Friday, December 12, 2008

It's good to be nice. What's nicer than [facilitating] a paycheck?

http://finance.qq.com/

Friday, November 14, 2008

It's not too much trouble to look around qq.com and sina.com.cn, and to find some of the new short movies that may presage a new era in Asian film. This Chinese movie is 39 minutes.

http://you.video.sina.com.cn/pg/topicdetail/topicPlay.php?tid=2197885&uid=1394783682#11291245

In the karaoke room 5 minutes in, he says:

"You're pretty good, how about we sing "That Evening" now?"
- That Evening? That Evening is quite a mushy song! You have a chief's personality and I don't have what it takes to sing it!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Blush Magazine

Classics

Sweet 'n' Sour

Here at 26 Letters and other Accountable Blog Communication Products, we strive for an overly genteel tone so we don't get sent to the penalty box by the ref. It gets to be sweet, it gets to be diabetic, when we find some quality vinegar to add to the mix, it goes right in.

This is from 爾雅, which is a very varied world, this part of it is like the David Spade comedy on tv a few years ago. Star Trek, sports documentaries, reggae videos, it's all there, if it's good today it was good 1000 years ago. Or whatever.

If one is curious about 爾雅, it can be researched on English-language Google just by putting 爾雅 into the search area.

This comes out looking a lot like the article titles on the cover of Blush Magazine, with quite a lot of transparency and distortion included.

1 打開字典 釋樂: 宮謂之重。商謂之敏。角謂之經。徵謂之迭。羽謂之柳。 College memories: Telling your current beau about the heavy connections between family women, stockbroker women, culture vulture entertainment industry women, right wing rules and regulations women, and all the other groovy chicks you know!

2 打開字典 釋樂: 大瑟謂之灑。 Wonder what heavy metal is good for? Find some brutal tracks that your boyfriend is uncomfortable with, play it for him all the time 'cos it's your favorite, and watch him turn into an antelope......

3 打開字典 釋樂: 大琴謂之離。 ..... and continue by emphasizing how awesome it would be to have a threesome incuding him and some powerful rock band guy! ....

4 打開字典 釋樂: 大鼓謂之鼖,小者謂之應。 ... and as far as heavy metal is concerned, if you get tired of it, it's easy to move the musical situation over to some heavenly African drumming or high-life, after you've got control of the mp3s!

5 打開字典 釋樂: 大磬謂之毊。 Whatever kind of promises or promissory-like statements he might make at any time during any kind of very passionate love-making, or whatever, you make the effort to take him up on it for real, all jokes to the side, 100%, at a later time!

6 打開字典 釋樂: 大笙謂之巢,小者謂之和。 The key to life, ladies, is a guy who eats fruit and gets baked; a guy who 'does it' for inner peace.

7 打開字典 釋樂: 大箎謂之沂。 Ultimatum time! Tell your boyfriend that if he wants the keys to your apartment or house, he better be ready to play 'nude ranch' at your 'dude ranch'!

8 打開字典 釋樂: 大塤謂之嘂。 If your guy or boyfriend isn't up on the latest tv shows and trendy slang, let him have it! You don't need to put up with a pail snail!

9 打開字典 釋樂: 大鐘謂之鏞,其中謂之剽,小者謂之棧。 Here's one: get your boyfriend a job watching a warehouse at night, and show up every night around 11 to 'do it' -- he may be so distracted and girl-happy about it that you could get the upper hand!

10 打開字典 釋樂: 大簫謂之言,小者謂之筊。 Is your guy not getting the job done? Do you need to test him? Tell him your desire to 'do it' at the mall, and to 'do it' at your school, and see what he does!

11 打開字典 釋樂: 大管謂之簥,其中謂之篞,小者謂之篎。 When you meet his female relatives of the same age, let them know you are down for the count!

12 打開字典 釋樂: 大籥謂之產,其中謂之仲,小者謂之箹。 Your boyfriend came out of his mom, she's not around, so you're the boss!

13 打開字典 釋樂: 徒鼓瑟謂之步。 Moment to moment find your peace, honor the spirit of high-life and tribal music by going native at the African boutique! Oh, it's a scene, man!

