little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

random things that don’t deserve a blog title

• If you haven’t figured it out, I’m using Flickr to display the photographs I’ve taken with my cameraphone to this website. If the images look too large, you might have to update the CSS file on my website - just refresh. You might wanna check out the other skin too for those of you too lazy to type in my website on a browser and take the time to read my comments using an RSS feed.

  A friend of mine accused me of “selling out,” how I’m using Flickr when I previously worked for Yahoo! Photos. I don’t think of it like that - Flickr has some awesome web services and RSS feeds that fits the needs of this website perfectly. Yahoo! Photos simply has a different demographic. Does Flickr sell 6×6″ keepsake ceramic tiles with adorable children on them? I don’t think so. Needless to say, I go to Y!Photos for all my ceramic-tile-with-white-baby needs.

• And in other news…

  (Two co-workers and I are smoking outside. Co-worker #2 is a “blue badger,” which means he’s a contract-to-hire employee. Everyone else is a “purple badger,” or a regular employee.)

  10 year old kid: Can you let us in? We’re from a boy scout troop.
  Co-worker #1: Nope, sorry.

  (10 year old kid’s father walks out the building to greet what his presumably his son. I’m assuming he’s the troop leader as well.)

  Troop Leader: Here you go - and I have badges for each and every one of you!
  10 year old kid: And they’re purple! Awesome!
  Co-worker #2: Wait, are you FUCKING SERIOUS? Like, 20 kids can just GET purple badges and here I am, working fucking SEVENTY HOURS A WEEK AND I STILL HAVE A BLUE BADGE?
  Everyone else: …

  Ernie, in 10 year old kid voice: “WHAT? AND WE CAN USE THE GYM TOO!? COOOOOOOOOL!!”
  Everyone else: …
  Co-worker #2: That stings, man.
  Ernie: Dude, you’re getting paid hourly. Buy a damn hospital.

  Okay, I didn’t say that last sentence. But I totally should have.

Flickr is great for integrating with blogs, and I love the fact that people can comment on your photos - it has a real community spirit to it.

I think I missed some badge color subtlety thing. Maybe I need to be in high tech to understand these things!

And just think…there is a hospital in San Jose for sale!

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2664797

ah, the life of a contractor is a long and hard road……

Yeah, Flickr really is great! I’m spending miles too much money sending pics from my camphone to Flickr and directly to my blog, but who cares? It’s fun! $_$

LOL - Funny stuff.

You should have totally said that.

Hey Ernie, you probably don’t remember me, but I thought I drop a comment anyway.
-Aphio Iota Phi Kuchta (Ta and Emi’s friend)

Hmm more reasons to come to the site!

you picked up on the unspoken tension between contractor employes (red badges at aol) vs full time employees (blue badges at aol unless the person started when they were still white).

reds cant use the gym, attend executive speaker series (hmmm…), and other fantastic perks that blues can. but they get paid shitloads more than the blue badges even after they pay for their own benefits. bastards.

I usually don’t condone Tech on Tech violence, but if you would have said that you would have been choked out.

Well, as a “blue” badger, I don’t get paid shitloads of money for overtime. I’m not allowed to work overtime at all without direct consent, and I don’t make nearly enough to afford my own benefits. So guess what? I don’t have any. Sure, I *could* afford benefits if I got in on that 4 roommates crammed into a 400 sq. ft. Koreatown studio, but alas, no. So, I politely raise my middle finger to the “purple” badgers. Contractors Unite!

Best new tagline for Yahoo photos…

“Now with more White Babies!!!”

Excellent.

The contractor vs worker goes deeper, into on our existence as social beings, as being part of the clan: everybody wants to belong, to ientify with the group. Besides, the ones with the blue badges feel, very apposite, like the redshirted guy at Star Trek: at the first crisis, you get it.

HEY ERNIE!!!
Look what I found!!!

http://mirrorproject.com/galleries/archive/?id=1924&galleryid=31

Aaawww…I miss playing fooz with you guys! Especially with the ‘Special Olympics Foozball Team!’

Coworker #2…I’ve felt your pain! I can empathize!

nice

Well I’d love to feel both the blue and purple badgers’s pain but the company you work for just bought the company I work for and laid a lot of us off as being “redundant”. Nice. I would have loved to have been a coworker.

just read your mother stories in the archive. you are a fucking kak, I love it. xxxxxxxxxxxx