Comments for Brian Eisley

Comment on Approaching normality by brian

brian — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:41:49 +0000

I’m learning Mandarin. I have a Berlitz course, plus some audio lessons. Berkeley’s site looks good, though. I DID have an SFPL card, but it’s expired; need to renew it.

Comment on Approaching normality by Julie

Julie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:00:27 +0000

What flavor of Chinese are you learning? BPL has Mandarin http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/services_and_resources/online_resources.php#language and SFPL has Rosetta Stone – lemme know if you’d like my card#

Comment on A faint glimmer of light. by Julie

Julie — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:47:22 +0000

I’m so glad it is working out _and_ she is improving. I was wondering what happened – what a nightmare!

Comment on 一些古老的东西，一些新的东西。 by brian

brian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:48:11 +0000

I wish I had taken the trouble to learn Japanese about ten years ago. Chinese is a little more useful nowadays, and also more of an intellectual challenge.

Comment on 一些古老的东西，一些新的东西。 by Bruce Irving

Bruce Irving — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:27:41 +0000

Hi Brian,
Nice blog, nice variety of interests. I was updating LibraryThing (which I seem to do about twice a year) and I noticed we have 40 books in common (most recently Avatar), so I thought I’d write you a note somewhere. I wish I had studied Chinese since I go to China and Taiwan a lot these days, but I chose Japanese and it helped me a lot in the 80′s and 90′s.
Cheers,
Bruce Irving

Comment on Didn’t need MySpace by Julie Murphy

Julie Murphy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:12:28 +0000

I don’t think you are – couldn’t you consider MySpace a gated community as well? You are just trading one for the other – and migrating where your friends are (at least that’s what it sounds like from your post). I started out on Friendster 6 years ago and it never really took off. Everyone’s migrated to other networks by now. Your post has given me the reminder that I have a few digital loose ends to clean up! Loved the pig btw.

Comment on Keeping up with the Joneses by Didn’t need MySpace « Brian Eisley

Didn’t need MySpace « Brian Eisley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:14:19 +0000

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Comment on Somewhere, Orwell is chuckling. by Brian Eisley

Brian Eisley — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:33:53 +0000

I do buy music online, but only in unrestricted MP3 format (usually from Amazon, ironically). I presume the files are watermarked so they’ll know if I share them, but I don’t really mind that; what I care about is that I can back up the files and use them on any machine I please, ad infinitum. No matter what, I’m in control.

Comment on Somewhere, Orwell is chuckling. by Julie Murphy

Julie Murphy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:20:54 +0000

DRM is evil. It’s why I don’t buy music online. I get a CD or borrow it from the library. It’s yet another example of licensing gone wrong.

Comment on A very expensive piece of paper. by brian

brian — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:50:09 +0000

Yep, I got Arnold instead. Too bad it’s not real, or it might be worth something…