14 打開字典 釋樂: 徒吹謂之和。 Moment to moment, find your peace, don't be bashful about bodily functions, burping loudly at a fancy restaurant is classically hilarious! And embarrassing! Ha!

15 打開字典 釋樂: 徒歌謂之謠。 Follow the lyrics of popular songs to arrive at important life decisions, and to set the tone for important life events!

Source: 爾雅:釋樂 - Elegance in a Sqall : Book樂: How to be happy while living life more or less buried in food

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Elegance in a Squall: Bud Selig and the Philly Tampa Weather Breaks

Looking at [1], we see two somewhat related bodies of scholarly work.

爾雅 - Elegance in a squall.

小爾雅 - Mini Elegance in a squall.

Looking further we see that the "Elegance" sections are named "釋", makes me think of a person who has buried him or herself in the food of life. And the Mini Elegance sections are named "廣" or "broad, generalized", something like "horizon". The Wikiarticle [2] has a nice picture of a book:


In reading the title, one gets to thinking of how one might hear from one's parents or guardians about how wouldn't succeed in something difficult in life, in this case that of maybe working on a ship, when in fact working on a ship is just like living in a house with strict parents. It's metaphoric.

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So what's the difference between "Elegance in a Squall" and "Mini Elegance in a Squall"? One isn't sure, it's just not obvious from reading the material.

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The rain tends to fall on the ship and drain into the ocean. Discussion: What is the difference between the drainage system of a house; ie roof, gutters, sump, drying equipment; and that of a ship?

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King Tubby: Dubbing my Way



Limpopo River.

Discussion Question 2: Can a squall be elegant in and of itself?

1 Sure.
2 Maybe.
3 I don't think so.

Consider:

1
Cosmic dust can also be detected directly ('in-situ') using a variety of collection methods and from a variety of collection locations. At the Earth, generally, an average of 40 tons per day of extraterrestrial material falls to the Earth. [3]

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The fine particulate matter produced by car exhaust and other human sources of pollution form cloud condensation nuclei, leads to the production of clouds and increases the likelihood of rain. [4]


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The flag of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the center is clear blue like sky or water. With a star.

Have a good day.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Handsome logo

Let's set aside Game 6 for a minute. It's the Metropolitan Baseball Club of New York.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Is politics more important than sports? Maybe.

The original title of this blog seemed quite vituperative in a fake-feminist way, so I changed it so I wouldn't draw attention to myself. What was that title? Let's just say that Mr Accountable is a person who sees a great difference between being literate in Chinese, and being not literate in Chinese.

As for politics, Mr Accountable is a "Conservative for Obama" who believes that Barack Obama as president could be so very good for America. Please give it some thought, and I hope you vote for Obama.

And, finally, Mr Accountable believes that the liberal media, in their choleric enthusiasm, are capable of overdoing it, vis a vis the run-up to the November 4 election, and are perfectly capable of creating an antithetical, anti-common sense emotion among the people, among the erstwhile voters. Because the fact of the matter is that, President McCain would be a good president as well, and America has voted so close to 50-50 the last two times.

As per R.E.M., will we all see:

Followers of chaos out of control?

or

Green grow, the rushes grow.....

I hope it's the latter.

Peace be with you all. Have a safe autumn.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Love Stooge Rundown with Mo Zi

Morissey
Mo Curly and Larry
Mo' Money
Maureen McGovern
Moats as dream symbols
Moko Loko
Motrin
Mogadishu
Mo Tucker
Mona Lisa
The Alamo

Well. Mohism is a conceited driver of our culture, in case you haven't 'opened up your big x386 and Windows folders to delete stuff that doesn't make sense'. "Don't tamper with these files" and "Click to proceed". Mohism is a mystery to us like rock and roll was an American mystery before the occupation of Korea, Japan and Germany et cetera. Molosophy is easy to understand, it's always germane to family thinking; I don't leave home without it, why should you? In Jungian terms, I sure wouldn't want to stumble into the moat, or get any of that moat water on my clothes. Yuk.

墨家的基本思想主要有以下十点:

Mo Study has 10 tenets.

