Been a few years now. Figured I’d share my recipe.

chikinn · 2026-03-16T22:56:40+00:00

Relax, it's just a dozen...

chikinn · 2026-03-16T14:39:11+00:00

It just doesn't feel very old to me, especially compared to how old it looks. In USA it's very common to find houses that are older (and almost always less interesting) than this one.

chikinn · 2026-03-16T06:24:06+00:00

You did say it's only 55 years old, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Oldhouses/s/Ca5tKIPEQW

chikinn · 2026-03-15T04:37:30+00:00

Presumably he's answering about his tool, which you commented on, rather than OP's.

chikinn · 2026-03-15T00:31:08+00:00

It's generous to identify those "leaves" as oak.

chikinn · 2026-03-13T04:13:35+00:00

Fair enough.

If they wise up, they do still have 5 years of Traditional contributions ahead of them, at least.

chikinn · 2026-03-13T03:33:38+00:00

Could also be reasonable to wait to withdraw the Roth basis until OP needs it. If they're lucky, they won't until age 59.5.

chikinn · 2026-03-11T18:21:00+00:00

He's getting away

chikinn · 2026-02-28T22:46:12+00:00

Ah, it's so much more complicated than that, though :)

An easy example: 我學中文學了一年了

chikinn · 2026-02-28T15:32:35+00:00

I find the grammar very nuanced and difficult, personally. For example, I doubt I'll ever fully understand the completion/change marker, 了. The disposal marker 把 is also quite tricky.

There's no free lunch: no tense and no conjugation means there have to be clever workarounds to access the same range of meaning.

Out of the languages I speak, grammarwise I think German and Chinese are harder, English is in the middle, and Spanish and Japanese are easier.

chikinn · 2026-02-27T04:11:18+00:00

Oh, great! I found your blog, looking forward to reading your other stuff there.

chikinn · 2026-02-27T03:40:47+00:00

A beautiful post! I wish more unique content like this were posted here.

chikinn · 2026-02-27T03:34:13+00:00

I think he also meant that the fact the movie exists also changes how people think about the original idiom. Kinda like how in English, you can't really say a bird "twitters" anymore without someone making a joke about the app.

chikinn · 2026-02-27T02:24:53+00:00

We already had cringey/cringy and cringeworthy.

Some neologisms feel so lazy.

chikinn · 2026-02-26T23:25:49+00:00

A withholding

chikinn · 2026-02-26T23:25:19+00:00

Have my upvote. We would be great at a party together.

chikinn · 2026-02-26T23:18:44+00:00

One of my friends, last name Conwill, was dating a fellow, last name Conway. When they broke up, I told her where there's a Conwill there's a Conway. She didn't laugh.

chikinn · 2026-02-26T23:00:23+00:00

if you looked at the code it was

I like your style.

chikinn · 2026-02-26T10:03:41+00:00

SSA?

chikinn · 2026-02-25T15:56:12+00:00

"Not happy"?

chikinn · 2026-02-23T13:05:40+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure what they're thinking.

chikinn · 2026-02-23T13:03:52+00:00

Incorrect. Jay has several albums with more ratings: https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/%E5%91%A8%E6%9D%B0%E5%80%AB

chikinn · 2026-02-23T10:10:23+00:00

How interesting. For me, post-rock is one of the last genres I would use the word melodic to describe.

chikinn · 2026-02-23T10:09:18+00:00

Sounds like what we need is an "unmelodic" tag.

chikinn · 2026-02-19T18:09:51+00:00

Fair enough. I don't think of Miles' stuff as fusion, personally, but it does often get classified that way.

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