Allow me to vent for a second about a sterling example of typical Chinese customer disservice I ran into today. Last week, I lost my wallet getting out of a taxi. That was my own dumb fault; I should’ve been more aware of my personal belongings when I got out. [...]

So my roommate and I went for lunch the other day at a Japanese rice bowl place. We walked in, and only 1 of the 3 employees was awake. The other 2 were sleeping with their heads on the table, completely unaware that customers had even entered the shop. [...]

China, the land of 麻烦 (mafan)! For those of you who don’t know what mafan is, it basically means trouble or inconvenience. And China is chock full of it. In some ways, this has to be the most inconvenient place on earth to live…

If something seems like it’s too good to be true, it probably is. According to a story on Slashgear, a Russian computer repair center was asked to take a look at the above-pictured external backup hard drive to see why data kept disappearing from it. It was supposedly bought at [...]