From the “Pirated Software With National Pride” Dpt.
A boxed version of Windows costs around ¥10 on the street. I’ve yet to use a computer here that doesn’t keep popping up messages from Microsoft discussing the “Windows Genuine Advantage“.
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One of the activities I liked to do with my high school kids was having Q&A or Tell-Me-About-Yourself sessions. It took the kids most of the first semester to feel comfortable enough to talk in detail about their lives outside of school.
Once they opened up, quite a few of their responses have been pretty funny:
“My [...]
When my brother and I were little we loved watching a Lucille Ball movie called “The Fuller Brush Girl”. I don’t remember much about the movie, but the premise was Lucy is a door-to-door brush saleswoman who gets mixed up in a murder which results in her and fiancé Eddie Albert having a series of [...]
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One of the things I love to do after work is take a walk in a park and people watch. The other night at Culture Square (文化广场) there was a man practicing calligraphy on the sidewalk. He had made two brushes out of PVC pipe with tips made of sponge. Dousing the brush tip with [...]
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