little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

things to write about, when i am all settled in my new place and i actually have DSL at home

1. How at my new place, I am surrounded by boxes and no furniture and dried paint on the carpet and how I ever really want to do is to bury my face in my hands and cry
2. How my new place is walking distance from 7 fast food restaurants, not an exaggeration, and the street used to get to one major bay area freeway to another. It’s the equivalent to living in one of those central California towns that has nothing but a HoJo and a Dennys, but with more Taiwanese and Indian people.
3. My experiences working the formerly “top secret project” known as Yahoo! Avatars, currently on Yahoo! Messenger beta (that’s right. They gave the gay web developer the Yahoo! property with the pink halter tops and the Jennifer Anniston flip hair. Don’t even get me started.)
4. How I’ve promptly gone from one top secret project to yet another top secret project, which makes for a fantastic resume but for absolutely shitty blog fodder
5. Find some time to breathe between all the madness

The posts will come soon enough, I promise.

paint on the carpet? that mel, glen, and chrissie are just a little sloppy.

Keep your chin up. The boxes will wait.

Another alternative is to unpack for 15 minutes a day (time it). You can get a lot done in a week that way.

just do it…
http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/cleansweep/geton/geton.html

Hm… no matter what I select for my yahoo avatar, I look like a little club twink. Ernie, you gotta help the bears represent, yo.

Xkot, you should have seen the first batch of assets. That’s all I have to say about that.

I *REALLY* need to write about my Avatars experience. I’ll need to get my managers OK, however.

Is there any way to make an avatar that dose not look like a Castro twink? The guy selections available look like they barely have pubes.

YEAH BABY! I’M THE 7TH TO REPLY!!!!!!!

WEEEE!!!!!!

How come there’s only one face for the avatar?

Smart move by Yahoo! to jump on the Avatar angle of IMs … I’ve been waiting to see which IM would do it first. How long before the commerical aspects of the Avatar thing start rolling in? The way I see things, there’s two commercializable opportunities here: 1. doing virtual test market studies by offering new styles and apparel, 2. selling branded items as accessories and clothing for your avatar.

Mike, good call on the commercialized opportunities.

I’m hesitant to say what Yahoo!’s officially going to be doing with avatars - I’m not the official spokesman for Y!, obviously - but if you look at the Korean version of the Y! Avatar site (http://kr.avatar.yahoo.com/), they go into both of those very things you say.

It’s not that bad. There’s the Lion City complex where there’s a cool place for a weekend buffet with jook and all the fixings. I forget the English name, but I think, in Mandarin, it’s “Hai Tian.” And there’s the Mexican place way down Warm Springs/N. Milpitas, just past Dixon Landing. You can get fucking cabeza!

And lets not forget how fun the 680S on-ramp is, coming up Mission from 880.

what sort of black magic are you using to get the avatars site to work? I get error messages or nothing happening when i click in both IE 6 and firefox .8, on winxp. this makes me sad. i want a pixel me.

Ernie-love, don’t get down. It’s okay. This investment in a condo will help you get into a MORE fabulous condo or house. You have to start somewhere. Usually near a HoJo.

Just promise me you won’t do what we have done (aka bought the Fixer-Upper House From Hell because, well, how hard can it be? I mean, QEFTSG get’s whole rooms done in 30 minutes. And that’s with commercials!!!!)

Cool, I got my avatar, and told friends to do so too. But they end up being foxy, with those eyes… I’ll be having even more indecent propositions :))

Bah - more Internet-Exploder-Only code *kicks*

Yeah, I agree that there needs to be way more choices for the avatars, or else everyone will look like everyone else, and what’s the point of that?

Ernie, don’t cry!

Also, we need some horizontally challenged people as avatars. Not everyone is as skinny or as pretty –pixel or not!

I wanna yoink the clothes from Yahoo! Japan’s avatars and stick ‘em on the US bodies… hey Ernie, can you hook that up? ;D

Yah.. no matter what I do in yahoo avatars I look like an anime club kid. We need some “husky” bodies up in there, stat.
I am excited to see an update to yahoo messenger. One of my pet peeves is that you can’t limit the web cam to only accept invites from people who also have cams. It’s so annoying to be in a cam room and have to deny a bazillion cam requests a second from lurkers… especially when you have to stop.. um, what you’re doing… to check and see if they have a cam too. Of course, this is only in clean no-sex cam rooms. umm, yeah.

Look on the bright side, you’re in sunny California working for a cool kick-ass web company whose name you can drop at parties for instant kudos in a jar. And at least your fellow Chinese-Americans spend their time trying to do things constructively instead of bitching around all day, forming self-obsessed social cliques and booing Chinese non-Chinese people…

or is that just me?

The avatars site doesn’t work so well with Safari.

s/so well/at all/

Japan’s Yahoo Avatar is so much cooler than what we have in the US.

http://avatar.yahoo.co.jp

I must confess - my only beef with the avatars is that you cannot choose footwear. Where are the flip flops? Shoes make the man.

Selling branded clothes for avatars? That’s sick. But not as sick as actually funding the sweatshops.

And now that we have virtual economy, clothes and stuff for avatars make sense: directly from my online bank account to my virtual store, I won’t even see the money.

Ernie, as long as your condo is real.

need more color coodinations for the tops and pants and also shoes and boots…The avaters are too young looking i think and perfect tyty i love my avater ,,i even have my hair the same as her~!