{"id":8,"date":"2005-11-29T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quadhome.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2005-11-29T01:07:07","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T17:07:07","slug":"loving-mother-and-dutiful-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Loving Mother and Dutiful Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, these two with another nearby would be called &#8220;Middle Knob&#8221;, &#8220;Little Knob&#8221;, and &#8220;West Knob&#8221;. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>They are tiny peaks standing below some other sharp hills. They have stairs cut in to them for climbing. &#8220;Loving Mother&#8221; has 276 stairs, each of which I very, very slowly counted in bad Chinese on the way up. Made for an easy climb.<\/p>\n<p>Found them after some blundering around in the village of P&#8217;ing Hsi, which is a narrowing of the road through some stores and such.<\/p>\n<p>The blundering led out of town. Coming back in, I thought I found the right path and went up it. The path led to a couple of houses, one with a barking dog and a women who was either coming or leaving. I showed her the book with the Chinese characters for what I was looking for. She said something that started with what sounded like 200. I presumed &#8220;meters&#8221; and she was pointing to where I should go. Thanked her, went down the hill, down the road, found the right path and a big sign showing all the sights. Read it for a bit, started up the path, heard honking and saw the woman in her car waving to me to get in. OK. So, I&#8217;m male and she&#8217;s female, so I guess she&#8217;s not up to no good. I get in, she drives me a little ways down the road to where another little road leads up and indicates that this is where I need to go.<\/p>\n<p>Sure &#8216;nouf. The trail had been blocked or something by the new road.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was Monday, I found myself in the low end of the age range of walkers. Few people out, though. Fun walk. Cute hills.<\/p>\n<p>Caught the same bus back to the MRT (subway). Helped a kid with his English homework and got him to drill me on numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Got back tired.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the evening getting the other half of the hotel I&#8217;m in up with two computers on the internet. New WIFI wall\/router box. Real hassle. Needed to change an XP box by guesswork (Spanish XP), then change IE to use Big5 so a guy from Singapore could read the wall&#8217;s menus. When we got it running, the Ubuntu box could work (it could not before that). And, so this is written from a CD-booted Ubuntu box.<\/p>\n<p>Used this special boot to look at asuka upload. Looks like the last two things were lost. No sweat. One was probably a junk pic. The other was an audio recording that I can easily dupe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s late. I&#8217;m tired. So much for computers and the productivity they give to us. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tks, Scott. The box did the trick for these guys. Or at least I expect everything to work as soon as this PC&#8217;s XP is re-config&#8217;d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the US, these two with another nearby would be called &#8220;Middle Knob&#8221;, &#8220;Little Knob&#8221;, and &#8220;West Knob&#8221;. Or something like that. They are tiny peaks standing below some other sharp hills. They have stairs &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}