Got the 2012 Honda CRV checked again because of the squeaks it makes in the rear tire (passenger side). This is the second time I took the car to check this at Topline Auto Care because they forgot to call me a couple weeks ago when I went to them for the first time to have my tire valves (pressure sensor) replaced so that I can screw on my bluetooth sensors. They promised to call me the following week after my first visit to give me the quotes for the break pads. But then they forgot everything, so I had to take the car back for them to check it again. After the free examination, this is the quote: $589 for each axle (front and rear) which covers break pads, rotors, labor and servicing the calipers. I recorded the whole thing (in my media drive). So total would be $1178. If the calipers need to be replaced, then it's $139 extra each, labor cost will be included if all done together with the pads and rotors.
If I do this myself, the pads and the rotors are around $200 for all 4x. And there are many videos for instruction. I also copied an instruction video in my media drive from AdvanceAutoParts.
12/10/2025 Wednesday
Stimbox, a technology that solves motion sickness problem: by messing with the inner ear balance. Nadia would love it. But it costs 1200 Euro.
Trump USA finally done it with its crazy deportation of immigrants who are now supposed to live cleaner live than normal citizens. This time, they deported a U.S. veteran, Sae Joon Park, green card holder, but served and received Purple Heart medal in 1989 after being shot twice in Panama, but due to his PTSD and drug addiction, he was made to self-deport to Korea earlier this year. As an immigrant myself, this topic is close to my heart. I would still have voted for Trump because Biden & Kamala were really something else, but having the opposition challenged the Trump administration like this is what I love about America! It's great to tighten the border security because Biden really screwed it up, but we cannot just go to the opposite extreme because of Bamala:
And this clip shows more of such case (deporting wife of veteran):
Erika Kirk and Candace Owens battle: Owens (apparently saw herself to be BFF of the late Charlie Kirk, and has videos to show for) responded to Erica being over protective of TPUSA against Owens' conspiracy questioning of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, "This is why there are many people who do not believe that women are equipped to lead companies. Because what you're watching here is an unbelievably emotional response that is absent of any logic."
And my comment to Ana Kasparian's reaction: Well Ana, Candace could very well mean that Erika Kirk was an embarrassment for women, rather than standing against women being equipped to lead companies...gotta keep that open mind.
12/09/2025 Tuesday
Intellectual property is stupid. And this is another turn of event proving something similar: Informational property is also stupid. When I first heard of selling information, I thought, this is stupid. But it worked for those trading information as a business. Even if both parties can agree to trade, it doesn't mean it's a legitimate business. I have to wait for the age of A.I. to proof it. Of course, the losers are not giving up, and they may well still win, because this world serves $, not God. They do not care about true ethics:
@23:25 But what really adds insult to injury is not only are they losing all those viewers, the AI that Google is using learned everything it knows by reading those online articles. And as the publishers see it, from stealing that information, I mean, it's a bit like a pop star being told, sorry, we're not going to pay you for performing anymore, but thanks very much for teaching our computer how to sing your songs. Now, Google's parent company is also accused of harvesting material that people upload to YouTube, which they also own. And in all of these cases, they say people don't have the chance to opt out of having their material exploited.
The above analogy is so lame. If you are not the one performing, of course you are not getting paid, even if someone else is performing what you taught them.
12/08/2025 Monday
Love Holy Post Media's take on Pastor Doug Wilson the problematic Christian Nationalist who claimed to be Presbyterian. This time, Wilson is justifying the South over the North in the Civil War, calling the South, Calvinists, and the North, Utopians. Endorsing slavery yet contradicting himself by saying slavery is bad. Wilson probably has high EQ but very low IQ. Phil rightly criticized Wilson's approach in evangelism is really just using Jesus to sell himself, his own political agenda.
A history of Japan, the legend of Chinese settlers 2000 years ago. Something to do with Emperor Qin of the Qin dynasty looking for the elixir of immortality.
Google AI: 徐福是秦朝方士，传说他奉秦始皇之命率童男童女出海求仙药，最终东渡日本，在日本留下了深刻的文化印记，被尊为“农耕神”、“医药神”，与日本许多地方（如和歌山、佐贺）的徐福神社、徐福墓、地名（如秦野、羽田）紧密相连，被视为中日文化交流的重要象征，尽管他是否是日本人的直系祖先仍有争议，但其传说已深入日本文化。
Windows can natively support rearrangement of taskbar active thumbnails of different groups, not individual windows of the same group. For that, You need this hack.
I need this because I usually have minimum of two chrome browser windows opened and I need them arranged according to my 3 monitors in the taskbars and sometimes, windows mysteriously (low memories?) rearranged them in the taskbar automatically.
水 Water, the entity which flows between blood vessel walls.
《黃帝内經》- 中醫的源頭：
地氣升為云 上焦如霧 中焦如漚 （水汽混雜的狀態） 下焦如凟
Besides water, now it is discovered in the West, something called interstitial fluid 組織間液, which also flows between blood vessel walls. 《黃帝内經》：
營氣走在血管内；衛氣走在血管外
as taught in《傷寒論》
So, our Qi/Chi/氣, rises from feet to head as it heats up and dropped back down as it cooled, such is the circulation of Qi. If this is halted/slowed down (i.e. Air Conditioning), then pain begins. So the whole process of recovery is a matter of changes in pressure 壓力 and temperature 溫度.
Tong: The tenth is God's. It is not offering. It is minimum. Christians should give, more willingly. Only the surplus after the tithe, is true offering. True love giving is not restricted by the text.
Learned of Holy Post's long time guest (French Friday series), David French (American political commentator and former attorney), being an ex-PCA member. He left PCA because he was attacked by PCA elders and members for adopting a black Ethiopian girl and his New York Times critique of Donald Trump's character. I don't know him well enough, but I think I'm beginning to like this guy, because from what I read, his PCA enemies sounded more like Christian Nationalists. Wish we could connect. I think I first encounter French in the Holy Post episode on the 2025 Superman movie.
12/03/2025 Wednesday
I don't know how I pulled off between SPG and NYGC, I attended The Morgan Library's Roundtable Talk on Impressionism at 6pm and AAA's lecture on extrasolar comet 3i/Atlas at 8pm. The Morgan Library is situated about 3 minute walk from SPG where I work. And they are exhibiting Renoir's works from Oct 17 to next year Feb 8. I learned from one of their exhibit that Pierre-Auguste Renoir was caught on film. The footage is part of a 22-minute silent documentary film by Sacha Guitry titled Ceux de Chez Nous (Those of Our Land), filmed in 1915, rediscovered in Harvard in 2001:
12/01/2025 Monday
Some Chinese guy saw IP addresses as scarce resource and took a whole chunk of it out of Africa to lease to non-African organizations. Obviously, this made him unpopular as well.
This raises my alarm: AI (Aristotle) proved a conjecture: Erdos Problem #124. It's concerning not that AI will become self-aware, but proving conjectures is normally in the realm of creativity, not brute force logic. If it is by brute force logic, then we are talking about solving proofs, not solving conjectures (recollecting this as something some Indian retards at Drexel/UPenn's graduate level program couldn't distinguish - "oh we solves conjectures all the time in high schools back in India".) If a conjecture remains unsolved, that means either no many know about it (thus brute force would be possible here), or it requires immense creativity (human ingenuity) which is unlikely in AI's domain. But sometimes, creativity is just a matter of applying various not previously relevant fields together, so in that case, AI creativity may be sufficient. AI creativity is good, in that it pushes us better than just being clever.
