Articles tagged with: job
What’s the deal with Facebook’s Timeline?
Before yesterday, I was barely even aware of Facebook Timeline. All I knew was that a couple of my Facebook friends suddenly had strikingly different Profile pages, and, at first glance, I hated them. I found their Profile pages confusing and cluttered and not very intuitive. I didn’t really know what I was looking at. The double column in the middle with staggered content particularly …
Judging an English Drama Contest
Probably the biggest adventure of this past week was visiting a school here in Taipei. My company sent me there to be a guest judge for an English drama contest. This is a big deal in Taiwan, and I believe it happens at most schools across the island. The English classes will hold singing contests, drama contests, and speech contests. Teachers from the schools themselves …
End of the World and the Silk Road
Sunday December 4, 2011
(see all photos at bottom of the post)
Haircut Adventures
I did some of the things I planned yesterday and added a couple more. First thing, I stopped by the Spot Taipei Film House to buy tickets for the 2011 Young Stars – New Vision dance performance. Unfortunately, the show was sold out. I could buy tickets at the Spot because the ticket counter …
NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
Each week, I listen to a couple of dozen podcasts. My favorite by a good margin is NPR’s Planet Money. It’s about economics, but this is economics as you’ve never heard it before. This is not the economics of complex numbers, difficult equations, statistics, and ten economists in a room all saying different things till you don’t know what to believe. This is economics of …
002 – Camiguin and Jasmin by the Sea
Friday April 1, 2011 10:30 a.m.
Jasmin by the Sea
Camiguin, Philippines
It is the next morning now. Technically it is my second morning in the Philippines, but it is the first morning that I’ve woken up here. It is raining fairly hard and, in fact, has been raining all night. It started shortly after I went to bed and then never stopped. I guess the weather forecasts …
Palawan Motorbike Trip 001
Thursday February 11 5:00 a.m.
Domestic Terminal – Manila Airport
I am sitting inside a coffee shop in the airport waiting for my cappuccino. There is a menu right at the front that lists all the different coffees that they serve. However, there are no prices there. I looked around to find the prices, and I found them on the menu above the counter. I saw there …