Archive for December, 2006

Gallery is set up

Published by lamar on 20061215 in Computers and Technology. 0 Comments

Yay!! I’ve been productive today. I got WordPress installed (WordPress is the blogging software), and I’ve now also installed Gallery2 and just finished uploading the first batch of pictures!! I’m really excited because I have so many pictures and so much to tell about what I’ve done in the last year and 4 months, and these two things will allow me to share everything very conveniently. Link for the pictures is on the right beneath the “peugh.org” heading — “Picture Gallery”. I haven’t finished laying things out or figuring out all the options for WordPress or Gallery, so there’ll probably be lots of changes in the next few days. More to come soon!

happy horse.. spicy mama?!

Published by lamar on 20061214 in Life in Asia and happy horse.. spicy mama?!. 0 Comments

You’ve got to be wondering, “What the heck does he mean by ‘happy horse.. spicy mama’? What a weirdo!”

So, here it is: As part of making me legal here in Taiwan, I have to have a Chinese name that’s used on official documents and stuff. My Chinese name is 樂馬, which is pronounced pretty similarly to the English pronunciation of my name (the Chinese sounds roughly like “Le ma”). Mandarin chinese has tones (4 of them, with a 5th “neutral” tone, Taiwanese has 7, and the crazy Thai’s have to deal with like 13 of them). Each syllable gets it’s own tone, so the same two syllables (such as “le ma”) in a row could potentially have 25 different meanings.

All that to explain: My chinese name literally means “Happy Horse” (Le Ma (4th tone, 3rd tone)), whereas one of the mis-pronunciations of my name means “Spicy Mama” (La Ma (4th tone, 1st tone)). Just about every Chinese person I’ve told my Chinese name has chuckled, if not just outright laughed at my silly name. I guess it probably doesn’t help that I call myself “Spicy Mama” half the time… :-D

So I’m finally joining the blogging world..

Published by lamar on 20061214 in Computers and Technology. 0 Comments

Alright. I’ve finally taken the plunge and taken the time to actually do something with my website. First, this blog, which I plan to regularly update. Next, probably later tonight, I’ll set up a photo gallery so I can actually do something useful with all the pictures I’ve taken (wow - 15.6GB since I bought my camera last July!).