<\/a><\/p>\n <\/o:p>Life is beautiful and strange..<\/p>\n <\/o:p>China<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> tomorrow<\/p>\n -jc<\/o:p><\/p>\n<\/o:p><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
<\/o:p>Well\u2026 scratch that.. I just had <\/span>a good talk with Diane and feel more centered..China<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> now.. <\/p>\n <\/o:p>It’s cold and wet here in Shanghai<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I started the day at around 7:30<\/st1:time> . I was feeling lonely last night and <\/span>got very little sleep. I woke up just in time to get driven 45 min <\/span>cross town by my friend Ju <\/span>to one of the local IBM sites. <\/span>The people here are great. I spent a few hours talking to them about what it was like working for IBM here in China<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. I am so impressed with everyone I met.. everyone is incredibly bright, funny and speaks perfect English.. It’s hard to imagine the reverse: one of them coming to the US<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and feeling as welcome speaking Mandarin.. <\/span>Around 11 we had to jump back in the car and drive 45 min back downtown in order to meet <\/span>my friend Jane. <\/p>\n We then drove about 45 min <\/span>to Tong Ji <\/span>University’s new campus on the outskirts of Shanghai<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. Tong Ji<\/i> means ‘all in the same boat’ a pretty apt title for such a wet and soggy day. , Jane and I met with the Com Sci faculty then gave a talk to about 100 of their undergrad and grad students. Everyone f them spoke perfect English.. they even laughed at the dumb jokes in my presentation.. There is no<\/i> language gap in high tech over here.. No surprise.. the PA system freaked out and had to be turned off as soon as I began to speak. (Sam !) One thing I learned after my talk on video game technology is that most <\/span>folks over here don’t <\/span>own video game consoles. .they’re too expensive. Instead they have software that allows them to play hacked version of Xbox360 and Playstation II games on their laptops.. pretty cool in a kinda not-so-legal <\/span>sort of way.. <\/span>Here are some pictures from the trip to Tong<\/st1:placename> Ji<\/st1:placename> U.<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> <\/p>\n <\/o:p>We left Tong Ji and drove about an hour back to the hotel in time to meet the rest of our friends for dinner. Jane had arranged a great meal in a restaurant just down the street. Jane had ordered food from Southern China<\/st1:place>.. She’d gone easy with us in that none of the food had eyes, beaks or dangerously long tentacles or antennae. <\/span>It was delicious. It was <\/span>great seeing <\/span>my friends there .. I saw old friends from Beijing as well as my close friends in our Academy group who are from England, Switzerland, Canada, the US, Japan and of course China. <\/span>We walked back through the rain to our hotel . <\/p>\n <\/o:p>After that.. I started watching a slide show of Sam.. and that’s where I started this story<\/p>\nGoodnight Diane, Max, Gabe and Sam\u2026 <\/p>\n
Welcome baby Liddicoat !<\/p>\n
-jc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I just got off the phone with my brother in law, John. My sister Mary gave birth to a beautiful and healthy 5 pounds…9 ounce baby boy at 11:30 last night. This is really wonderful news\u2026. I’d heard about the birth about 3 minutes before when Diane sent me an email.. At that moment … Continue reading Wednesday night – The Circle of life: Welcome baby Liddicoat !<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}