Proverbs Commonly Attributed to Chinese
Chinese Proverbs
This train of clicking around and browsing started when I told someone “long time no see,” which a teacher had told me is good Chinese grammar. I think it’s a literal translation of the Chinese characters, but a bad translation into English. In English, I would say, “It’s been a [...]
New Year’s Wind-Up
To treat it as amateur night, or to frolick with the bridge and tunnelers, this is the question. I have never really participated in the much vaulted large black and white party. The most I’ve ever really made a big deal about new year’s was going to a famous guy’s house in [...]
My nephew got a cool Weather Station from my parents this Xmas. We set it up on the back porch down in Monterey and watched it as a storm front made its preparations. The station has a little four armed wind thing that spins around. It was intermittent, which was kind of interesting for all [...]
My nephew got a cool Weather Station from my parents this Xmas. We set it up on the back porch down in Monterey and watched it as a storm front made its preparations. The station has a little four armed wind thing that spins around. It was intermittent, which was kind of interesting for all [...]
I went out on errands yesterday and forgot to bring any form of head cover. It was middling to slightly drizzly so I just had permanently wet hair the entire time. There are a lot of covered walkways in San Francisco, especially on my walk, down Columbus to the Embarcadero centers, which are all covered. [...]
Overheard at the post office:
(woman on cell phone)
[loud buzzer goes off as she enters post office]
“Yeah, so it was really nice, because we weren’t hanging out with Patrick, which is what we usually do, it was just he and I, and we talked and got to know each other. I felt more mindful. And [...]
Unseasonable greetings
Gusty, drenching storm snarls traffic, knocks out power
So I’ve lived almost all my life in the San Francisco Bay Area. I spent 4 years in the rainiest seasons of Portland, Oregon, a town that is rainier than Seattle. My most unpleasant memory of Portland, besides opening my sweater drawer to mold, is sitting in [...]
I’ve done one re-cognizance visit, and I’ve done another with small family in tow. These are my recommendations:
- park in the neighborhood you want to end up in, for our situation that was fisherman’s wharf/north beach, then take the cable car.
- the cable car is super fun. The powell-hyde route is the funnest, as it [...]
Idea blatantly stolen from Kim, par for the course.
- the new bound version of Two Years Before The Mast by Richard Henry Dana. I have seen this advertisement a gazillion times! Stop already!
- anything with a cable car on it.
- the extended mix of Holiday Inn by Chiggy
- “country bear” motif bathroom set with toothbrush [...]
My Thoughts on the Old Neighborhood
I stood outside of a new store opening yesterda, Aldea (sp?) on 17th between Valencia and Mission, accompanying a security detail friend.
The neighborhood has not changed in the year I’ve been away! Still everyone looks the same in the artfully casual way of wanting to look different. There is [...]
Shared an image: Lunch in north beach
Wednesday at 16:33
someone added a few veritical blocks to Russian HIll, I swear
Wednesday at 16:33
Favorited Gillian Welch – Dear Someone
Wednesday at 16:33
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