little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Time Suckage

My old-school blogger friend Ariel is writing a book pitch around her 52 Nights Unplugged project, and recently sent out an e-mail:
The sample chapter I’m writing this week is I sat down to check my email, and woke up watching kitten videos: Internet addiction time warps.
I’d love to hear your stories of your worst web […]

Infographics + Pop Songs = Awesomeness

Richard has a whole meme of songs as chartage, mostly from his LiveJournal community.
Not wanting to to pass a good meme when I see one, I humbly submit my own chart to the project:

Note that Ludacris does, indeed, have very little hos in the Manitoba area.

Aaah, the corporate gay e-mail list

From: [Name edited] [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
To: Yahoo! LGBT Stakeholders Group [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
Time: 12:33pm
[Giant e-mail forward regarding Hilary Clinton’s campaign edited out for brevity.]
From: Rufus, Yahoo! LGBT Moderator [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
To: Yahoo! LGBT Stakeholders Group [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
Time: 1:00pm
In the interests of keeping this Group as friendly and non-combative as possible, I would like to discourage the discussion of the political campaign and […]

Hello Kitty gets an MMORPG

Like the other ten million people out there, I play World of Warcraft. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short; I go online and I can fight monsters or other players from around the world. But today, a new MMORPG has entered a private invitation-only phase that could possibly […]

Rainbow Nation and Gay Asian Male Stereotypes

From Current: Rainbow Nation, a five minute “pod” on stereotypes and Gay Asian males.

That’s a way to get a response from me; create a video that starts out with the line, “Asian men have a lot of diseases [and] small penises.”
Gimmicky way to start off a documentary aside, some interesting points are raised […]

Proof

Six years ago, I was on The Weakest Link. A bunch of posts were written about the experience, most of which was wrapped up nicely in essay form and published in a book. And finally - FINALLY - I’m able to upload the video to the Internets and embed it relatively easily.
Me on The […]

Where Anil extols the virtues of Snoop-Dogg’s new video

Anil: http://snoopdogg.com/player/default.aspx?mid=3578&bhcp=1
Ernie: oh no. the first second…
Anil: you has no idea
Ernie: he hasn’t even started performing yet
Anil: i’m telling you
Anil: it’s beyond anything you can imagine
Anil: i’m writing a book-length post on it now
Ernie: [watching now]
Ernie: …
Anil: YOU LOVE IT
Ernie: OMFG THERE’S A WIND MACHINE
Anil: you ain’t seen shit
Ernie: i am honest […]

Playlist: BPR’s Shuffled

Last year, I compiled a playlist of the music I played the most throughout the entire year via last.fm and made a mix CD for all of my friends. It turned out to be a one-time thing, but when Boston Progress Radio asked me to contribute for their Shuffled! project - write about the […]

A completely fictional phone conversation with my mother…

…after the events of today. (Mandarin, like always, is in italics.)

(The cellphone rings.)
Ernie: Hello?
Ernie’s Mom: SEE!? I TOLD YOU YOU SHOULD HAVE STICKED TO THE BUTTERFLIES!
(Cut to Mom high-fiving Steve Ballmer, turning to the camera and both giving the thumbs-up sign. Cue laugh track, fade to black.)