Archive for February, 2007
Lunar New Year’s Day
Gung Hay Fat Choy! as we Cantonese might say (well, okay, conceding that my attempts to work on my Cantonese remain attempts). Best of luck…
A new look at MSG - maybe it’s not so bad, presuming the chef actually knows what he/she is doing?
I’ve been noticing this in the Romance section of the bookstores: [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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A Very Special Presidental New Year Weekend
Anybody notice that more people are interested in the Lunar New Year this weekend? I don’t even see a whole lot of GW or Abe Lincoln anywhere, except for the new dollar coins being introduced this weekend. Metro, the newspaper, had a Lunar New Year front cover on Friday.
Rented a Zipcar minivan and got down [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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Lunar New Year’s Eve
The cold and the snowish mixture (it’s not quite snow; it’s more like icier slush) and the strange Presidents’ Day tv commercials haven’t really made me in the mood for the Year of the Pig.
Argh - missed Thursday’s episode of “Grey’s Anatomy” and ABC opted NOT to re-run it on Friday night (instead, [...]
Posted: February 17th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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Gong Xie Fat Tsai!
Definitely wishing everyone a happy Chinese New Year. A big deal here (Taiwan gets 9 days, including weekends). I’m typing this from the Taoyuan International Cathay Pacific lounge.
It’s mad on the highways due to the exodus of people back to their home towns from Taipei. Boarding soon and I’ll be arriving in Ipoh just after midnight. [...]
Posted: February 16th, 2007 under En route, Hong Kong, KL/Ipoh, Malaysia.
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Ch-Ch-Ch Changes, Brrrrrrrr
I’ve updated the software that runs triscribe to Wordpress 2.1. This did zero to the public face of things, but made a few nice changes to the back end. This includes wysiwyg editing, auto save (no losing your typing if you hit the backspace key), and picture uploading on the same page as the edit. [...]
Posted: February 15th, 2007 under Brooklyn.
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