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- 2026-08-24Moving to Dali Gratitude / 搬家感恩记
We are now in our new space on the outskirts of Jiangdu Village, Xizhou Town, Dali, Yunnan! Thank you so much to Mama Apple and Stepdad Dai Bobo for their loving support as we transition into our new home!
- 2026-07-23Black Mouth Berry / 黑嘴巴果
Today, Bei Bei and I went for a short hike up Phoenix Mountain in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province and found a patch of low-growing berries, Melastoma dodecandrum (地棯). It's edible, sweet with an astringent and slightly bitter aftertaste. The whole plant is used in traditional Chinese medicine. According to a 2003 article published in China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica,
Five compounds were isolated and identified as hexacosanoic acid (I), quercetin(II), avicularin(III), gallic acid (IV), kaempferol(V).
- 2026-07-22小過 (歌词 + 视频) / Xiao Guo (Lyrics + Video)
卦辞 The Judgment
- 2026-07-21Justin Squires Wedding Speech / 婚礼致辞
Joseph and Bei Bei,
- 2026-07-20外公的婚礼祝福 / Wedding Blessings from Grandpa
恭喜外孙女贝贝和小九新婚之喜！远在亚利桑那州缔结良缘，新春佳节双喜临门。外公特意填词两阕，既合中式雅韵，又寄万里祝福。两阕词皆紧扣新春、新婚、远地良缘之意，平仄韵脚依词牌正体格律，既合迎宾贺婚之礼，又藏阖家祝福之情。贝贝，如你们那里有“中国红的”大红纸买的话，你去买张红纸抄写一份贴在你们的新婚房间里，作个纪念。《迎宾词》用红纸抄写一份贴在你们办喜酒的大门。（外公外婆衷心祝福，2026年2月19日于中国）
- 2026-07-20我们的故事 (第一集) / Our Story (Episode 1)
2025年年初，我受航长的邀请参加每周一次的启发聚会（一系列帮助人了解基督教信仰的课程）。我那时住在下关，每次路上要花一个半小时，但我无比庆幸自己参与其中，因为在那里我认识了对我非常重要的一群好朋友。3月时我还信誓旦旦地告诉他们我懒得搬家，每周这么赶路也无所谓，转头4月1号我就已经住进了三文笔村的新家。我有了自己的沙盘工作室，也有了与朋友们更频繁的相聚。我们在聿敏家打鼓、跳舞，在航长家聚餐、欢唱，在Raymond家喝酒、畅聊……我的“闭关”状态渐渐褪去，被友情的连接所填充。6月的一天，我和姚瑶约好了吃午餐，她早上临时问我能不能再带一位刚认识的外国朋友一起，我随即就答应了，并不知道自己命运会因此发生翻天覆地的变化。在这个愉快的下午之后，我和小九每天都会见面，每次见面聊天聊到不想告别。两周以后在一个聚会上我邀请小九和我一起跳舞，我们两个十分笨拙地相拥跳舞，一不小心就踩到对方的脚。那天告别时我意识到，我要恋爱了。第二天小九来到我家问我，虽然我们的未来充满了不确定，我是否愿意和他开始恋爱。我们的故事就这样在懵懂的心动中开始了。
- 2026-07-17Barrel Compost Toilet (Episode 1) / 桶式堆肥厕所 (第一集)
After we got married in February, Bei Bei and I honeymooned at the Cascabel Conservation Association's Cottage Hermitage, a sublime solitary retreat nestled in Hot Springs Canyon east of Tucson, AZ. We actually made plans before we got married to do the week-long retreat together in Cascabel! Only after getting engaged three weeks before our wedding did we realize that the retreat would be the perfect honeymoon.
- 2025-02-03Follow Up on emails with mu4e and org-capture
When I send an email, I often want my agenda to remind me to follow up a few days later. Thanks to Dirk-Jan C. Binnema's help, I was able to set this up with
mu4eandorg-capture. - 2024-12-19Query Regexp Replace Lisp Replacement
I rarely use
query-replace-regexp's lisp expression replacement feature, but I came upon a good use for it today! - 2024-12-16Mirror Worg to a Hyperdrive
During the Q&A session of the EmacsConf 2024 hyperdrive.el talk, Ihor Radchenko suggested using hyperdrive to distribute worg, the community-driven Org documentation written in Org format.