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Costco Roadshow: Yamaha Pianos
Big fan of Costco. Occasionally, the local Costco will stage a roadshow featuring some interesting product. If I don’t buy that very day, I sometimes have to find another local Costco (but further away) that will be hosting the same roadshow. It always takes me a few minutes to track down the roadshow calendar through…
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An Unfortunate Choice of Words
TIME: A Tibetan Intifadeh Against China. Whatever the outcome, though, it seemed to be a turning point in the history of Tibet and perhaps also China. “This is massive,” said one Tibet specialist who was in touch with many Lhasa residents, “it is the intifadeh.” Nothing more inaccurate than the Western media plotting turning points…
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Yao Ming Suffers Stress Fracture
Yahoo/AP: Yao Out for Season with Left Foot Injury. All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot . . . . Currently, the Houston Rockets are 3 games behind the Los Angeles Lakers, the Western Conference leader. However, the Rockets are only 3 1/2 games ahead…
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Pearl River Bridge Superior Light Soy Sauce
I just discovered that Kylie Kwong recommends Pearl River Bridge soy sauce, the brand that I’ve been using for a number of years. Kylie Kwong explained that “[s]ome inferior versions are full of chemicals, so make sure you buy naturally fermented soy sauce.” The ingredients for Pearl River Bridge Superior Light Soy Sauce are water,…
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Credit Card Offers
Made me look, but was that really the point? Everyone receives credit card offers. People with excellent credit. People with horrible credit. Maybe even people who have previously declared bankruptcy. Everyone gets credit card offers. So, what can the marketing department at a credit card company do to make their offer stand out? Well, one…
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Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs
I finally made the Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs recipe that I had found in Fuchsia Dunlop’s Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook. The flavor was spot on; however, the ribs ended up a bit dry and overcooked. I found the recipe instructions to be a bit vague in terms of cooking time. In her recipe, I boiled,…
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Microsoft Hearts Yahoo
Microsoft made a bid for Yahoo last Friday. This move should prove beneficial for Yahoo if it can escape from the clutches of the Redmond behemoth. Yahoo has been wandering for a few years now, and it really needs to focus and execute again. Hopefully, this will accelerate their turn-around plans. Yahoo used to be…
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Haday Superior Light Soy Sauce
I usually use Pearl River Bridge soy sauce. However, because I have been busy as of late, I had to send others to shop for groceries in my place. As a result, we have started to venture into other brands of foodstuffs, like Haday Superior Light Soy Sauce. Not being familiar with this brand, I…
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Interest Rate Cut
The Fed’s second interest rate cut in just over a week really confused me. Instead of being merely aggressive, it appeared a bit desperate. Perhaps, the national economy is faring much worse than I had believed. The problem for home owners and real estate investors is that our perspective is often local. Easy to tell…