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Jul 10, 2013
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I keep reading that the big tech companies, most notably Google and Facebook, are finding that job performance isn't highly correlated to an employee's college grades or even the reputation of the school attended. And I also understand that tech companies are less inclined to ask interview questions such as "Why are manhole covers round?" Apparently the answers to those questions don't predict future employee success.
So now Google and Facebook and perhaps others are using secret new methods of collecting information on the Internet to identify great candidates they can poach from other companies.
Sorry, my bullshit detector just went off.
I think what is really going on is that employee success in the tech industry is most correlated with luck. But if you work in Human Resources, and your job involves identifying good employees before they do something great, you need some sort of flavorful bullshit to make it seem as if there is science to what you do. Whenever I hear that someone has a secret algorithm, or they discovered something while data mining, I get highly suspicious.
In my experience, people who managed to get good grades from prestigious schools are indeed far more effective than people who didn't. I expect a Stanford grad to do be smarter and more effective than a Chico State grad at least 80% of the time.
But there have also been studies showing that the worst kind of work group is one that has too many smart people. Ideally, you want one smart person and several competent followers on a team, or so the studies suggest. So it doesn't surprise me that Google or Facebook could be hiring geniuses and experiencing project gridlock as the brainiacs stand around arguing. So that might be the problem.
I wonder how anyone can identify a great employee working for another company when that employee has only worked on teams. Often it is the team dynamic, the timing of the project, the chemistry of the group, the effectiveness of management, and a hundred other factors that create success. Most of it looks like luck.
I can see how a "Moneyball" approach works in the limited case of baseball. A batter is a member of a team, but the team has little influence on how he hits. A player's batting average is all about his own skill. But how do you evaluate, for example, an employee whose every move is part of a larger collaborative effort? You can't moneyball that.
I think the secret sauce that makes some groups successful is the chemistry of the team, along with luck, of course. And, as I mentioned, good team chemistry might mean having one smart person and several followers. The problem is implementing that system. Could a manager really get away with organizing teams by brightness level? "Okay, team. Susan is the smart one and the rest of you are . . . the other ones. Go do something awesome."
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Aug 4, 2013
Got to remember: the guy that got the position isn't necessarily the best person that could be found. It's the person that did the best in the interview.
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Jul 30, 2013
There's no one answer. I know myself to be very capable in my line, but nearly worthless as a manager of others. At the same time, I've have excellent managers who matched my skills and then some. And some who somehow were excellent managers of teams whose talents they didn't fully understand at all -- but respected. http://duhoc360.com/du-hoc-chau-a/du-hoc-han-quoc
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Jul 17, 2013
"I can see how a "Moneyball" approach works in the limited case of baseball. A batter is a member of a team, but the team has little influence on how he hits. A player's batting average is all about his own skill. But how do you evaluate, for example, an employee whose every move is part of a larger collaborative effort? You can't moneyball that."
You can, or else there would be no intelligence. This is the same problem faced by neurons, which need to increase your intelligence by learning things. You do something that your brain decides was probably right or wrong, and then it has to decide which of a billion neural connections contributed to that result, and reward or punish them. There are different approaches to this problem, such as temporal difference learning (which the brain uses) or backpropagation (which it doesn't). It can be done, but you need a lot more data.
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Jul 17, 2013
"In my experience, people who managed to get good grades from prestigious schools are indeed far more effective than people who didn't. I expect a Stanford grad to do be smarter and more effective than a Chico State grad at least 80% of the time."
You have to specify whether they attended Stanford before or after 1975. Before the seventies, the main filter to get through, the filter that prevented most people from attending elite universities, was intelligence. After the seventies, it was wealth.
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Jul 16, 2013
There is, unfortunately no direct answer to this, even with one individual who may behave differently in different !$%*!$%*!$%*!$ To give an example, an ex colleague of mine was a part of a team where he was constantly considered to be what you would call a 'bad hire'. Not getting along with superiors, fights with colleagues, laid back attitude, everything you could think of.
However, the entire team itself was soon poached by a competitor firm (this is an Indian situation I am talking of) and naturally, he was one who did not move along with them. This left 3-4 of us in the department to take the leadership in a crisis scenario.
There was an overnight change in the guy! Now in the drivers seat, over the next 5-6 months, he turned the crisis situation into a golden opportunity for recapturing market share. He was able to handle situations and provide solutions in cases where the erstwhile "star performers" had been at a complete loss as to what to do.
Just an example of how one person can be suited to one set of individuals / situation, while not to another
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Jul 15, 2013
Scott, your b.s. detector may be premature. I doubt they are saying that they can replace the whole interview and selection process, just how to identify which candidates to enter the process. For facebook, it might be as simple an algorithm as 'find people who only log on outside of business hours'. Coupling that metric with good grades would likely yield some very motivated and self-disciplined people.
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Jul 15, 2013
I've been interviewing tech people for 15-20 years, and I think any claim by a company that they have created a better interview process is most likely BS, because the ability most well correlated to an employee's success is the one that you cannot get at in an interview: how well he can overcome problems, what I call "unstuckness".
At my company, almost everyone is smart, like top 1% smart. Even the dumb people here are smart, just like that crappy fourth-string QB on your favorite football team who is actually an unbelievably gifted athlete, just not quite AS unbelievably gifted as the three guys in front of him. Excuse the pun, but hiring for brains is a no-brainer; you can tell how smart someone is in five minutes, determine their skill level in 15 more, and get a pretty accurate read on their experience with another 10.
What you can't do is to truly get at their ability to overcome problems, for the simple reason that that ability only manifests itself over time. I've never seen an accurate way of judging this character trait without watching someone's performance over many months. Like jakesdad, in interviews I use questions that require the candidate to ask for clarification, but I do it mostly to see if they WILL ask -- that willingness being the best approximation of unstuckness that I have found. It's not perfect, because people act differently in interviews than they do when actually working. They can keep up an effort for an hour or two that they can't (or won't) over the long haul. But it's better than nothing.
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Jul 15, 2013
Hey Scott, propos of nothing, have you seen pacific rim yet?
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Jul 15, 2013
There is an easy predictor is success. Diligence. Smart diligent people will do better than dumb diligent people, but even dumb diligent people o better than lazy, smart people. What they don't understand, they learn. They concentrate. They try harder when they fail, and they keep looking for new way to do things. It takes 10 000 hours to become an expert and someone diligent gets through those 10 000 hours in a shorter time than someone who plays golf half the time.
