The Audio Blog of Steven Sirski

Reading up for the DELTA. Recommended reading Chapters 1-3, then Chapters 4-5. How many chapters in the books? Five. Ummmm...

Reading Journey to the West in Chinese! Reviewing characters.

NEW VARIANT! I WONDER WHY NOW?!

Watching El Estepario Siberiano... a drummer on YouTube. CRAZY one-handed drumming! (All metal songs, a lot from Slipknot.) Also watched some Danny Carey, the drummer for Tool.

Double workouts again but still a pain between the shoulders, the trochaic muscle or something deeper?

Half Murph:

2 mile warm up: 22.06

1 mile: 9.20

50 pull ups

100 push ups

150 air squats: 20.45

1 mile: 8.43

Pull ups went very well but I was doing singles from 30-50.

Show notes tracks n vids up on stevensirski.com

Have a good weekend!

Couldn't go to Tiananmen cause... you need to book an appointment. I think the flower display will be there for a few more weeks.

Sanlitun... busy! No one sneaking photos today so this is a change.

Book store Page One: nice place but still couldn't convince myself to buy anything. I have too much to read as it is. I'd like to read the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Need to make more time for reading.

400 RMB... flowers or pijiu?

Seven months of creative output:

Inktober

NaNoWriMo

-Writing a book in 31 days

-James Altechur's possible method

December Drumming

Jamuary

February (?)

March Motion

April After Effects (maybe)

May You Make Your Movie

Show notes track n vids up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Sirski! You Mother!

Flower market and a new cactus collection. 400 RMB on flowers or booze?

Central authority has final say on Dalai Lama's reincarnation. Umm what?

SLV vids: reading with Steve! I pick a topic and literally just read it from a website.

Theory of the future of the mind: will 'mind reading' technology be the Google / new tech media of the future? By that I mean, as some are unable to keep up with current tech and need to modify their approach and use, how will we, from today, learn to control our own minds if we are part of a network, connected, accessible and hackable, when we are not used to controlling out thoughts? We can control what we post online and say, but controlling what we think will be far more difficult.

Show notes n tracks on the site stevensirski.com and don't forget to take a look at Spotify for my bigcast as well. Episode 33 just published last week and Episode 34 in the works!

Hug a foreigner! You may not see them for a while!

Got cold outside! But finally blue skies.

Elon, Putin and Zelenskyj

Putin's speech: very distorted view of history

Elon's tweet

Zelenskyj's reaction

And USD now going down... what next?

Robotic window washer... why haven't they come about yet?

Starting a newsletter on substack? Once a month, unpaid, gives me a chance to review and try something new.

Inktober begins

Next month is NaNoWriMo - how to write a book in 30 days.

Show notes tracks n vids up on stevensirski.com

Have a good one!

Guo qing jie! New / Modern China is 73. Any special events? Not that I knew of.

Episode 34 recorded... a long one and a bit of a chin wag.

Cinnamon buns and macarons

Going aways... more people leaving. Will they ever come back? Why don't I leave? Inflation and the cost of things.

Feeling better, though a couple of late nights have taken their toll. Slow workouts today.

Show notes n tracks up on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week!

End of the month already!

Another podcast episode to be recorded this weekend, another long timer leaving. Keep on going or pack it in?

The authorities said that a correct national map is a symbol of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.

- China cracks down on illegal maps... do these include maps that have redrawn Crimea as part of Russia? And what did they say about the invasion of Ukraine?

Youtube watching

Librivox listening

Blog post writing

and...

a live track?

Show notes tracks n vids up on my website

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Have a good end of month and a good weekend!

Payday! Markets will close for a week, but too late to get your money out if you didn't sell today. Let's see how Chinese markets react.

All of these ESL books have some sort of disclaimer about he/she pronoun use.

Dave Smith on Joe Rogan, talks about a deal that could have been accepted... luckily he starts going through the history of how we got here or else I would have said it's a bit shortsighted. To be clear, back in 1991 Ukraine AGREED to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for guarantees that Russia wouldn't invade. People now say that was contingent on no NATO expansion. NATO expands. Why did NATO expand? Cause countries saw how much better they would be treated.if they went West instead of East!

Pro-US or Pro-West? Says something about NATO expanding which was a violation of 'the deal' back in 1990s. Colbery Report: Gideon Rose talks about Ukraine trying to up its game cause... life would suck under Russia. Ukrainian govt tries to go pro-Russia, pro-West forces in Ukraine overthrow the govt. And? Yes, Ukrainians made a choice to go along with it because they knew what shit awaited them under Moscow! Sure, blame the US! BLAME THEM! Ukraine isn't new to this, but they did want it to stop! To be their own country, to make their own decisions. Pro-NATO, why not? THAT IS A CHOICE!

Had a colleague want to give money to a lady from Ukraine, don't know why he brought me over to the table but to verify that she was indeed Ukrainian. She seemed enough to be.

Aaaaannnndddd EPISODE 33 of the bigcast is up and ready to stream and download. David Harrison Horton joins me once again to talk about one of his latest feats: publishing a book!

Bigcast up on all the major podcast networks, small cast available there too.

For archives n all, stevensirski.com.

Have a good one!

Feeling alright, slow AF. Token workout this morning just to try it out.

Sanitary napkins and sex ed and other headlines from today!

That market, though it looks bad, these are historical levels of badness.

Russians or USAmericans or Europeans clipping the pipelines? Pro-Russian observers say it was the US, pro-West observers say it was Russia. Either way, in the day and age of so much security and observation, at least there's one place you can get away with something: under the sea!

Show notes tracks n vids up on the site stevensirski.com

Asteroid hit! NASA does another first.

Discourse analysis... all the things that are so obvious most wouldn't bother to state them.

Popped up the rest of the episodes for the big cast, now available on the major platforms. YouTube... well, ooops. Can only use your phone number to verify two channels per year. So do I wait or find someone else's to use?

Was thinking of using those burner phone websites but... they publish the phone numbers that text to it!

DELTA... Discourse Analysis: basically all those break room conversations that you've had with fellow ESL teachers about the theories of this and that... none of which is directly applicable to the classroom. Seems like these books were written just so we don't keep having the same conversation about language.

Looking for pastries and pies that can deliver... to Beijing.

Show notes tracks n vids up on stevensirski.com

Have a good day!

Welp, as expected, Friday went on. Kinda lost Saturday. That's why you do these things on a Thursday.

Physio was all right. Spent a lot of time on that piriformis. Trainer handed in his resignation... and was rejected! This must be big business in China cause it was difficult to get an appointment. Apparently they do a lot of work with the national teams.

Eating garlic all day because of some sort of head congestion. It burns a little to eat the garlic raw but... it helps! Not too much at one time though or else it upsets your stomach. Orange juice, green tea, and lots of fluids.

Fraud training. May seem obvious, but it bares repeating.

VTubing - using an avatar to stream. Not a bad idea! Will this lead into the Metaverse - how to be famous and wealthy... without revealing who you are. Will it work?

Aaaannndd..... you asked, and now you receive!

To make it easier for people to listen on the go, I've now uploaded and made available my big cast on all the major networks. Spotify, Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, Amazon, Google (pending), iHeart, and Overcast! Working on YouTube!

Show notes tracks n vids up on stevensirski.com

Have a good start of week and end of the month!