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Poagao's Journal
http://poagao.org/pjournal
Journal on an ex-American Taiwanese, stories of filmmaking, Tai-chi, band shows and just walking around.
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The Two Worlds
A while ago I wrote about how the Internet could eventually be combined with our physical reality in some fashion, overlaid so that our surroundings would basically gain all of the features of the Internet, including searchability and physical contex...
On photography
You’ve probably been there: you’ve stumbled across a new Flickr user. Maybe they added you as a contact, maybe you found their page from a link. You look at their snapshots and think: hmm…more mundane, boring shots. Not terrible, ju...
At night in Gongguan
Last night after work I was in a Gongguan copy shop printing out a book on photography that I’d downloaded when a young white guy walked in to ask the clerk about some name cards. He noted the cover of the book I was printing and asked, “...
The Uncanny Chinese Valley
You’ve probably heard about the Uncanny Valley phenomenon, which describes how people are comfortable with obvious robots and fine with obvious people, but are seriously creeped out by robots who are almost indistinguishable from humans. As I w...
Gillis Court
Google Maps has been steadily updating its street view. I found one of the places where I grew up on it yesterday: View Larger Map This is our house in Maitland, Florida, where I lived from 1981 more or less up until I came to Taiwan. I went to Maitl...
