Miscellaneous Thoughts on whatever came to mind that day.
In 2018, while on my yearly trip to Asia, I stayed in a few different hotels in Taiwan and Japan. i hotel Zongli (Taoyuan, Taiwan) The i hotel Zongli in Taoyuan, Taiwan (5f., No. 18, Sec. 1, Zhongmei Rd., Zhongli District, Taoyuan Taiwan) is marketed as a gaming hotel but …
Somewhere in the town of Jhongli, also known as Zhongli or Jungli, in Taiwan, there is a gaming hotel with the latest graphics cards in their computers. It is fairly close to SoGo, which means shopping and food are all in close walking distance. The i hotel appears to be …
I just found a box outside with a 1/2 size Mystic Owl Blue Glitter Violin Outfit from Rozanna’s Violins! The box had a Rozanna’s Violins logo sticker at the top to helpfully let me know what is inside. I thought I ought to write about the violin, because I had …
I had a perfectly good name. I could write it, with some letters backwards and almost legibly, when I was 3. I wrote it a lot, perhaps because it was one of the longest words I could write back then. I believe I tried to write my name at 2, …
One of my six-year-olds informed me that she had named her violin. And her bow! “But I forgot what their names are,” she explained earnestly. I have heard of people who name their musical instruments. They give such names as Charlie or Henry— human names rather than simply Violin Number …
I have had a problem with Thunderbird for the longest time. One of my 19 email addresses was not syncing. Before you ask why I have so many email addresses, I did not realize I had 19 emails currently in use until I counted them today. I actually have more …
When Avidemux 2.6 refuses to let me crop, trim, or generally cut off precisely where you want my video’s frames end, I should change the video output mode to something that is not “copy”. It will re-encode the file so that it does not get stuck on keyframes or I-frame …
In the summer of 2015, I bought a Coach Nolita 19 in pebbled red leather with silver hardware off Coach.com. This happened after some contemplation on whether I am the sort of person who wears daring colours and eventually deciding that red is a daring color which I enjoy. By …
For me, weekends equal teaching. This means that weekends often involve me telling other people something they have not heard before. Sometimes, I hear something I have not heard before. A student came in today and told me about the microscopic hooks on her bow hair which pluck at the …
So, about that horse hair… I was asked once by a student if it was actually from a horse and whether the horse hair was like that found on Ebay for $50. Is it horse hair? Well, at $50 a hank, I would want unicorn hair! Perhaps not. A unicorn …
