Archives for: November 2010
Am I really so bizarre?
November 27th, 2010Don't answer that! It seems lately, though, that the developers of some well-known software packages just don't think the way I do. Take e-mail. I like to use an IMAP client instead of, say, gmail's web interface because it can save messages on disk an… more »
I have seen the nature of Fail
November 22nd, 2010And it is:Jordan's basketball team facing China in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. By the third quarter, they had still not cracked 50% of China's point total. It was 76-32 by the time I turned it off, no lie.Indonesian men's synchronized diving (a… more »
Yo-Yo Ma
November 20th, 2010Tuesday morning: "James -- Yo-Yo Ma is giving a master class in the conservatory at 11. Do you want to see some of it?" YES!!!!! I usually need morning time for final preparation for my afternoon lessons, but that would have to wait. It was the right… more »
Xiamen
November 10th, 2010We just had a long weekend in Xiamen, courtesy of a high school friend of Jimmy's. (Long weekends are not so hard for me to arrange, since my classes are on Tuesday and Thursday. As long as my lesson is ready first thing Tuesday morning, it's not a big d… more »
Woods to walk in
November 4th, 2010Jimmy heard from the upstairs neighbor (the same one we're sharing an Internet connection with) about a hill inside the neighborhood where you can hike through the woods a little ways. It's more like, climb several dozen steep stairs to get to the top of… more »
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