That said, when forming a project team choose [only] one really smart "left-field" thinker (tech smart), one socially adept person (who is everyone's shoulder to cry on, organises lunches and team stuff out of love not duty) (people smart), one charismatic, ego centric and good looking guy that runs the project (politically smart), and one anally-retentive idiot that everyone can hate but keeps the reports and documentation in line (financially smart). You need one "set" of these misfits for about every 15-20 people on a team. The rest of them are the ones who do the real work, and should not fall into one of these categories.
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Jul 13, 2013
" Raw brainpower is over-rated and does not necessarily make one a good team member or leader. Emotional stability is a good trait. Good work habits, consideration for one's teammates are plusses too. Attributes negatively correlated with very high IQ?"
From what I recall, attributes like kindness and compassion correlate very much with high IQ.
However, success in life does not. It increases with IQ up until 125-130, and then drops off.
The smartest ones tend not to make much money. I imagine philosophers in hermit-caves, to be honest.
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Jul 13, 2013
I think you make a good point, which is that success in tech is mostly random and many of the people at Google think they're there for competence, when they're succeeding because they're there. Common mistake.
However, I think you misread his comment.
It wasn't that what school you attended wasn't important.
It's that (1) your GPA and (2) your performance on trick questions in interviews are irrelevant.
GPA is often a function of detail memorization and evading professor trickery. This has zero correlation to real-world success, which demands an entirely different thought process.
The Google interview questions were in my view completely dumb. Thought-experiments are neat and all but don't measure the ability to apply knowledge, which is what the job requires.
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Jul 12, 2013
WTF is wrong with Chico State? Just sayin ..
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Jul 12, 2013
"If I put a person into a job, and he or she does not perform, I have made a mistake. I have no business blaming the person, no business invoking the 'Peter Principle', no business complaining. I am to blame."
Peter Drucker
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Jul 12, 2013
The problem I have with the assumption that good grades/school = better employee is, most major inventions that have benefited society were created by dropouts. Perhaps all good grades/school does is create a better corporate lemming. Which is fine since the world needs great corporate lemmings. But the true genius comes from those who abhor structure.
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Jul 12, 2013
until recently I was a director at a reasonably top 25 .com (not google or FB but in the next tier below them). I batted >.800 on my hires (~a dozen or so) which is not a huge p value but more than anecdotal. my basic strategy is to ask questions that force the candidate to ask me questions - I can tell a lot more from a candidate's requests for clarification than I can from their answers.
secondly, I'm far more interested in how they support their answers than what they are - ex: I like to ask "Android or iPhone & why?" it forces them to take a stand on a 50/50 ? they have no idea what my position is. if they hedge I have no use for them! I actually had one say windoze mobile & while I don't agree I was impressed w/their argument (& willingness to answer outside my options). I much rather hear a well-reasoned argument for BlackBerry than a fanboy/kool-aid drinker...
finally, I'm a big believer in "you can't coach speed!" there are four quadrants to a candidate: intelligence, attitude, knowledge & experience - most people hire for the last two but those are the most malleable! you can fix those & you can move the attitude needle some (varies by individual) but you can't move the first. I can take a guy who runs a 4.3 & teach him the playbook/give him reps but I can't take a 4.8 guy who know the book & get him to run a 4.3. I know HR doesn't want to hear that but it is what it is..
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Jul 11, 2013
An interesting post.
I have a different take on the subject. People seem to perform most effectively, both as individuals and in teams, when the goal they're attempting to reach is both perceived to be important and agreed to by the group.
The goal also has to be clear-cut. If the goal is vague or open to interpretation, people spend more time arguing about it than trying to reach it.
We've all seen the old sci-fi ploy where aliens invade the Earth. Suddenly, all the people in every country on the planet put aside their petty differences and work to defeat the Evil Empire. There you go.
I recall being involved in the sale of a complex piece of software, made up of many modules. The very knowledgeable domain-expert designers would argue for literally months over the most ridiculous minutiae of functionality. They both had the goal of having their point of view win out. There was no person in charge to focus them back on the real goal, to wit: getting the frigging software done so we could sell it.
I also have been involved in situations where a new sales 'leader' was brought in. The 'leader' would say things like, "Our goal is to increase sales by 30% this year. So all of your quotas are going up by 30%" And that would be it.
When the 'leader' would be asked what additional resources, products or investment would be brought in that would lead to this increase, they had no answer. I call that 'management by magic;' such managers set a goal that can only be reached, in their company's current environment, by waving a magic wand.
Much of success, I have found, starts with leadership. The leader must be able to set ambitious but realistic goals, and then build a vision of how those goals can be reached. The employees he or she then hires should be appropriately skilled people who strongly believe in the goal, understand how they will gain personally from it, and both share and agree with the vision of how that goal can be acheived.
The leader must also credibly demonstrate how those employees will benefit when the goal is reached. Vague promises of possible future largess are ignored by all but the most ignorant. If the leader attempts to snooker the employees in this way, he or she will build a culture in which a bunch of Wallys waddle around looking for ways to assign blame for the inevitable failure on someone else.
American management, in general, has two fatal flaws: first, they believe punishment works better than reward. Second, they blame people rather than processes for failure. Dr. W. Edwards Deming tried to point that out to US businesses; they ignored him. So, he went to the Japanese. They embraced him, and then they promptly started to kick our butts in manufacturing quality and efficiency.
Scott believes that success in business is a matter of luck, and that being able to hire effective employees is a combination of luck and chemistry. If that were the case, the most effective hiring solution would be to put all the candidates' names in a hat and hire the ones you pulled out first.
I can now see why Scott has never updated and re-released "The Dilbert Principle."
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Jul 11, 2013
I think you're mostly on the mark, but I wouldn't use the word "smarter" when comparing leaders to followers. The best follower may be smarter than the best leader; leadership and IQ probably have very little correlation. I would prefer a team in which everyone was brilliant (and certainly want no duds) but with COMPATIBLE personalities. Building one is an art and probably cannot be reduced to science. It's a hallmark of good managers (more so than technical competence).
I believe that hiring is also an art. Test are probably quite effective for technical positions, but how do you test someone for a marketing role? Or management (running a department)? And some people hate tests and don't do well on them even though they're very competent.
