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I like the design of these Lowa hiking boots.
The black, rubber-like outline makes the eye go up and down. It apparently helps with support and cuts down on the need for extra padding inside. Or so, the online advertising copy says.
Oh, and I spotted and downloaded this image from REI-OUTLET.
Long before Chinese director Zhang Yimou gained international fame for his eye-catching, impressive opening ceremony to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he had a reputation for making epic movies full of soul, grit, dramatic storytelling.
I raise this now because To Live, which was made in 1994, has moments to keep in mind.
As in: What you have might not always be yours. Winners can become losers. Losers can become winners.
Overall, though, appreciation – in my mind – is tops.
The above clip highlights that clearly – with the adult son of a wealthy mansion owner losing everything while gambling. That launched an epic look at China’s history through his eyes and experience.
Smart Design in New York City came up with this new concept for surgery gowns - the company used breathable material. Photo source: Smart Design
As a kid, I remember watching television shows in which a surgeon would stand over a patient in the operating room and, well, seem just a tad nervous.
I don’t know if it was a nod to reality – the pressure of performing an operation – or just a made-for-television dramatic moment. But there would be another person next to the surgeon, ready to dab any perspiration when needed.
In real life, it looks like Smart Design of New York City has solved that issue with breathable operating gowns.
The idea of receiving something for free has been around for centuries. Certainly, I like the idea – and I’m not just talking about the free hug movement.
I mean: Who doesn’t like receiving something – say a new car or clothing -Â for free?
But the notion seems more fitting for an autonomous collective (especially one depicted by the British comedy group, Monty Python), where a group of people has agreed to provide labor and services for everyone’s well being with the exchange of money lower on the priority list.
This YouTube video clip made by Tufts University applicant Michael Klinker was, well, just too good to pass up. Really.
The New York Times article, which talks about Klinker’s creation and college applicants using YouTube to gain admission to Tufts, is making the online rounds – for good reason.
I mean, a blue elephant – who has swirling helicopter blades – soaring through the air, doing a flip and hovering here and there?
In this case, everything aligned just perfectly.
As a kid, the best I could do with my Yo-Yo was walk the dog or go around the world - but not for long.
Just flicking my wrist and getting the gyrating piece of plastic to return to my palm made me happy.
So, when I saw that Seattle was going to host the 2010 Pacific Northwest Yo-Yo Championships, I knew where my family and I had to be on Saturday – at the competition site, the Center House under the Space Needle.
So my family and I helped the Seattle-area economy by purchasing this Chinese dragon while we were shopping at Uwajimaya, the Asian supermarket in Seattle.
We didn’t expect to buy it.
Isn’t that always the case when you tell yourself you’re just going to get food or gas?
With the sun shining overhead in the Seattle area on Friday morning, my family and I ran some errands.
We were short on lunch ideas. So, we dropped by Southgate Oriental Grocery, a Korean store, in Bellevue, Wash. to grab some rice crackers.
We spotted kimbop, which some people call kimbap and is Korean-style sushi, and some fishcake. We walked out with our lunch.
I’ve joked about this before but if a robot can ever make delicious, hot, chili-laden mapo tofu – the way the cook at Old Sichuan in Kent, Wash. can dish it up – I’ll truly be impressed.
And of course, a bit perplexed.
But hey, who can complain when a dish of garlicky, spicy tofu sits before you on a blustery, stormy day with winds whipping in the sky and temperatures dropping?
Whether it’s done by ASIMO, the Honda robot, or humans, the successful making of mouthwatering mapo tofu reminds me of that saying by Deng Xiaoping, the late Chinese paramount leader:
It doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white,” he was fond of saying, “as long as it catches mice.
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