January 31, 2019
恭喜發財! And the cargo tricycles sit idle.
恭喜發財! That phrase has a literal meaning but, in practice, it's used as a verbal cue to either fork over one or more envelopes of banknotes or to →
Category: Is that the way it is?
December 12, 2018
赠品 is Simplified Chinese for free gift + GOOP really has CHAINGED!
赠品 is Simplified Chinese for free gift. In Traditional Chinese, it's 贈品.
The same reasoning that comes into play in trying to reason out →
June 10, 2017
Double rainbow at dawn
How long did it take you to spot the rainbow?
The rainbow faded from one second to the next and, even at the moment I took the above photo, S. had →
May 4, 2017
Maybe it’s “Democracy dies in the edits”: Does the The Washington Post have memory holes?
Tonight, I planned to write something complimentary about The Washington Post. WaPo published a brief but excellent piece of investigative reporting by →
May 1, 2017
What it looks like when the wheels fall off; Or, Where’s the good-journalism bot?
A defunct Cooper Mini on the edge of a village in Hong Kong's New Territories.
The software tools mentioned in These are the bots powering Jeff Bezos' →