nick’s (n)-line life

I haven’t posted for a while as I’ve been wrapped up with my dissertation deadline. Happily this is now all wrapped up and, despite word deciding it was going to loose 4 hours of my work on the morning of hand-in day, it seems to have ended happily. Now it’s just a question of finals [...]

Discussion of the Kanamara Festival, Japan ["The Penis Festival"]

Asiapundit has inspired me to do a post on traffic in China, something which is often joked about and quite entertaining, at least until things go pear shaped (as we'll see in the second part of this article). Anyway, with traffic-lights like this:
via Useless Air - yes they're red and green at [...]

Funny account of the evils of vegetarianism

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Ok, I am totally in love with Google Earth!
Fun things I’ve been doing:

Looking round area 51
Hunting for terrorists in the Sahara desert
Whistle-stop tour of several North Korean Military bases
found my houses (and realised that it’s submerged in greenery :O )
Relived past travel itineraries
Tracked and measured my daily route to lectures (ok, that last one is [...]

My college were kind enough to award me a travel grant over the summer.Following my return, the College asked me to produce a written report of my summer and I thought I’d post a copy here for general interest: Travel Grant Report (PDF format)
Photos From the Summer

Hong Kong

China

Northern Laos

Luang Prabang

Central Laos

Cambodia, General

Housebuilding Laos

Thailand

[not all [...]