Officially my first #zap! Let’s test #cn Chinese zap!
Zappl,Steem上的微博/推特,首測試。Zappl剛拿到些代理會開始獎勵用戶,特來體驗短平快的精簡奧義!^.^
#cn #zappl #cn-zap #steem
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Officially my first #zap! Let’s test #cn Chinese zap!
Zappl,Steem上的微博/推特,首測試。Zappl剛拿到些代理會開始獎勵用戶,特來體驗短平快的精簡奧義!^.^
#cn #zappl #cn-zap #steem
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謹以此詩,為花蓮地震還受困的民眾祈福,但願逝者安息,傷者康復,失聯者盡快救出,讓地震歇停吧!
This poem is written for the victims of the Hualien earthquake, which happened last night in Taiwan. We are praying for those injured and trapped.
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大家好,
我是「劉美女」,從今天開始,我要把自己的一切坦誠公開,包括我真實的身分,我的成長歷程,等等一切。這一系列的文章將用我的真名來冠名,稱為「北里日記」。希望你知道我是誰之後,還願意繼續支持我。
我真實的姓名是「游北里」,或者應該說,這是我認識的人這麼說的。我今年應該大概是22歲了吧。
我從小就生活在台北一個傳統市場裡,甚至我想連我出生可能都在這市場裡頭。我的「家」只有爸爸跟我,我沒有媽媽。我媽不是跑了,也不是死了,就是沒有。打我懂事以來,就不存在這號人物,我是很後來才知道,原來世界上有媽媽這個東西,至少,得要有個女人,你才能到這世界上來,這是網路教我的。
我爸,大家都稱他「豬肉游」,是市場裡的豬肉販,每天清晨他就要起來用刀把肉商送來的豬隻按部位肢解,然後就在早晨市場的人聲鼎沸裡,把這些豬肉豬皮豬骨豬雜碎一一賣掉。過了中午,整理整理攤位,隨便吃過午飯,他就會去睡回籠覺,傍晚起來,就出門賭錢去,直到深夜才會回來睡覺。
在台灣,市場的豬肉販,通常賺的錢不少(也是網路教我的),但我爸可能是因為愛賭錢吧,也沒看他真的存了什麼錢,也沒買什麼房子,我們兩個,就是住在市場裡頭,豬肉攤後面,用帆布隔出一點空間,他一個床,我一個床,其他剩下的空間,就是我們吃飯,看電視,以及後來我上網的空間而已。
我爸不愛說話,他只有在賣肉時才會完全變成一個活潑好客的人,賣完之後,他不是整理攤位,看電視,就是睡覺。我們不常說話,我比較大以後學會的事,幾乎都是從網路上學來的。我從三歲開始,就開始幫忙賣肉,抓絞肉,收錢,問客人要買什麼,清洗攤位 … 幾乎就是我童年的一切。後來常常有人知道以後說很心疼我,其實我並不是很懂,因為這個空間,以及這個空間所發生的一切,就是我的宇宙。反正我就是在這裡,在旁邊看這些反而會覺得很無聊的。
後來我才知道,所有人都有「戶口」這東西,但我似乎沒有。我就像是存在市場裡的幽靈,生在市場裡,長在市場裡,市場就是我的世界。我一直到十多歲時,才曾經真的遠離市場,到其他地方去過。但或許是因為我出生在這裡,我也不是很喜歡外出,幫著賣肉,或是在市場內東攤玩西攤竄,對我而言,似乎就很夠了。
除了市場這個世界之外,我在十歲時,有個常常跟我爸買豬肉的阿姨常客,她一直很喜歡我,常稱讚我眼睛大大很聰明,每次她來買肉,我都會偷偷多秤給她一點。那次她買完肉之後,跟我爸說要送我個禮物(不是生日禮物,因為何時出生的我爸也記不清了),而且不准不收。禮物就是一台電腦,阿姨還讓她已經高中的兒子大哥哥教我怎麼上網。從此以後,網路成為我人生的另一個平行世界。網路就像是一道所有世界知識的窗口,我從沒有上過學,從沒有人教我認字,除了這個市場教我人際往來與買賣人生,其他一切的一切,都是我自己透過網路學來的。
也就是說,打我十歲開始,學會上網(我家攤位在市場邊緣,市場旁就有間賓館,我很容易就打聽到他們的Wifi密碼,一用就是十多年了),別說中文,英文跟數字,我可都沒見過。但市場裡臥虎藏龍,這裡學一點那裏偷一點,我沒有幾個月就可以開始靠自己到網路上去找東西學了。自此,我的人生就是賣肉跟上網,時間都不夠用。所以,我從來也沒羨慕過那些上學的小孩們。
總之,我之所以今天可以自在獲得這世界的許多知識,進入加密貨幣圈,註冊Steemit,甚至如此熟練地使用中文,然後以具有質感的「劉美女」稱號,出現在各位面前,都得要感謝那位阿姨當年這一送,以及我這十多年日以繼夜的,像海綿一樣的吸收知識吧!
