After a few weeks of semi-neglect, i found some time to work in the garden today. This past month has been pretty crazy, with lots of overtime at work, 2 people moving out of our house, and an army of hungry slugs devouring 6 out of 8 pumpkin and cuke plants. We’re getting [...]
Lately i’ve been really inspired by the language learning advice from All Japanese All The Time. Over there, khatsumoto explains his strategy that he used to become fluent in japanese in about 18 months (note: that’s insanely fast). I think i can summarize his method very quickly like this: 1) saturate yourself [...]
holy fucking shit, slugs are hungry little bastards. As a first-time gardener I’m sorta amazed, but i guess everyone else out there already knows this. As of this writing, all of my pumpkin plants and cucumber plants are dead, and my zucchini plants are the only ones left. The zucchinis were the [...]
As i mentioned previously, radio canada has some really excellent mandarin content. The link i gave before was to a flash player version, which has several different shows listed in it. But for those of you who (justifiably) are annoyed at flash, there’s also a podcast xml file for one of the [...]
I’ve been hunting around for sites with lots of chinese material to listen to, and i think radio canada has the best stuff so far. BBC world service had some stuff, but you need realplayer to listen and it’s broken in firefox3 beta on windows (which i have to use at work), plus all [...]
Today i finally had a day off from work, after 6 days straight of 12-hour days, but i’m off until sunday night so i have plenty of time to get some garden work done. I had a whole bunch of seedlings that i got as gifts, so i had to plant those [...]
Just in case you’ve never heard about all the shady things that the political police do, check out this article about the FBI using paid informants to infiltrate vegan potlucks. Yes, that’s right, if you don’t want to eat animals, then the government basically views you as a terrorist. Relatedly, there’s also [...]