little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

little drummer boy

(Written for A PhotoJunkie Christmas.)
Doesn’t feel like Christmas this year, does it?
Mind you, it hasn’t felt like Christmas for a while, but especially this year. The company lobby put up non-offensive winter decorations, instead of the green and red. A back page article on how the local food bank has run out of [...]

christian sensibilities.

Before I started to date a hip-hop DJ, before the trips to the raves with the jungle and the 2-step and the trance music (that, admittedly, doesn’t sound as good now that I stopped taking drugs) or even the trips to the gay clubs with its diva house music singing about freedom and pride and [...]

airbags. deployed.

I went to lunch with my friend Don today, partly to catch up on stuff and as a way to show off his new car, the Toyota Prius. It’s one of those half-gas, half electricity hybrid vehicles and he spent a little extra to show off his cool accessory, his GPS navigation system.

Ernie: [...]

“bad iconography” or “gloryholes for everyone!”

I’ll let Eric, the guy who sent me the e-mail, explain this one:

“I saw this ad on a website today for apartments.com:
I’d like a two-bedroom suite in Seattle, with the following amenities: cat, dog, moving service, front desk, carport, handicapped access, and GLORY HOLES IN ALL THE ROOMS. “

I swear to god, I stared at [...]

heavy flow day

An Instant Messenger conversation at work:

Female co-worker: i’m sooo embarrassed!
Ernie: what happened?!
Co-worker: i accidentally typed into the wrong IM window
Ernie: what did you type?
Co-worker: [stuff about completely non-embarassing project-related matters posted in the manager's IM window deleted. ]
Co-worker: uuugggg….i’m soooo embarrassed!
Ernie: oh my god, sweetie. it could have been soooo much worse.
Ernie: Co-worker: “My [...]

the seagull story

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a dinner with some co-workers and I made a reference to the place I grew up: El Cerrito, California.

Co-worker: El Cerrito? As in, El Cerrito High?
Ernie: Yeah. Class of 1994.
Co-worker: Whoa! Class of 1996! I don’t think we knew [...]

yahoo photos

So, my project at work — Yahoo! Photos — finally launched today. Now you understand the previous reference of running through sunflowers — I’ve been staring at nothing but images of sunflowers, puppies and babies for the past three months. It’s like living in a feminine hygeine commercial. (And the hygeine commercial [...]