Archive for March 2008

31 Mar 2008 0453H

On vacation this week

Heading off to our northern bordering neighbor, as usual. Back at the end of the week.

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28 Mar 2008 1654H

A little political humor

One of my favorite sketches from Prairie Home Companion of late involves a long car ride with the different hopefuls for Election ‘08, as well as presidents past and present. Forward to 3:37 on this link to hear in RealPlayer. Good times.

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28 Mar 2008 1433H

21? Racist.

The real MIT Blackjack Team, which reaped big rewards by card counting? Mostly Asian Americans. The movie? Mostly white folks. (One token Asian.) Even admitted by the author of the book, “Bringing Down the House”:
During the talk, Mezrich mentioned the stereotypical Hollywood casting process — though most of the actual blackjack team was composed of [...]

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27 Mar 2008 2106H

How was such a snafu at the LA Times made possible?

I speak of course about the so-called Diddy/Tupac conspiracy which was recently revealed by the Smoking Gun website as completely manufactured by a “roly poly white kid” who “needed attention like a drug.”
It is difficult to know where to begin. Would we say it was after the Times was acquired by the sprawling Tribune empire [...]

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27 Mar 2008 1209H

Have I failed to heed the voice of the Ancestors?

In what ways have I forgotten their call?
I say this because after all, no one venerates the Ancestors anymore, not in my generation. It was even discouraged, like all things Confucian, as remnants of a corrupt order that perpetuated inequalities and thereby was fundamentally incompatible with democratic values and society.
But I still keep the [...]

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25 Mar 2008 1741H

Week 2 of the cold turkey treatment

It’s week 2 of weaning my cybernarcotised ass off the web. I’m doing it cold turkey by weaning myself off one more day each week. In 5 more weeks I should be off entirely. Basically it’s my feeling I’m on the web too much, surfing, filling my head with random info, when I could be [...]

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25 Mar 2008 1726H

Pants on fire

Exsqueeze me? If you were in danger of being shot at by snipers, highly practiced snipers who had plenty of opportunity firing at live targets during that awful civil war, don’t you think that is something you would remember fairly clearly? I know, I know. So many snipers, so hard to keep track of them. [...]

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24 Mar 2008 2023H

About Directv’s HD strategy

I really don’t freaking understand the Directv HD strategy.
Last XMas I bought the Directv HD receiver for the big screen at the Circuit City. After five feet of receipts printed and appropriate things were signed, I trucked it home and set it up. Marvellous.
But I’m also being billed for the amount of $10 [...]

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24 Mar 2008 1124H

Need to add smokey flavor but can’t add bacon?

Sometimes you can’t add bacon.
No, really. Sometimes you really can’t add bacon.
So I’ve been using katsuo mirin furikake lately. Normally the furikake, which is a mix of sesame seeds, dried seaweed, and seasoned dried katsuo/bonito flakes, is sprinkled on plain white rice to make it tasty. Instead, I’m using it in soup, which is [...]

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23 Mar 2008 0202H

Yeah. . .

hung out with a bunch of Asian Am folks tonight at Joe’s to watch the game. All alums of Campbell Hall. There was some drinkage. Quite a bit more than I had done in the last year since I ain’t exactly the drinking kind. Wasn’t looking good at halftime. We watched UCLA whittle the Aggies’ [...]

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