I was tutoring a teenage student last night, and we did a reading about finding jobs in America. The passage talked about looking in the paper to find a new, and I mentioned that it’s a bit out-of-date, and people our age use the internet much more than the newspaper classified.
My teenage student gave me [...]
I’ve hit a frustrating plateau with my Chinese-speaking. When I speak, I give the tones a good shot, and hope for the best. If I can’t get the tone of “glass” right, hopefully the rest of the sentence, usually “I’d like one of beer” will make my meaning clear. Unfortunately, my vocab’s hitting a point [...]
I just heard about the Edison Chen scandal, it’s a weird reminder that we’re not in the US anymore. The short version of the story is that a Hong Kong actor took some risque shots of himself fooling around with starlets. He kept them on his computer, and everything was fine until he took his [...]
Today is the somewhat-arbitrary day Stick and I chose for our anniversary! (We know we met sometime in February but can’t remember the day.) I intended to write something sweet about how we’ve spent the last four years, but I’d rather show you.
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This picture has nothing to do with anything. I’m posting it to appease certain family members who’ve requested more nice photographs, and fewer pictures of starfish kebabs.
A couple few weeks ago, I got the chance to beta test a new casual game for Large Animal Games. The beta version of Fashion Solitaire looked like Barbie’s Magical Dream House had leaked all over it, but when I saw the final version today, everything had gone from pink to purple. Good work, [...]
Remember the glitter roses? They’ve been in water here for a few days, and they’re a bit overblown now. As the flowers open, they pour what seems like tablespoons of silver fairy dust onto my desk next to me.
It’s how I imagine my life would be if I’d followed my original career path, and become [...]
I’m having trouble linking directly to my episode, but here are the podcasts for World Have Your Say program. Look for the February 14th one!
Edit: Here is it!
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