLM scam? Does it adequately address the concerns outlined in
these Malaysian posts?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 12:18 AM on November 28, 2007
(3 comments)
Internanational SMS text messaging in Korea. Is it possible to send a message from my pre paid LG-telecom phone to a user in Hong Kong or China?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 12:05 AM on November 1, 2007
(4 comments)
I'm in a
PC Bang in Montreal thinking this... It's been a year and half since the
last time a montreal meetup was planned and even more since the
last successful one. How's Thursday at a place to be detirmined by knowledgable locals...
posted to MetaTalk by sleslie
at 7:43 PM on January 14, 2007
(2 comments)
I'm looking for way to get a CD or record single of an obscure 60s Saskatoon band. They're called Witness Inc.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 7:16 PM on December 11, 2006
(3 comments)
What is the best way to create a function which compares two structures consisting of LOTS of elements for a C-based qsort routine?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 1:00 PM on September 28, 2006
(18 comments)
Can I eat a live wasp? If so, what would the safest method of eating it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 11:14 AM on August 21, 2006
(21 comments)
Repeated calls to a user created dll cause stack overflow.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 10:55 AM on March 15, 2006
(4 comments)
I found a bag of
Zonolite insulation in my garage attic today, and I remember that the one time I was in my house attic, the floorboards were covered with loose fill insulation. Has anyone had to deal with this before?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 12:49 PM on April 17, 2005
(5 comments)
Hotmail... I need to recover some emails, specifically email header information, that was inadvertantly deleted more than one day ago (past the 'trash can' time limit). A list of what I've done so far is enclosed, so [MORE INSIDE]
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 9:25 PM on June 29, 2004
(3 comments)
This is a weird question that just popped in my head. Crude oil is usually made from the ancient biomass, which may include both plant and animal material. Let's say that in the crude oil that was used to create the gas for my car was made of all dinosaurs -- specifically, a mass grave of thousands of raptors. On my typical daily commute (30km, or 18.64 miles), how many raptors have I burnt? Let's use a conservative 20 miles per gallon, round up, and say I used a gallon of gasoline. I've done some preliminary analysis, so [More Inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 8:53 PM on June 2, 2004
(22 comments)
Licensing of 'abandonware' or classic video games... has anyone heard of any company or individual that was able to rerelease an old video game? If so, what kind of agreements were made with the original company with regards to royalty payments and upfront fees?
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 8:48 PM on May 18, 2004
(7 comments)
What is the advantage of owning stock which has voting rights?
These guys (the first 20 posts, specifically comment #17) imply that stock which has voting rights will trade at a premium. Furthermore,
this Berkshire memo mentions that there will fluctuation and difference in supply and demand between two types of stock that have a constant valuation ratio despite having differing voting rights.
What is it about voting rights that would add or decrease value to a company's net worth? Most of the links I've checked seem to only confirm that yes, there is a difference.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 2:02 PM on May 3, 2004
(3 comments)
A question about heating a household: Do you expend more energy maintaining a constant temperature in a house, or does it cost more letting the thermostat become lower and heating the house to a normal temperature when it is necessary?
I have a thermometer that adjusts the temperature up or down depending on the time of the day. When I'm at work and it is winter, I set the temperature lower then when I am at home. Have I wasted my money on this thermometer? When I let the temperature slide, the furnace could run for 15 minutes to 'catch up' for the heat lost throughout the day.
posted to Ask Metafilter by sleslie
at 7:13 PM on April 8, 2004
(10 comments)
