User Comments - pretzellogic
pretzellogic
Posted on: The New Site and the Guided Plan
June 3, 2008 at 11:47 AMI agree with dongni. I downloaded the elementary lessons from 2006/2007, and have been listening to them on a CD in my car during the commute to work(my crappy iPod shuffle broke again, but that's a gripe against Apple). I would like to do the really great exercises CPod has on the site, but I can't readily get to them now. Giving us the ability to sort lessons by descending or ascending date would really provide us the flexibility we need to pick lessons we need to know now, versus later. Thanks.
Posted on: Taipei
May 22, 2008 at 1:18 PMhi cpod: just a suggestion. you guys should add a another way to mark the lessons called "studied well", for those of us that get to lessons, but only have time to review maybe the fix and the dialogue, but not the complete lesson
Posted on: Discussing Loan Repayment
May 19, 2008 at 10:21 PMI think the dialogue and the expansion files aren't working. Or is that just my computer and internet connection?
Posted on: Chinese Universities
May 16, 2008 at 12:58 PMcpod or anyone, i'm just curious as to how well known other American universities are in China. If I mentioned MIT, or the University of Southern California, or the University of Illinois, would a Chinese person know those schools, or should we just say that we went to an American university and leave it at that?
Posted on: Chicago
May 8, 2008 at 9:12 PMoakleysteve, Initially, I liked both the White Sox and the Cubs also. But in my part of suburban Chicago (Zion and Waukegan), everyone ended up taking sides after a few years of pounding (those of us that cared about sports anyway). I suppose we all thought it was easy to be Blackhawk and Bulls fans (during the Artis Gilmore days, when Michael Jordan was 10 or something)
Posted on: Chicago
May 7, 2008 at 12:22 PMOk, i'm at least happy that the lesson itself doesn't contain references to the cubs, but if Chinese Pod doesn't want to start interjecting itself into the politics of the local sports teams, you might want to start referring to all the local sports teams, like the White Sox, as well as the Bears and the Blackhawks. Yes, i know China has a big basketball jones, and Michael Jordan is very popular, but please give us White Sox fans a respite from incessant chatter about the cubs! Thanks.
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: The Final Episode
April 11, 2008 at 6:57 PMrjberki, thanks for the link. That was really helpful. I was also searching for airport check in information but couldn't find it. the conversations at the check in counter, where you need your ticket, passport, and luggage and destination. plus dealing with checking in your 2 toddlers and then being directed to the right gate. Heaven forbid having to have them tell you the flight's been cancelled, but that would be good to know also. I suspect i have to piece that together through other lessons.
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: The Final Episode
April 10, 2008 at 8:58 PMok, after a quick search of the site, I didn't see any lessons at all for the poor soul going to the airport, domestic or international travel, checking in at the counter, pulling out your boarding pass, window seat or aisle, luggage, gate, departure time.... I might have to go to Hong Kong in another month, and it would be really handy to have a scenario planned out to make this trip, instead of the awkward fiascos that my last Chinese trips to and from Beijing shou du guo ji ji chang were, or Lanzhou zhongchuan ji chang
Posted on: Yang Jie's Diary: The Final Episode
April 10, 2008 at 8:48 PMOk, how do you say, "dude, she's not that into you" in mandarin?
Posted on: Airplane Arrival
June 8, 2008 at 2:26 PMI love flying, and I loved the Chicago or San Francisco to Beijing or Shanghai or Hong Kong flights. I'm noticing that whenever I look for lessons that are aviation related (like this one), the cpod "related lessons" box, and "related conversations" box say "no related lessons", yet plenty of people (like henning above) point out links to aviation related lessons. Searches are also inconsistent for this.
And I agree wholeheartedly with derek about an IT related lesson. I'm thinking more of configuration and change management related to the desktop, but it would be ok to focus on the web server, application server in a datacenter. Not sure how deep CPod goes into specific industry terms-of-art, but it would be a good way to go beyond texting, emailing, web browsing and general internet interest. Thanks.