{"id":127,"date":"2014-10-22T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/22\/i-am-not-canadian\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T19:36:00","slug":"i-am-not-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2014\/10\/22\/i-am-not-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Not Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently came across this post on Weibo<\/a>, China’s Twitter-like “microblogging” service:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/weibo.com\/1654694194\/BnIEU7RQ6<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n

What do you mean, you don’t read Chinese? Fine. Here’s Google’s auto-translation:<\/p>\n

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To be fair, I can see how someone in China might be confused, since I do live in “Vancouver.” Speaking of which, I keep meaning to pick up one of these t-shirts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2009\/12\/06\/us\/06vancouver_CA0.html
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Anyway. In related news, two other bloggers also posted very nice reviews of “Zugzwang:”<\/a><\/p>\n

“The story was excellently crafted. The plot had tension and several layers of things going on, yet no word seemed redundant and all of the sentences were simple-yet-varied.”
 — Natso, “A Cool Sci-Fi Short Story, A Question That Sprouted From It,”<\/a> 20 Sep 2014<\/p>\n

“This story could\u2019ve been bleak, but instead it made me happy and hopeful.”
 — Sara Norja, “Sunday recs: Fairytale, memory loss, alien chess,”<\/a> 28 Sep 2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally: I’m going to be at #SiWC<\/a> this weekend, along with at least two other VP<\/a> alums. It’s my first time attending this particular conference. Excitement!<\/p>\n

\"Curtis\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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