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2009.07.2700:00:58 EDTOf cabbages and king prawnsWent to the Asian Food Market today, and realized how much I love summer and cheap produce. It was a quick twenty-dollar shopping trip. But the most impressive of all was the Cabbage! Napa cabbage wa
2008.06.2718:46:15 EDTHoneymoon picturesI have returned from my Honeymoon in Britain. There will be text-based descriptions a bit later, after my wife and I sort out some more mundane details about moving into a new apartment, getting car f
2008.05.2221:17:49 EDT5-sided Sierpinski GasketWhile in the stall attending to some personal business today, I read the graffiti as usual. One particular one is a pretty poor attempt at an Apollonian gasket. Somehow from there I started wondering
2008.03.1514:04:23 EDTMidori web browserFirst a screenshot: That was Midori, a lightweight web browser based on the Gtk+ port of the WebKit engine. As seen above, it scores an 88/100 on the Acid3 test, only behind a version of Safari that
2007.12.1102:30:48 ESTppmglobe and map of the earthSaw a question on Yahoo Answers. Decided to help the bloke out. See, he wants to make a globe. And can't find a good conformal/spherical map to cut out and paste onto the ball. So I discovered the pow
2007.12.0116:11:55 ESTThe story of 'garbage'First, a flow chart: For those of you who know Chinese, the characters on the far left are Chinese for "garbage". (The little Japanese kana-like things to the left of the characters are the Taiwan Bo
2007.04.0721:41:26 CSTJournal: YiHe YuanYay! I went out to play today. (And thanks to S's wonderful suggestion of bringing a USB cable with me, now I have pictures!) Our wonderful host, Ms. Yu, took Sergiu, his family, Alex, and Jean-Michel
2007.01.1012:01:14 ESTA little pentagon theoremI came up with the following little question while randomly doodling on a piece of paper. TheoremGiven a pentagon ABCDE, for a given side, we call the diagonal of the pentagon which does not share a v
2007.01.0501:31:39 ESTChinese soft keyboard via XKBDOh well, since oxim won't run on my laptop, I've decided to code myself an on-screen keyboard to use with gcin. Ideally I would like to have done it with xvkbd, since its layout scheme is more elegant
2006.11.2521:45:26 ESTPhotoshootAnd I present to you... Oz Oz shows off his plumage "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." And I get the feeling that I am merely his Jungle Gym Fifteen minutes of fame How to make a
2006.10.0212:50:10 EDTHe is OzWe've got a new member to the "family"! He is an Agapornis roseicollis, i.e. Peach-faced lovebird, with an orange-face mutation (so when he grows up his face would be bright orange instead of pink).
2006.08.2716:49:55 EDTPictures of pig/frogPigs pigs galore. My pig shelf at home is almost full. Funny frog picture. This is what happens when I tried to take a picture of a frog hanging on a screen door. I probably had the camera too close
2006.07.1404:18:08 EDTJournal: Grounds for SculptureWell, not really a Journal per se, but, well, just think of it as my following that old Kodak (or was is Konica?) ad about writing my diary with a camera... Anyway, today S's mom, whom we shall call O
2006.07.0323:51:12 EDTJournal: Cake!It is the Twins' birthday. In T's (not so exact) words: "I've heard that my sister has a birthday coming up, so I baked myself a little cake." We don't have icing at home, so mom first suggested nutel
2006.06.1415:47:48 EDTBacklogged Journal: NC Trip III, Mem Day--05/23-28backlogged update 3 (May 23) After getting up relatively late in the morning, we drove from Ashville to the outskirts of Charlotte, where we would stay. T and P were originally intent on making a stop
2006.06.1210:29:40 EDTBacklogged Journal: NC Trip II--05/22backlogged update 2 (May 22) Strangely, the only day with sub-par weather when we visited NC was the day we wanted to go see the Biltmore Estate. The estate is apparently the largest private home in t
2006.06.1200:06:07 EDTBacklogged Journal: NC Trip I--05/20,21backlogged update 1 After my general exams, father came to visit and we picked up my sisters from their schools during an overnight drive across 5 states. (May 20) The next morning, we set out for a f
2006.04.2019:26:50 EDTSpring picturesPicture time! Dad got a free digital camera from a credit-card rebate program or something. It is made by the Taiwanese camera company Premier (their website is down at the moment, so I won't link to
2006.02.2515:52:50 ESTEinstein sayethNow that 2005 (the centennial of Einstein's miraculous year) is over, we can go back to our normal irreverence for big Einie. Hetemeel.com has a cute little script that lets you put words under Einste
2006.01.2900:26:53 ESTJournal: Chinese New Year's EveIn another 8 minutes comes the new Chinese year, one of 丙戌, a year of Dog. Today, being New Year's Eve, in accordance to the Chinese tradition, we made 年糕 (Nian2 Gao1; Year
2005.10.0304:43:50 EDTbig, brown spiderCaught this big fellow about an hour ago. I tried to find some information on Google about what kind of spider it is, but it is hard to compare a picture of a spider to a real thing, and descriptions
2005.05.1001:49:00 EDTChinaman will not attack ChinabearI just got this hilarious email from my elementary school teacher Andrew Li. It is an "alleged" news report from a mainland Chinese reporter. Here's a screen shot of the document displaying via abiwor
Anime/Manga (3) News, reviews, recent purchase, thoughts, and pretty much everything about Anime and Manga.
Books (7) Book reviews primarily. Sometimes recommendations of new publications or mentioning of books I really want.
Chinese (33) Posts written in Chinese, posts about the Chinese language or culture, or posts concerning my experience being of Chinese descent. (以中文寫作, 或是內容有關於中國語言及文化, 和我個人的華人經驗的文章.)
Creations (12) My creations, could be musical, literary, graphical, or in other formats, but generally fall under the category of Art.
German (1) Posts written in German. It will be empty for a while, until I become passable writing in German.
French (1) Posts written in French. (Les entreés écrivées en français.)
Religion (1) My thoughts about religion in general, specific news about the various religions.
Japanese (1) Posts written in Japanese. It will be sparse until my Japanese becomes better.
Linky! (55) Boing-boing-like entries which links to fun stuff I found on the web (many of them through boing-boing).
Linux (22) Things related to the Linux operating systems. Particularly prominent on things about Gentoo, my preferred flavor.
Mathematics (59) Posts about mathematics. Upcoming conferences, conference descriptions, papers I am reading, papers I am writing, pre-prints, all sorts of goodies. Also some of my thoughts about mathematical education and such.
Movies (1) Movies I saw recently. Reviews. Movies I plan to see in the future. Expectations.
Music (10) Posts about the music I listen to or the music I play. Things about the music industry usually don't go here (they end up, almost always, in the outrageous! category.
Politics (7) Things that, unfortunately, I have to deal with as an American in a democratic republic, but about which I really wish I could just stop caring.