兼爱
完全的博爱(與儒家的親親相對反,將父慈、子孝、兄友、弟悌…等等的親人對待方式,擴展到其他陌生人身上。)
Morrissey has an easy way with this material. They kick you in the shower, they .... and devour, give up education as a bad mistake" and "A thwack on the head is what you get for asking; a thwack on the head is what you get for not asking". "Thwack love". The very essence of antitheticality, a philosophical method that has led us astray in the past, if you ask me.

非攻
反对侵略战争。(戰爭對於敗者的傷害及,傷人命、損其才,是沒有意義的破壞行動。而對於勝方而言,僅僅是獲得了數座城池與稅收,但總的來說傷害與損失也是巨大的,所以戰爭是沒有意義的行為。)
Rigidly infrastructured effort.

尚贤
不分贵贱唯才是举。
It is impossible to avoid getting

A Checked in a hockey game
B Tackled in a football game
C Tired at work
D Propositioned at a love-in

尚同
上下一心为人民服务,为社会兴利除弊。(有一說法為「上同」,認為天子是百官之首,而百姓聽令百官,與上而同,此乃「上同」之意。)
Chixdiggit. Cheese, glorious cheese.

天志
掌握自然规律。(有一說法為天子代天行政,並藉由上同的觀念推論出人民以天的意志而行事。)
Heavenly superscholar.... of love.
"I could never be an orgy guy" - Seinfeld

Study date? We could do the term paper together? My girlfriend knows how to fix a car? Do the books? Scholar? Scholar?


明鬼
尊重前人智慧和经验。(有一說法認為墨家說鬼所為並非迷信,而是希望以神鬼之說使人民警惕,不行邪惡。)
Bright Demon. This is supposed to be "bright and attractive as seen in an Old Navy ad, or in a rap video"; instead, the various functional and apparently artifactual limitations of the dictionary leave us only with "demon" as a translation of the word here. I suppose by the time one leaves the Bohemian life and starts a career, the various people one knows, like the characters on MTV reality shows, My Name Is Earl and on Adult Swim, become somewhat negatively empowered vis a vis one's paycheck.

If one reads deeper into the "demon radical", however, one finds lots of material to support different crucial qualities like "cuteness", "uncanniness" and "awesome attractiveness", I mean, just what does one think all that anime and Asian ad copy is consisted of? The answer of course, is Fake Machivellianism, which is a useful yet more obscure translation of this word.

非命
通过努力奋鬥掌握自己的命运。
An orderly fate. As in "I saw the tandem divers and the beach volleyball at the Olympics and I decided that's how I want to live". Or, African fate, as in "I decided that African Studies was the only way out of the problems of the post-MLK world that we (I) live in. The generalized look, "an orderly fate", certainly solves a lot of philosophical problems for very many people. The more specific use of the word, "African fate", has the possibility of leading one out of the cultural trailer park here in America, to work for a reasonable, enjoyable, paritous world. As Wild Cherry said, "Lay down the boogie and play that funky music til you die". Til I die? Til you die. Til I die?, I don't think so, I have to go shopping tomorrow. Or something. I don't know. This party sucks anyway.

Or one could click http://wikitravel.org/en/Lagos Wikitravel:Lagos.

非乐
摆脱划分等级的礼乐束缚,废除繁琐奢靡的编钟制造和演奏。(古代音樂費時耗事,花費甚大,於國家並無生產的行為,乃無用之事。)

Pop music. Remove, abrogate or do away with: complicated, fragmentary, trifling, wasted, numbing excess. I suppose this has more to do with mechanics and accountants moving towards the jukebox and the discotheque after work, than it does with being a pop musician.

- Peggy Sue got Married not Long Ago, Buddy Holly
- Footloose, movie
- Love to Love You, Donna Summer
- Rites of Spring, Stravinsky
- Flower Drum Song
- Raise the Roof, Public Enemy

节用
节约以扩大生产。反对奢侈享乐生活。
Nodular Usage, like Pat Sajak would be nowhere w/o Vanna White. Or, festival time might not resemble the time immediately before it and immediately after it. Or, a pre-ordained escape from boredom.

