been in taiwan for about a week now. forgot how oppressive the humidity is, and how good the fruits and vegetables are (amazing how things can taste when you breed fruits for flavor instead of resistance to pesticides/long-ripeness for shipping). had dinner with a couple blogger/social-software guys from Academica Sinica a couple nights ago. it […]
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24-Jun-05Summer Taiwan Trip
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Mediterranean Food
06-Jan-05Was driving around Santa Monica last night with Mindy, trying to find an Indonesian restaurant that had been recommended to us, when hunger wins out and we finally decide to broaden our palates for the night. Good thing, too–we ended up at a small Damascan joint called Sham. Full of ambiance and good food. Grilled/stewed […]
Thought for the night: We humans are amazingly good at finding patterns in data. So good, in fact, that we can even find patterns where there are none. The Skeptic’s Dictionary’s Law of Truly Large Numbers talks about just this…
Faina Vahaleva, passed away at 88
14-Dec-04Faina Vahaleva (蔣方良, Chiang Fang-liang), wife of Chiang Ching-Guo (蔣經國 — R.O.C. nationalist leader, President of Taiwan, and eldest son of Chiang Kai-Shek), just passed away at around noon today. This site is a nice memoire.
Cultural Differences, Work, and Play
31-Oct-04Some interesting cultural differences came up at a Halloween party I was at last night: A friend of a friend (just came over to America from South Korea about 2 months ago, and who is now a grad student at UCLA) commented “I’ve gone to the library to study a couple times, and I’ve noticed […]
Earth as a Dynamic Desktop Background
11-Aug-04Saw a link to the xplanet app recently, and been thinking “wouldn’t it be cool if I could set a real-time picture of the earth as my desktop background?” Turns out people have already done this. (note: this only has directions for Linux/Mac. As a hack for windows, you can add set up Active Desktop […]
The China and Taiwan Situation
14-Jul-04Adam of BrainySmurf, an expat over in TianJin, China, has pulled together a few insightful articles on China and Taiwan relations: Why China won’t attack and occupy Taiwan A rebuttal explaining why China will attack Taiwan A very well written summary of internal Chinese politics, and how it relates to the whole situation
Expatriate Blogs
06-Jul-04Have been following a few expatriate blogs for a while, mostly in meta-reminiscence of my time spent back living in Taiwan. While China differs substantially from Taiwan, I from time to time come across snippets of everyday life that are sort of timeless (or, more accurately, “placeless”, if such a word existed with the same […]