I love reading about people who speak many languages. I’m quite impatient to get to that point myself, but until now i’ve resisted the urge to try to learn more than one language at once. My main problem is that i tend to jump around from new thing to new thing all the [...]
Lately i’ve decided that i need to change my lifestyle a bit to be more fit. I stopped cycling so much a few years ago when i had an ankle injury, and then i went off to china and didn’t cycle too much there either. Once i started gaining a bit of a [...]
I thought it’d be helpful for some people if i wrote out more details of my methods, so here we go. Firstly, there are many different ways to learn 汉å—, and there isn’t just 1 single way to do it. I actually like to use a combination of methods, and i hop between [...]
While the news here seems to be about russia invading, there seems to be less attention on the US training and military partnership with the free-market-loving georgian government. Their military expenditures have increased drastically lately, and the region is of strategic importance for oil pipelines. Here are two articles that i read today, [...]
Apparently San Francisco city hall just set up a 10000 sq-ft Victory Garden. When will Vancouver city hall do the same? In 2006 i lived really close to New Westminster city hall, about 15km southeast of vancouver, and every time i walked past their huuuuuge expanse of front lawn, all i could think [...]
Someone just sent me a link to a really interesting analysis of the politics of the latest batman movie. I thought it was quite insightful. The author writes about the joker as commentary on terrorists, supposedly just insane with no plan, hating our freedoms. Batman is shown to be a white male [...]
I’ve been having great success with Anki lately. I was off on vacation with my parents this past week, and i kept a regular schedule with my flashcards. We had some cloudy and rainy weather, so i ended up staying indoors more than i would have liked, but the unexpected benefit was that [...]