Weird weight loss blogs, teaching in interviews, and the first robot

Relevant Taiwan conversation!

[22:34:41] Corey: so I apparently have an English teaching interview tomorrow which includes me having to teach something during the interview... uh...
[22:35:59] Flami: what do you have to teach?
[22:36:04] Corey: stuff?
[22:36:16] Corey: 8. The interview includes: application, interview, and teaching demo
[22:36:44] Corey: "she just told me they want to see how you deal with the person.."
[22:36:59] Corey: that's all the information about that part that I have
[22:37:23] Corey: they called Jane and emailed me. my phone doesn't work, so I gave them Jane's cell number... she's at work
[00:03:23] Corey: speaking of exercise, I need to work on getting bigger chest muscles... several people here thought I was a bit fat (it came up through non-rude means, but I forget how..) but really, that's my upper abs sticking out, not a belly :P go down lower and you may find a bit that can be classified as belly, but the part they're seeing is all muscle :P so I guess I have bigger abs than pecs
[00:03:37] Corey: it should probably be the other way around to look better :P
[00:04:32] Corey: Jane told one of her friends to touch it and see :P he declined, and I thought that was a weird thing to ask him to do anyway
[00:06:32] Flami: .... you, fat? obviously, I don't see you to know how fat you may or may not be, but I really don't think that's an accurate way to describe you
[00:06:54] Flami: HAHAHAHAHA... oh dear, that IS very weird
[00:08:44] Corey: well, I do need to lose a bit of weight right now.. I was trying to gain weight earlier. some fat comes with that no matter what exercise you're doing. not much, though
[00:12:11] Flami: make up your mind what you want to do :P
[00:17:04] Corey: that's how you do it! you eat more to get bigger, but you have to stop and lose fat once in a while. Olympic powerlifters don't, and they look like big fatsos, even though they have tons of muscle
[00:25:35] Flami: speaking of getting bigger, I will eat now
[00:48:59] Corey: I had Taiwanese food for lunch today... rice noodles, tofu, fish balls (as in balls made of fish :P), and pork
[00:54:03] Flami: I know what fish balls are :P I like those better than fish paste :P
[00:54:31] Corey: paste? that sounds horrible
[00:55:46] Flami: that's what I kept telling my parents, but they insisted I was being weird since fish balls are made of fish paste :P
[01:13:35] Corey: well, apparently I have a teaching demo TONIGHT too... like, in a couple hours
[01:14:08] Corey: this one is for kindergarteners, who are apparently still at school for a teaching demo at 7 PM?
[01:15:04] Corey: I'm not sure I want to deal with kids that young, but I guess I'll check it out... Jane says those pay more, and have Chinese teachers there to help out... so probably easier... except dealing with kids that young seems hard
[01:27:11] Flami: still at school at 7 PM? wow... I guess the Taiwanese education system is more hardcore than I thought :P
[01:28:01] Flami: might as well check it out and see how it goes
[01:28:49] Corey: well... after real school, they have cram school
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[01:29:15] Corey: and I have a guest typist here if you couldn't tell...
[01:29:43] Corey: op[8o47plk;;l];';l;'lk;0pl
[01:29:56] Flami: yeah, I can tell
[01:31:24] Corey: o0L
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[01:31:52] Corey: I'm trying to keep her from hitting the escape key to close the window :P she's good at that
[01:34:17] Flami: well, I had a crying face and a rainbow in the middle of all that, so that's a nice visual change :P
[01:35:05] Corey: that's what she picked :P she knows how to add icons and hit Enter to send messages
[01:35:24] Flami: so what's her favorite emoticon?
[01:35:32] Corey: she does the rainbow a lot
[01:35:47] Corey: she really likes the winks in MSN, the animated things
[01:36:05] Corey: when I see her on camera from home, I usually send a few of those
[01:36:07] Flami: oh, THOSE... I had my fill of those in 2007 and 2008 :P
[01:36:16] Flami: that's good
[01:39:49] Corey: Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day
[01:40:28] Flami: I assume the niece knows how to copy and paste random URLs?
[01:40:40] Corey: that was me, and it's not random!
[01:44:37] Flami: hahaha... just checking
[01:45:02] Corey: she doesn't read too many science articles, I'm guessing... she's really more into Spongebob
[01:47:11] Corey: now she just called me dumb and a big butt in Chinese. but I know enough to say "no you!"
[01:47:51] Corey: uh, dinner time, I think
[01:48:11] Corey: she told me after Jane's mom told her something... I think that means dinner :P
[01:48:33] Flami: okay then
[01:48:47] Corey: okay, it's dinner
[01:49:17] Flami: right then... good luck with the demos / interviews

Trivia fact for Tuesday, Mar. 2: Where was the first industrial robot put to work? At the General Motors Ternstedt Division plant in Ewing Township, New Jersey, in 1961. The robot, named Unimate, worked on an assembly line, taking hot die castings from machines and also doing welding on auto bodies. After 50 years, the robot was retired. It is now part of the Smithsonian Institution collection.