Gōngbǎojīdīng (宫保鸡丁)- the dish that anyone who’s ever lived in China knows (and probably loves)! Known as “Kung Pao Chicken” in the west, this spicy Sichuan dish is a favorite among ex-pats, although I never really figured out why. While it is tasty, I sometimes wonder if its popularity is due partly to the facts [...]
If New York City is the city that never sleeps, Norway may just be the country that never sleeps.
When my sister Katie first moved to Alaska, I wondered how she could survive in a place where it stays dark for an entire day. And when we started talking to people about Norway they wondered the same [...]
When we were living in China, a lot of people used to wonder about computer keyboards. Knowing that Chinese is a language with tens of thousands of characters, they asked how on earth people could type, since obviously no one could use a keyboard with ten thousand keys. In the case of both Chinese and [...]
This morning Lucas showed me this clip, which was featured on Wired. Apparently, the new record for beating the original Mario Brothers is five minutes! It’s pretty impressive! If nothing else, it’s amazing to watch someone beat the whole game without a single mushroom.
Access the video at SpeedDemosArchive.com
If you watch carefully, I think it might be [...]
And speaking of babies…
Otters are cute. Baby otters are even cuter!
Congratulations to Jilu and Ashwin on their new baby boy!
Baby!
born April 21
c/o Jilu George & Ashwin Jacob
I was organizing some files today, and I found a small collection of amusing things that I saved from China and never got around to posting.
For example, this was a page of China Daily that made me laugh when I first saw it. This is a good example of why newspaper layout people are very [...]
We had a fantastic time in Italy! We spent a few days in Florence, took a day trip to Pisa and Siena, spent Easter in Rome, and then had one day in Milan. In the 10 days we were there, I think we saw most of Florence, Rome, Pisa, and Siena, and we only missed [...]