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My name is Will Moss. I spent 17 years in Singapore and China doing computer games, e-commerce and public relations before returning to the Bay Area in 2013. I am director of international and corporate communications for Motorola Mobility. This is a personal blog, and the opinions here are my own. For more information see About Imagethief or contact me at will [at] imagethief [dot] com.
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Tag Archives: Resident Alien
What I learned when I shaved my head
I had a good run. I got more than forty years out of it. But I had to face the fact that my hair was in retreat and there was no going back. In fact, the front had already been … Continue reading
Tagged Resident Alien, Whatever
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Spamtastic use of Mao Zedong Thought
One of the fringe benefits of my job and of having my e-mail on the corporate website as a media contact has been a Cambrian explosion in the variety of spam e-mails I get. Notable among them is this machine-translated … Continue reading
Tagged Business, China, Resident Alien, Weird, Whatever
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The wolf is coming…
Spotted in an area being demolished on a drive up Anli Rd. in north Beijing: “The wolf is coming! Communist Party, save us!” Make of it what you will.
Tagged Beijing, China, Resident Alien
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Apocalypse box part two: Apocalypse box
Yesterday I posted part one of Apocalypse Box, in which I wrote a bit about the communication problems surrounding the reactor disaster in Japan. I concluded with saying that just because something is unthinkable doesn’t mean it won’t happen. It … Continue reading
Tagged China, Crisis Management, Resident Alien
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Enshrined in comix fame
MandMX picked up a tweet I sent recently about something I saw on my morning run and turned it into a single panel cartoon in Chinese and English: Generous with regards to the amount of hair I have, but otherwise … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, Resident Alien, Whatever
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Physics in the gaze of a thousand grannies
Imagethief was an indifferent student in high school. My success in any given class was dictated by my level of personal interest in the topic. So I did OK at biology, which I liked, great in English and composition once … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, Parenthood, Resident Alien
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I suck at Christmas trees
So I’m back in the US of A for Christmas and based on a sample size of two (my parents), I can report that the political mood here is bleak. My mom’s dog of many years died a week or … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Parenthood, Rants, Resident Alien, Travel, USA, Weird, Whatever
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Not enough radiation in your skull and other problems with retail
Modern Beijing, as distinct from the leafy, 1960s loufang neighborhoods and the hutongs, is an unlovely town at the best of times. No acreage of hanging glass curtain walls can make up for the viscerally alienating nature of the razor-edged, … Continue reading
Tagged Beijing, Best of Imagethief, Rants, Resident Alien, Weird, Whatever
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Seoul and the fermented stingray of perdition
I’ll say this for Korea: Recently I’ve had reason to evaluate, and at a national level they have by far the nicest, softest bathroom paper towels I have encountered. Fluffy, soft and absorbent, neither the splinter-bearing roughage nor the instantly-disintegrating … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, Food, Korea, Resident Alien, Travel, Weird
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Absolutely the last post on nasty furniture…
…at least until I move again, I suppose. Imagethief is pleased to report that he has found a suitable apartment all of 100 meters away from his current apartment in China Central Place. Among this apartment’s distinguishing characteristics are its … Continue reading
Tagged Best of Imagethief, China, Rants, Resident Alien, Weird
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