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Jul 11, 2013
Generations alternate - one which achieves and one which falls back - often in spite of a much better education.
Attendance at top Universities has more to do with how well Daddy (and/or Mummy) did than how good the kid is. And the easy route - having things paid for - hardly incentivises them to go out and create for themselves.
What Google is after is not the kids who took the easy ride through school and University on their daddy's coat-tails, but those who have learned to think along the way.
The Richard Bransons (who had a Stowe and Oxbridge education, but rebelled and set up and made a success of a publishing company while at school).
In Maslov's hierarchy of needs, there is a 3 level pyramid. In the HR world, academic success only gets you to first level. It doesn't measure Emotional Intelligence which is much more important.
Google is not looking for the "bricks in the wall" churned out by the industrial age academic system. It is looking for the linchpin, the artist, the "Think Different" individual. Much harder to quantify.
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Jul 11, 2013
Whtllnew: The original Peter Principle was that the smart ones would be promoted until they reached a job they couldn't do -- their level of incompetence. There they'd remain, until the entire organization chart was inevitably filled with people not quite capable.
Then there's the more Dilbertian view, that management is sort of a priesthood/pseudoscience where confident incompetents place themselves -- and others like themselves -- in charge of the people who actually know how to do stuff.
There's no one answer. I know myself to be very capable in my line, but nearly worthless as a manager of others. At the same time, I've have excellent managers who matched my skills and then some. And some who somehow were excellent managers of teams whose talents they didn't fully understand at all -- but respected.
And of course, a few who thought being allowed to delegate tasks they couldn't do personally made them John Galt. These last never grasp they're merely facilitators of the competent, not their masters.
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Jul 11, 2013
Interestingly, in the banking industry, occasionally you'll see when people are hired away from one bank to another, they bring their whole team (usually 5-10 people) with them. This is considered the top level of poaching because essentially the whole institutional knowledge about a particular area will go, as well as the relationships with the clients.
That said, usually the team isn't as successful in the new environment, though you get the occasional mega success story, which is usually followed by the team splitting off and forming their own hedge fund for their particular type of financial product.
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Today the company is still run in line with the family values and ethos of Cuths, believing implicitly in total customer satisfaction. They clearly see consistent, friendly, efficiently service to the customer as the company's central belief. It stands today, as it stood in Cuth Harrison's day, the foundation upon which to build a secure and profitable future.


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CTU members vote on contract deal that ended teachers strike
By ROSALIND ROSSI Education Reporter October 2, 2012 7:15AM
Karen Lewis, president of Chicago Teachers Union with protesting students at Dyett High School, 555 E. 51st Street, CTU President casted her vote as teachers across the city vote to ratify the new teachers contract, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 . | John H. White~Sun-Times
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Yet another rating agency downgraded Chicago Board of Education bonds Tuesday, citing the $74 million annual expense of a new teachers contract just as teachers across the city voted on whether to ratify the deal.
The action by Fitch Ratings followed last week's decision by Moody's Investor Services to downgrade the district's bonds for the second time in less than three months.
In dropping its rating one notch, from A + to A, Fitch said the new teachers contract "results in considerable increased costs to the Chicago Public Schools'' at a "time of highly stressed operations.''
Fitch said that even before the deal ended the first teachers strike in 25 years, CPS planned to drain district reserve funds to balance this school year's budget. Plus, Fitch noted, the system is anticipating a $1 billion deficit next school year, due to a "dramatic jump'' in pension costs and the expiration of a pension relief package.
Fitch Inc. managing director Amy Laskey said Tuesday that during Fitch rating interviews, CPS officials outlined a plan to pay for new teacher raises, estimated to cost up to $295 million over four years. The plan, she said, was "confidential.''
The downgrade in $6 billion in Board of Ed bonds does not mean that plan is not viable, Laskey said. But it does mean "we felt their financial flexibility was reduced by the settlement and what they were planning to do to pay for it.''
"The need to pay this contract makes [the Chicago Board of Education's] financial stability a little weaker" but "they are still at an A, which is still a very good credit rating,'' Laskey said.
In a statement released Tuesday, the district said CPS is "facing both an educational and financial crisis after years of revenue losses and misplaced priorities."
The statement added that CPS had cut more than a half-billion dollars in spending outside the classroom yet it has "many more tough choices'' to make.
Last week, for the second time in less than three months, Moody's downgraded Chicago Board of Education bonds — from A1 to A2. It, too, cited the added expense of a new teacher contract. An earlier Moody's downgrade, in July, was tied to CPS' decision to drain its reserves to balance its budget.
CPS officials and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have refused to say how the district will pay for a deal that will bring teachers annual raises of 3 percent, 2 percent and 2 percent, followed by an optional fourth year at 3 percent. The agreement suspended a seven-day teacher strike.
Before the strike began, Emanuel said he would not pay for teacher raises at the expense of new funding planned for charter schools. Even so, charter operator Juan Rangel, CEO of the United Neighborhood Organization, planned a massive rally of pro-charter parents Tuesday at the University of Illinois-Chicago forum.
"We want to make sure the contract isn't paid for on the backs of charter schools,'' said Rangel.
Meanwhile, up to 30,000 Chicago Teachers Union members voted Tuesday on whether to ratify a deal that outlined new layoff procedures and softened some of the more onerous parts of a new teacher evaluation system. Both elements were critical to teachers concerned about being displaced by school closures, consolidations and phaseouts.
As she emerged from voting at Dyett High School, CTU President Karen Lewis refused to predict if the tentative contract would pass union muster.
To be ratified, a simple majority of those who vote must approve the deal — a far lower bar than the 75 percent of all union membership needed to go on strike under a new Emanuel-backed law.
"My hope is it will pass, and we will move on," said Lewis.
She refused to say if she cast a "yes" or "no" vote but did say "I voted my conscience.''


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new year couplet (春聯 chunlian) with a Chinese brush, rather than buying a commercially mass-printed one.
I compose another pair of lines for the new year, roughly translated as
Etiquette, music, poetry and books, [we] pass down over hundreds of generations (禮樂詩書傳百代);
[With] blades, spears, swords and halberds, [we] fight across three waters (刀槍劒戟過三江).
The couplet also comes with a banner: Fear neither the literate nor the martial (文武不擋).
