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The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 28, 2025
End of week, Steve, do you do any marking? Hotel seems kinda dead. I guess people go home on the weekends, or at least not here. Markets getting hit. Why? Who…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 27, 2025
Not liking this working till after 9 pm, making me think what next semester would be like. COLD outside. STILL. Language bots are working alright, need some…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 26, 2025
Got the NeZha pins! Very understanding customer service. Workout in! Legs and chest + a 40 minute run… on the treadmill. Have I really been running 6.44 kms…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 25, 2025
I swear these days fly by faster… but maybe it’s just cause I’m moving more. Working on Episode 33 of the Language Vlog podcast. Should have it up soon. New…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 24, 2025
Back in the Changping and certainly feeling better. Microphone stand brought in! Hope it works. Spent much of the weekend working on an Agent - A Chinese and…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 21, 2025
It’s the Solstice! Happy Spring! Nice day out aaaaaand… first sunburn already? WHY? Walked home from the university recording yet another walk n talk /…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 20, 2025
Hey it’s 20/2025! Tomorrow’s the solstice! Feeling much better! Bit of a workout in as well today. Getting things done despite bouncing around between classes…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 19, 2025
They’re released! The JFK files are released! Who has time to go through them?! What was the other set he was going to release? Doubts on peer-reviewed…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 18, 2025
Tuesday is the new chill day - nothing going on. Lunch with the colleagues, talking about ages, life experiences. Most are in the 20s, but the other English…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 15, 2025
The luck of the Irish and it’s St. Patrick’s Day! Sick on the weekend, was it the snow, the students or the tanghulu? Painful day so barely a token work out…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 14, 2025
Beware the Ides of March! Or something like that. Thanks Shakespeare. (It’s tomorrow.) Back in Shuangjing, went for a run, feeling rather sluggish. This is a…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 13, 2025
Selfies with essays? The new way to learn names aaaand figure out who actually knows what they’re talking about. How do you deal with an unresponsive class?…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 12, 2025
SSAB - March 12, 2025 Up at 530 or so. Getting used to the new routine. Edited a podcast and posted it. Videos up and out! Podcast up and out! New vlog on the…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 11, 2025
Someone’s smoking on my floor… Up at 5.45 to get things done: Russian, workout, stretching aaaaand breakfast! Came back at lunch to record the latest Language…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 10, 2025
Back at it for another week, what am I even doing? 5.45 for the success? Get up! Morning routine: Russian, working out, running. Morning workout done: 20 min…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 7, 2025
Back in the Shuangjing, but feeling a little bit under the weather. Just knackered from this week. Am coughing a little and the throat doesn’t like these ling…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 6, 2025
Throat is definitely stressed. Snatch and grab breakfast! Came back to do laundry. Lu Xun (狂人日记 - “Diary of a worker” but Wikipedia tells me it’s “Diary of a…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 5, 2025
今日惊蛰 昆虫苏醒，译得好棒！ The insects awaken! Apparently it’s the beginning of insect season. Late night, early morning, could I make it back for breakfast?!! Got some…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 4, 2025
Finding a new groove. How’s the hotel? Did get to the gym today but… yea, hotel gym. In the evening. Breakfast buffets, missed them, but didn’t. I always liked…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - March 3, 2025
Welcome to March, and welcome back to class. The classroom that is. Sitting in Changping, it’s a little 荒凉 huangliang (desolate). Same with the university, but…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 28, 2025
End of the month! Well, it’s official - done and done and badges handed in! Busy morning: Russian reading, bike ride 10 min (fast), deadlifts (100kg x 5, 105kg…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 27, 2025
22K and counting! New YouTube monetization level UNLOCKED! Join in a Shopify store? With what?! Can we trust those websites that promote Chinese wholesale?…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 26, 2025
18,000 views! Almost at my target!Workouts in! Morning bench and squats, afternoon run 6.46km in 41.21 (getting warm out there!), then 20 minutes of slam ball…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 25, 2025
How many times can you say the same thing in a day? THREE CLASSES all about language syntax. Luckily I’ve got a lot of material to work with AND I skipped the…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 24, 2025
After an eight year hiatus, to the day almost!, a return to the classroom! Online at least.Voice is sore, haven’t talked that much that often in a long…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 21, 2025
Out with one, and in with the other. Meetings, and greetings, onto the next!Workouts in! X3! Morning: deadlifts, rows, shouldersAfternoon: 100 pull ups, 200…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 20, 2025
Nothing like a day without running water! Why? Cause it’s the semi-annual rip up the concrete fest!And so ends one chapter, and begins another. Last day and…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 19, 2025
I admit! McDonald’s yesterday AND I bought Coco Pebbles! I’m terrible!Who is Bryan Johnson and why does he matter?Here’s the list with each supplement on its…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 18, 2025
STOP SWALLOWING! YOU LOOK LIKE A MUPPET!DI.fm going all paid??? No more free tier?!?!Language vlog podcast out! Need to do another language check soon!Big…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 17, 2025
Beginning of the week! Last week at old job! What will happen next?!Newsletters out! Language vlog and Substack! Written by me, but the idea to publish more is…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 14, 2025
