@Dan, yeah, you're right, we're obviously getting closer.
Surely there must be better ways to employ labor than to create such unnecessary things with it. Not that I expect the creation of pumpkin-carving knives to be a major industry anywhere, but still, it does smack of the end of civilization, or anyway of what is called civilization.
On the other hand, Alex, I think it is fun. I've got a good Swiss army knife, multi-purpose - tough, too, will probably outlast the end of civilization as we know it.
Perhaps, but I don't think many people in Yunnan who use wood for fuel for cooking - but that would be year round - heat their homes with it, or with anything, regularly, except perhaps in particularly high areas, and note that many such areas don't have many trees - anyway, I doubt if this has much effect on Kunming.
Just a guess, would like to know more.
Point take does make sense. Though I guess there might also be something about windy days, hi/lo barometric pressures, etc.
And then to some extent I'm willing to risk a balance of scrubbed air vs. sunshine & accompanying mile-high radiant heat
@Geogramatt: True, but the direction in which these other places are moving should be better considered - mistakes need not be repeated, though the lack of channels for input into decisions about directions leads one to a rather pessimistic outlook.
Thanks for another good one, Jim. The balance between what is lost and what is gained is a hard one to figure. The question is, did it have to be this way? A better question is perhaps what should be done, or not done, next. Also important is who will be asked this question, and whose answers will be listened to.
Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Attack leaves dozens dead at Kunming Train Station
发布者Comments here now 'closed', is that right?
Kunming in the aftermath of the train station attack
发布者Haa it become necessary to consider comments on this article 'closed'? It would seem so - no blame to the gokunming staff.
Ode to a bygone era: Kunming of the 1990s
发布者@Geogramatt: True, but the direction in which these other places are moving should be better considered - mistakes need not be repeated, though the lack of channels for input into decisions about directions leads one to a rather pessimistic outlook.
Attack leaves dozens dead at Kunming Train Station
发布者@Bellyu - because they're religious terrorists.
Ode to a bygone era: Kunming of the 1990s
发布者Thanks for another good one, Jim. The balance between what is lost and what is gained is a hard one to figure. The question is, did it have to be this way? A better question is perhaps what should be done, or not done, next. Also important is who will be asked this question, and whose answers will be listened to.