The Great Escape

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Today I scrounged up the $40 it costs to get a personal VPN account to circumvent The Great Firewall. I can see the world again! My neighbor Andrew uses a service he recommended and helped me out. (He is awesome. I would not have survived here if it weren't for him. This is truth.) It took ten minutes. I should have done it months ago.

I liken the internet here to what the printing press was like for the Western world back in the 1500's: a tool that made a lot of people scared of what might happen if the common people get too much information. Our history gives me hope.

Chinglish T-Shirt of the Day: "Bastard of Eminence."

Comments

Technodoll said…
I want that t-shirt! AAAAAAAH!!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Matt said…
Are their any graphic designers here?

I think you need to hook up with someone and create Chinglish T-shirts on Cafe Press

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/index.aspx?area=learn&page=learn
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Matt said…
Oh crap!

I don't even remember writing that same suggestion on April 11...saw that when I scrolled down.

Ah, consulting the calendar that was Saturday. Decided it was time for my bi-monthly systems reset. Had 2/3rds of a fifth of schnapps. Slept like a baby that night for first time in weeks :)

Would also explain my faulty memory.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Rebecca Foster said…
Matt, I bet you don't remember the email you sent me, either. You mentioned the Schnapps in the email, though.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Matt said…
Oh dear...

All I can say is I woke at 7:30 Sunday morning without a hangover and feeling like I could take on the world.

I had *no* problem with insomonia that night. Been doing well on my diet recently, but one of the side effects of having a much more reasonable intake of carbs and other food is I tend to get even more hyperactive and have even worse time sleeping.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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