New place for Jacob's Photos

After having spent all the effort to build this blog, we discovered that Blogger has been banned in China. I suspect some ungrateful fool wrote some treacherous rubbish about how democracy can sometimes be a good idea (provided, of course, one doesn't extend it to the wrong sort of people). Thus, we have put all of Jacob's photos up on Flickr, which hasn't yet been banned by the munificent, caring, protective Chinese government.

You can find our page here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30241711@N04/

However, you need to be invited to view the page. We're not getting exclusive, it's just that friends have told us how some people take baby photos from the web and do nefarious things with them. We'd kind of prefer that didn't happen to Jacob.

If you'd like to see the photos, drop either Joan or Nick an email, and we'll send you an invite which will allow you to do so.

Jacob's Name in Chinese Pt II

Here are two more versions of Jacob's name, typeset, rather than in calligraphy. Thanks again YuChao, to whom partial credit should also go for helping to come up with the name originally at a dinner party some months ago.

Jacob's Name in Chinese

Blogger seemed to have difficulty with Chinese fonts, so I couldn't show everyone Jacob's Chinese name in the last post. A friend made me a gif file, and now I can display it in all its glory! Thanks YuChao!

There are three characters above. The first is Joan's family name, Wang. It means "king", and is ironically one of the more common surnames in China. Astute observers familiar with the days of South A will note the similarity between this character and Nick's beer-can throne, which also had the character for king on its back-rest (outlined in Toohey's Red cans on a background of VB cans). This was either startlingly accurate prescience on Nick's behalf or, as seems more likely, overly egotistical hubris.

The second character means "one" and/or "first", and the third character means "ocean". Hence, we have the first Wang over the ocean.