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Posted:Jul 19, 2014 8:06 am
Last Updated:Jul 21, 2014 8:54 am 357238 Views
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I've helped many Chinese friends pronounce English words and they all seem to be stuck with the word eggs.
Egg is one syllable, therefore eggs must be two... right?
Wrong... 
It's not eg-gers, it's eggs... one syllable.
Eggs... say it again... eggs.
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TYPHOON...
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Posted:Jul 18, 2014 8:21 pm
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2014 6:23 am 532351 Views
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I was chatting with a friend this evening who is in Nanning. I asked how the weather was and she replied "Very windy. Typhoon outside."
It's Saturday morning in China right now and I was surprised to hear this. I know living in Florida brings it's share of storms and hurricanes as well.
While we were chatting, I went to the weather website, I pulled up a radar of South China to see the typhoon traveling northwest had passed over Hainan island early Saturday morning and the center is hitting the mainland of China right now.
Typhoon Rammasun is a category 4 storm... very powerful. Winds are 100mph (170kph) cutting a path to Vietnam. Nanning is directly north of the eye of the storm and the radar shows the outer bands extending past Nanning out to Liuzhou.
Be safe and I wish you all a speedy recovery to the destruction this typhoon will cause.
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I will pay you to blog here...
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Posted:Jul 18, 2014 3:14 pm
Last Updated:Jul 20, 2014 9:49 pm 533009 Views
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Desperate times requires desperate measures.
Blogging is at an all time low.
I posted a blog and 12 hours later posted another blog and there were no blogs in-between.
Very sad.
Here's my plan to bring some life to the blog section of AsiaFriendFinder:
I will pay you.
Hard to believe... right?
I'm serious... I will pay you.
If you blog here, I will pay you with visits and occasionally make comments to your blogs.
I will pay you with the respect of acknowledging your blog, something you took the time to write.
It's a blog and it deserves attention.
Simple as that.
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If I were a programmer...
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Posted:Jul 17, 2014 7:28 am
Last Updated:Jul 17, 2014 2:58 pm 533697 Views
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No... that's NOT what I would want to do in life. I considered website design 20 years ago... has it been that long? For sure it's been over 15 years now. I have a background in graphic arts, drafting and design. I did compose some basic webpages for friends before but I never took it any further.
My brother took computer science in the local community college. That was around 1966-67 and I remember him bringing home stacks of 'punch cards' with rubber bands holding them in sequence. The cards were programs... each card was a line of code and the machine (computer) read each card and followed the instructions the same way lines of code are written in more advanced systems.
It all started somewhere.
One of the first large companies I worked for had a machine that processed payroll by punch tapes. In the same manner as a player piano, a one inch wide spool of paper tape was fed into a reader/writer device. The operator entered the information and it would punch out holes in a sequence that could be stored and reread at a later date. they would pullout the previous roll, read it, modify the data and rewrite it to a clean roll of tape to save for the next session. This 'computer' was a desk with a keyboard built into a complete console about the size of 2 refrigerators side by side and it had spools for creating the programs.
Back to programming. At that same company. I was the first to have a personal computer. It was a Commodore PET with cassette for program storage. The first programs I used with it were typed in by hand from lines read in a book. After, I subscribed to a 'magazine on tape' and programs were read by the cassettes they mailed out to us. The PET had a 40 character wide screen and I (again) was first to buy their 80 character business venture. That was around 1980.
It was my job to check contract prices for every order we processed and split the costing for the accounting department. I wrote a simple program that broke-down the needed percentages for materials, labor, installation and taxes, complete with rounding off to the nearest dollar. Simple, but effective as we sometimes processed a few hundred orders per session.
Somewhere in the 1980's I had switched from Commodore to an IBM clone and using a program called Lotus 123 for calculations to do millwork estimates. It was a simple spreadsheet where you enter the material the quantity you needed and it would lookup the cost and waste factor from a database we would regularly update. The result is it would determine the amount of material needed and the price. My claim to fame is one of the co-workers using this program was still using it 10 years after I left the company.
The company I'm working for now has some customized software to maintain our accounting and scheduling and a few times a year the person who wrote the program/software visits us to implement updates and get our wish-list and list of bugs we have found.
I really have no inclination to learn more about programming, but I'm confident in telling the programmer what features I'm looking for to make the program do what I feel it should do so I can get my work done.
Thanks for reading my blog!
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Snow's mom...
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Posted:Jul 16, 2014 7:28 pm
Last Updated:Jul 19, 2014 4:39 pm 532418 Views
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Many of you know our lovely member Snow_White who frequents the chat room and is the #1 blogger with the highest amount of responses. She was taking care of her mother who had cancer. On the weekend, Snow told me her mother was unable to eat or drink and not responding as expected. I saw Snow this morning an heard the news that her mother passed away Monday night.
