Category Archives: Art

Journal of the Week

Posted on October 7, 2025 by timlyg

10/10/2025 Friday 5 Top paintings in China, handscrolls（手卷）: 晋朝 （266-420）为了说服 贾南风（晋惠帝之妻）行德：女史箴圖 - 顧愷之 唐朝 （618-907）about cows or metaphor of the artist's servitude: 五牛圖 - 韓滉宋朝 （960-1279）千里江山圖 (rare minerals for rare colors - Malachite & Azurite) - 王希孟宋朝 Recovered decades after … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on September 29, 2025 by timlyg

10/3/2025 Friday Democrats vs. Republicans on Museums: This survey pitted Republican (right wing/conservative) view against Democrat (left wing/liberal) view on feeling welcome by organizations, particularly cultural ones such as museums. The left generally are seen as too sensitive, so this … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on May 26, 2025 by timlyg

5/29/2025 Painting of the day: Jesus ascending to Heaven, Painting by John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), Painted in 1775, Oil on canvas © Museum of Fine Arts Boston Fr. Vorst took the passage of Luke 24:46-53 for this painting with regards to … Continue reading →

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Journal of the a Week

Posted on April 23, 2025 by timlyg

4/23/2025 Painting of the day: The Pilgrims at Emmaus, Lithograph by Maurice Denis (1870-1943), Issued in 1895, Lithograph on paper, Alamy Fr. Patrick commented this art using Luke 24:13-35 (the supper at Emmaus): In this lithograph, Maurice Denis offers a contemporary … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on April 15, 2025 by timlyg

4/17/2025 Getting ready to bring SSD HDD and Windows 10/11 USB flash drives to Penang to meet TomTom's laptop for repair (Acer Aspire A515-51 n17c4). He was told the HDD was damaged. But this laptop carries both M.2 slot (from … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on April 7, 2025 by timlyg

4/11/2025 2025 AI Index Report gives a good overviews of different AIs and their status in the world from various perspectives. Painting of the day: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Painting by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano (active 1459 - about … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on March 31, 2025 by timlyg

4/4/2025 Vocab learned (Taiwanese、Mandarin): 嘴秋 = Talking big, vain.窝囊 = 受了委屈心里不痛快嗆聲 chàngshēng, “chhiàng-siaⁿ” = to provoke/challenge勿谓言之不预也 = 是中华人民共和国通过官方媒体发出的最严重警告 Painting of the day: An Arrest, Painted by Christian Ludwig Bokelmann (1844-1894), Painted  in 1881, Oil on canvas, Christie’s / Wikimedia Commons Patrick van … Continue reading →

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Accent Reduction

Posted on January 25, 2025 by timlyg

On this topic, it is not enough to recognize the accent one wishes to imitate/learn, but also recognize the obstacle in learning it from one's own native tongue. Thus, the teacher of accent reduction must also recognize the characteristics of … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on December 20, 2024 by timlyg

12/21/2024 获罪于天，无所祷也 出自《论语》八佾篇: 意思是一个人如果得罪了上天，他就没有什么地方可去祷告了 12/19/2024 Martial art expert 孙禄堂 is known for mastering all three internal art (内拳) and wrote each a book. I have downloaded all three (八卦，太極，形意) in PDF into my digital library from Scribd. Two of which … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on November 18, 2024 by timlyg

11/23/2024 DIY - I am designing a space safer shelve for my office. To my right side, under the main table, I could build a 3 shelve wall bay. This should help unclutter most cables on the floor and provide … Continue reading →

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