little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Posts from April 2002

All Hail Min Jung, Queen

All Hail Min Jung, Queen of the Hot Tub
(Okay, this post is completely exaggerated. It’s funnier that way. The scene: MJ, Bill and Annie’s joint birthday party last Saturday night.)

MJ: Ernie! ERNIE! Come into the bathroom, NOW!
Ernie: Eh, huh? What?
(MJ is sitting in a hot [...]


BlindDateBlog

(The scene: Belinda and I are busy working on BlindDateBlog, set to go online sometime on Sunday. Entertainment Tonight is playing in the background.)

John Tesh Look-a-like: Tomorrow night is the series finale of The Bachelor! 25 single women have been narrowed down over the last six week to two girls, [...]


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22 April 2002 @ 12pm

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My Morning, and Bay Area Tech Life, In A Nutshell

Me: Can you help me out? The web application gives me this weird XML parser error when I run it locally on my laptop, but it works fine on the network.
Tech Lead #1: Sure. Here, let me try.
(Tech lead spends all day yesterday installing and reinstalling components, looking at debugger programs, [...]


horny geese of death

You might know that I work at the second largest office building in the nation, behind the Pentagon. What you might not know is that there is a man-made lake here, with all sorts of ducks and geese. When I first worked here and hung out in that area for my smoking breaks, [...]


uncle sam is a catty bitch

“So self,” you ask yourself. “I wonder how Ernie’s weekend went.”

(The scene: Ernie is sitting at his computer and a copy of TurboTax.)
Ernie: Okay… add these W-2 Forms… find a paystub, since I am missing a W-2… don’t forget these 1099’s… crap, my dad sold a bunch of my stock. Ahwell, [...]