Archive for September, 2008

amusing chinese phrase of the day

Monday, September 29th, 2008

I was having dinner with some friends of mine the other day, and they’re all chinese exchange students. We were talking about sushi in Vancouver, since the sushi is quite good here (supposedly some of the best, outside japan). My friends asked me what the “green stuff” was called, but when i said [...]

some financial market commentary

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

First, because i think the market is such a joke, i thought i’d post this: John Bird and John Fortune doing a comedy skit about markets. But on the serious side, here’s an article about “Counterparty risk”, which seems to be the reason that the US government is so willing to bail out [...]

discovering food in my neighbourhood

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Lately I’ve been making more of an effort to learn about the area of town that i’m in. Since i moved here i knew that there were lots of gardens in the backyards near me, but i hadn’t previously made an effort to walk more than a few minutes away. Today some new [...]