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Dragged handsome off to look at Michaleas and tree peonies and wound up coming home with Phyllostachys vivax, Japanese timber bamboo. ( yeah! )

So I need recommendations for something that can download flash video to a computer. Someone is anxious to watch Taiwan TV teen-comedy-dramas without an internet connection.

新年快樂! 新年快乐!

May your 2008 be vastly better than 2007, no matter how great 2007 was.

flemmings un-tagged me.

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag whoever wants to do it.

I don't know seven people who haven't been tagged! Besides, tagging people without first checking if they wanted to be tagged would be rude. So I guess it dies here.

( seven )

Chinesepera-kun: Chinese Popup Dictionary 0.2.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349

After downloading, do View->Toolbars->Customize find the little green book and drag it to your firefox toolbar. Then you can click on the little green book to toggle it on and off. As you hover over Chinese characters, it'll pop up a little box with Mandarin (putonghua) pronunciation and definition. If you hold shift as you mouse over a character, it'll also give you Cantonese pronunciation and Unihan code information. There appears to be no 'extension options' menu, in spite of instructions on how to set them.

We have been sucked into the black hole that is military alternate history fiction. I'd picked up a random title by Ringo and enjoyed it, but not it's dominant male/submissive female sex and natural order of the world sex roles thing. Then we discovered 1632 by Flint. Sigh. All household activities (including eating, talking, etc.) have ground to a halt till we finish what exists of the series.

The book forward/postscript hypes their web site, so I went on line ... and look what I found! A perfectly rational essay about free books and copyright protection. LOL! Linked here because I think you might enjoy it.

A handy little site, linked here for my own convenience: http://isbn2book.com/

My father sent me a calendar! It's gold! With pigs! And gold ingots! Together! LOL!

Two complementary theories of happiness -
Gilbert: http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/gilbert/blog/
Haidt: http://people.virginia.edu/~jdh6n/

For most mothers "interacting with their children made them about as happy as doing housework" and napping and watching television measured higher on the happy scale. LOL!