Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Facebook Friends Networks

September 14, 2007

I really like how Facebook summarizes the places many of my friends are from, and by extension some of the places I myself have lived, under the “Friends in Other Networks” widget.

Note: I have not lived in UK.
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Quick Explanation

July 24, 2007

I’m back in the US and in search of a job in the Madison, Wisconsin area. Jinjin will be coming in the fall. We’ve had these plans firmly in the works since January, but I’ve kept them off this blog because I just didn’t want to talk about them until I was back in the [...]

The Joy of Duty

May 14, 2007

I’ve been reading The Useless Tree, a blog that discusses “Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern American Life,” for some months now. As the tagline suggests, The Useless Tree’s posts mostly concern Taoist and Confucian thought.
I have learned something positive about myself and about Confucianism from reading this blog. For example, I have two cats. Every [...]

Wedding Rings

May 3, 2007

Jinjin and I got married on May 15, 2006, and our one year anniversary is approaching. As presents to ourselves we decided to finally get two wedding bands.

Since before we’ve been married Jinjin has had a diamond engagement ring, which to many Chinese couples acts as the wedding ring itself, so it’s not really as [...]

Risk and Withdrawing Trillions of Dollars

March 24, 2007

From Twofish’s Blog:
It’s interesting how the NYT moves from crisis to crisis, and has just discovered that China has a huge pension liability problem and an issue with a rapidly aging population. It’s also interesting that the article doesn’t mention at all, the ***real*** big problem which is coming up.

I’m not too worried about [...]