Jeff Lindsay s mixed report: a tempest of topics, a plethora of photos, and a cornucopia of corniness.
It's been a long time since I tried Jimmy John's, but during a break in a recent high school tennis tournament that we were watching, we tried Jimmy John's since it was nearby. This was on the east side of town at 3420 East Calumet in Appleton. Very pleased with the meal. I had the [...]
Many people are increasingly mistrustful of local or national government over abuses regarding free speech, excessive spending, corruption, or other misdeeds, and may naturally be even more skeptical of global agencies seeking to influence or control multiple nations, especially when those agencies seem to be aligned with forces or nations that oppose the principles of [...]
For the past year or so, I've had strange behavior in charging my MacBook Pro. Sometimes I was plugged in but charging wasn't occurring. Sometimes if I unplugged the cable and switched the USB-C port on my Mac, or if I wiggled the cord on my charger, then charging would continue. Sometimes, though, just moving [...]
I'm really pained by the news that India is banning the export of non-basmati rice as a desperate measure to momentarily make inflation seem to soften a little. Some of my choices experiences in my 9 years in China came from our very unusual friendship with a farmer family far from Shanghai in a village [...]
In 2022, my wife and I visited Bulgaria and Turkey. In addition to meeting with a terrific intellectual property team in Istanbul and meeting some fascinating people in both nations, we had plenty of opportunities to take photos and learn about the history and culture of these remarkable nations. I especially fell in love [...]
While staying on the island of Ko Lanta, Thailand for a diving trip in January of 2017, I photographed an evening scene in which a man with great bubble-making equipment was entertaining local children on the beach. Here are some of the shots. [...]
While preparing for a trip to Mexico, I checked with my Verizon service on what I would need to make calls and have Internet access. In the past I had to pay for international service, but I learned that my Verizon account should work in Mexico just like it does in the US, with no [...]
The following essay was originally published as "Desperate Heroism and the Thunder of a Quiet Revolution: The Rise of China’s Economy and IP System" on Nov. 11, 2021 on the intellectual property site, IPWatchdog.com. On October 16, 2021, as I contemplated lessons from my nine years in China, the Financial Times broke a story [...]
Office 365: Outlook Slowness My wife's new HP Spectrum computer with Office 365 was giving her very bad performance in Outlook. It was taking hours sometimes for email to show up, when the same emails were quickly available on her iPhone. It's the kind of problem that suggested trouble with the PST file. [...]
Free at last! I escaped Liberty Healthshare When I came back to the US after nearly a decade in China, one of my first steps was trying to get health insurance. After calling multiple health insurance specialists and finding that none of them wanted to talk to me and that the only way, [...]
A volunteer role I really enjoy is serving as a co-editor for a peer reviewed journal related to my faith, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship. One of the challenges involves the use of marked-up Word documents from reviewers. I'd like to share those document with the authors, but many times the [...]
Illustration of SARS-CoV-2 virion from the CDC. Millions of people around the world are worried for China and hope there is soon a full recovery from the dreadful disease, COVID-19. Few things sounds more dreadful than being trapped in a locked-down city where thousands are infected and almost everything is shut down. Pray [...]
One of the many things we've learned while being caught up in the difficulties of travel in Asia due to the Corona virus is just how unreliable and unhelpful some travel agencies are. One example is Trip.com (formerly CTrip). I've used them for years and have usually liked their service, but the total failure of [...]
As I write, I have been out of China for over 3 weeks and am past the incubation period for the dreaded Corona virus that has been sweeping China. We were away in Vietnam on a trip just before the Chinese New Year when the pandemic started looking serious, and were able to adapt our [...]
If you are a US citizen living in China and need to meet with the US Embassy or Consulate to renew a passport or for other issues, you need to schedule an appointment online. Here's the link: https://china.usembassy-china.org.cn/u-s-citizen-services/acs-appointment-system/. There are five cities to choose from: the embassy in Beijing, and consulates in Shanghai, Chengdu, Guanzhou, [...]