My son, Ronne, will be 4 years old in March. It's about the time to teach him some Chinese classical texts for Children, such as Thousand Character Classic (千字文) and Trimetric Classic (三字經), as well as some basic kung-fu exercise.
I hope this couplet bringing in a happy and prosperous year, in which Ronne develops all necessary learning skills and knowledge.
30 January 2014
01 January 2014
New Year's Day before the New Year's Day of the Year of the Horse
(Click to enlarge and see how I have changed over the past few years, from 1st January 2007 to 2014)
The growth of new social networking websites have definitely made Principal Wei's Weblog redundant. Since 2012, the number of entries produced each year here has dropped to only 10, because of the heavy academic workload and life chores I have to deal with.
However, I insist on maintaining the ritual of counting down to New Year at the same spot, taking a photo thereafter and then announcing it on this weblog.
Again I have to repeat that it has something to do with obsession, just as what I have explained in another entry posted several years ago on this weblog. I must have been suffering from a mental disorder characterised by a general psychological inflexibility, a chronic preoccupation with rules, procedures, perfectionism and excessive orderliness.
As usual, in most Chinese-speaking regions, we usher in the Gregorian New Year with other revellers on streets before welcoming the Chinese one. Therefore for the eighth time in a row since the year end 2006, I went to the Taipei 101 fireworks show again last night, with my wife and my 3-year-old son, who is going to be 4 in April 2014.
Whatever happens, unless Blogger is shut down, I will keep being obsessed about taking the New Year photo and announcing it here.
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21 March 2013
A couplet for Edwin's new studio
So many people believe that regular exercise is an important part of a balanced stress management programme and are willing to pay high membership prices to join gyms, health clubs or yoga classes in hopes that nervous tension arising from the fast pace of life in the industrial and metropolitan environments could be antidoted by shaking their bodies in a well organised fashion.
I totally agree with it. I ran three miles both in the morning and in the late afternoon everyday when I was under extreme pressure during the final days of thesis writing in Scotland. However, I opt for Chinese calligraphy.
Chinese calligraphy requires deliberate mental design and concentration on guiding the soft writing brush. Both strength and agility are essential for fine artwork. Therefore, I believe composing couplets and practising writing Chinese characters is a good way to extricate me from academic abyss.
Apart from writing new year couplets at , I compose couplets and write them with a Chinese writing brush for friends on various occasions, such as weddings, birthdays, graduations and etc.
Edwin, a director, producer and historian, has recently started his own studio, light-heartedly named 'Golden Haze Arts and Culture Heath Center', in Taipei. To celebrate the formal establishment of this 'Health Center', I produce this, roughly translated as
With sining voices and dancing images a rainbow appears (歌聲舞影虹彩現);
In souther sphere and northern horizon hundreds of flowers bloom (天南地北百花開).
The couplet also comes with a banner: What an immense cinematic world! (銀海無涯).
I wish him all the best and look forward to producing more interesting audio-visual, theatrical or whatever works with him in the near future.
I wish him all the best and look forward to producing more interesting audio-visual, theatrical or whatever works with him in the near future.
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06 March 2013
Ronne's third birthday
(Three-year-old Ronne making birthday wishes)
Yesterday was my son Ronne's third birthday. Time flies; he is three now.
Thanks to the development of digital cameras and other mobile devices with the function of shooting photos or videos, we can now catch important moments of our life nimbly with confidence. Therefore, look at these three photos taken respectively on Ronne's last three birthdays and see how Ronne has grown over the last three years.
(Two-year old Ronne clapping hands and singing the birthday song with grandparents and mum)
(One-year-old Ronne patrolling to safeguard his birthday cake)
Thanks to the invention of weblogs and social networking websites, many people can now express their views and distribute multimedia works in the cyber world across temporal and spatial boundaries. I have been sharing with my readers sounds of the gramophone records for quite some time, as well as photos of my son. Although, Principal Wei's Weblog stopped for several months in 2012, it resumed on the New Year's Day in 2013.
As the first entry I created this year is a photo of me and my son, I am now fully assured that when you have a baby and happen to have a digital camera, the number of the photos you would take for your child within a month will probably far exceed that of the images you have captured for yourself in the first half of your life. Moreover, if you happen to maintain a blog, it will become an online album for the photos you would take for your child.
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27 February 2013
Making my outdated laptop up to date
Last night, I spent some time upgrading my old PowerBook G4 to a laptop with wireless capability.
PowerBook G4 is my first-ever laptop. It had served me since summer 2002 when I moved to Scotland for doctoral study, and was forced to retire due to an accident in summer 2007. I had some champagne to celebrate my graduation and wedding, and so did the laptop.
Much to my amazement, the champagne-poured PowerBook G4 became alive and kicking after a couple of weeks, but it was still superseded by MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, my second laptop, purchased after the accident. PowerBook G4 was stored in a bookshelf and has remained there ever since.
Now even though I have MacBook Pro Core i7, the third laptop in my life, I still miss the old good times with PowerBook G4. It helped me finish my doctoral thesis; it helped me complete so many commissioned musical works (and make extra money); it helped me connect to my beloved and family when I was in Scotland.
PowerBook G4 is definitely well past its sell-by date, but it still works. Therefore, I decided to fetch a wireless card to make this outdated machine up to date–being able to communicate wirelessly.
I found a second-hand Apple AirPort Card on eBay for USD 18.92 (including postage) and a set of hexalobular socket screwdriver (also known as Torx or star screwdriver) for TWD 145 (roughly USD 5.00) at a hardware shop near my home. Didn't cost much, did it?
It took me only 5 minutes to remove the back cover, instal the wireless card and restore the back. However, it took more two hours to download all sorts of software update files and update the operating system, Java and so on.
Won't blame it, as along as it keeps being in good working order and brining back old good memories.
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23 February 2013
Hand snake lantern
(Ronne and the stretching and curling snake)
The Lantern Festival, the 15th of the first lunar month, falls on Sunday, the 24th of February this year. Just like last year, we received a DIY set–a hand lantern in the shape of a snake, this year's Chinese zodiac animal.
It took use more time than it did last year to assemble the cardboard lantern, because, as you can see in the photos, the snake's body is composed six movable segments, which require more delicate efforts to fit together.
