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In Fire in the Belly (http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Belly-Being-Sam-Keen/dp/0553351370) the last of Gene’s standard texts, Sam Keen talks quite a bit about having a “men’s club” who can just talk about things. Beyonce (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVTyLqkez6A) talks about the same thing in a derogatory way as guys protecting each other. I don’t know, I’d say,…

Had the most curious day yesterday. Talked about one person who is making millions, does nothing and is still the victim. Whereas another person doesn’t make anything, but feels guilty for not contributing. In this age of Ponzi schemes, CEOs making $100M and CEOs making one penny, values really begin…

A good buddy of mine had a long chat with me. He was talking about loves found and lost. How something can seem so real and then just vanish. It is amazing how people can project things onto others. Or vice versa, then the whole thing comes apart for now…

Cold in Seattle. The sunrise was so stunningly beautiful, I almost passed out. Clear and crisp. Mt. Rainier was just shrouded. The one time I didn’t have my iPhone or Canon to take a picture. Beauty comes in the most unexpect places and times. Like when trying to fix frozen…

Oh no, flat in one of an SUVs tires means that all four have to be replaced because it is four wheel drive. What a rip off! So what to get. Well, it is snowing in Seattle if you can believe it and ski season is coming, so here are…

Well, I’ve had hidden shares forever for personal photos, but so many people have asked about pictures, I thought that I would post them for all to see, so the link above to Art will get you to public photos. That is no personal information, but beautiful. They are sorted…

I’ve used nciku.com, xuezhongwen.net and lots of plugins but non have been exactly right. Calvin told me about “Wordchamp”:http://wordchamp.com. This is an IE toolbar that when you highlight a chinese character shows both the pinyin and the english translations. I love it! You can select groups of things.

There are lots that cost money, but mydigitllife.com pointed me to Vixy.net which is a free Flash FLV converter that converts things into to MPEG4. There is also a desktop version now.

OK have some new clues to my dad’s home. First some old pictures when he last visited. Am doing forensic analysis. I feel like a CSI. Zooming in the picture shows a cross street 自忠路 between 67 and 77. Now looking at the picture, the number in the house is…