Archive for April, 2005
Friday
Sorry for being MIA; my so-called social life took over Wednesday and Thursday nights. Great to see you back, YC. Life in Taiwan sounds less maddening than it is in NYC…
Wednesday night - pouring rain. But, I saw “Little Women” the musical - pretty good. Sutton Foster, the star, playing Jo [...]
Posted: April 29th, 2005 under Brooklyn.
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An Obit
Howard Johnson’s, Adieu
That’s it, I’m old :-(.
Posted: April 28th, 2005 under Taipei.
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Taiwan and Ultimate Reality TV
Reality TV…. Taiwan takes the cake. What do they say? Reality is stranger than fiction?
You can’t make up stuff like this:
Are we the Qing or the Ming? I’m confused!
You can spew blood and still live to tell. Watch it:
Er, isn’t that a blood pool over there?!
Where’s [...]
Posted: April 28th, 2005 under Taipei.
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The Taipei Train
In a lot of ways, it’s apropos.
I’m doing some technical writing for the Taiwan High Speed Rail project. The project management is a complete SNAFU and FUBAR. No one is responsible or accountable and there’s no money :-s. So lots of people may be hung out to dry here as the Taiwan [...]
Posted: April 27th, 2005 under Taipei.
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Past present future
Today was the 90th birthday of one of the professors. What did he wish for? To be 30 years younger. He was really concerned about students attending class. They weren’t, he thought, because they were trying to make enough money to make ends meet. He’s using his birthday party to raise scholarship money next week.
Another [...]
Posted: April 26th, 2005 under Brooklyn.
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