extremely random

Amy’s 包青天　translations! This is what nick has to live through…amy translations!
video is here, translation starts at :30
展昭 : 九尾狐 有我在　你休想動包大人一根汗毛
*展昭: evil poison woman, I’m here, you can’t hurt even one skinny hair on Pao 大人
九尾狐︰你中毒已深 此毒潛伏體內 你若運功 便會發作 若再交手 毒發全身 到時全身殘廢 你永遠沒得救了
evil poison woman: You’ve been poisoned, if you use kung fu, it’ll go move [...]

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what do you call a woman you don’t know

in China, in Chinese?
I donno, in Taiwan you just say 小姐.
just randomly thought of this, someone korean told me that you can’t say 小姐 because that is apparently what people call prostitutes now in China. So what are you supposed to say if you don’t know someone instead?
I guess this question came from reading random [...]

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pet peeve of the day

Why does everything without sugar have to have Splenda in it? Can’t it just not be sweet? I don’t know how many times I get home and realize whatever Sugarfree!! thing I just bought is full of Splenda. The taste is so sickly artificial and enduring it’s worse than MSG. [...]

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包青天 — 展昭

When I was nine (1993) I thought 展昭 (guy in red) was SOOO cool.

third video link here, since wordpress.com youtube is stupid.

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Magical algorithm for interestingness

I actually thought you meant some algorithm that looks at a photo and decides whether it’s interesting. (Is that possible?) But I guess you meant what Flickr meant, like how many people click on a photo, etc. Which makes sense because so much of what makes a photo interesting is contextual which is hard for [...]

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was on short personal quest to

find the oldest 伍思凱 video on youtube
hmm…I think this is it, so 80s looking…& 小虎隊 style of music.

love this song, I always find the chorus part stuck in my head, and feel like singing it out loud, except it feels strangely improper to do so…actually this song is the 主打歌 from [...]

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baby puppies~~golden retrievers

soooo cute

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i went out downtown to take some photos today

and managed to take only a few pictures before my camera ran out of batteries :( a couple of the ones I did manage to take are nice though.
I’m out of room on flickr though, so no more flickr uploads for the month. I’m still thinking about upgrading flickr account, but I think I waste [...]

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Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?

But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thing”) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinion”) have fused in a particularly insidious way.
Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and cultural knowledge, [...]

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actually flickr is cool

real cool~~
it does break a bit on the wordpress blog though…I think I just need to setup my own wordpress server…ya…that’ll be SOOOOo cool~~ trust me.
flickr is so much cooler than Yahoo!…I don’t know why Yahoo! got to buy flickr. I don’t really like the Yahoo! homepage…so cluttered, but then again so is the msn [...]

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