little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

the old house in el cerrito

Do you remember the house that you grew up in? I sure do. I lived on a house in El Cerrito, California, on the corner of Richmond and Moeser.

land of camo capri pants

Back from a weekend trip to Southern California. The trip was a nice little way to get away before a bunch of job interviews, freelance proposals and general life stresses coming this week.
(But if I never see a pair of camouflage capri pants again, it will be too damn soon.)
Another interesting thing happened down [...]

this is why i never post about the browser wars

I’ve gradually started surfing the web with Firebird instead of Internet Explorer. I just wish my intentions were more noble.
As a web developer, I’ve known about Mozilla for a while. “You should use Mozilla because it supports web standards,” they would say. “Also, it has an open-source development community. Microsoft [...]

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Every once in a while, I get e-mails from people asking why I haven’t written about particular topics. One time, I had a USA Today reporter call me for my opinion on a recently published article about Asian Americans and Internet usage, like I was the premier expert on being Asian American and surfing [...]

vegetable, love, same difference

Lost in Translation: What those cool Japanese tattoos really say.
This reminds me of a story.
Back in the eighth grade, my friends sister got a tattoo. As the rebel in the family, this was to be expected. (Then again, we were all a bunch of God-fearing Christians back then, so getting a tattoo [...]

singing dancing alien sharks

Tonight, an online chat with Eric, of Eric Conveys an Emotion.

Eric: you shoulda gotten online earlier today. i had a couple extra tickets to an A’s game tonite. but people couldnt come cuz it was all last minute. but you are fellow unemployed. no stupid work to get in the way
Ernie: just as well. [...]

terminator for governor

(The scene: Ernie and Paris are watching TV. Specifically, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bid to run for the governor of California.)

Schwarzenegger: And as your governor of California, I will do everything possible to protect the rights of all Californians…
Paris: …from an invading army of metallic robots!
Ernie: …against the clutches of Batman, as a [...]

the pigeon and lobster puppet show

This weekend, I had the honor of attending my friend Anna’s wedding. It was your standard Chinese-American wedding, meaning that the actual ceremony in the church was a simple and dignified while the wedding banquet afterwards was an elaborate affair that took five hours and cost more than the GNP of most small countries [...]