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pretzellogic
Posted on: Fun at the Beach
June 14, 2010 at 1:37 AMNotwithstanding good dialogue that includes "sunscreen", "jet-ski", "speedboat" and "tan", it's interesting to note that I haven't seen a lot of Chinese interested in these things. Might be the beaches i've gone to.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
June 13, 2010 at 10:01 AMcpod can go ahead and delete a couple of duplicate responses here. I didn't realize the comment was updating because I didn't get the usual dialog box saying the comment has been made when I pushed the "add comment" button.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
June 13, 2010 at 8:48 AMdefinitely useful link here.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
June 13, 2010 at 8:48 AMdefinitely useful link here.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
June 13, 2010 at 8:48 AMdefinitely useful link here.
Posted on: Buying a Custom-Built Computer
June 13, 2010 at 8:48 AMdefinitely useful link here.
Posted on: 未来世界大战
June 13, 2010 at 8:48 AMwhoa, this had some good geography content, as well as technical. The only thing this lesson needed was content around "the satellite is repositioning itself, we'll have recalculate the new orbit". Not sure what to do to make this lesson accessible to mere lower level subscribers like me.
Posted on: My computer froze!
June 13, 2010 at 8:43 AMone handy dandy link: Thanks a1pi2
Posted on: World Cup Football
June 12, 2010 at 4:49 AMOne thing about watching soccer in China is that they seem to get into it. Not as much as watching Univision in the US, but it seems more so than in the US. I'm not enough of a soccer fan to comment on Brazil's style. Just win, baby!
Last tournament in 2006, the US didn't make it out of the group stage. I think the US goes opposite of expectations,
So xiaophil, who are you rooting for!!??
Posted on: A Tour of Xi'an
June 14, 2010 at 1:51 AMI was thinking somewhat the same thing at the time I saw that farmer signing autographs; that he effectively won a lottery and was now in a position to rest off his good fortune. But having seen the farm life in Wisconsin and Illinois with major league combines and tractors doing the plowing and reaping, and comparing that to the rural Chinese farming life where if you're poor, you farm by hand, I don't begrudge the farmer his good fortune. That scholar who gets to sit in a comfortable chair and deal with tenure and university politics still has a better deal than the average farmer. Or I should say that he at least is doing less physically demanding work for more money than the farmer.