Cooking Lunch

I’ve been slacking a little bit lately as far as posting relevant updates, so I thought I’d just take a few minutes and write up some things I’ve been thinking about that don’t really deserve their article, so “Things I Didn’t Post”.  Thanks Gizmodo!

– British English. I hate it. No offense to the people that speak it, most of the Brits I’ve met are actually cool people. But why is it that the entire world learns British English when their population is only 60 million compared to the US’s 300 million? Yeah, I know they “invented” it, but still. Teaching phonetics to students who haven’t had any consistency between learning either is a headache. Why doesn’t poor rhyme with lure? Technically it does, but not in America. Why does car sound like it is spelled cah? There’s no “h”! I could go on, but I think you get the drift, at the very least a distinctly American Phonetics books is what I need. But dammit England, loosen your grip on the world, you’re only an island, America can totally take you.

– Google Chrome finally supports extensions! Now, if they only worked half as well as Firefox extensions do.

– Why can’t I find a can of compressed air? It’s so dusty here, I can hear my laptop fans running full bore because they’re dirty. I need to clean them, but so far, I cannot.

– Just started listening to some Christmas music last night, thanks to 30 free Christmas downloads from Amazon MP3 service. Despite my lack of decorations and the lack of snow, I have finally realized it is indeed December.

– I’m very pleased with myself that I’ve been able to expand my food ordering abilities. It’s a quality of life thing, no one enjoys eating cheeseburgers everyday in America, and I don’t enjoy only being able to order Kung Pao Chicken in a restaurant. My mental list of food has quadrupled, but still has a long way to go. Big thanks to Ben Ross over at How to Order Chinese Food dot com. Putting all his PDFs on my iPhone has been fantastically useful.

– I can actually read some Chinese! No, I can’t read a book, or the newspaper, but I can make out some easy sentences, or some of the words in a sentence. Hey, it’s a start! So I’ve been trying to post at least one tweet in Chinese everyday, just to practice. So far so good!

Lunch