User Comments - RonInDC
RonInDC
Posted on: Eileen's Big News
November 16, 2007 at 3:12 PM"It seems, from the description, you need to be more preventative than that." In Shanghai, that is.
Posted on: Nakedness and Thieves
November 16, 2007 at 3:12 PM"It seems, from the description, you need to be more preventative than that." In Shanghai, that is.
Posted on: Eileen's Big News
November 16, 2007 at 3:11 PMI think Henning's point is very fair, although I still got a little uncomfortable listening to Amber and Clay's description :) DC could very well be the worst place in the world for bike theft, with many people refusing to leave bikes on the street at all, let alone using big locks. So when in Beijing, I was pretty stunned to see most locked bikes not locked to anything, just using these really little locks on the rear wheel so that you couldn't ride away with it. It seems, from the description, you need to be more preventative than that.
Posted on: Nakedness and Thieves
November 16, 2007 at 3:11 PMI think Henning's point is very fair, although I still got a little uncomfortable listening to Amber and Clay's description :) DC could very well be the worst place in the world for bike theft, with many people refusing to leave bikes on the street at all, let alone using big locks. So when in Beijing, I was pretty stunned to see most locked bikes not locked to anything, just using these really little locks on the rear wheel so that you couldn't ride away with it. It seems, from the description, you need to be more preventative than that.
Posted on: Forget It
November 15, 2007 at 12:46 PMIt's good to understand the strength of these words. I jokingly used 'zoa kai' with a guy selling watches on a Shanghai street. He then gave me genuinely friendly lesson on how that phrase was too strong (the humour that this was a guy selling counterfeit goods was not lost on me). However, once when I got off a plane in Zhuhai surrounded by dozens of cabbies and one went to grab my suitcase, it was completely appropriate.
Posted on: The ChinesePod Practice Plan
November 14, 2007 at 2:02 PM"Goulnik is one of the most diligent learners here. A true role model." Certainly true, but what's really pretty impressive is how you, Goulnik and Baz help the community out.
Posted on: Do you have a girlfriend?
November 14, 2007 at 12:23 AMJenny is quite the trophy.
Posted on: Romance in the Beauty Pageant
November 13, 2007 at 10:44 PMI'm also mostly nerd, but have more dork in me than you all.
Posted on: Wang Wei's Diary: The Importance of Brains
November 13, 2007 at 3:41 AMNerds Rule.
Posted on: Nakedness and Thieves
November 16, 2007 at 4:28 PMActually, that's not quite true, Bob. Preventative is an English word. It's is often applied to an actual object, especially in noun form, while preventive is mostly reserved for an abstract concept, and remains an adjective. So what might be a little more accurate to say is that my use of Preventative as an adjective is considered by some not to be the best usage