The Conversation
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- colin: I was pretty impressed with Lin, until some digging around leads me to believe he’s more interested in...
- Eurasian Sensation: Why does anyone give a shit? The US is the global capital of people loudly claiming their love...
- What Cultures Value (21)
- “But he hit me back first!” (37)
- colin: It’s taboo to speak this truth in America, but here it is: Blacks are as racist as, if not more than,...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Raguel: It’s interesting that you raise the Indonesian Chinese, as there are indeed some...
- Raguel: As heated as the debate has become I think that it has been productive. The perspectives raised, unpopular or...
- Seeking Asian Female (7)
- King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- raguel: LOL @ Chen and traumatic comedy XD The more I discover about mail-order marriages the more horrible the...
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
- Jeremy Lin shines (20)
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- bigWOWO: Danny and Mojo, Holy crap! That’s amazing! I didn’t know he could dunk either! I think...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
- Battle Hymn of the Kitten Daughter (36)
- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Another Immigrant Success Story
Article in the NY Times on another successful Asian entrepreneur. Super Micro Computer sells servers to companies like eBay, Yahoo, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Their main competitive advantage is their speed–by hiring local, expensive engineers, they crank out designs that incorporate new chips faster than anyone else. People also work like crazy, sometimes for 15 hour days.
Despite its peculiarities, Super Micro is a thriving, publicly traded business that sells about $600 million a year of servers to the likes of eBay and Yahoo. More often than not, the company beats rivals to market by three to six months, offering the fastest, most compact, energy-efficient computers to demanding corporate and institutional customers. It has managed to post annual sales growth exceeding 20 percent in recent years, and its stock has outperformed competitors like Rackable Systems and Sun Microsystems.
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Murder in La Jolla
Emery Kauanui and his mother Cindy
I saw this article on Angry Asian Man yesterday: San Diego jury finds man guilty of surfer’s murder. There’s an older article here that explains the background even more (the photo is from this article.)
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Black Women and Michelle Obama
Article in the Washington Post today: The Very Image of Affirmation.
This is one of our bonuses in the Obama Administration. People will see a different image of black men through Obama. They are going to see a different image of black women through Michelle, and they are going to see a different image of black families through the Obama family. What makes their image so powerful is that they’re real. They are a real family that deals with real life. Living in the White House is a far from typical experience, but they remain real people with whom others can and will identify. This is powerful stuff.
Real Life Jurassic Park
Mammoth
I never made a tribute to Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, who passed away a few weeks ago. He was a titan in the publishing industry, and sci fi fans around the world will miss his contributions.
The NY Times today published an article about the Jurassic Park concept: Regenerating a Mammoth. Crichton didn’t invent the concept, of course, but he made a good movie out of it. This is exciting stuff. I don’t know if they should do it because part of me still remembers the fighting dinosaurs in the movie, but it’s fascinating that they probably can.
PC Magazine Will Be Online Only
Just saw this: Ziff Davis’s PC Magazine Will Be Online Only. Now I know PC Mag is a computer magazine, and I know most people with computers are hooked up to the web, but I think the general trend from print to web is a problem. It’s affected quite a few publications:
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a small publication that was established in 1945 and won a National Magazine Award last year, recently announced it would go online-only beginning in January. “We’re trying to deal with the cost pressures,” said Jonas Siegel, the Bulletin’s editor, in an interview.
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MMA in High Schools
The Founder of the MMA Club
In today’s NY Times, Mixed Martial Arts Makes Its Way to High School. The guy pictured above, Mr. In-Goo Kwak, founded an MMA club at his high school in Winchester, Massachusetts, where students practice MMA, the style of fighting which has been popularized in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. According to Mr. Kwak, ”one of his goals with the program was to offer something to students who were not ‘the jocks who dominate the sports.’” However, there are refugees from other sports including football and wrestling.
Wikipedia Seeks $6M
I just saw this Washington Post article about how Wikipedia is trying to raise $6 million dollars this year to cover operating costs for its nonprofit website.
I’m reading a book called Wikinomics right now about how there’s a new economy coming out because of massive cross collaboration, but if Wikipedia, the poster child of the book, needs to beg people for money, I don’t see how this new economic model is going to survive.
Upcoming Teleconference/bigWOWO announcements
Just a couple of site announcements:
1. We have a teleconference this week. If you’re interested in participating, we’re interested in you! Larry and W will be there, as will a couple of others. E-mail me or let me know your interest by posting on this blog entry, and we’ll set it up.
Seriously, I look at this as a means of changing things up for Asian American culture. The blog is cool, but there’s no substitute for real time communication. If you’re in, let us all know. This is where we do our activism.
Industries that are Booming during our Recession
With the new birth, I’ve been on paternity leave and haven’t been going out much. Even before the second baby, we hardly ever went out for dinner, but usually I went out at least a few times a week for lunch, and we usually either went out for breakfast or lunch at least once during the weekend. However, with the new birth, we’ve been cooking for almost two weeks straight–everything comes from the supermarket. I’ve been getting all creative in the kitchen (although sometimes not always successfully)! In these hard economic times, that’s a good thing; eating out adds up, and anything that cuts the bills is a good thing.
Japanese American Internment
I found the above video of Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada at another blog–Zuky. Check it out.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Japanese American internment recently. Not thinking as in forming theories and prescriptions, which is what I usually do, but thinking as in trying to get a mental picture of what happened and what it must have been like for the internees. I’ve been “reading” the audio book version of Robert Asahina’s Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad. I usually put audio books into my car stereo and listen whenever I drive. Because I’ve been at home with the baby and haven’t spent much time in the car, I’ve been a slow “reader” for this particular book. But so far, it’s very good, with lots of first person accounts and interviews. I haven’t yet finished it, but I’d recommend checking it out. Most of the reviews I’ve read have been positive.
