I was just reading this Wikipedia page about the book The Nine Nations of North America. It describes the different regions and one of them is called Ecotopia: Ecotopia — the Pacific Northwest coast west of the Cascade Range and the Coast Mountains, as well as several Alaskan Pacific Coast Ranges, stretching from Alaska down…

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Shigeki-niisan [brother Shigeki] was staring at the sky. Whether he was thinking about his flights or just staring at the sky I didn’t know. If he took things slowly; if he just took his time I thought that someday his wounds would heal. The airplane factory my father had been working at had officially closed…

PDF documents are so common that its actually difficult to imagine any student or professional today not using them extensively. PDF documents fill a special and important niche in the electronic data revolution. To a very large extent they have (thankfully) replaced bulky (and often ridiculously expensive) textbooks. Now you can have a library of…

I just heard the news about the earthquake which struck in Tainan. I feel a special affinity for Taiwan, which is very closely connected with Silicon Valley. Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines – and Hong Kong also – all have a special affinity with California and its people and I think we should stick…

Change the name. I don’t know if this is something that has been seriously taken into consideration, whether there have been high-level meetings about this, strategic planning and projections. But, the name has to be changed. It has to be something that is more business-like. Something that is non-agitating. Like the word blue. Or the…

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So it started some weeks ago. After getting the new (used) car, was driving around and wanting to listen to something. Since my other stereo which has a USB connection is not in it, radio was the only choice. Scanning the spectrum I came across a channel playing Chinese music. It is a genre of…