Talking with my Brazilian roommates and get some knowledge about Brazil and South America
First all, he is Brazilian. But he doesn’t play soccer/football. He said even girls in Brazil plays soccer better than him. That is for sure. I’ve watched Brazilian girls play soccer on the beach. They are really good.
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Archive for November, 2006
Talking with my Brazilian roommate and get some knowledge about Brazil and South America
Posted in Culture, Random Thoughts on November 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Story of Man
Posted in Culture on November 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a blog from my brother. It is a true Chinese story. I translated it into English. I am not sure what kind of hardship Americans need to go through to be successful. As I read stories of Dell or other successors, I feel that their Chinese counterparts have to go through a lot [...]
Naked ass with tattoo on the subway
Posted in Culture, fun on November 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A guy wore pants painted with naked ass with tattoo (Kiss the Queen) on the subway this evening. Two ladies took a picture together with the naked ass.Sorry I didn’t get a picture for you guys. Now I feel I need to get a camera.
Web2.0 as an expansion of open source?
Posted in Random Thoughts on November 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Web2.0 as an expansion of open source (content open source)?
Can I look at web2.0 as an expansion of open source? It is like expanding open source model to other people and other parts of life. Open source is for programmers interested in something to generate code online. Web2.0 is for people interested in a [...]
Programming an enterprise project is like running a company
Posted in Programming on November 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I have a metaphor for enterprise project. I feel programming enterprise project is like running a company that provide a kind of service. Session beans are like workers in a company. Entity beans are like files or objects that workers need to work on. Requests coming from customers need to be mapped to the [...]
More on Milton Friedman: about free market and freedom
Posted in Liberal Arts on November 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Milton Friedman was a freedom fighter in the sense that he argued that an entrepreneur’s social responsibility is to achieve maximum profit. I’ve been a wholehearted believer in that and also the tradition of Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nation, I think, is a great design for people to [...]
Only losers complain about too many choices
Posted in Cross Culture Communication, Grassroots, general on November 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If you are strong, you always welcome more choices.
Many people complain about the choices provided by new tech, such as wasting time checking emails every day. I don’t give it a damn. I came from the third world. When I saw kids kneeing before me begging money in train stations of China, I wish they [...]
Change to Internet style of writing
Posted in About this site on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I realize that my past posts are too long to read. Even I don’t have the habit to read long articles online myself. Well, actually I read long ones online, but only after I have read short ones and get to know the author is really good and what subjects s/he writes on.
So I need [...]
The Inconvenient Death of Brad Will
Posted in Culture, Liberal Arts on November 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Read this article from Viliage Voice: The Inconvenient Death of Brad Will
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0646,ferguson,75024,2.html
It is sad that such a person made such a sacrifice.
From this article, “He was schooled in the Earth First philosophy of putting your life on the line. Part of the training is that these 400-year-old trees are harder to replace than a [...]
The school system
Posted in Elearning, What is Learning, unschooling on November 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The school system
The school system is a very delicately designed system. There are many forces behind its coming into being. Some are conscious efforts, some are not. Some are good intentions. Some are really not. A lot are due to historical limitations.
In the early America, there is no formal schooling. Americans visited [...]
Big shock: Milton Friedman is gone
Posted in unschooling on November 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Sigh, Milton Friedman is gone. What a loss!!! If he just stick around for a few more years, he might really see the change happening in education, for which he has been arguing for decades that free market based education will really release the potential of people and promote prosperity of society. See my posts [...]
How to understand China’s economy
Posted in Random Thoughts on November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
to be continued
China’s road to modernization (1)
Posted in Culture on November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A big puzzle of Chinese is why China has gone through such a long time of feudal system? If capitalism is inevitable, why it took China so long?
A lot of things in this world will have to be understood from cultural point of view. Capitalism is not just simply an economic form. It [...]
On America’s response to 911
Posted in Culture, Liberal Arts on November 6, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Below was posted somewhere else. Now repost it here.
Some tendencies with which Americans look at the terrorism trouble me very much. Although poverty might be an important factor that people fall under manipulative minds, American government’s meddling in the world certainly adds fuel to it. Talking about the third world’s poverty, does the western world [...]
On American foreign policy
Posted in Culture, Liberal Arts on November 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Below is something I posted on some other site. Here repost it here.
Well, here is a story you might want to know. It might provide you some more facts to look at when thinking about the issue of terrorism. The story is about America’s meddling in Taiwan’s democratic process. I had always been very unsatisfied [...]
On illegal immigrants
Posted in Essay, Liberal Arts on November 6, 2006 | 1 Comment »
On illegal immigrants
I didn’t get to follow in great details of the current debate on illegal immigrants. Here are just some of my thoughts on it. Or maybe “my doubts” is a better world.
Generally, I think this is another stupid response America had after 911. The failure of this government is their failure to [...]
Google doc doesn’t know the word “Google”
Posted in Random Thoughts on November 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It looks that Google hasn’t totally integrated writely yet. I remember seeing somewhere else that writely still shows up.
