Delicious Dumplings: Courtesy of 8th Floor Sogo
We love these vegetable dumplings: leaks with rice noodles. Oh, boy!
Are gold & silver overpriced/underpriced/fair value now?
Today there was speculation on CNBC about the commodities bubble being over. It’s true that Gold prices have gone down dramatically in the past few weeks, even after gold sales in Asia remain strong. But what about Silver? The price of silver has dropped from $35 to approximately $24 now, so it might seem a…
Completely Pizza Dot Com
If you’ve ever loved pizza, and more so if you love cooking, then this site is for you! I love the photography very much, and wonder if I’ll ever be able to make coffee look as good as those pizzas!
Which body cream is better?
An acquaintance of mine wrote: I absolutely love Lush’s Dream Cream body lotion. This cream smells absolutely heavenly and makes your skin feel incredibly soft and silky. It smells like a mixture of Rose and Lavender. I also love that it uses oat milk which is known to make your skin feel as soft as…
it’s a mess, it’s a mess
Spent most of today and yesterday copying hundreds of thousands of electronic files from one pc to another. And even using fast copy utilities across a LAN, it is still frustratingly slow. One thing I would love to see is a kind of document management software that can compress, transfer and decompress large batches of…
Totally funny: Lady Pasta Video
Our students seem to love this video…
Needing Cloud Storage… but which service?
I really would like to have some cloud storage, but the ideal seems to be a cross between Google’s generous space allowance, and Dropbox’s storage/pricing. I love the Dropbox system of autosyncing data on different PCs, but I can’t figure out for the life of me how 100GB of space is going to be enough….
Traditional Taiwanese Home Cooked Meal
Traditional Taiwanese Home Cooked Meal, originally uploaded by obblogatory. Last Sunday’s Dinner: Look at how green the food is! Taiwanese love to eat different leafy greens, some of which seem to have no English names!
American kitsch vs. Asian kitsch
The choices of Asian themeparks seem to be growing annually now. There are two Disneylands (one in HongKong, one in Japan), plus a Universal Studios that opened in Singapore. But more are planned: Shanghai is building a Disney ThemePark, and I’m sure more are planned. But for those who couldn’t bear to take any Disney…