Come See Rural Maryland's Craftiest, Swankiest Cabin

Monday, December 1, 2014, by Jenny Xie

Photo via Vicco von Voss

Over the last 10 years, German furniture maker Vicco von Voss has been building out his dream cabin in rural Maryland, one piece of timber at a time. Recently profiled in the New York Times, von Voss's 1,400-square-foot, Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house is a masterpiece of patient craftsmanship: each plank and beam was milled by hand, using fallen trees salvaged from the woods nearby.

Assembling hundreds of varieties of trees, including the Eastern white pine, cherry, cypress, and swamp maple, von Voss added each design feature with care. Take, for example, how von Voss spent weeks crafting the cherry and yellow wood door to his daughter's room, which now also has notches carved into them to record her growth. Or the fact that he had to let all of the meticulously scavenged wood age three years per inch to control how they expand and contract through the seasons. Check out more photos of the "results" below (the house is still a work-in-progress) and a slideshow of its construction process over here.

Aargh!! A relapse of my PTSD

I need to go to a volunteer meeting, but afraid to leave now as is dark out there.

Aargh!!

I expect the gov't to disapprove my Medicaid application

Like the judicial system, the Patent and Trademark Office, and the Tech Industry/Silicon Valley, the government is going to discriminate against me for being an Asian and a woman.  I am not human to them.

More psychological torture until I am dead or killed myself.  This is what the people from Asia been doing to me as soon as I arrived in the Silicon Valley in the 1990s, the Patent and Trademark Office, and everywhere I went since.

The government already disapproves my food stamp and other helps.  I am NOT receiving any help what so ever, and should be homeless soon.

Everything I paid into while working in case of disability and/or unemployed, I am not getting them back.

Why we are losing the Middle Class,

and the gap between the rich and the poor are at unprecedented high.

Reagan Administration's Trickle Down Economic that give advantage/money to the rich such the rich would hire people to work, and call themselves job-creator such people would worship them as God. But instead of creating jobs, they hold on to the money as evident since 2008 where jobs were offshored.

After ‘nut rage,’ Chinese tourists face punishment for ‘noodle rage’

In ~2005 in JFK, I was waiting on line to check-in, 2 senior citizens Chinese - a couple, speaking what seems to be a Shanghai native dialect, acted as if they were going to kick me at my back while I was down on the floor opening my luggage to take something out. Both of them were taken by the Airport security guard.

People-from-Asia, mainly Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian attacked me as soon as I arrived in the Silicon Valley, and the 1^st month on the job in the Patent and Trademarks Office in the DC metro, that resulted in wrongful termination as well the slit of my throat/beheading that was meant to kill me.

My EEOC case: http://eeoccase.blogspot.com/

By Simon Denyer December 14 at 11:30 AM

BEIJING — As if “nut rage” weren’t bad enough, Asia got another dose of air rage this week when Chinese tourists went berserk on a flight to Thailand, scalding a flight attendant with noodles and hot water and then threatening to bomb the plane, apparently because they were unhappy about their seating arrangements.

Chinese authorities say the tourists could face severe punishment for badly damaging “the image of the Chinese people,” after a video and photographs of the incident were widely circulated on the Internet.

It comes at a time when Chinese people are traveling more and more widely but gaining a reputation for unruly behavior. Authorities have been urging them for years to behave with more civility when abroad, although with limited effect.

The plane, a budget Thai AirAsia flight from Bangkok to the Chinese city of Nanjing, was forced on Thursday to return to Bangkok, where the pilot asked four passengers to disembark. They were reportedly unhappy about not being able to sit together on the plane and continued to berate cabin staff even after alternative seating was organized.

In a video uploaded by a passenger and later broadcast by China Central Television, a man is seen angrily shouting and pointing, cursing and threatening to bomb the plane, and insisting that he had money to pay for better seats. “You think a big boss can’t afford to spend some money,” he says at one point, referring to himself.

The woman who took the video can be heard remarking that she had to post it online because it was “shameful.”

Earlier in the week, the daughter of Korea Air’s chairman was publicly shamed after ordering the head steward to be removed from a flight after being served nuts in a bag rather than on a plate. That story seemed to show the arrogance that comes with the power of South Korea’s huge conglomerates.

Cho Hyun-ah, also known as Heather Cho, daughter of the chairman of Korean Air, quit her position was an executive at South Korea's flag carrier after news of her "nut rage" at a flight attendant went viral. (Song Eun-seok/News1 via Reuters)

The Chinese version showed that tycoons traveling first class are not the only people behaving badly on airlines these days, with tempers often frayed on tightly packed budget flights all over the world.
But it is also being seen here as another example of how some Chinese tourists are letting their country down with a lack of civility abroad. Last year, a Chinese teenager won notoriety for carving his name on a 3,500-year-old relief at Egypt’s Luxor Temple, while other tourists were photographed washing their feet at the Louvre in Paris.