要收攤了,我們下次繼續。
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劉美女最近發了一些台南旅遊的文章,其中不乏吃貨類文章,例如這篇。告訴你一個秘密,我下台南前一天,兩邊的智齒都痛起來,旅行已經排定,又來不及處理牙齒,所以還是硬著頭皮下去玩了。
意思是,那些台南美食,我幾乎都是半吞食狀態下肚的。
兩邊的牙都疼,幾乎是完全沒辦法咬。所以,盡量吃些粥類,麵類也勉強,魚湯,非常好。當你牙齒不能咬時,才知道用舌頭跟上顎也是能壓碎些豆腐之類的東西。當你兩邊臼齒不能使用時,你才知道 …
原來所謂「吃東西」的任何滋味,原來都是來自於臼齒的咀嚼,與唾液的混合,所產生的感覺啊!
再怎麼好吃的食物,就算是已經有人用剪刀幫你剪碎了,而你只能用吞的時,真的,有時比不吃還糟糕!
你可以感覺到美食入口,但你卻幾乎不能享受它。這感覺實在不是太好!除非是本來就不需要咀嚼的東西。
不過,我這樣也硬是吃遍了不少的美食,而且更增添下次再去的念頭。
回台北後,終於下定決心,約好醫生。於是,今天,我先去拔了一顆智齒。拔的過程啦,拔牙注意事項啦,這些我就不贅言啦 (還是教育一下,拔牙後,要注意血塊的保護,不要漱口~~),畢竟不是什麼令人愉悅的事。
只能說,牙齒真的是要好好保護,保養。因為口腔是人攝取食物的入口,人不能吃還得了?偏偏口腔都是潮濕而充滿細菌的,萬一有傷口,都是很不容易好的。所以啊!該處理就要盡快,不要像我拖了好半年才弄。
沒有牙齒可以用,人生真的是黑白的,牙痛不說,不能正常吃喝,還真是讓人生頓時失去許多意義啊~~ 這裡很多年輕人,比較不懂得身體的重要性,想我當年也是這樣啊~~ 可以揮霍當然沒問題,只是還得建立起好習慣跟好的意識,才不會老一點點時,錯失很多黃金時機,而遲早還是得承受代價的啊。
終於可以理解老人家們換假牙,或是不能好好吃的時候的心情,這已經不是老這件事直接帶來的了。
今天拔完牙後,整個人都昏昏沈沈地,一方面天氣又是超級冷(陽明山這種矮山都下雪了!),一直躺在床上休息,不時看著幣價又是滿滿紅字,所以才開個茶館,希望能獲取一點大家的正能量啊!
今晚會早早上床睡覺,明天,應該會是美好的一天。
讓我選幾張正能量的圖,用來入夢,嘻嘻!晚安,ladies and gentlemen~~~~
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Hi travelers, Dean (@deanliu) and Dan (@tradealert) are back and today we are talking about a very promising Ethereum dAPP called ETHERISC.
Etherisc is a decentralized Ethereum dAPP which offers smart-contract powered insurance products.
The project is being developed out of Germany by a team of veteran developers, bankers and insurance specialists. You can learn about how it came together here.
Etherisc aims at reinventing and democratizing insurance through the power of blockchain and smart contracts. Being decentralized indeed brings considerable benefits to an insurance product, notably:
EFFICIENCY AND AUTOMATION
Smart contract technology enables end-to-end automation of payments, efficient risk model estimation, and semi-automated claims processing, thus substantially lowering operating costs.ACCESS FOR INSURANCE CUSTOMERS
Lower costs enable insurance solutions for developing markets, low-income businesses, and new product verticals which have been previously unable to obtain insurance. For example, crop insurance for rural farmers in developing countries is an underserved market and a good candidate for further exploration.ACCESS FOR INSURANCE INVESTORS
Digital assets on blockchains create opportunities to structure exposure to insurance products for a much broader range of investors.TRANSPARENCY
On most blockchains, transparency is a platform-level feature. All data in a smart contract based system is publicly auditable and can be freely analyzed by third parties.