Ronne is going to celebrate the third Lantern Festival in his life with another hand lantern. What a clever design: it can be held in two different fashions, stretching or curling.
Officially named Haha (哈哈), this colourful, shiny snake is painted from its head to tail with 14 graphic decorations inspired by the traditional patterns or symbols from the 14 respective indigenous peoples in Taiwan.
As opposed to its negative impression among the Han Chinese, the snake is believed to be the guardian or embodiment of ancestral power in some indigenous cultures in Taiwan. A hand snake lantern with indigenous tones and colours is obviously designed to bring more positive energy and blessings to all the people in Taiwan.
The lantern festival is traditionally the last day of the Chinese New Year and all lunar new year celebrations conclude on this day. The spring semester 2013 has already begun last Monday in theory; it will surely start next Monday in practice, seriously.
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09 February 2013
New year couplet for the year of the Snake
new year couplet (春聯 chunlian) with a Chinese brush every year, rather than buying a commercially mass-printed one.
Again I compose another pair of lines, which have something to do with music and the academia, for the year of the Snake, roughly translated as
Studying extensively poetry and literature, I dream of prosperity in the ancient capital (遍覽詩書夢華錄);
Knowing broadly tuning and musicking, I listen to sounds of this secular world (博通律呂觀世音).
The couplet also comes with a banner: Scholars and laymen be greeted in spring (雅俗同迎春).
I'm not sure, but my wife Fanne comments that I am improving and the handwriting is better than last year. Better or worse, it's the tradition of the Chens and will be carried on by my son.
Again I compose another pair of lines, which have something to do with music and the academia, for the year of the Snake, roughly translated as
Studying extensively poetry and literature, I dream of prosperity in the ancient capital (遍覽詩書夢華錄);
Knowing broadly tuning and musicking, I listen to sounds of this secular world (博通律呂觀世音).
The couplet also comes with a banner: Scholars and laymen be greeted in spring (雅俗同迎春).
I'm not sure, but my wife Fanne comments that I am improving and the handwriting is better than last year. Better or worse, it's the tradition of the Chens and will be carried on by my son.
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08 February 2013
Third laptop arrived
(Three generations of my laptop, from left: PowerBook G4, 2002/ MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, 2007/ MacBook Pro Core i7, 2013)
I've just received my new toy, an Apple laptop. I bought my first Apple laptop in summer 2002 when I moved to Scotland for my doctoral study. Five years later, I acquired the second one in summer 2007 after my wife and I had some champagne to celebrate my graduation and shared this with the first one. More than five years later, I picked up the third one in early spring 2013 when I felt that I wanted a third one.
(The external package is always elegant! )
Rather than visiting a physical Apple shop, I called 0800 to place an order and customised my MacBook Pro by replacing the standard 750GB SATA hard drive with the 256GB solid state drive and upgrade the standard widescreen display to the hi-resolution one.
I didn't opt for the latest model with a Retina display. Although it's thinner and lighter, it comes without a built-in DVD drive and has no audio line-in port. I can't be bothered to use an external DVD drive and a USB audio interface.
It took me really much time to instal a range of applications and to adjust everything to what I have been used to. I actually would like to use the old OS X 10.4; however, this model has been built with the latest OS X 10.8 and can't be downgraded. Anyway, I'm still exploring this new laptop and hoping to discover more interesting functions.
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01 February 2013
Fetching a snake money box for the year of the snake
(Six money boxes released by a department store in Taiwan since 2008, from left: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon and Snake)
Once you start to collect some things, especially those which can make up certain group, you have to be prepared to feel all the time an overwhelming obsessive desire to possess a complete series, to become irredeemable.
Just as how I maintain the ritual of counting down to New Year at the same spot and then taking a photo thereafter since the year end 2006, I have been chasing after the money box in the shape of a specific Chinese zodiac animal for the year of that animal since 2008.
Shin Kong Mituskoshi, the biggest department store chain in Taiwan, began to issue ceramic saving banks in shapes of twelve Chinese zodiac animals in 2008. Twelve different ones will come in the twelve ensuing years. It can only be redeemed for or bought when a customer spends more than certain amount of money, not to be purchased straightaway.
This morning, I have just fetched the sixth–the snake. It takes six more years to complete a series of the twelve animals. I am so determined to collect a whole series and will visit this department store every year as long as I still reside on earth.
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12 January 2013
Finally, we moved to the era of stereo
(A SONY CD radio cassette recorder in front of an HMV gramophone) The very first piece of audio equipment we have bought since we moved to the condo we currently live in October 2009 is a SONY Bravia TV. Apart from this and the DVD drive in my laptop, there wasn't any other sound-producing apparatus in our home until September 2010 when I bought an HMV 101, a vintage portable hand-cranked gramophone. The third piece is another spring-wound device, an HMV 103 I bought in November 2010. I suppose that music professors always have great, if not high-end, stereo or audio-visual systems. Nevertheless, I don't, probably because I'm just an adjunct one. I always tell my son that he who intends to listen to music, except watching TV or using a computer, must wind up the spring so that a sound retrieval system can work. No pains, no gains; no labour, no music. However, my words are no longer justifiable, as my wife bought a Sony CFDS05 CD Radio Cassette Recorder Boombox. We're now in the era of electric powered players. The boombox was inaugurated by having the honour of playing my favourite album El Agua de la Alhambra, the music delivered in the so-called LDR suite where my son was born. We have now an alternative, in addition to the gramophones, to play some music at home.
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A couple weeks ago I was floating around on a lake in Wisconsin's St. Croix River Valley, trying to explain to a friend -- this guy, you know his work -- why I believe something that sounded strange when he said it. "Can they really just be doing things because they want people to notice that they're doing it?" he asked, and when you put it like that -- which is definitely a pithier way of putting it like this or like this -- it does sound kind of puzzling and unlikely.
These are grown-ups, after all, or at least plutocrats and marketing mandroids and basketball players of adult age; there are tens of millions of dollars involved, and plenty of people paying attention. And yet, on a pontoon boat on a lake, and even to a certain extent now, it was the best I could do: the Nets are sort of trying to build a potential NBA Championship team, but they're mostly about doing it in a loud and public and noteworthy way.
