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January 31, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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I’ve deleted some recent posts. Let’s just say that I am making myself a lesser target for powers that would like to control free thinking individuals, and leave it at that.

Hanzi Smatter 一知半解: Asian Font Gibberish

January 24, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Humor Comments Off

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I have seen some dumb stuff in my life, but this one is very near the top of the pile. I read this last night and I haven’t stopped laughing since. This rocket scientist downloaded an “Asian font” and then wrote some racial slur in Finnish using this font. He then had it tattooed on his back, not realizing of course, that languages don’t exactly work like that….

Art Culinaire: Tempest in a teapot

January 23, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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If you like tea, you will love this article. You will find interesting explainations of the different tea types…. “There are four major types, all of which come from a bush called Camellia Sinensis–the only difference lies in how the leaves are processed after harvest.” This is an article that is worth reading.

Read more at www.findarticles.com/p/…

Wigger Invasion!

January 22, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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We don’t have to worry about a Chinese invasion on Taiwan. What concerns me is the invasion of wiggers! Every single day, over and over, I am presented with idiotic examples of Taiwanese people trying to act like (their interpretation of) black people! What is going on? I was in a 7-11 the other day and a kid behind the counter shouted “YO MAN! YOU AMERICA PEOPLE?” Yeah, but I’m not a wigger dude!

The real joke is this: I have asked countless Taiwanese what they are doing when they flash those fake gang signs and dance retarded. They reply that they are just doing what Americans do. Apparently Taiwanese aren’t culturally aware enough to determine differences within the vast realm of American Culture.

I want people to understand this post. American Black culture is wonderful. Wigger culture is moronic. I really hate non-black recording artists who try to sing and dance like black artists. Its as if they don’t have their own identity. I call that “playing it safe” and its a cheap shot at the public.

Anyway, Taiwanese wiggers (what should I call them, Twiggers?) make me physically ill. They are painful to watch. The problem is, they are everywhere….

The Cows Come Home

January 21, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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This is my latest video production. Photography by Hui-Chen

We’ve all heard the expression “’till the cows come home” right? Well, in Phon, the cows come home every evening at 5 o’clock! You have to stand out of the way because there are over 70 cows in several small herds coming back from the grazing fields and they will just about run you down in their haste to get home!

This is a google video and I think it looks worlds better than You Tube! What do you think?

BBC NEWS | Africa | Odd couple make friends in Kenya

January 19, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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Another “odd couple” animal bonding….

Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/afr…

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Snake ‘befriends’ snack hamster

January 19, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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I love stories like this! Cute photo too!

Read more at news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asi…

Google Labs

January 19, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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There in an interesting extension for Firefox that concerns Bloggers. It allows one to view comments in the blogosphere about the page you are currently viewing, and then allows one to make comments about that page in their own blog. This post was created using this browser plug-in.

Find it at labs.google.com/

Read a post about it here.

Another Magnificent New Teapot!

January 18, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized 4 Comments →

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To say that I love Chinese tea would be an understatement. Its likely that my blood contains trace amounts of Oolong tea because I consume copious amounts of it daily. When I travel to other countries I bring a travel pot and tea so that I am never without it!

Recently I purchased a very nice Japanese style pot from Mr. Gan. He had a second pot of a similar design made by another master craftsman. Here we see both pots side-by-side for the size comparison.


This pot is quite large and here you see the bamboo tea measure for scale.

Notice that the “cha pan” (tea plate) is wet. Its always wet because its in use most of the time!

This shot shows the amazing detail on this pot. The Master took a sculpting tool and cut into the material (after the pot was thrown) and created this effect with the swirls by showing the strata underneath the surface! The execution is absolutely perfect and the results are stunning! Photos don’t do it justice!

Although I do prefer Chinese design teapots, I could not pass up the opportunity to add these wonderful Japanese designs to my collection. Besides looking awesome, they both make excellent tea!

The pour spout on this larger model allows one to pour the entire pot in about 3 seconds! You can brew a good amount of tea and arrest the infusion almost immediately. This teapot is excellent for serving several guests at a time. Just like the smaller one, if you cover the vent hole and blow into the spout you will find that the teapot is airtight.

Don’t they look great together?

Asian Medicine

January 12, 2006 By: thenhbushman Category: Uncategorized Comments Off

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When I was in Laos, I saw some bottles of “medicine” from Vietnam. The bottles contain herbs and “wine” (meaning some kind of alcoholic beverage – Asians frequently confuse wine and liquor), plus one or several poisonous species of reptile or invertebrate. Often the mixture includes large ginseng roots. Here are a few examples of bottles for sale. The center bottle has a large cobra that is holding another snake by the head in its mouth. To the right of that bottle is another cobra that has the tail of a scorpion in its mouth. I think that is the coolest one I have ever seen. Notice the bottle to the far left (read the label).

This is a closeup of the cobra holding the scorpion. The price ranged from less than 100 Thai Baht to a few hundred TB (about US$1.50 to 5.00). The label instructs patients to take doses of this medicine for lumbago, rheumatism, and several other innocuous non-specific complaints of pain. I got 2 bottles. One is a very small bottle with a fierce looking pickled cobra tightly packed inside. The other has 2 frighteningly large scorpions preserved in the juice. The next time some obnoxious, red mouthed Taiwanese drunk starts toasting me in a local restaurant, I am going to pull out one of these bottles.
So, which 2 bottles did I get? The small cobra at the far right edge of the photo, and the dark colored double scorpions in the center of the photo.

People really do drink this stuff. We went to a restaurant in Laos that had a large bottle with a frightening large cobra holding another snake, right next to our table. The bottle had been opened and about 1/4 of the liquid was gone.

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