情人节快乐！Happy Valentine’s Day! Roses are red, violets are blue, I didn’t buy flowers, how about you? Just give money instead?Ukraine peace deal in the works…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 13, 2025
Gentlemen, get your engines, be them ignition-based or footwear, and be sure to make time to get some flowers or send a red packet to the lady in your life…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 12, 2025
Happy Lantern Festival! I think this officially ends Spring Festival.Workouts in, but slow going. Is it the winter, the weather, the weight or am I just…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 11, 2025
Self heating 火锅？！Hot pot that makes itself?! SLV podcast out, how many of these can I do in a day? Gotta get my stamina up! Stalled on the subscriber count…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 10, 2025
MORE automations done, how does a Chinese tech company sound?Will GPTs replace teachers or enhance the learning experience? And Steve, why haven’t you built…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 7, 2025
Cold and windy! Is that natural or is that a wind machine cranking up?Still went for a run, 7km in 1 hr 4 min 47 sec, plus pull ups, push ups squats, lunges…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 6, 2025
“The door to the American Millionaire’s Club is not locked. Contrary to popular modern belief, it is still quite possible for the successful individual to make…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 5, 2025
Back to work! Is this is it? GOLD STOCKS moving, Chinese stocks?? Top five songs to demonstrate that Neil Peart is among the elite drummers of the world? 1…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 4, 2025
More automations made! But having some trouble with “big data” - SSAB transcripts are too big! Slow to figure out, but see the potential and what else can be…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - February 3, 2025
February already! Let’s say that at the beginning of every month! BUSY DAY! Slept TWELVE HOURS, from 7 or 8 pm last night to about 7 am this morning. Why? Not…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 31, 2025
End of the month! And sluggish running! 6.45km run in 1 hr 2 min 56 sec, weighted vest, but no pull ups or anything. Literally just wanted to run. Is the end…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 30, 2025
SUCCESS! MULTIPLE! :O :D Zapier automation to pull SLV YT descriptions and put them into a spreadsheet which is then emailed to me every weekend! SUCCESS!…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 29, 2025
So close, yet so far. These Shortcuts get about 90% of the way there and then stop. Currently trying to get Apple Notes and ChatGPT to talk to each other…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 28, 2025
新年快乐！过年快乐 or is it 过年好? 蛇年快乐！ And so on and so on! 除夕 evening in China, 春节 tomorrow, the Year of the Snake is upon us. New YT Short out: Happy New Year! So… is…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 27, 2025
Beijing is sure quiet these days, hard to believe that it’s ever much more noisy. Looking at automations using Apple Shortcuts and Text Replacements. Text…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 24, 2025
New podcast idea? China Business podcast? Reading audiobooks? Would you listen? What would you like to hear? Big day, changes on the way… possibly. My…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 23, 2025
Last day in Harbin, well worth the trip but… winter should just be a vacation, not a lifestyle! Lol jkjk Morning meeting done n done, Starbucks first, and…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 22, 2025
Another day, another journey. What was that noise so early in the morning? It snowed… so a guy was outside cleaning the sidewalk with a leaf blower. Off to a……
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 21, 2025
Tried to find HongZhuan Breakfast Street, failed. We left too late but did find a semi-open snack street. A few of the stewards were smoking while cooking…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 20, 2025
Coldest day of the year! So they say for the lunar calendar. Off to Harbin! Smog city! Haven’t been here in ages. Just under five hours on the high speed train…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 17, 2025
“Decades have passed since the last high-ranking Bangladeshi general visited Pakistan, and no Pakistani spymaster had ever met with a president of Tajikistan…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 16, 2025
You know, for a $5000 system, I expected it to get around any AirDrop issues I could have. FKG thing doesn’t pass through some connections. New video up on the…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 15, 2025
Online shopping: would you do it? That is, go online to sell? New affiliate marketing scheme? And AI-likenesses: will companies ask you to sign over your face…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 14, 2025
Zuckerberg on Rogan, LOTS of so-called “TikTok Refugees” on XiaoHongShu… will this be a problem for China? New Language Vlog podcast up! Have spent a LOT of…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 13, 2025
Is TikTok banned yet? Big movement to XiaoHongShu, or at least some comments about the platform being better than FB and Insta. Those other platforms won’t be…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 10, 2025
Trying out the mic with the QuickTime, but the Notes application won’t use the Shure MV7+ as input. How did it all sound yesterday? This new MacBook is rather…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 9, 2025
Have you stopped writing 2024 yet? Very quiet in Beijing these days. Are schools out already? Working on a cheat sheet for Mandarin, is it okay to teach…
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SSAB - January 8, 2025
Health check done! Aaaaand… fell asleep once I got home. Out to JingA and then to a small cafe Legitimate business idea, or just fantasy? Money matters and…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 7, 2025
Listening back to old tracks, how do they sound? Not bad. Tennis elbow! OW! Full on owie! Wow, Justin Trudeau gone from office! Should Canada merge with the…
The Audio Blog of Steven SirskiSSAB - January 6, 2025
New year, new week! New jet lag! Up early and off to Tiananmen Square… then the camera died. Bald and Bankrupt?! WTF? This guy posts a video every now and then…