A Jacquie Lawson e-card for you to enjoy!

虞左俊 2015-12-21 05:03

Here is a Jacquie Lawson e-card for you to enjoy! You can view your card here .

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IQ, EQ, and XQ?

热度 1 虞左俊 2015-6-27 04:51

Yeah, the lastest is IN: XQ! According to TIME: XQ is born in 2015. In the new wave of employer assessments, no official name has emerged for the qualities exployers are testing for. In fact, they can often seem mysterious--a kind of X quotient, or XQ. Generally speaking, it is the prac ...

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苹果6，柠檬6？

热度 2 虞左俊 2015-5-13 03:41

苹果6刚刚出来时，中国人对它的热情在网媒上天天占首页。正好我要回中国，临时决定买一个玩。结果比较痛苦：新机启动过程出了问题，电话功能没了。（有人找我找不到，急得跳脚。） 慢慢地，我喜欢上了这玩意。最多用的功能，当然是微信。微信可能是贴“寻人启事”最好的地方。 一周前，朋友们开始抱怨，说我 ...

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Editing a human?

虞左俊 2015-5-3 03:56

English editing is what I do these days, for living. I don't like its Chinese translation, which is 英文润色. If one day human gene editing is used as a routine procedure, what will we call it in Chinese? 人类基因 润色？Ha, ha. From wikipedia: In April 2015, scientists from Chin ...

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When the East meets the West

热度 1 虞左俊 2015-3-21 07:36

I thought my English was pretty good, but not that good. Having a chit-chat this morning with my son, a college senior, he called me social butterfly. I was not upset, even though I thought it meant 交际花 in Chinese. So, I explained what it meant to Chinese and asked him not to use i ...

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I know, I know, I am in China...

热度 2 虞左俊 2014-10-1 14:05

Well, I don't need to be reminded where I am, but I am, constantly. The internet is testing my patient, and the 2G pretends to be 4G on my new cell (with four dots for the availability). I know I can't watch any YouTube clips, but I forgot google takes me nowhere. Are all ...

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