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I’ll be attending Sass Workshop on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 in Reston, VA. Even though I have been working with Sass quite a bit, I am looking into diving deeper into advanced techniques and Compass. If you’re planning on going, but haven’t bought the ticket, you can use this web address for $25 off.
To prove how important diacritics are in Vietnamese writing, here’s a conversation I had on Facebook that started out with a haircut, but could mean totally something else depending on how dirty your mind is:
John Smith Ban thich cat ngan hay cat dai?
Donny Truong Writing Vietnamese without “dấu” is quite dangerous.
John Smith And sometimes so confusing that it makes people ask you over and over for clarification. You answer and answer but they keep asking, asking. Cu hoi, cu hoi, cu hoi hoai! Until you get upset and want to chui lon!
Donny Truong Du roi, du roi. Dung chui lon nua.
Today, I am informing the George Washington University community that Doug Guthrie is no longer serving as the Dean of the School of Business. Fundamental differences about financial and operational performance were significant enough to warrant a change in leadership.
Damn!
I just started reading Butterick’s Practical Typography and really digging it. I am half way through Frank Chimero’s The Shape of Design and liking it. Scott Chacon’s is Pro Git is highly recommended to me from a former colleague and I’ll get to it eventually. You should read them too because they’re all free. Do support the writers though.
Neuroscientist Penelope Lewis talks to Terry Gross about how sleep affects memory from her new book The Secret World of Sleep: The Surprising Science of the Mind at Rest. Also worth listening is TED talk from circadian neuroscientist Russell Foster in which he shares three popular theories about why we sleep.
Eric Meyer shares the “77 Hours” that led up to the diagnose of the tumor in his five-year old daughter’s brain. It’s heart-wrecking to hear something like this happens to a little girl. I hope she’ll make a speedy recovery.
Bác Lan viết:
Từ cuộc reunion đầu tiên, qua những góp ý kiến, bác đả thấy ở Donny có thật nhiều tình cảm gia đình, nhất là bác đọc qua trang web của con, với những dòng chữ chân tình đối với con cái gia đinh và nhất là đối với các dì trong gia đình con. Trong khi mọi người thích ồn ào, nhưng đôi khi, con vẫn thích sự tĩnh lạng riêng tư. Cám ơn trời Phật đả cho con vào đại gia đình họ Nguyễn Khắc.
Mến, bác Lan
Đọc vài dòng của của bác khiến tôi rất cảm động. Lần đầu gặp bác tôi rất mến và yêu quý bác lắm.
We’re currently in Lancaster to attend my aunt’s funeral service. Within two weeks, we lost two beloved aunts: Anh K. L. Huynh and Thanh L. Risser.
Next week is going to be awesome. I’ll be attending An Event Apart in D.C. on Monday and Tuesday. After two full days of soaking in all the information, I’ll be joining my in-law’s family for their annual reunion at Lake Anne to relax for the rest of the week. I am not so sure about the relaxing part since I have to look after the two loud, energetic kids. Still, I can’t wait.