Nerdiness

Insert Nerdom

So today, with your lovely chief, we will be making Lembas bread. What? A nerd! Where?

The Fellowship of Books

They had a fantastic international bookstore in Shanghai. …I’m such a book addict. Having a Kindle has not cured me of buying books, contrary to my poor mother’s expectations. Kindles only nominally count as books to my mind. They don’t smell of paper and binding glue. They don’t show dirt smudges on their edges from countless […]

Year of the Dragon

The dragon enjoys a very high reputation in Chinese culture. It is the token of authority, dignity, honor, success, luck, and capacity. In ancient China, a dragon was thought to speed across the sky with divine power. Emperors entitled themselves exclusively as ‘dragon’; their thrones were called ‘dragon thrones’, their clothes ‘dragon gowns’. Travel China Guide  ~ […]

Link Reborn!! (Maybe…)

Great fortresses against nerd-dom fell tonight. The battle has been epic, lasting nearly two months now. Both sides have raged against one another. For a long while the voice of reason and adult responsibility held the upper hand.