little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

just another day at the Y!

The scene: One of the visual designers (he’s French) and I are smoking a cigarette outside. David Filo, one of the founders of Yahoo!, walks past us non-chalantly.

Ernie: You know, whenever I see him, I just think to myself, “1.4 billion. He’s worth more money than I’ll ever be able to obtain in my entire life.”
Visual designer: You know, if I had a billion dollars, I would buy a house in the South of France. I would be a recluse, just hanging out at a cafe drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Ernie: And then you could pay for the coffee with 10,000 note francs.
Visual designer: Or gold coins. Or diamonds.
Ernie: …you’d have to be careful, though, because everyone in the cafe would notice and attack you with giant loaves of french bread…
Visual designer: …
Ernie: …not to be horribly stereotypical towards Europeans or anything.
Visual designer: No, that’s pretty much what would happen.

(Ernie and the visual designer resume smoking)

I wonder if that’s what happens to Peter Mayle these days. (Author of “A Year in Provence”)

In cafe, Mayle seated: “It’s him! The man who overran Provence with tourists! GET HIM!”

::Mayle goes down under a barrage of baguettes::

I like ‘em with garlic actually! [whack] hahaha!

Wait, 10,000 note francs? But they use EUROS in France!

That’s a very clever blog entry title — at first I was like, “Ernie is talking about the YMCA?” And I remembered you worked for Yahoo!

Somewhere in there, there’s probably a joke about young gay men, the YMCA, Yahoo!, and the Village People.

You know, you should smoke. It’s bad for your health.

*runs as a million stale baguettes fly at her*

I like that the guy’s on “sabaatical” from Stanford… nice.

*giggle* you are too cute. working at the y sometimes sounds like so much more fun than mvsn.

The european life sometimes is a bit more relaxed, than ours…having more holidays (vacations) and all…sounds incredible to have that amount of money, but then come problems with it, too.

Will French be in italics?

Ernie, that guy is kinda cute. Ever thought about asking him out?

lc…I’ll TAKE those problems!! Please! For that amount of money, I would gladly trade my problems for those.

IF you actually ever get the change of visiting an european country you’ll see a lot of chinese restaurants and stores. …not to be horribly stereotypical towards chinese, just because they’r everywhere you go because china sucks.. or anything…

This one was highly clever. I am seeing subtitles in English…and bad French dialogue dubbing. I’m quickly becoming a fan of your page.

I got a great visual on this entry. You know they don’t teach us many baguette conters in kung fu class.

Somewhere in there, there’s probably a joke about young gay men, the YMCA, Yahoo!, and the Village People.

linda:

for that kind of money, i’d eat glass!

Wait, 10,000 note francs? But they use EUROS in France!

wow

*giggle* you are too cute. working at the y sometimes sounds like so much more fun than mvsn.

*giggle* you are too cute. working at the y sometimes sounds like so much more fun than mvsn.

Somewhere in there, there’s probably a joke about young gay men, the YMCA, Yahoo!, and the Village People.