And yet I struggle to believe that's quite it, or that it's quite as lousy a way to be as I'd believed. Obviously, or at least obviously to me, frantic and crazy-eyed buzz-chasing and the poignant and self-thwarting Daniel Snyder-ian wish to Build A Winner is a big part of The Brooklyn Nets Thing. It's by no means as obvious that any of this will work, or give Brooklyn's fans a team that can even make it to the Eastern Conference Finals.
But, as I wrote at SB Nation earlier today, I'm starting to come around not so much on that approach or its efficacy, but on how admirable it is to do it this way. The Nets are on pace to pay nearly $100 million in luxury tax next season, and have compiled a roster that looks notably more like a successful fantasy basketball team from the 2009-10 season than a contemporary NBA team. They are certainly going to be one of the oldest teams in the NBA, and one of the most expensive, and they are less certain to be one of the best. This is something worth noting, maybe, but I've come to think that it's less worthy of note than how little the Nets seem to care about it.
Other teams search for surplus value and sustainability and flexibility; the best executives seem studiously to avoid making the cannonball-into-the-quarry splashes that can at times (like this one) seem to be the Nets' primary motivation. Everywhere, the idea is to build a winning team on a budget, to develop and grow and so buzzword-ily on. This is not how the Nets are doing it, not at all, and while that may or may not be smart on the Nets' part, it is undeniably bold. And also funny. But the building-a-winner bit: what if no one actually gives a shit about that? The Nets have succeeded in creating a spectacle that, however successful or even worth-watching its team-shaped component becomes on the court, is at least a spectacle. And that's something.
I still don't like the Nets, really. I don't like the way they left New Jersey -- I believe I'm on the record to this effect -- and I don't like how quick and craven they are to gouge the community they keep claiming to be All About. They're a team that fans will make their own -- it's already happening -- and make worthwhile and admirable in the process; they'll rescue the team for themselves, because that's what fans do. And the Nets are also a business, man, and one that can be wasteful and crass and grandiose and dishonest.
But the Nets are also -- and this is the part that, while I don't quite like it, I am beginning to appreciate -- embracing their truest identity as A Big Entertainment Thing, and one seemingly less concerned with the eggheaded business of buidling a winner on a budget than with blockbusting, with Going Big and then Going Bigger. They'll still play basketball, of course, and for a year or two more they'll probably play it pretty well. But let's embrace them, first, as what they are: the NBA's most purely Situationist team. Or maybe not embrace. But recognize it, at least, and realize that -- for all the PR pomp and branded circumstance -- this is finally just another show to enjoy or not, laugh at or cheer for or whatever. Just a bigger show than usual, and one that will eventually play basketball.
So, to that end, here are Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett on the cover of a box of Good Friends cereal, courtesy of our illustrator friend (and contributor!) Eli Neugeboren.
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Pescallo our starting point
Detailed instructions to find us:
- DRIVING: From Como to Bellagio centre
- DRIVING: From Lecco to Bellagio centre
- WALKING: From Bellagio centre to Pescallo
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Pescallo is a picturesque classic fisherman town, located at the east side of Bellagio facing Lake Lecco the right branch of Lake Como.
The architecture has remained unchanged for more than a century, and the atmosphere is unique, a true taste of old Lake Como.
It's ideal to start lake excursions toward the east in the morning. We enjoy the sunlight, and on the east side of Bellagio discover some of the most untouched coast by the Serbelloni Rockefeller's Foundation park and cliffs.
The little harbour is a base for local wind sail boats and a meeting point for local sailing club.
Below is the map detailing Pescallo's position to Bellagio and Lake Como.
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Source: Library of Congress via These Americans
1930s: Portraits of Ex-Slaves
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Andy Hutson
RE: Portraits of Ex-Slaves, 1930s
Second portrait down (a man), incorrectly captioned "Jennie Bowen", whereas Jennie is actually halfway down the page, with the same exact caption.
Nice collection!
Were these taken as part of the WPA/FWP projects?
Barbara Gelb
So good that someone had the fore thought to take these pictures. Isn't it amazing at the white characteristics that many of these people reflected. So sad and what a shame these people tolerated such pain.
Just curious as to what you mean by "white characteristics"? If you mean, wearing clothes and not loin cloths or not having simian features, you may be miseducated on Black History and Culture. Perhaps that will be your next Google search phrase to learn a bit more on before posting comments that can be perceived as ignorant.
Ismail G.
A. Bell: If you take a look at some of the photos like the last one, William Henry Towns, he looks like a dark skinned white man… same with a few others.
Barbara Gelb: There is a huge possibility that the people with, "white characteristics" were bi-racial… it was common practice for both white men and women to rape *have non-consenting sex* with slaves. The children of these relations became property if not killed.
Um, I think they meant caucasion rather than more typical negroid features, indicating a fair bit of mixed racial heritage. Boy, you are bitter. I hope whatever canker gnaws at you has a chance to heal.
Joanne Powers
Wonderful photos.
Robert Wainscott
Amazing photographs. One of the things I could not help but notice was that it appeared that the people were still working even though they were well past the age of retirement. At least what we would consider retirement anyways.
Still, very thought provoking.
This was pre-social security. It was a rare man who got to retire.
I'll bet you most of the Former Slave Owners got to retire quite comfortably on the money they made during Slave Days, while the people they had brutalized only decades earlier worked hard, harder than anyone how alive and for no pay, until much longer than their former "owners" ever did.
Such a despicable chapter in American History, the Slave Days.
Chris Davis
I disagree with the post about how the former slave owners retired with lots of money they made off slave labor. After the war the emancipation, the slave dependent economy was devastated. Chances are that former slave owners died very poor (but still privileged compared to the free'd slaves).
Ismail G.
Actually they were still enslaved in a manner of speaking… After they were "freed", many slaves had to pay back their former masters for allowing them to live on their land during their enslavement, and also for food and clothing that was marked up at astronomical costs. The term for this was called, "Indentured Servitude". So although the ex-slaves were free by term, there were many that still had to work for a freedom that was never seen.
Most thought provoking indeed. What they have seen through the years they were upon this earth, will we ever know?
Amazing that, despite the hard lives they must've had, they managed to live to such old ages. Many people today don't manage to last that long.
My son is mixed – I am white and his father is black – to think that was actually a crime at some point in time, let alone that anyone of any color were treated as less than. My son is 16 and will hopefully never feel the weight of his history.
sorry MU, but your son most certainly feel this part of history. Look at how they speak to and about the president… racism is still here and not so hidden anymore.
