My posts on 8Asians…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.)
Craziness. Although I totally disagree in the letter that Windows Vista is in any way something positive. Holy crap though, this could wind up being pretty freakin’ complicated.
Wow. That’s definitely a scene from a much-needed Asian prime-time sitcom.
On a side note, your site seems to have lots all of its CSS and pretty pictures. The good news is that I can read it on my Kindle. The bad news is that I can read it on my Kindle. What gives?
What makes me a nerd is that I heard this on the radio and immediately thought, “Huh, I wonder what Ernie might have to say about it.”
I’m glad you did have something, otherwise I would have felt like a total loser.
Am I the only one that thinks this might be a good thing? Google is great but needs some competition, something that Microsoft and Yahoo could not do on their own. Maybe together they can spur on a little healthy competition.
You come here not to praise the butterfly, but to squish it.
Have you thrown the iMac at your mom yet?
Soooo you got laid off?
Yahoo’s actually doing better than Microsoft in China in some ways, thanks to Alibaba.
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