节葬
不把社会财富浪费在死人身上。(反對儒家的厚葬耗錢財,守喪則需三年,三年過後人虛弱需要人扶才能起行,影響國家生產力,乃浪費之事。)

Nodular Deathclasp, like the essential quality of Vanna White's degree of control over the stock of the company that produces the show. Sometimes art imitates life, like Hollywood imitates Divorce Court. James Joyce's Araby, about a poor teenager who wins a cash writing prize and spends it at a desolate, cold permanent urban fairground, is about having lived through this 10th tenet. And, be careful at the festival!


此外還有邏輯學等;墨子還是一個傑出的科學家,在力學、幾何學、代數學、光學等方面,都有重大貢獻,是當代諸子所望塵莫及。墨家在科学上的成就为众多学者所称赞,中華民國首任教育總長蔡元培认为:“先秦唯墨子頗治科學”。

墨家著作 Some famous Mohist people. Some of these names are from antiquity, some might be from the 1800s and 1900s. Mohism is of course very popular.

《汉书-艺文志》中记载在东汉时的墨家著作尚存有八十六篇: What does the name mean?

* 《墨子》 71 books written. Mo Zi. Inky is the name. Ship captain run aground, stockbroker make a bad investment, when love has come to town. These errors are occurring because the soul is becoming inky and powerful, due to love and affection. Inky power is good power, like reading and writing, it's easy to express oneself with ink. At least, that's one way of looking at it. (http://www.talking-heads.net/lyrics_77.html)

* 《胡非子》 3 books written. Butternut Squash is the boss; sometimes liberals get wrongly accused of espousing wild way-out lifestyles when they talk about "change"; this says that putting butternut squash on the table in place of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is the kind of change they're really talking about.

* 《随巢子》 6 books written. Don't worry, liberal thinking can't miss becoming popular because it is like a cold drink after a long day working on the sisal estate or rice field.

And how great is it to take tracks from cds and store them on one's computer? It's a good feeling, it's hard to imagine how this scholar of antiquity could have foreseen this, but a good name is a good name no matter what era one lives in.

* 《我子》 1 book written. I me my. Cf Joan Armatrading "Me Myself I". There exists a level of trust, of standards taken for granted, within the Mohist or Mohist-like communities, that people are actually working their ass off to get it right; hence, the capacity to both celebrate one's self while not being overly conceited about it. Or maybe it's something to do with 'do it yourself'. Or maybe something to do with 'I can't enjoy the food you're eating; I need to go get some food myself.'

Alternatively, sometimes during a procedure on the tv show ER, the doctors and nurses launch into a barrage of technical language that one might find oneself trying to follow. There are a lot of extreme cases in that ER emergency room, the viewer might not benefit from being able to follow the jargon and nomenclature very specifically, maybe not at 10 or 11 on a Thursday night. So be it, if I ran a network medical show I might try to actually explain a little medicine instead of coaching the actors to be very self-empowered about the difficult and sometimes uncomfortable medical dialogue material. The self-empowered self-nature is an important part of doctoring, the show so repeatedly presents this self-nature, and ER definitely falls into the Mohist category. But then again so do many Butthole Surfer songs: "I saw an x-ray of a girl, passing gas". Populist professionalist, professional populist, it's all very good.

* 《田俅子》 3 books written. Think globally, act locally. Or something to do with replacing magic practice with techonology practice.

* 《尹佚》 2 books written; also a famous government official. How and why do very liberal-seeming people sometimes peel off from very conservative-seeming families? Ie, Reagan, Cheney, Hearst.

墨家著作在六朝以後逐渐流失,现代所传的《墨子》只剩下五十三篇,这些篇幅是因为被道家著作《道藏》所收录,才得以留传下来。

Scratching the surface of Mohism produces some common-sense material; it is certain that in practice, Mohism is a serious and cogent way to proceed from pre-adolescence to young adulthood insofar as it prioritizes physical love and the human genius of procreation. But then again, this main drive of society's continuing the species has been severly abused in the past, hence the mildly oblique and disaffected nature of this blog entry.

