While not paying attention in a class that was not as interesting as I
thought it would be, I drew some violent images that related to one
another and told a story of violence and redemption. Well, perhaps not
redemption.
This was just too funny. Thanks wooj, you made my evening.
No, I don’t have a girlfriend, so if you’re interested, please send me the following items for my review of your candidacy:
You will be notified within 14 days if you are deemed qualified for an in-person interview.
I’m sure he’ll be getting the ladies coming in droves at this point.
Hanzi Smatter takes a look at
a tattoo that comes off
meaning Fruit Information Person (果報者) in Chinese it seems.
However, in Japanese the meaning is ‘lucky fellow’. The ensuing discussion
erupts into how the Chinese are monopolizing their usage of 漢字.
However, some very useful information on the evolution of the meaning
of 果報 came about:
If it’s not too late to add an additional interpretation: The first thing that
comes to mind seeing 果报 would be retribution, especially in a Buddhist sense:
果报者,所得功德也 (Retribution is the merits you attain). It’s littered
throughout the sutras, and not just in a positive sense: there’s 杀生果报,
retribution for taking a life.
However in perspective, I think the hypersensitivity issue over the matter
was unnecessary. But it was good that some people who did have a deeper
understanding of the usage of 果報者 came forward and corrected things
however I think the sad thing is how much biting and snarling came around
from something that was supposed to bring a little humor to things.
Lucky Fellow vs Fruit Information Person
An ensuing discussion/flamewar
A picture of the tattoo that started it all
Vietnam’s economy is supposedly going through a high growth phase right
now. With growth in the economy, comes a more privileged lifestye for
those who want to reach out for it. It also seems that the concept
of stress also comes along witht he package.
Stress is the latest trend to hit Việt Nam from America since MTV. At first glance it seems impossible. This country, after all, is full of hard-working young people, and rural life is backbreaking for the majority. Generation after generation has known nothing but sweat and toil. But this new phenomenon is not of simple hard work. It’s a kind of symptom associated with young, upwardly mobile urban professionals in peacetime.
SSL-enabling your website brings up issues of actually getting a SSL
certificate from a well known provider or else you get a pop-up window
which only paranoid people bother reading through the whole certificate
to verify it came from where it came from.
The problem is how do you choose? This site
gives a good starting point. It gives a comprehensive listing of
browsers that are compatible with X-provider provided SSL certificate.
A useful tool for those who are shopping for a SSL certificate granter.
This is the most insightful thing I’ve seen in awhile:
Then I remembered a New York Times piece I read several years ago. The
basic message was simple: Americans will not pay for information or
education but they will seriously overpay for convenience. How else explain
bottled water, bottled tea, individually wrapped portions of peanut butter
(I’m not making that one up)?
I like using TeraTerm Pro quite a bit on Windows. However, one thing that
has always bugged me about TeraTerm was the lack of SSH version 2 support.
However, it seems if you are willing to look beyond the English only site
for ttssh, there is a sourceforge project with a TTSSH extension that
supports SSH version 2.
As an added bonus it seems that they also updated TeraTerm Pro to support
UTF-8. Excellent.
Thanks to Tony I learned about this
expo called Foodex Japan. What is it you might ask? Here’s a description
from their website:
Asia Pacific’s defining food and beverage exhibition
Welcoming over 2,500 exhibiting companies and 90,000 food industry visitors
annually, FOODEX JAPAN enjoys the unique status as Asia’s No. 1 food and
beverage exhibition, and the third largest in the world.
In other words, if you like food and are in Japan at that time. This
is the place to go.
I’ve been a Mac user for awhile now. However, one thing I’ve not really spent much time with is playing with other Input Method Editors (IME) besides Japanese. I’ve recently expanded my focus to include Vietnamese. One of the difficult things in inputting Vietnamese is adding the diacritic marks which represent the tones in Vietnamese. An example of the the diacritic marks is given in the following sentence:
Tôi là người Việt
As you can see, there are quite a few diacritic marks. Most people who aren’t literate in Vietnamese regard these as nuisances which is understandable. There IS a Vietnamese IME that comes with OS X and I have been using it for awhile now. However, I find it a little unnatural to use. After doing some searching on Vietnamese IMEs I’ve found I would like to use one that more closely mirrors the VIQR convention of inputting Vietnamese.
I was thinking it would be necessary to build an input method editor myself however it seems someone saved me the trouble. There is no VIQR input method but the methods available seem more natural than the default including with OS X. There is also one other thing of note for you OS X users. OS X by default outputs Unicode text in a form known as Normalization Form D. This is a bit aggravating when dealing with accented characters. I’d much rather have Normalization Form C. Here’s a borrowed explanation:
All keyboard layouts emit Unicode text in Normalization Form C (NFC), where the entire vowel including the intonation mark is represented by a single code point. In comparison, the original Mac OS X Vietnamese keyboard layout emits Unicode text where vowels with an intonation mark are represented by a code point for the vowel itself (a, ă, â, e, ê, i, o, ô, ơ, u, ư) followed by a second code point representing the intonation mark as combining diacritic.
This Normalization Form is really aggravating when trying to use the OS X Input Method editor to input Vietnamese over a Terminal. Rather than displaying as one character, I see the character then the intonation mark. Not what I want to see. Hopefully, these new Keyboard Layouts fix that problem.
For more information check Gero Herrmann’s webpage.
Here at this place, we only use very simple English words and simple writing
structures.
Uh… there’s a need for this? I wouldn’t think so. That’s
just too bad it doesn’t have an explanation for
complexity theory
in it yet. Perhaps we’ll eventually get
http://kindergartenenglish.wikipedia.org too.
This is an excellent review of how maps.google.com
does its magic. I’ve always been skeptical of Javascript but seeing how
Google has been using it has made me reconsider its utility in the overall
websphere.
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