little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Posts from June 2002

murphys law and porn

Murphys law: the day you break down and finally buy a pornographic videotape over the internet is the day that your TV/VCR combo decides to die.
Not that it happened to me, of course. I’m just sayin’.


Don’tMolestMySon.com

(Bits of random conversation leading up to this moment has been edited out.)

Paris: … oh yeah, do you know who else is from my hometown? That woman who walked into a courtroom and shot the guy who molested her son.
Ernie: Oh wow, I totally remember seeing that story on the news. [...]


operations, version, fault states

What happened at work today

Senior Tech Architect: Ernie, I need your help making things pretty or something.
Ernie: Designing User Interfaces and Information Architecture development is much more about making things pretty. Let me draw you a diagram on why this is so Sure. What do you need help with?
STA: I need [...]


tears of a clown

So, taking some advice from some commenters of a previous post, I ended up putting up a personal ad on PlanetOut. It’s been three days now. Number of responses directly recieved from the personal ad, picture included: zero. Not even from an old man who wants a little Asian boy to [...]


britneys dance beat

Okay, what’s sadder?

The fact that two days ago, I went to Best Buy and actually bought a copy of Britney’s Dance Beat. That’s right, kids. Britney Spears has a video game.
I beat said game in, oh, 38 minutes.

Some thoughts on the game:

Choose between six background dancers of various genders and ethnicities! All [...]


cameltoe!

Last Friday, on the TiVo: The Miss Universe 2002 Pageant. Beauty Pageants + Dinner Parties = Hilarity.

(The setting: The swimsuit competition. Miss Russia, who would later win the contest, is trotting around the stage in the bikini.)

Jen: Ohmygod.
Group: What?
Jen: Uhmm… Miss Russia is showing… she’s showing, [...]


R. Kelly gets arrested for…

R. Kelly gets arrested for child porn. And this should surprise, oh, absolutely no one?

It’s times like this when I reach for Aaliyah’s hit single from 1995, Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number. Let’s all sing along, shall we?

Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number
Written and Produced by R. Kelly
Age ain’t nothing but a [...]