Love Stooge Rundown with Mo Zi: The Books

1 [打開字典] 兼愛上: 聖人以治天下為事者也,Saintly people can stay inside on rainy days with their boring magazines and books, playing scrabble and monopoly and sudoku; 必知亂之所自起,句。but you need to go out and know the sleeping chaos in our mighty buildings, vast polluted areas and the daily march to work of the millions. 焉能治之,王引之云:Reading will get you started on this quest, as you wake up and travel to your workplace on the bus or the train. “言知亂之所自起,乃能治之也。”顧云:“三‘焉’字皆下屬。” Please take into consideration the obvious megafactors of your environment, the need of people to be supported economically(三), the need for people to be somewhat free of abuse in their lives(焉), the need for the media to continually bring the populace down the road of literacy(字皆下屬). 案:Case in point: 王、顧讀是也 The king, he obeys the law and talks sincerely and gregariously to others about it。焉訓乃,; those who obey the breast (Sex industry workers and casino folk?) 說詳《親士》篇。 certainly are authorities in the best standards and writings. 不知亂之所自起,Softies who know no chaos and have contacts in every department, they walk among us and are strong supporters of society (Michael Moore? Reeters?) 則不能治 Cleanly jerks and so-called right-aisle people are toeing the line just like anybody else. ( SportsCenter?) 譬之如醫之攻人之疾者然, Green geniuses and trance-pop artists get physically sick if their part of the world starts falling apart; (Eno?) 《小爾雅·廣詁》云:Talents maintaining connections for powerdeer lost in the clouds (No Wave? Top 40?) say that these are important: “攻, Panty raids 治也。 Dreary nonsense news story enthusiasm from morning coffee drinkers ”必知疾之所自起,句。 and hc momentary Oi/David Chapell fans for whom Fox News gives a quick, important lift to simply get them through the day. 焉能攻之As far as living in a mildly abusive society;不知疾之所自起,Don't try to know the real sickness at the core of one's temporary companion's life situation 則弗能攻 don't let one's Buddhistic happy nonchalant insecticidal abilities get the better of the ongoing situation。治亂者何獨不然,And, political gamblers who appear both in comedy settings and in quasi-serious news settings 必知亂之所自起,must perforce get the people to work in the morning no joke, they know it moment by moment句。焉能治之;These blah blah artists also know 不知亂之所自起,the softies sometimes have the most basic Rx on them, at all times, and 則弗能治。they also know that Buddha comes and goes and is always there, go figure. 聖人以治天下為事者也, Saintly people actually have quite an appetite for all that society eats, no matter what their problems, 不可不察亂之所自起,they just can't walk among the bustle and throng because they get physical symptomology from the experience; 當察亂何自起? and don't the political parties with their think tanks know this already? (Yes) 當,讀為嘗,Political partyheads and CNN highboys and highgirls 同聲假借字 come pouring over the culvert in the morning as they speak from the remaining All Star fragments of their very career-restrained and popular teen desire 。《荀子·君子》 The Mall is great, obverse chat room, one can hear the wisdom we know: "My husband is attracted to Betty Rubble" and "Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company" and "Beef stew is a powerful management tool, I can't get enough of it in this cold weather" and "Let's Trigonometry" 楊注云:Guys like the late Paul Tsongas, and ex-oficios of big campaigns “當,或為嘗。”《孟子·萬l章》 are so damn well studied, let's get them on the problems we face 篇“是時孔子當阨”,《說苑·至公》, or just watch the sportscasts and 篇引“當阨”作“嘗阨” avoid getting divorced; ,是其證。you can deal with it, can't you? 嘗,試也。下篇云“姑嘗本原若眾害之所自生”, your aunt has read this book, tell me what she thinks, 語意與此同。起不相愛。 And the world is based on love.


