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“That’s bad Karma, Dude”
I started wondering exactly what karma means, and where the word comes from. In Chinese, karma is two characters (因果) which literally translate as “cause and effect”. The original word Karma comes from Sanskrit and it means “act, action, performance.” In Sanskrit (your) karma is what causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., [...]
Summertime Pasta Recipes
The summer in Taiwan is really, really hot and humid. When it’s so hot outside, it’s hard to eat heavy foods. Since Nono and I love to eat pasta we started searching for a few summertime pasta recipes we could make. We found a few recipes that use lemon juice as a base and started [...]
Big Fish, Small Taiwan
Last night was our weekly Wednesday Night Bowling. While we were there we ran into one of the local moviestars from Taiwan (馬念先). He had just done a main role in the 2nd most successful movie in Taiwan history, Cape No. 7 (Here is the movie trailer with english subtitles). We did bother him and [...]
My Chinese Name
A Real “Easy” Button – Photo Editing
I recently downloaded Picasa 3 after reading this article, and as someone who already loves Picasa, this new version is great. You can also download the new Picasa here (it’s free).
My friend Toto Vo is visiting me in Taiwan right now. Toto is a semi-professional photographer and has 2 nice cameras at his disposal. We [...]
Who am I talking to?
So, I’ve got this blog and I keep writing things on it. What’s the deal? I have been asking myself that question more often lately, because it’s been harder and harder for me to write articles for some reason. While looking for inspiration I found some articles I thought I’d share.
I heard about Chris Brogan [...]
5 Things I love about Taiwan – Say Cheese!
I will be sharing a few of the great surprises that I’ve discovered on this island, and wanted to share them with you. They aren’t in any particular order, mostly in order of what I could get good pictures of first.
Having been in Taipei, Taiwan less than three months, I can’t say that it’s easy [...]
Blows the doors off the concept “Renewable Energy”
Transitioning to Taiwan
Hey all, got some great news to share. Starting in May, I’ll be moving to Taiwan. I’ll be moving to Taichung (the 3rd largest city in Taiwan) and be going to school, studying mandarin, while continuing to work with MEC and Screaming Circuits.
“Jered Stoehr will be taking a Leave of Absence from his position as [...]
Intelligence?
Found an interesting article today from the Scientific American that talked about people’s internal views on intelligence.
“…the
two general classes of learners—helpless versus mastery-oriented. I
realized that these different types of students not only explain their
failures differently, but they also hold different “theories” of
intelligence. The helpless ones believe that intelligence is a fixed
trait: you have only a [...]
