Reading Time: 2 minutes Our 10 year old got sick on the 1st day of Labor Day weekend – 8/31 Wednesday. She has violin private lesson and we had to do it over the Zoom. Initially we didn’t think too much of it, but on Monday 9/2, as we didn’t see her getting any better we decided to go

Reading Time: 2 minutes This probably should be the series 2 of Ladue high school, we are coming, series I is here and I wrote it about 9 months ago. Now it’s real – which means, every morning, I have to be patient about the traffic on Warson road. And I am very proud to announce: so far I

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently due to the booming of AI, the daring of AI and the wall street Nvidia $NVDA had crazy good earning reports in last year or two (20 months to be exact, if we look at the stock chart from Jan 1st, 2023). And I recall recently their every quarter’s earning report is a confirmation

Reading Time: 2 minutes T-Mobile I think I started using T-Mobile probably from year 2012, ever since my 2-year contract with AT&T ended. I got the 2-year contract when I bought iPhone 4 at the Apple Store in fall 2010. H2O Note with T-Mobile, I did not sign up the data plan. And In year 2014, I started looking

Reading Time: < 1 minute I normally don’t bet on earnings (earning report), but when I do, I usually lose. –yours truly And $PDD was no exception. Yesterday 08/26/2024 Monday morning, before market open, I noticed the stock was free falling. Note I bought 6 shares before the earning report. And basically this confirms another thing I talked from time

Reading Time: 5 minutes I am not 100% sure how much the below section is applicable to the kids in the Ladue School nowadays. Couple things though: 1) Math is mostly a universal kind of course, meaning, there is no American math, or Chinese math, or Indian math,… there is only one math: we want our kids to learn

Reading Time: 2 minutes I used Robinhood App since year 2015, when they just got started. To be honest, I was drawn to them initially by the zero commission feature. My experience with Robinhood over the years I think Robinhood has some features I like, in addition to the zero comission feature that it pioneered in the industry. It

Reading Time: < 1 minute Q: Can we say routers are simple and doesn’t have a lot of technologies? A (by yours truly): 也不能这样说，路由器和相关技术，比如说load balancer (F5 等），firewall 等等还是有技术和市场的。思科当时的做法是支持所有去创业的员工，给投资，一般做得还行的后来都买回来。她家最主要还是dot com 那时候股价炒太高。 思科现在成长性比不过hyper scalers. 她近年买了app dynamics, splunk 等performance (production) monitoring 的软件公司。很久以前买过webex  I gave it more thought: I think the main difference between Cisco and say other hyper scalers such as Amazon and

Reading Time: < 1 minute 美国今年又是总统大选年。自从川普2016年参选以来，美国的政治也是两派撕裂，有时甚至波及到家庭。比如说家里一个是川粉，另一个是坚定的民主党（有时又被叫为民猪党，或白左），夫妻反目或离婚的都有。有时即使同是共和党，比如川普的高参 Kellyanne Conway 和她的老公 George Conway （他是反川派）好像也在办离婚。在微信群里面我的同学就是再说：就像曼德拉把南非带入深渊，奥巴马把美国带入深渊。下面是我的反驳。 南非我不知道：我没有去过，听说过一些，但是我的生活/生命宗旨是seeing is believing 或者说I am from show me state （Missouri). 我来美国27年，先后经历过克林顿，小布什，奥巴马，川普（特朗普），和拜登当总统。大事经历过9-11，08年金融危机, Obama 当选为美国历史上第一位黑人总统，10年三月国会通过affordable care act 俗称Obama Care, 2016年川普击败希拉里，2020年疫情，2021年一月六号国会山的那一摊事（我知道多数右派，共和党人士不认为这个是大事，虽然彭斯和佩洛西，还有那赵女士的老公估计是被吓了一跳）。我觉得美国现在虽然有这样那样的问题，想来美国的人还是远超过想离开美国的人。我也相信所有这些美国总统们心底里都是希望美国越来越好。我知道我在一个比较woke 政治正确的人，但是对我本人来说，我没有political ambitions, 我已年过半百，下（小）半辈子估计也是在美国过了。虽然有时开玩笑去这里，去那里，但是小孩是美国人，她们在这里，我们最后我想也在这里吧。我心底里希望，美国也好，南非🇿🇦也好，中国🇨🇳也好，大家都好。希望我们的下一代越来越好 🙂 PS: 忘了两个较大的事：同性恋课可以结婚（2015），联邦层面堕胎不再合法(2022)。分别是Obama, Biden 在人任时最高法院裁定。也是美国人民政治群众生活中的大事。美国在过去27年中最高法院一直是保守派占多数：共和党总统提名的大法官占多数，以前5:4, 现在6:3. 美国迄今为止没有亚裔的总统和大法官。以前我很希望我的大女儿能打破这个glass ceiling. 这次Kamala 也许能打破一个。我老大现在对从政，做律师兴趣不大，她一般至少要四十几岁才能做到那个位置，我要争取活到活到八九十碎。当然第一步是见到她们高中大学毕业🎓 🙂 PS2: 我想起来了：严格里说，Obama 是属于那种坐火箭上去的干部。美国总统一般来说比较理想的是做过州长，副总统，参议员等。他的经历有点像林肯：另一个从伊利诺伊州出来的总统。 Last but not least, I like to share this X post from Joseph

Reading Time: < 1 minute 来美国将近27年，很多方面已比较适应，包括她们这里(比较坑叔）的英制。英里，英寸，英镑等，不过我在心里换算一般还可以，因为换算相对简单。就是这个华氏的温度换算比较麻烦: (F-32)x5/9, 后来碰到一个当过海军飞行员的老兵说他们的一个简化的八九不离十的算法：(F-30)/2 好像也还可以啊。我告诉我小女儿：我的脑子里还是摄氏度。她们也知道，她们的理想室温是70华氏度，我们是75度。哪天等我做了美国总统（不过我做不了，因为我不是在这里出生的），要等我的女儿做了美国总统，我让她把这英制改了，我估计英国🇬🇧现在也是用国际的米制了吧：没去过英国 it’s on my list: no pressure girls 🙂 芝加哥到香港的直达航班 在小红书上听到这个，跑到她家网站一看，果然有 ORD to HKG 航班，价格也还公道。看来美国的航空公司短期内是不会开通 ORD to PVG 的航线了。 It looks like this flight started on October 3, 2023. Quote the article: The three-times-weekly flight, operated by the airline’s state-of-the-art Airbus A350-1000 aircraft, will depart Chicago at 4:05pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and