As part of my ankle-deep immersion for his VBS I have been learning Chinese. I am using a number of apps, but mostly I am listening to podcasts from ChineseClass101.com. The podcasts are great for picking up the language and they have lots of notes about the culture, but they will email you incessantly, and you […]
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This is a pretty graphic-heavy post. When I first start working on a logo, I trial several fonts in Linotype FontExplorer, then I try them out in Illustrator to see which ones I like best, looking for things like readability, tone, and flavor. This lets me see which fonts I might want: […]
My last employer was a Taiwanese-owned company and I worked with a lot of Chinese / Taiwanese people. One day Yahwen and I were comparing the worst whoopins we ever got as children. Here is his in his words, to the best of my memory: “In Chinese households there is this kind of bump that […]
As mentioned in a previous post, I assisted someone at work in getting their laptop connected to our wireless network. The user was Chinese, and I greeted her with a friendly nihau. A few weeks later I was assisting a user in Personnel. “I heard you are a valuable asset to our company,” she said. […]
A couple of months ago at work one of the secretaries brought a Chinese user down for some assistance with her laptop on the wifi network. The laptop had an English keyboard, but the OS was entirely Chinese. “Ni hao,” I said, almost entirely exhausting the Chinese I learned at my old job. “Oh, you […]