I’ve upgraded Avaktavyam to Wordpress 2.7 but I have not yet upgraded the theme. So things may be readable but somewhat flaky for a bit. One thing which I know does not yet work is comment paging.
This week, Weijen left Taiwan for mainland China. He and I were roommates at Dharma Drum for about 3 months and a half. We got along very well. He was intellectually stimulating. He helped me tremendously with my Mandarin and with getting used to life in Taiwan. I couldn’t have [...]
President Obama should be impeached for coming up with the following statement:
We’ve got a unique opportunity to reboot America’s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular. So we need to take advantage of that.
Reboot? Really? Coooome oooon! How can the “US image among Muslims” be “rebooted”? [...]
Salshdot is reporting on an article in Scientific American about how people grieving the death of loved ones tend to hallucinate.
When I first saw the post on Slashdot, it reminded me of when Ice, our cat, passed away nearly three years ago. For several days after his passing, I hallucinated his presence. I [...]
Charlie, my wife’s stepfather, passed away last Friday, US time, Saturday morning, Taiwan time. Unfortunately, it is hard to say much about him in this post. He was not interested in my world and I was not interested in his. I saw him only a few times and during those episodes our [...]
