Ugh!

In the category of Civilization in Decline, you know those icchy paraffin-and-cardboard flavored mass market puddings, with disgusting brown syrup on top that looks like WD 40 with caramelized sugar added? Well, Haagen-Daz has a new flavor out....

World-record stinginess: My wife recently sold a poncho to a woman over the Internet for a whopping $11 -- that's NT, not US. The woman emailed her and asked her for four-digit password so she could transfer money directly to my wife's account without paying the usual $7 fee. One might suspect scam, but we do not appear to be the only be she has treated in this way. My wife graciously said she could just mail her $11 in stamps from the post office, but apparently that was just too troublesome. She eventually transferred in the $11 dollars.

Great weather! What's the story with Taipei this February? I was walking around on Chung Hsiao East Rd, and enjoying the site of all those bare midriffs well into the evening? If this is global warming, give me more!