George Chen » Fun http://georgechen.com/blog Design + Mobile + Life + Business Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:33:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://georgechen.com/blog http://georgechen.com/favicon.ico George Chen Bender’s 86 Rules of Boozing (on your mobile) http://georgechen.com/blog/2007/10/07/benders-86-rules-of-boozing-on-your-mobile/ http://georgechen.com/blog/2007/10/07/benders-86-rules-of-boozing-on-your-mobile/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:53:09 +0000 Administrator http://georgechen.com/blog/2007/10/07/benders-86-rules-of-boozing-on-your-mobile/ New mobile service by Russ. Text BENDER @ 41411. You’ll get one of the 86 rules back. Good times.

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Our office is used to be an old Japanese restaurant. When people visit the office, we usually would like to mention that due to the Eastern deco and design.
At the door, there’s a Chinese / Kanji sign with the word 摩耶 (Maya) on it. I’ve never spent the time to figure out if that is real Japanese character or just some Chinese or Taiwanese people ran the place and named the place 摩耶.

Today the true meaning of the word all of a sudden became a top of discussion again. Literal translation, 摩 could mean “Magic”. 耶 is a little harder to give it a meaning. Character wise, is a combination of two ear(s).

Nigel did a quick search on Wiki and found 摩耶 is also the name of a WWII Japanese Cruiser. Well mystery is solved and that’s pretty cool and all…. Then all of a sudden Wayne mentioned: Today, Aug 6th, is the Hiroshima Anniversary.

Now that’s pretty creepy.

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I think this is a legit Microsoft newsletter as I examing the e-mail header and the links.

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Check out the actual stock price. That’s pretty bias don’t you think? So glad YHOO is not on their “watch list”. The turth is, we all do goofy things in our design… It’s just a matter if you can catch it. ;)

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The Exorcist in 30 Seconds (with Bunnies). Pretty cute.

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Check it out.

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I’ll post the answer in the next post. Comment if you know the answer already.

Why bats hang upside down?

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