The Etherisc platform currently offers three such products: Social Insurance, Crop Insurance and Flight Delay Insurance.
So today we’d like to give you a primer on one of these products: the Flight Delay dAPP.
The Flight Delay Dapp (FDD) is ETHERISC’s first commercial product and also:
the first decentralized insurance application which can issue policies and pay out valid claims completely autonomously.
As its name suggests, the FDD can be used to automatically insure your flights in a totally decentralized way via smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum Network.
A disclaimer though. Right now the project is still at the stage of being a demo running on the Ropsten test-net so the following walkthrough might be subject to changes when the project finally migrate to the mainnet. However this guide will allow you to familiarize yourself with the dAPP and experience first-hand the power of smart contracts.
So let’s jump right into this.
And that’s it, you’re now good to go on your adventure.
The platform relies on Oracles to determine if flights are on time or not and if yours happen to be delayed/cancelled you will then be automatically refunded ETH to your ETH address. It’s pretty neat.
So that’s it for today guys, if you’d like to know more about the project, you can head over to their website, join their Telegram Channel and read their whitepaper.
We hope you’ve learned something new and don’t forget to re-steem, upvote and follow @tradealert and @deanliu if you like our featured content.
Cheers,
Dan & Dean.
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“On December 5th, 1932, Hayashi Department Store opened and thus a modern age of Taiwanese culture began.”
This is stated on the website of Tainan’s Hayashi Department Store. It was restored and brought back to live again in 2013 so we get to see this elegant historical building again today. We of course took the chance to see it with our own eyes when we were in Tainan.
“1932年12月5日,林百貨開幕,開啟台灣文明的摩登時代。” ~這是台南林百貨官網的介紹。這間典雅的歷史建築,直到2013年才重新修復並恢復其往日風華,我們也才有幸在今日重睹其風采。我們的台南行,在有限時間裡,也去了一趟逛逛,體驗一下這當年名滿府城的『林百貨』!
Let’s go inside and check out the floors!
進去看看百貨內部吧,走遍各樓層看看去!
On the fourth floor, there is a event hall and a Japanese style cafe. It’s more than just a department store!
四樓有藝文展演空間,以及一間日式風格咖啡,文化味看來在這間百貨內非常濃厚呢!
This place is the first building in Taiwan’s history to have elevator system. That was back in 1932. Tainan people at that time would come to this department store only to have a look at this fancy new stuff!!
林百貨是台灣第一棟有電梯的建築物,當時是1932年,已經是八十多年前。當時的台南居民,常常相約到這裡來逛逛,只為了看看那新奇的『流籠』(當時的稱呼)!
Or if you prefer stairs, their staircase is also very beautiful and elegantly designed.
如果你不想搭電梯,樓梯間也很美,陽光灑落,古典的建築結構,非常迷人。
Keep going up to the semi-open space fifth floor, here you can find some stores offering food.
繼續往上走是五樓,半開放空間,賣些吃的東西。
Actually you can go further up to the top floor, where you can see the panorama view of the city. The design of the architecture is very innovative, check out the photos below to get a feeling.
還可以繼續往上走到頂樓去,這裡可以四處瞭望城市風貌。這五六樓的建築設計非常新穎,讓你的空間變化感十足。瞧瞧照片你就知道了!
Previously in this Tainan mini-series …
先前『慵懶台南』小系列 …
[輕旅行系列] 慵懶台南 #1 水果行與杏仁豆腐 [Travel Around Taiwan] Enchanting Tainan #1 Fruits Store & Almond Tofu
[輕旅行系列] 慵懶台南 #3 視覺府城 [Travel Around Taiwan] Enchanting Tainan #3 Visual Tainan
[輕旅行系列] 慵懶台南 #4 魚味無窮 [Travel Around Taiwan] Enchanting Tainan #4 Flavor of the sea
[輕旅行系列] 慵懶台南 #5 麵條斯理 [Travel Around Taiwan] Enchanting Tainan #5 Noodles
Stay tuned for more Enchanting Tainan later ~~~~
敬請繼續期待,將繼續分享 慵懶台南 喔~~
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