2 [打開字典] Even the picnic table has an IP address nowadays. 兼愛上:"Thwack Love the First" (please see Yosemite Sam anecdote below) 臣子之不孝君父,the princess or prince studies hard, and hopes you do too, 所謂亂也。 Do you have the guts to follow my obeisance? 子自愛不愛父,故虧父而自利; School is based on money and I'm quickly bored “故”, Quik, to the back row of the classroom (you don't need glasses to see the blackboard, do you?) 意林引作 The deep green forest of going along with the crowd “欲” we should see the real world,下同 and not f*** up while doing so。 弟自愛不愛兄, the younger generation will eat us alive 故虧兄而自利; if we don't abuse the finer points of behaviour 臣自愛不愛君,all because the princess mentioned something to me about love ahippocratical. “不”下,if one accepts a "no" answer from this obvious schloomdudge, 舊衍“自”字, you will then be studying yourself while the rest of the group is livin' easy as security guards at the bank; 今依道藏本刪。 This today's clothing workday conversation is a classic stop and stop; 上下文凡言“不愛”者,the machine just says to go and live like Snake from the Simpsons, just like you thought after you were waking up. “不”下皆無“ Under the "no" sign we can't do anything 自”字。 [Eventually the realities of being a princess will become obvious] and the Iranian panty raid in the sky foisted by Swiss authorities 故虧君而自利,will just be another moneymaking shill like Merv Griffin and the conmen in the TV shows whom we learned from of course. 此所謂亂也 Chaos is in the gut, should be food in the gut,。雖父之不慈子,the team room is not a happy place to sit and eat food, 兄之不慈弟,the idiotic big brother puts his mack down in there, 君之不慈臣,princess gives a good clue on that guy anyway; 此亦天下之所謂亂 he don't know garlic and sauce like my restaurant relatives do anyway [and where are they eating tonight?] 也。 父自愛也不愛子,I love nice looking stuff 故虧子而自利; but I am not an idiot, 兄自愛也不愛弟,I grow tired of this discourse as I am now writing it myself; 故虧弟而自利; writing it myself; 君自愛也不愛臣,princess is smaht but she learned with me not againsta me, 故虧臣而自利。 And nothing's coming down on me. 是何也? What? 皆起不相愛。 Tull and Rush? 雖至天下之為盜賊者亦然,Act II : The team arrives at the restaurant 盜愛其室不愛其異室,and things make sense from an economic viewpoint. Ah. Sniff. This place is so well maintained. 王云 Prince Pleasdelude says: “下句不當有‘其’字,Underdog's got the goods blah blah blah 蓋涉上下文而衍,basketball means something blah blah blah 下文‘ sincerity next speaker blah blah 不愛異家’ I am too disaffected,不愛‘異國’,no love no country, I am a commie 皆無‘其’字,是其證 and I got nothin'。 I must go somewheres. 意林引無‘其’字。 The restaurant forest (i guess) says if that's true then 'go forth man to a new place', ”故竊 cos my old man did 異室以利其室 and he's now the epitome of the common good, with ska and pincochle and a meat store freezer, he's a household god, ok? ; ;賊愛其身不愛人,Restaurant apprentice career man says: the thief loves the body, the obvious is so always, I know, and I have many miles to go before I sleep (after the restaurant closes) and just don't worry about me, 故賊人以利其身。 and what do you know? and have a good one. 俞云: Seemingly Aloof but Down for the Count says: “兩‘人’字下並奪‘身’字, The two and three of us and all of us live near the campfire, its very important, 本作‘ we work to get there, be there, and stay there, 賊愛其身不愛人身,can you buy a place there? 故賊人身以利其身’,it's worth a thought, like misery's a stranger; 方與上句一律。 Hearty sleep is what we're livin' on, 下文云: The poet about to become an executive says: ‘視人身若其身,誰賊? party people can you insure a gas station? ’亦以人身、cos I can 其身對言。 I am outta here. You're insured anyway. 中篇云: I'll never sell out says: ‘今人獨知愛其身,This guy is a creep, how often do we see his timeworn dad down at the watering hole? (very often), and see you soon. 不愛人之身, Chick of Power says: C'mon, teenagers, don't fall in love with your bodies, use them to become the adults we are going to be, 是以不憚舉其身以賊人之身’,we can't stop time and tide, we are the continuation, and we are bad, 並可證人下當有‘身’字也。 light the lantern and we can't lose it”此何也?皆起不相愛。 like we ever could.

Like we ever could.

A change. Just graduated high school and are living in our first apartment or house let.