Month: June 2003

Categories
Tech

Wet Wipes for Keyboards

I found a new use for wet wipes today. Because of SARS, I’ve been collecting an overabundance of these things, and I finally put them to good use (other than for washing one’s hands before eating). It turns out they are very good for cleaning the grunge off of computer keyboards. If you use your computer everyday, your keyboard and mouse can build up a rather disgusting brown film on the surface of the keys after less than a year. So, before turning on my computer today, I gave the keys and mouse back a good scrubbing with a wet wipe. Now they look great. But the question remains, now what do I do with all the other wet wipes I have?!

Categories
Philosophy

God’s own fault

In this world, God gets blamed for a lot of things, both the good and the bad. But really, upon closer examination, we find that it’s his own fault.

Categories
China

Chinese Paper Money

For those of you who like money, here’s what Chinese paper money looks like. Both old and new designs are currently in use. The old has pictures of various ethnic groups in China (except the 100), and the new has Mao’s portrait on all bills. Five yuan is worth about one Canadian dollar, so the math is easy.

Categories
China

It’s 5 a.m. Do you know where your windows are?

I awoke this morning at 5 a.m. to the sound of some very loud crashes. They persisted long enough for me to wake up fully so that I had trouble going back to sleep afterward. I eventually woke up enough to investigate the source. The man who usually dumps the garbage at 5 a.m. was, this morning, throwing wooden window frames from the fifth-storey window, letting them crash onto the concrete square below with the sound of a gun-crack. Most of the frames contained screens, but at least one had glass. I wasn’t impressed. I put in my earplugs, rolled over, and tried for the next hour to relax enough to go back to sleep. When I got up later in the morning, the mangled frames were still there, laying where they had fallen. China is a weird place sometimes.