The Libertine
(chuckle) Judging someone on their incompetence is hardly racist or ageist or gender-biased. Your argument is without merit and wholly baseless. It is instead a sad rationalization that fails to hold all to a standard of performance based on merit.
Gr K
Oh, they judge every president the first minute he/she is elected, find them completely without merit the first day and then organize four years of obstruction to prove their theory and deny the rights of those who elected him/her? Nice try, Chuckles. Merit, schmerit.
People have never acted in such a manner as this president is being treated and the names hes being called. I don't know what TV station your watching try fox you would be amazed at how ugly they speak of our president.
Jen B
These are incredible photographs. Can't help but think the same things KC and Mr. Wainscott did.
What lives these people led…amazing to think about. Thanks for posting.
Looking at the faces of my people makes me proud, and sad at the same time. Their eyes hold back so much; what they must have gone through. I cannot imagine I would have been that strong. God Bless them all. Thanks for sharing these wonderful photos.
These are the faces of people who built a nation. Thank you for sharing.
K of Riverside Drive
I think the man "Ank Bishop" can be seen at the beginning introduction of the documentary "Eyes on the Prize". Also his memoirs can be found in the "Slave Narratives".
Deborah C
It was a sad era in history, but it happened. I imagine they had it hard when the slaves were freed because of no money and no job.
I am not sure if the owners would have retired rich or not since I am sure a lot of the people lost property through the carpetbagger years after the Civil War.
Do not underestimate the blacks in those days though, I am sure they influenced many a child being nannied and perhaps the child was better for it.
The slave owners were actually paid compensation by the US government for the loss of their "property", whereas the ex-slaves received no compensation whatsoever. This enormous debt is still to be paid.
Michael Fleiss
A nearly perfect collection. I only wish, and perhaps the moderator is watching and able to edit collection, that the specific dates the photos were taken were included.
Yes these people had it rough, but the generations that came after them could use some humbling by looking at these pix. The American Indan was the real victim here, then, and now!
First of all to compare the two atrocities shows a lack of compassion& knowledge of history. Most of the Native Americans eventually became free, because they knew the land and was able to hide from the slave masters. And they did as the white slave owners did… owned slaves. Yes their land was taken, they had to fight a few wars, but they did not spend 200 years being beaten, told when to rise, when to sleep what to eat, raped, etc… I could go on an on, but I suppose you get what I'm trying to say to you. Go somewhere with that mess
Jennifer Williams
Oh, Jigabones, you mean the generations after who endured Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Sharecropping/Indentured Servitude, the Civil Rights Movement, Redlining, CIA-induced Crack epidemic, and the overall relentless white supremacy upon which this country was built? Those generations after? Yes, we are very humbled by our ancestors. They taught us everything they knew about survival, and their wisdom and perseverance continues through us.
jennifer dove
These people were getting on in life.like i remember my grandmother.Seniors this age,have worn life into their persona.Remember that survival depended on how well you could grow food and put it up for off-season.work went on every day of the year.Their livelihood depended on what they could farm.Even then,people did not always own the land.The marginalized became"sharecropper's"and never had enough left over to buy any land.Reconstruction made it harder because southern money was worthless.I'm not sure if the country recovered until WWI.These former slaves are woven into the fabric of OUR country as surely as I am sitting here.Peace.
So proud to view these pictures. I wish I could see more of them. So proud to be african american and to learn about our struggle. I live everyday for these people, seeing how easy we have it today. THANK YOU!!!!
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I second Michael's comment–I wish I knew what dates the photos were taken! But it's great to have them. I also wish there was more info on them, even though I know records back then were not really what they should have been. This is such a great web site!
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In response to Maggie and to some of the other commentators here, I would like to point out that the post-Civil War south was devastated by the war and many slave owners lost everything they had. As it was many of these people were not rich, most worked along side their slaves and lived in very similar conditions as they did. Like farmers of today much of their "wealth" if you will was tied up in the land that they owned and the equipment they used to farm with, namely their slaves. I believe the only areas where former slave owners were actually paid compensation for their loss of slaves were in northern states that outlawed the practice before the Civil War.
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A sad point in history. But these photos of former slaves only prove that Black Americans have come along way in regainging their strength and dignity. We will never go back to this state in life or allow anyone to prevent us for getting what we are entitled to life, liberty and the right to be respected. These people started the course and our role models to this generation of black people. No matter how bad it seemed, they can now smile from their graves knowing that their pain and suffering was not in vain.
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Horses exhibited by family, friends and clients often blind a judge. This clouded vision does little for the industry. Exhibitors are often blinded by show ring success. Defeat is difficult to accept. While excuses will be advanced, few horses bred are champions. Still fewer win a succession of championships. I've never known a horse that could not be beat.
A positive attitude is the best antidote for barn blindness. Horsemen must look to the future. The breeders who profit are the horsemen who offer a Baron's Pride, a Farceur or a Carnot to their respective breed. It wasn't the horsemen who offered the sons of Baron's Pride, the sons of Farceur or the sons of Carnot, who set the pace. When their sons came along, the breeders who profited were those horsemen, who offered a Benefactor, a Conqueror or a Laet to their breed. Be a leader in that search for a new breed giant, not a follower who feeds on the crumbs of another horseman's success.
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Garvey was first elected to the County Board in a special election on March 27, 2012. She completed the unexpired term of former member Barbara Favola, who was elected to the Virginia Senate in November 2011. Her new term begins Jan. 1, 2013 and will run through Dec. 31, 2016. Her swearing-in will be announced later this week. To learn more about Ms. Garvey, visit the County website.
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"In approving every bond measure on the ballot," Hynes said, "Arlingtonians sent a message that they believe strongly in the need to invest in infrastructure – in keeping our schools great, in funding Metro and other public transit, in acquiring and improving parks and open space and building more recreational facilities to serve our community. The Board will ensure that this money is wisely spent on well-managed, cost-effective projects that will benefit Arlingtonians for generations to come."
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Moody's Investors Service earlier this year confirmed the County's Aaa and other related ratings, and assigned a negative outlook to those ratings. This action followed Moody's announcement that the Aaa rating of the U.S. government has been confirmed and assigned a negative outlook. A total of 36 local governments remain on negative outlook based on Moody's action, including 9 in Northern Virginia.
