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BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
After the most interesting flights ever (including the time in between and after), involving two typhoons, a heavy storm, construction work and many, many queues, I've finally arrived at my latest destination: Shanghai.

More info after I get some food and sleep...
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  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    I've been wondering where you've been.

    Talk about being bored of the internet in another thread. Someone with your post count should never be bored, ever. :D

    Shanghai you say, interesting destination.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Boredom happens to all of us. (Especially those with no lives :p)
  • CurZCurZ Resident Hippy
    I love Shanghai food.
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    Is that your robotics conference you're at, Biggles?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    No, this is an automation conference.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Now I'm in Beijing, which appears to be Land of Smog.
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Thats too bad. Ive always wanted to go to china, and my mother going there a couple of years ago havent made me want it less..
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Biggles [/i]
    [B]No, this is an automation conference. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Oh, so it's not a robotics conference, its a robots enslaved for the benefit of humanity conference...

    Jake
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    If you can make it to Mongolia I'll pay you! I need to see Nomonhan. Its actually on the Manchu side.
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    So Biggles...

    Feel that 4.2 Magnitude to the South there?

    :D

    LOL!
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Can't say that I did.

    In other news, I've just got back from the IROS 2006 banquet. It was held in the banquet hall of the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_hall_of_the_people]Great Hall of the People[/url] (the same one in which Nixon dined), featuring an incredible line up of Chinese food, traditional Chinese dancing, live performances of traditional Chinese music, and a part of a Beijing opera.

    It's now become [i]the[/i] conference banquet to beat.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    A few pictures available here

    [url]http://www.killbots.net/gallery/album01[/url]
  • EclecticonautEclecticonaut Elite Ranger
    Neat indeed.
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    Very nice!
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Free from the completely unnoticed restrictions on China's net access, I'm now in Tokyo. Check out the [url=http://www.killbots.net/gallery/album01/img_3411]awesome view from my hotel room[/url].
  • FreejackFreejack Jake the Not-so-Wise
    Hey, I think I see a whale, or maybe a spaceship. I don't know, I have such a hard time with these 3D thingys...

    Jake
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    Looks like a huge Mine Sweeper game...
  • bobobobo (A monkey)
    Um, you aren't staying with the local police, are you?
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Hehe, looks like the view from one of my hotels in Russia. Coincidence?
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Freejack [/i]
    [B]Hey, I think I see a whale, or maybe a spaceship. I don't know, I have such a hard time with these 3D thingys...

    Jake [/B][/QUOTE]

    Yeah, I think it's a big scam, I never saw any of the things they said you'd see either. :D

    I've seen those stars they show on cartoons though...
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by bobo [/i]
    [B]Um, you aren't staying with the local police, are you? [/B][/QUOTE]

    Nope, although I expect the view would be better.

    [url=http://www.killbots.net/gallery/album01/img_3739]This one's for all the Evangelion fans.[/url]
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    Did they have an Asuka statue too?

    Think I could run away with it in my arms?

    Wanna take her to my home... and make s...umm..

    Is that a three headed monkey out there?

    FLEE!
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Oooh, cool.

    And yes, Asuka is a hottie..

    Refa.. are you talking about your penis again?
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
    [B]Oooh, cool.

    And yes, Asuka is a hottie..

    Refa.. are you talking about your penis again? [/B][/QUOTE]

    I'm not certain of the meaning of that.. but my penis only has one head.. for good or for bad.

    I wasn't implying anything on walking the monkey, choking the chicken or playing with the one eyed trouser snake.. besides, those are solitary ordeals.. with Asuka (or even Rei) it would be dual effort.

    Though, in this case, them being non-living objects such as statues or dolls, it would revert back to [I]manu stuprare[/I] ...
  • MessiahMessiah Failed Experiment
    Sorry man, bad joke. I was in a strange mood yesterday..

    To make it up to you, youll get an Asuka shaped cookie!
  • Lord RefaLord Refa Creepy, but in a good way
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Messiah [/i]
    [B]Sorry man, bad joke. I was in a strange mood yesterday..

    To make it up to you, youll get an Asuka shaped cookie! [/B][/QUOTE]

    It was a good joke imho, and allowed me for a half-witted reply. :P

    So no harm done.

    Except that now I do want that Asuka shaped cookie... Cinnamon (christmas) type or some other?

    And dont forget, I want it anatomically correct. ;)
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Back in Tokyo again. Got a room on the other side of the hotel this time so now I have a view of much more than a small part of the building next door.
  • StingrayStingray Elite Ranger
    So how do you like Japan? Do you speak/read a few words of Japanese or how do you manage to get to where you want to go?
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Let me put it this way: I've just got back from dinner with a couple of friends in which virtually no English was used.

    Also, today I was taken to a maid cafe. I shall say no more.
  • The Cabl3 GuyThe Cabl3 Guy Elite Ranger
    It was probably like Watashi wa kokosi desu ka. Genki desu...Oi shi desu ne. Fuck you. tomogata ai wa nata!
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