little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Chinese New Year

Thank the good lord for TiVo — it’s so much easier to fast-forward through televised parades. Like the Chinese New Years Parade in San Francisco, for example. The Chinese New Years Parade in San Francisco are based on four important things:

Kung Fu schools doing lion or dragon dances. Usually with fireworks. [...]

Figures Skating

So, how about that ladies figure skating?

(The scene: A gay bar, busy for a Thursday night but few people on the dance floor.)
Me: Wow, there’s no one on the dance floor. Everyone is watching figure skating at the bar.
Jon-Jon: HA! Imagine that. Gay men watching figure skating. I mean, [...]

Welcome to the mountains

Why my roomate needs an actual weblog and not a shrine to Burning Man
(Necessary background story: Thanks to the joys of the internet, Paris is, no lie, a licensed minister. Paris receives a frantic call from his sister-in-law — the minister is sick! Could Paris do the wedding for them? Of [...]

The Only Major Non-work Gripe I Have About Work

So while I’m not an actual employee there, I’m a “web consultant” (stop laughing, you) at a large telecommunications company. A very large telecommunications company. Think “twenty thousand people in the building” large. Think “slightly smaller than the Pentagon, but not much” large. So, understandably, security is a big deal there. [...]

the time ernie was in a college reader

(The setting: 2:45pm, no less than five minutes after writing the previous weblog post. Dialogue, like always, only slightly completely exaggerated for humorous effect.)

Ernie: mumble mumble, stupid remote procedures not working properly, mumble mumble… (cellphone rings.) Hello?
Emi: You busy right now?
Ernie: Kinda. I’m in my cubicle. What’s [...]

A Great Idea

The year: 1999. Dot-coms are the rage. Ernie is still in college.

Nico: Dude, I have a great idea for a website.
Ernie: Goferit.
Nico: Well, it involves porn. Still wanna hear it?
Ernie: … eh, what the hell. Try me.
Nico: What’s the most populous nation in the world?
Ernie: [...]