Archive for January 2007

31 Jan 2007 1255H

“Great fortune and New Year’s isn’t even here yet”

It’s been reported on Simon Li’s morning show on Toronto AM770, 軟硬今朝, and on his blog, that Canada Post has made some sort of printing error on their Chinese New Year stamps, with one word being truncated from the stamp sheet at the end of each line. There’s been a bit of a run on [...]

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30 Jan 2007 1740H

Windy City finally rolls out the Smart Car

. . . at the jaw-dropping price of 27 large.
Say WHAT?
You heard me. $27,000 picks you up the fourtwo coupe. $30,000 picks you up the convertible.
Check the press release. It’s not DaimlerChrysler, but an independent dealership, which explains the high cost. Saw my first Smart in Toronto, liked it, coveted it. I think it’s a [...]

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29 Jan 2007 2324H

Staying away from faat choi (髮菜)

Heard on Cantonese radio today. . . Faat choi (髮菜, which literally means hair vegetable) also known as black moss, is a kind of fungi-like, giant bacteria served in a Cantonese new year’s stew with ho see — dried oysters — along with other veggies. I think it tastes awful, it’s a terrible dish, but [...]

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29 Jan 2007 1724H

Impressions of the Mazda3

Took a quick, impulsive trip to SF this weekend using frequent flyer miles just to recharge. I was originally intending to rent an Infiniti G35 (it was pretty rainy and slick, so I said no) or a Toyota RAV4, which I’m now considering, but I wound up getting a hot red Mazda 3 from the [...]

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21 Jan 2007 2149H

Listening weirdness among iTunes, Quicktime, and VLC on OS X

It’s weird but I think that music sounds better (alright, technically, the dynamic range sounds better) on Quicktime and VLC than it does in iTunes. I know it’s bizarre, frankly, but give it a shot. For any track in iTunes, hit Command-R to reveal the track in its folder and then Ctrl-click the icon to [...]

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18 Jan 2007 0657H

Consumer Reports Car Blog on Changfeng

A Chinese car company debuted at the Detroit Auto Show last week. While the cars were alright, they bore sexy, easy to remember names like the Liebao CS7, Liebao Feiteng CFA6400, and the Black Giant CFA2030. Their marketing copy was just as agile:
“In addition to the outward appearance of conquering the innermost being of the [...]

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17 Jan 2007 0709H

The way I’ll vote

Sure, I’ll throw down for Obama right now. He’s good for Illinois and the nation and it’s time our state sent another President to the White House. I think he’ll unite the nation in a time of great division, as the last President we sent from Illinois did, and I think that he will be [...]

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10 Jan 2007 2207H

My take on the Macworld Keynote

Well, by now everyone’s seen, read, or heard about about the two hours of Macworld’s annual Steve Jobs show coverage yesterday, which featured two major products, the expected Apple TV and the iPhone. These yearly events have almost become, for me, the computing world’s equivalent of a Terence Koh gallery show, replete with the artist’s [...]

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09 Jan 2007 0957H

The Macworld Keynote, convergence, irrelevance of BluRay and HD-DVD

And I’m expecting to hear something biggish. Apple’s been quiet for too long. As we blogged about back in September, I think today is the day that we hear something about convergence around Steve’s fantasy digital hub, which my friend Juhn always jokes about. (Bill Gates has been fantasizing about the digital home for decades, [...]

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09 Jan 2007 0859H

Obiit: Scooby Doo character designer, inventor of ramen

Iwao Takamoto’s dead. He’s the character designer who brought you such classics as Scooby Doo; he touched all the greats, the Flintstones, the Jetsons, worked for the Nine Old Men at Disney after camp. Like so many other Japanese Americans, due to wartime hysteria and anti-Asian racism, he was interned at Manzanar, where he was [...]

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