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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 [...]

An Obit

Howard Johnson’s, Adieu
That’s it, I’m old :-(.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]