It must take a lot of skill to shape the neon tubes to outline individual Chinese characters. I know that for red, the tubes have neon gas in them and when the gas is excited with an electiric spark, it emits the red color. Working with LEDs and a computer are less demandings.
Here we have the hybrid display of both neon and LED and computer display time and temperature. Here in Taiwan we're on the Centigrade system.
I heard that neon is in a tube of gas and when the tube has electric spark travelng the distance of the tube the excited gas emits the red color. When the gas is argon the emitted color is green. But then how about white light, white is a mixture of all colors, so what is the gas that in the neon tubes? I don't know.
This backward spelling of "Hotel" I vaguely remember from when I came to NCKU 15 years ago to give lectures in English at NCKU. I stayed in a Hotel near the train station that is near this sign. At that time, I was employed at the NCHC, the Taiwan National Center for High Performance Computing. I was sent out to sell the importance of computing to the four major Universities in Taiwan. Little did I know that I would one day be a student of the same university. Wow, fate works in strange and wonderous ways.
At NCKU in 1994 I gave two two hour lectures in English:
1. Floating point arithimetic.
2. High Performance Computing
It seems like eons ago, I was an expert it the second topic but I still know all there is to know about the first.
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Great signs! I haven't seen any like them in Tucson. I'll start looking more closely for hidden treasures as I go about town. Floating point arithmetic? I'll have to ask Larry about that. It's strange the way fate works out--you must have had some good vibes about NCKU when you were there before. Do you have plans for Thanksgiving? I know it's not a holiday in Tainan, but wonder if you are doing anything special yourself.
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