Here’s another way to screw with people:
Step 1. Launch a new Word document
Step 2. Type up commonly misspelled words
Step 3. Right click on each word and select “Add to Dictionary”
Step 4. Leave no evidence behind
February 2011
27 posts
“The easiest way to learn a language is to fall in love.”
—Fashion of the Mind
I just realized humans have dual-core processors: the left and right hemispheres.
Intelligence inside.
Well folks, I made it through Valentine’s Day and fifteen days of Chinese New Year alone once again. Big deal, but three years in a row is a bit much.
The chocolates and the fireworks are mocking me.
I did a Google search on “Fashion of the mind” and out of 322,000,000 results I’m seventh!
The nice thing about sitting at a sushi bar alone is that you can fully concentrate on the delicate culinary skills that shape your meal. I also thought to myself whether the suction cups ever cause the octopus legs to stick to the sneeze guard glass.
I was one of the few remaining customers as the restaurant neared closing time, so the chef wasn’t too busy and we stuck up a conversion.
Cool guy he is. Early 40s with young children. Born in Osaka. Used to be a ski instructor in Whistler but then decided slicing raw fish in the evenings was a better career path. Always nodding his head away after receiving compliments. Likes to give away a fancy piece of sushi if you chat with him politely.
People are genuinely interesting, I just have to do it one-on-one. I’ll get his name next Friday.
I am on a Facebook hiatus.
Finally, I can get done some of the things I’ve been meaning to do like reading What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell, reviewing integrated water resources management, studying my Chinese workbook, watch TED talks, and just not give a rat’s behind on stuff that doesn’t concern me!
I am finally reunited with a bicycle! I paid $50 for a sturdy Shimano orangey-red mountain bike off some guy moving to Kentucky soon. The brakes were shit so I took it to a bike shop and they fixed everything for FREE! Now I can pedal to my heart’s content and explore Vancouver.
Biking around Richmond is nothing short of suicidal though. The city was all farmland about 15 years ago but now it’s all wealthy Asian super-suburbia with 12-lane intersections and mega-malls every two blocks apart. The bike lanes here aren’t bad at all, but frankly, nobody uses them.
At any rate, I feel liberated. Ride bikes people.
