Typepad crashed yesterday and took down with it a couple of comments.  I was sad to see today that nickwong’s (I hope that is the right name, I am going on memory) beautiful contribution of the original Chinese version of the poem I posted in "A Little Li Po" had disappeared, we well as mengruo’s (again, running on fragile memory here) invocation of Star Trek technology under the "’Modern Love:" Virtual Humanity" post.  Sorry.  If either of you stop by again and want to repost, that would be great!  Otherwise, let’s hope Typepad doesn’t chew up any more good comments…

UPDATE: Eph to the rescue!  A former student, as can be seen in the comments, has helped to restore the lost comments.  Thanks Todd!