Although diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer, Snow said she was stage 3 and it was undermined how long before it would be stage 4. We all believed she would be alive longer but that wasn't the case.
Snow_White, I'm sorry for your loss and I want to extend condolences to you and your family.
Schneewittchen, mein Beileid an Sie und Ihre Familie.
Snow White, ang akong mga pahasubo kaninyo ug sa inyong pamilya.
Snow White, ang aking condolences sa iyo at sa iyong pamilya.
Blancanieves, mis condolencias a usted ya su familia.
白雪公主，我慰问你和你的家人。
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Fake Photos...
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Posted:Jul 16, 2014 5:26 am
Last Updated:Jul 24, 2014 4:12 pm 535683 Views
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Actually, the photos aren't fake... but they don't belong to the member who is using them.
It appears ALL dating sites are affected by scam artists who use photos of movie stars, celebrities and popular adult movie stars.
This went on for years until a few websites offered reverse photo searching. These search engines scour the internet keeping a database of similar photos. When you ask them to compare, they show the websites the computer found matching photos.
This is the perfect tool when reporting scam profiles.
Probably 4 or 5 adult movie stars are always on the list that get used by scammers because there are so many photos to choose from. The world's most used/abused model is Julie. For years her everyday photos appeared on many dating sites... and continues to plague us. I found 3 of her photos yesterday.
I found Julie's personal website (a while ago) and she has a short movie appealing to everyone that it's NOT her appearing on dating sites. People keep stealing her photos and use them pretending to be an attractive woman that all the men want to meet... and who knows, it's probably some man in Accra Ghana sitting in a room with other scammers who are paid to get you to send them money because they pretend they are stuck in another country and need to get back to the USA... so they can have a love affair with you!
Julie explains on her website, a man fell victim to a scam artist and sent a large sum of money. When he realized he was tricked, he committed suicide. Now, the family of the dead man wants to sue Julie, connecting her with the person who stole the money.
That makes you think twice about corresponding with someone you haven't seen in real life... actually that has it's own set of problems. Someone I know does a lot of power-dating and many of the women in upscale neighborhoods have asked him for money... some claim their ex-husbands are late on support payments and they need a 'few hundred' to make it to the end of the month!
Wow... who needs to chase someone half-way around the world using fake photos and asking for money when you can find a real person less than 10 miles away doing the same thing!
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The photo below is one of the most popular models to have photos used by scam artists.
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One step forward and two steps back...
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Posted:Jul 14, 2014 1:59 pm
Last Updated:Jul 17, 2014 7:23 am 533598 Views
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Have you noticed the new red task bar? Of course you did... it's the one that opens the selections with white letters on a white background so it's impossible to know what is there.
I find myself looking at the lower left corner of my browser to see what weblink is under my mouse and hopefully I will make the selection I wanted.
I can't say I like surprises, especially like this one. But I think they have to find out for themselves it was a mistake. Obviously the red theme wouldn't be my choice.
Thanks for reading my blog!
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INK MASTER...
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Posted:Jul 13, 2014 7:14 am
Last Updated:Jul 13, 2014 10:03 am 424312 Views
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As a followup (and possible closure) to my other tattoo blogs, The TV show Ink Master lured me in simply because of my fascination about people and tattoos. Personally, I wouldn't consider getting a tattoo or body modification, but I've spent a few hours watching TV and researching the many internet sites about tattoos and art.
Maybe you're familiar with the show, it's about tattoo artists competing for $100,000 prize and the title of Ink Master. I had seen excerpts of the shows on YouTube, but a short time ago was my first chance to catch full episodes back-to-back on TV.
I'm guessing there's more to the title and prize money... probably sponsorship or advertisement endorsements. Anyway, these artists are given sets of challenges over a wide range of styles and typically, the biggest obstacle is the time limit given to achieve each goal.
One episode each artist was given a new tattoo machine... in the box and unassembled. There were no instructions and no diagrams. That was the first part. The second part was to make a tattoo of a bar code. They were judged on the straightness of the lines and creating different line widths... that is, after you got the tattoo machine together. Two of the women artists thought it was unfair as each of them were unable to assemble their machines. The men thought the machine was a vital part of their trade and all did well with assembly.
With any ongoing competition there is a high amount of jealousy and arguments. One artist wasn't liked very well by the others... on one round, the goal was a Celtic design. His tattoo was clean even lines but really simple in nature. He performed this task in the allotted time. Some of the others were more elaborate and it seemed to annoy the other artists that he didn't make anything impressive... yet he won the judging for that round.
I know the show isn't new and there were/are other seasons but it seemed to me most of the artists were of the 'new school' style where they excelled in free-form cartoonish work. Or in competition, they were limited to the new style. Most compromised their work simply because of the time limits.
It's a shame the 'tattoo of a lifetime' is judged by the minutes your can perform it in.
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