little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Posts from February 2004

“ünbøring,” or “how i managed to offend swedes and conservatives in one post”

Every other weekend or so, my friend - let’s call him “D” for sake of anonymity - spends the night at our place. You see, every so often his roomate throws bisexual sex parties in his apartment, and things get awkward. Sometimes it can be inconvenient stepping over a threesome while you’re washing [...]


knife fight

They installed a Mac in my cubicle two weeks ago, so I can test the web pages I’m working on Mac IE and Safari.
Dirty secret: this is the first time I’ve have a Mac near me for an extended period of time. All the testing I’ve previously done on a Mac consisted of [...]


this isn’t pork

This Valentines weekend was spent at Grasshopper - an upscale restaurant down the street that specializes in Asian Fusion Tapas.
Asian Fusion Tapas. Only in California, right?
For those that aren’t familiar to either Fusion food or Tapas, Fusion combines the exotic foods of the Orient with the comforting foods of America - foods like avocados [...]


the interview

I’m a permanent employee now, which means that instead of being interviewed, I get to be one of the people interviewing potential job candidates. It happens on a regular basis, but it hasn’t been anything very blog-worthy.
Until now.

Job Candidate: So, to showcase some of my abilities with positional cascading style sheets, I’ll show [...]


blaming the box

I didn’t do anything for Chinese New Year. Actually, let me backtrack - my actual Chinese New Years was spent working a thirteen-hour day. That’s the equivalent of a devout Catholic family reading a weblog post that reads, “my Easter Sunday was spent doing heroin and fucking dead puppies.”
The only remnant of doing [...]