My 4y/o and I just played ROBOT DADDY 机器爸爸. I prepared his breakfast and switched between Chinese and English as I am programmed! 哈哈

Being married to a Chinese wife: Her family? No concept of Christmas cards. My family: I procrastinate + they’re Chinese New Year cards!

My Chinese mother-in-law can’t sleep so she SKYPED us now. Why can’t she sleep? 放鞭炮 Fàng biānpào fireworks! We can barely hear her! STILL!

A really interesting talk with Murong Xuecun on China’s internet literature http://ow.ly/8H9sx plus how the literature evades censors.

Last night’s SOTU Obama said TAX 34 times FAIR 8 times OSAMA BIN LADEN 1 time CHINA or CHINESE 5 times FREEDOM and LIBERTY 1 time each.

Our 4y/o has a cough and after he coughed a bit he told me, “Daddy, I don’t like my cough. 爸爸我不喜欢我的咳嗽”

Talking about animals our 4y/o consistently adds a phrase in Chinese: “它不吃人的 It doesn’t eat people.” or “吃人的, it eats people.”

Newt has an ad attacking Romney because he speaks French. Well, Huntsman speaks Chinese. Rick Perry of course speaks gibberish. -Jay Leno

Talking to my Chinese father-in-law over Skype during Chinese New Year is like talking to a reporter in a war zone. BOOM BOOM!

“Obama doesn’t pay admission to Disney World. He just charges it to the China section of Epcot.” -Jimmy Fallon

Chinese don’t know much about American football and MX asked a very funny question: “Does the Super Bowl and the NFL have a connection?”

Our 4y/o asked me the other day, “Daddy have you ever played robot games? 爸爸，你有没有玩过机器人游戏?” We had no clue where that came from!

Looks great! WSJ Book Review: Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: the story of the 1976 Tangshan Earthquake http://bit.ly/wJ4luT

Learn what real Chinese want from a factory worker, taxi driver, village official, doctor, office worker, and father. http://ow.ly/8yD3u

I keep thinking that SOPA and PIPA are a pair of Pandas that are on loan from China.