Hey all. So I've finally taken the time to put some new photos up. However, I'm making the transition away from Webshots to Picassa, so the only photos that will be up in the gallery are the new ones (but who wants to look at old photos anyways?).
So here's the new stuff: http://picasaweb.google.com/ngpinger
Enjoy!
Monday, October 29, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
A Somewhat Funny, But More Interesting Summary of Cultural Differences
Hey all!
I've been doing a lot of writing in my other blog, about cultural differences, but I thought that this little link (open it in a second window . . . you'll see why later) was better suited for the personal blog. I've been dealing with this stuff a lot, and yes. I understand these. I'll give you a little overview:
Now let's run through the pictures (email/my blog on the left - other blog on the right, if you care about my opinion):
My favorites are:
Contacts
Queues
Parties
Definition of Beauty
Handling Problems
Moods and Weather
The Boss
What's Trendy
The Child
Perceptions of Each Others' Culture (though the Germans forgot the fortune cookie - which, by the way, doesn't exist here)
I disagree with:
Way of Life (Chinese will cheat each other until they're all broke - they view it as, "If your'e stupid enough to let me cheat you, then you deserve to be cheated")
Anger/Displeasure (They whine just as much as westerners)
View of Myself (Partially - the elderly may be as described, but ever hear of the "little emperor syndrome")
Life of the Elderly (Old people in China LOVE dogs! They just have grandkids and dogs.)
The others are true, but didn't strike me as particularly funny.
Don't get some of them? Don't worry, and feel free to email me to ask for clarification :-).
I've been doing a lot of writing in my other blog, about cultural differences, but I thought that this little link (open it in a second window . . . you'll see why later) was better suited for the personal blog. I've been dealing with this stuff a lot, and yes. I understand these. I'll give you a little overview:
Now let's run through the pictures (email/my blog on the left - other blog on the right, if you care about my opinion):
My favorites are:
Contacts
Queues
Parties
Definition of Beauty
Handling Problems
Moods and Weather
The Boss
What's Trendy
The Child
Perceptions of Each Others' Culture (though the Germans forgot the fortune cookie - which, by the way, doesn't exist here)
I disagree with:
Way of Life (Chinese will cheat each other until they're all broke - they view it as, "If your'e stupid enough to let me cheat you, then you deserve to be cheated")
Anger/Displeasure (They whine just as much as westerners)
View of Myself (Partially - the elderly may be as described, but ever hear of the "little emperor syndrome")
Life of the Elderly (Old people in China LOVE dogs! They just have grandkids and dogs.)
The others are true, but didn't strike me as particularly funny.
Don't get some of them? Don't worry, and feel free to email me to ask for clarification :-).
Monday, October 08, 2007
New Blog Going Up
Hey everybody. So I'm planning to keep writing in this blog as sporadically as I was before, but I wanted to inform you that I'm starting up a new blog (which I have a feeling that only about 5 of you will actually enjoy).
However, if you feel like checking it out, I'll give you an idea of its premise. First of all, it will be much less personal (which, ironically, probably means that I'll write in it more, since I don't like talking about myself as much as I like talking about other things). Second, it'll be quite a bit more analytical, but hopefully still very accessible. It will be mostly business oriented, so anybody who loves marketing, technology, general business trends and consumer psychology as much as I do will be pleasantly surprised. Anybody else will probably read one or two posts and then get bored :-).
So, without further adieu, it can be accessed here: http://nathanpinger.blogspot.com (or you can link to it from my blog directly). If you want to get fancy about it, you can subscribe to the RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/nathanpinger (if you have no idea what an RSS feed is, then perhaps you can bite the bullet and jump into the digital reading world with my new blog as a starting point . . . or not). Enjoy!
However, if you feel like checking it out, I'll give you an idea of its premise. First of all, it will be much less personal (which, ironically, probably means that I'll write in it more, since I don't like talking about myself as much as I like talking about other things). Second, it'll be quite a bit more analytical, but hopefully still very accessible. It will be mostly business oriented, so anybody who loves marketing, technology, general business trends and consumer psychology as much as I do will be pleasantly surprised. Anybody else will probably read one or two posts and then get bored :-).
So, without further adieu, it can be accessed here: http://nathanpinger.blogspot.com (or you can link to it from my blog directly). If you want to get fancy about it, you can subscribe to the RSS feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/nathanpinger (if you have no idea what an RSS feed is, then perhaps you can bite the bullet and jump into the digital reading world with my new blog as a starting point . . . or not). Enjoy!
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