User Comments - tiaopidepi

Posted on: Christmas Dinner

@tal_: So you're a Leibniz man? I should have guessed.

Posted on: Christmas Dinner

But Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day. He's a great person with whom to share a birthday!

Posted on: Christmas Dinner

The pickings are slim on Taobao, Jenny. I see a bunch of rubber turkeys for sale (unknown in America!) but very few turkeys made of meat. The only one I see appears to already be cooked! On the second page there's a frozen one, and a bunch of baby food jars. 好吃！

My sister settled for chickens. It was a fine Thanksgiving dinner despite the lack of turkey. She also had to use lingonberries (from IKEA) in place of cranberries. Shanghai may have all kinds of Western food but Nanjing was pretty traditional.

Posted on: Christmas Dinner

我姐姐住在南京。前年她找了一只火鸡。南京人没知道“火鸡”。他们觉得她要买一辣椒等刺激性鸡。

Wǒ jiějie zhù zài Nánjīng. Qiánnián tā zhǎo le yī zhǐ huǒjī. Nánjīng rén méi zhīdao "Huǒjī". Tāmen juéde tā yāo mǎi yī làjiāo děng cìjīxìng jī.

My sister lives in Nanjing. Two years ago she looked for a turkey. Nanjing people didn't know "turkey". They thought she wanted to buy a spicy chicken. 

Posted on: Having One's Nails Done

Your picture's only been up there a couple of hours, John, and you've already made four women jealous of your beautiful hands. You'd better watch yourself around the studios...I hear Connie packs heat!

Posted on: Winter Wonderland

@chris: If you're paying by the amount of data you transfer, make sure you're using the mobile site at  http://m.chinesepod.com. It transfers less data because it cuts out a lot of the trimmings and it should look better on the little screen.

The purpose of a mobile phone app (short for "application", or program) is to present the CPod data in a way that's more interactive than what you'd get from a web page. It may transfer less data overall (because it may save some data on your phone automatically) but the real motivation is having a computer program instead of a web page.

@John: Weeks? You're lucky. New York Times today is talking about people waiting over a year, with no explanations from Apple. Open is nice...provided you figure out some other way to make money :)

Posted on: Winter Wonderland

@Chris: What you're saying is "mobile devices have had web browsers for a long time", and that's quite true. I can look at CPod on my WinMo phone and if my old iPaq still worked, I can browse the web on it.

John's announcement concerns an Android application that uses CPod content. Think of the "We Love Chinese Pod" for the Android phone. He made one for the iPhone previously, but the Android became cooler and John is just way too hip to stick with the old hipness : )

Posted on: A Thanksgiving Phone Call

加拿大的感恩节庆祝十月第二个周一。

Jiānádà de Gǎnēnjié qìngzhù shíyuè dìèr gè zhōuyī.

Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated the second Monday of October.

Posted on: Giving 给 Another Look

Permissions are set incorrectly on the CD-quality mp3. You can set your feed to download radio-quality and it will grab the other one. Or you can just listen to the radio-quality or Flash stream on the web page.

I'm sure it'll get fixed when the holiday's passed.

Posted on: Not Cooked Enough

Before visiting China I decided on three explicit rules about what I would not ingest. No nervous systems (prions scare me), no reproductive systems (ick factor), and nothing that is still alive (respect for life). Drunken shrimp aren't on the menu for me.