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Lindberg noted that all polling places in Arlington's 52 precincts were busy, and many had lines all day. Polls closed at 7 p.m., but because state law mandates that everyone in line at 7 p.m. is permitted to vote, "the last voter didn't finish voting until about 9 p.m.," Lindberg said.
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Waikiki Beach was still dusted with the last night's late March snow when we arrived. That'd be Waikiki Beach in Washington's Cape Disappointment State Park, (left). A loop route takes you back out either way into Ilwaco, Washington. It's a fishing village in the state's far southwest corner, perched at the nexus of the mighty Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, on the famed Lewis and Clark Trail.
Offshore are harvested Dungeness crab, salmon and halibut, while northeast is Willapa Bay, known for fresh oysters. Big tankers going between the Port of Portland and the ocean traverse this stretch of the Columbia; and the harrowing bones of many lesser ships lie scattered in the deep, roiling waters. Ilwaco is just a few miles south of the city of Long Beach and eponymous peninsula, a worthy if overrun vacation destination favored by some Washingtonians.
After exploring the state park, head to the Port Bistro at the east end of Ilwaco's waterfront promenade and prepare for a heaping slice of foodie nirvana. The intimate space is graced with water views taking in the marina and Cape, plus white tablecloths, hammered brass counters and muted pastels, with sightlines into the kitchen. Your well-behaved kids will be welcome.
A clam chowder far exceeded the serviceable yet goopy norm proffered at so many Northwest establishments. A medium-thin, fresh-made creamy broth was kissed with white wine and garlic, and studded with achingly fresh whole Willapa Bay clams cooked open in their shells, and potatoes, bracketed by thick, savory slices of garlic toast. Another fan of the bistro's chowder is Seattle Times travel writer/blogger Brian Cantwell.
But there's quite a bit more. An exquisite special of fresh Ahi was dusted with cumin, and plated astride a red pepper puree and a smooth, avocado and green chile-spiked creme fraiche. Lissome bites of halibut with chipotle sour cream, fire-roasted tomato salasa and julienned green and red cabbage informed the fish tacos, served with a white rice timbale and black beans. Our daughter's burger was savory and perfectly cooked, as were the accompanying Yukon Gold fries. A homemade truffle, sorbet and biscuit assortment - shared by all for dessert - was revelatory.
It's certain we'll find our way back to Ilwaco to delve further into Cape Disapointment's beaches, trails, Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, lighthouses (right), the town's waterfront shopping district, and the Port Bistro's menu. It features light and inventive salads with market-fresh regional ingredients, local fish and seafood appetizers and entrees, as well as meat and vegetarian dishes.
Some of the choices on the current, spring menu:
Read more on the bistro in this 2007 feature and 2006 review, both in the Daily Astorian.
We happened upon the Port Bistro en route to a week-long stay in Manzanita on the north Oregon Coast, having decided to spend the previous night on the Long Beach Peninsula in Seaview, at the Shelburne Inn bed and breakfast.
On the way back home to Seattle from Manzanita, again traversing the Astoria-Megler Bridge across the Columbia, we set off in the direction opposite Ilwaco, east toward Cathlamet, declining the opportunity shortly thereafter to eat under a mossy-roofed picnic table at the Dismal Nitch rest area, seen (left) with the bridge in the background. The spot, where Lewis and Clark's exploration party sat out a storm for six days in 1803, was later home to a dock for the Astoria ferry until it was demolished upon completion of the bridge in 1966.
Continuing east on State Route 4, we came upon Duffy's Irish Pub, a funky roadside gem. Confronted with signs announcing smoked salmon chowder and red beans and rice, plus Irish stew and homemade pie, resistance was futile.
What food! What atmo. What a back story.
Chef and owner Al Salazar in the 70s and 80s ran one of Portland's premier live music venues, the Pine Street Theater, and for 30 years operated Salazar's restaurant in Zig Zag, near Mount Hood, Oregon.
He later opened Duffy's 1.0 in Portland, but seeking the country life, bought an old and then-badly-neglected road house in tiny Gray's River, Washington, that he remembered as a vibrant joynt from childhood hunting trips with his father. Purchased by Salazar in 1996, Duffy's 2.0 finally opened in 2001 after extensive renovations and a major go-round with the Environmental Protection Agency over rendering the river's edge drainage field sufficiently salmon-sensitive.
It's a homey feel outside, what with the antique ornamental outhouse perched above the town's namesake river (below, right).
Inside are vintage lamps, wood everywhere, a pool table, Christmas lights, and on the cluttered small live music stage, Pine Street Theater rock concert posters covering ceiling and walls. They're hyping shows of yore by West Coast-based acts such as Camper Van Beethoven, Los Lobos, The Wipers and Fetchin' Bones.
Kids are allowed in the dining room, while it's adults-only in the bar, where Guinness and a host of other fine beers and Northwest wines are served. There's a back deck for use in warmer weather, looking directly onto Gray's River.
Our lunch was relished by all four in our group; two parents and our often-finicky-eater kids.
An impressive if meal-sized opener was - as at Port Bistro - a made-to-order, light-touch chowder, this one liberally studded with moist, superbly-flavored morsels of smoked salmon. Perfectly moist, freshly-baked cornbread redolent of melted butter came on the side. Also starring in the Sunday repast were red beans and rice with grilled sausage, a Reuben with mustardy, eggy homemade potato salad on the side, a half dozen breaded pan-fried Willapa Bay oysters, and finally, homemade apple pie topped with vanilla ice cream. Other choices include the afore-mentioned Irish Stew, catfish, grilled T-bone steaks, burgers, and daily specials.
Service was warm, informative, attentive and prompt. A steady stream of lunch customers kept the kitchen busy.
Everything was fresh and made to order. It's hard to recall a more satisfying yet relaxed meal out.
Places like Duffy's are exactly why you want to get off the Interstate highways and meander a while. Especially in the Pacific Northwest, where there's no better way to go local than trawling through the great landscapes and the great, off-the-beaten-path eats.
Port Bistro, in Ilwaco Harbour Village, 235 Howerton Way, Ilwaco, WA; 360-642-8447.
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Manning has raised two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks and earned personal awards and accolades over the years - and will share those stories in Great Falls on June 22nd to help the Heisey Youth Center celebrate its 75th anniversary.
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