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Medium-sized drink
Note: I am looking at some of older draft posts in my blog. I removed a few that just had a title there but no content. I saw this one, which looks half-done and was written close to 2 years ago, but I have no idea what I intended to write for the rest of…
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Divine Performing Arts is sponsored by Falun Gong
By now it is almost like a yearly ritual. As Chinese New Year is drawing near, Falun Gong is doing a publicity campaign to promote its Chinese New Year gala performance around the world in marquee venues. The advertisement I saw along highways in Chicago calls itself Divine Performing Arts. Divine Performing Arts, what a…
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2009春节前随记
耶诞节前到芝加哥郊区的宜家家居买有瑞典风味的食品，慰籍老婆思乡之情。我们的车停到了这个商店的出口附近。这儿离入口有几步路的小距离。那天风大，天冷，路滑。安静内敛的老婆露出无厘头本色：“要不我们从出口倒着走进去，这样商店该不会不满意吧！”。逗得我和儿子哈哈大笑。 —– 儿子的学校要搞国际食品节，我们做了瑞典和中国的宣传海报。以下是我们做的中国海报。大部分的字是我写的。感觉我的硬笔书法，和庞中华的有一拼！ —– 上周五晚上听到了厨房里有咯吱咯吱的声音，当时就怀疑是老鼠。我拿了用来排浴缸堵水的活塞来赶，打开橱门后，老鼠已经跑了。装在纸袋子里的一些干面包被咬开，还被拖出来一块。这老鼠应当是从楼里的水管道里来的。 说来在这个两室一厅住了近9年了。中间好像记得有过一次老鼠。那次我用胶布封住了靠墙的一个小口，以后老鼠就没再来。上周五晚上我们再次用胶布封口，并把食品移开。到目前为止没感到有老鼠到访的迹象。今天给物业管理公司打了电话，希望他们有办法处理一下。现在对我们这栋楼的物业管理公司信心不大。他们卫生打扫的越来越差劲，但价格升得可快了。 —– 今年春节，我打算再次包饺子。小时候过年的那些活动，如炸馓子，炸萝卜和地蛋（土豆）丸子，放鞭炮，喝冰雪露、金奖白兰地等，都不太可能复制。对联儿还是要写的。嗯，还要考虑一下其他一些活动。
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儿子写小诗
Note: for people coming here from PlanetMySQL, my apologies. I actually published this post on Friday evening and it was not in the MySQL category, as far as I remember (I am usually careful with things like that). But today it showed up under MySQL in my WordPress. Very bizarre… 儿子的圣诞新年放假两个星期。老师布置了个写诗的作业。儿子的诗写得挺有趣。 作业完后要求最好四个成人点评。我们家就我们两口子，所以就分别写了很短的点评，因为那纸上没留多少空。 摘录下我的： Poetry? What…
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Interesting things about TIMESTAMP data type in MySQL
TIMESTAMP is interesting in that it can give you an easy way of keeping track of when was the last time a row was modified, with a few caveats, listed below. The tests were run on 5.1.30-community MySQL Community Server (GPL). By default, TIMESTAMP is NOT NULL. Inserting a NULL value causes it to store…