On a visit to the Maldives in September, President Xi Jinping effectively apologized for the behavior of his fellow countrymen, saying China should educate its citizens to be “civilized” when traveling abroad, telling them to refrain from tossing water bottles or damaging coral reefs, and urging them to eat more local food and less instant noodles.
In a statement issued Saturday, China’s tourism administration did not say what punishment the tourists could face but suggested that the tour group leader also could punished for failing to issue proper behavior guidelines and that the tourists’ “personal credit record” could suffer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/14/after-nut-rage-chinese-tourists-face-punishment-for-noodle-rage/

Justice For All march. I wish I am there with you

No justice, no peace.

A relapse of PTSD

Caught a cold/fever and a cough prevent me from leaving the house for nearly 2 weeks now, and I am now do not feel safe to go out.

I've been trying to get over my PTSD by volunteering such I would leave the house and feel comfortable being with strangers. But since I caught a cold and a cough last week, I had been staying home since.

Now I don't feel comfortable going out, don't want to go out at all, and have to force myself to leave the house one small step at a time like going out to a grocery store, etc.

Science Finally Confirms That Men Are Idiots Who Do Stupid Things

Men are idiots.

At least according to new research published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ), which says men are much more likely than women to die in utterly stupid ways.

The study comes as a part of The BMJ’s annual Christmas issue, famous for publishing jokey and pop culture-based (but real) research.

The all-male team analyzed data from the Darwin Awards, which commends and records those who die incredibly idiotic ways.

The logic is these casualties ensure the human race’s gene pool gets a little better by keeping the dumbest from procreating.

It’s pretty much The Onion of evolution.

Researchers found between 1995 and 2014, men made up almost 90 percent of the 318 verifiable Darwin Award winners.

The team members said this is about all the evidence they need to back up popular opinion that men don’t think.

They concluded,

According to ‘male idiot theory’ (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things…

This [study’s] finding is entirely consistent with male idiot theory (MIT) and supports the hypothesis.

In an attempt to explain the discrepancy between sexes, the team proposed the “bulletproof” feeling of too much alcohol as a possible cause for idiocy.

They wrote it seems to fuel the dumbest deaths, adding,

For example, the three men who played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine.

(Spoiler alert: the mine eventually exploded, demolishing the bar and killing all three men.)

The statistics are a little puzzling, but the research team intends to further investigate and conduct “observational field studies and an experimental study — males and females, with and without alcohol — in a semi-naturalistic Christmas party setting.”

Best of luck, boys.

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/science-confirms-men-idiots-do-stupid-things/879391/

It's official! Men really are stupider than women, accounting for 90 per cent of people who have died in foolish ways, according to the Darwin Awards

A 20 year study of the Darwin Awards, an annual review of the most foolish way people have died, found almost 90 per cent were 'won' by males.

Named after Charles Darwin, who postulated the suvival of the fittest, it recognises those who have inadvertently improved the gene pool by elimiating themselves from the human race by astonishingly stupid methods.

Worthy candidates have included a man stealing a ride home by hitching a shopping trolley to the back of a train, only to be dragged two miles to his death before it was able to stop, and the terrorist who unthinkingly opened his own letter bomb on its return after he posted it with insufficient stamps.

Other examples include the man who shot himself in the head with a 'spy pen' weapon to show his friend it was real, and the thief attempting to purloin a steel hawser from a lift shaft - and unbolted it while standing in the lift which then plummeted to the ground, killing him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11288874/Men-really-are-more-stupid-than-women-research-shows.html

China from a Superpower to a 3rd world to the World #1 economy

China has been trading with the West via the Silk Road for centuries, and was opened to the West during the 1800s just as US opened to the people from Asia. The West was known as savages/foreign devils to the Chinese because of their uncivilized behavior which is seen as a savage in a thousands years old China. Just as Chinese being seen as in America.

During the late 1800s, Britain started selling Opium to China and got the whole nation addicted, including my grandfather who die of overdose, in addition to a corrupt empire. The West that consisted of the Brits, French, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Japan invaded China and split the territory amount them.

Many of my Great Grand uncles and Grand uncles die, or left the homeland during the war. Some had moved to America settled either in San Francisco or New York City, that's why I grew up in NYC.

And China has been at war since; until Mao that brought on the Communist regime, also free women from repression. Communism had kept China down for 50+ years, as well as Russia, East Germany, and North Korea. China finally opened up to the West during the Nixon era, and Deng Xiaoping changed the system to a pseudo capitalism/socialism. Now China is the #1 economy in ~30 years.