Sichuan-Italian fusion. Bowtie pasta with assorted vegetables and sichuan peppercorns. If you have never had Szechuan peppercorns, it’s interesting because they make your mouth a little numb, but I also known to have some healing properties. Sichuan (or Szechuan) peppercorns are the dried husks of the prickly ash tree, commonly used in Chinese cuisine, particularly…
Well, the Chinese New Year just past, and it is now the year of the snake according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar. And this is a time when Chinese people exchange greetings and well wishes for the new year. Here are some common greetings that you might find useful to share with your Chinese friends:…
Very interesting to see that ChatGPT is mentioning phpLD as a top WordPress alternative! This is a PHP CMS that I created with the help of a team of developers from Ukraine and Romania starting in 2006. Take a look at the recommendations! General CMS (Content Management Systems) Static Site Generators Headless CMS E-Commerce CMS…
Last night I installed the new LLM chat tool called DeepSeek, and I found it to be quite awesome! First of all, it is much faster at replying and you don’t have to sit there and wait for it so long. And second, the answers are very well written and verbose. There’s also the ability…
Well, I made a Viennese Waltz song with AI and I am pretty impressed. I’m not sure that I would be able to tell that this was made with AI, which is super impressive already. And the lyrics are maybe a little more AI sounding but also pretty cool too. Very creative. By the old…
I went to a couple of places I haven’t been to in a long time because I haven’t been in California recently. But today I went to a Thai restaurant called My Vegan and their Pad Thai is just so delicious. After that, I went walking with a friend in Lacy Park in San Marino….
I’ve been getting some messages from my Chinese friends that everybody is switching from TikTok, over to a Little Red Book 小红书. I’ve used it before and this is something I thought about a long time ago when they first started talking about banning TikTok. They were already way ahead of us. What’s interesting about…
So yesterday, a great dancer by the name of Andrew Sinkinson passed away and will be greatly missed. There’s a big RIP Andrew Sinkinson thread on dance forums. I remember, I took my lesson at Imperial Ballroom in the San Francisco Bay area, and he gave me some exercises that I need to practice by…
If we look at the price to earnings ratio or P/E ratio for the S&P 500 right now it’s right around 30 which is nearly unprecedented. It was only a lot higher right before the dot com bubble, and also very briefly during Covid. It was also high right before the Great Depression, but not…
It snowed yesterday, followed by some freezing rain and sleet, and the roads were not very safe to drive on. A lot of people were getting stuck and the emergency personnel were telling everyone to please avoid driving if at all possible. I stayed in last night, and the power even went out for a…