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- 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...
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- 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: January 2009
Infomercials
This article is about how the proliferation of infomercials during prime time are an indication of the failing economy, but here’s something that you probably didn’t know:
In exchange for the lower prices, infomercial producers are given no guarantees about when their ads will run. The networks give priority of time to the full-price ads, which usually take up the slots during prime time and other popular times. When the networks cannot find advertisers to pay the premium time slots, they will use direct-response ads instead.
Tagged random knowledge
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Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Saw this article in the NY Times this morning: Year of the Ox is looking Inauspicious.
“The mood is confused and desperate,” said Kerby Kuek, a feng shui master and Chinese astrologer. “Two years ago, people would ask me if they should change from a medium house to a big house, or from a Nissan to a BMW.
“Now people ask me directly, ‘When am I going to get laid off?”’
Portland, the Whitest Big City in the West
Thanks, Larry, for this article from the Oregonian. My goodness, we’re whiter than Nashville! We should start our own country music scene here.
This part of the article describes the cultural issues accurately:
Portland-area employers competing for top talent have a hard time retaining African American hires, who often can’t bear the social and cultural isolation of a metro area that is less than 3 percent black.
“A lot of my friends and other minorities come here to Portland thinking of it as a stopover,” says Angel Anderson, an African American software engineer from suburban Chicago who was recruited by Intel. “They leave the state in a year or two.”
Autopsy of an Independent Bookstore
Really sad story in BusinessWeek about Cody’s Books, an independent bookseller. I’ve blogged about the decline of the media many times, but this is the first story I’ve seen on the carnage taking place in the world of independent booksellers. It’s amazing how many famous authors Cody’s has hosted, and it’s sad that these forums will no longer be present.
I don’t know what the solution is, and I live in the suburbs…
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Tech Business News
Intel and Microsoft are cutting jobs after their financials came out worse than expected. AMD, according to the Intel article, is planning to cut 9% of its workforce. Apple, however, beat analysts expectations and posted a net income gain of almost 2% compared with last year. Apple’s rise, however, may be short-lived, since Steve Jobs is having health issues.
This hits very close to home since Intel has several major plants in the Portland area, and Microsoft is only three hours away in Redmond, WA. Portland’s unemployment rate is already over 9%, and this closure is only going to make things worse.
Site News
Okay, so we got ZERO submissions for our Two More Weeks of Bush (League) contest. Oh well. I guess you all were so ready for Dubya to fly out that there was no need to even acknowledge him. I know the feeling because I was feeling it too. I still have the book, so we’ll come up with another contest sometime in the future.
You’ll notice now that there’s a “ShareThis” button on every post. It’s a new plugin for bigWOWO; you can use it to share with your e-mail and social networking buddies. You can also use it for Digg and other types of news sites. Enjoy! Let’s use the web to find other bigWOWOs (or potential bigWOWOs).
The First Black First Family
CNN has a great piece on the Obamas role in breaking stereotypes of what a black family is supposed to be. Check it out here.
This is hilarious:
Jamaal Young was watching Barack Obama and his family greet an ecstatic crowd in Chicago, Illinois, on Election Night when he realized that something seemed wrong.
Obama didn’t shout at his wife, Michelle, to shut up. The first lady didn’t roll her eyes and tell Obama to act like a man. No laugh track kicked in, no one danced, and no police sirens wailed in the background.
Posted in Activism, Politics
Tagged Activism, Asian American, IR, media, Obama, stereotypes
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Podcast: bigWOWO Interviews Dave Porter, Activist for Bilingual Education
Dave Porter
I had the opportunity this past weekend to interview Mr. David Porter, a local Portland activist for bilingual education. Dave has been working with the Oregon State Legislature to bring a greater focus on foreign languages to our schools, and his work heavily emphasizes Mandarin Chinese immersion programs. Download our podcast here, or hear it below:
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The podcast is around 30 minutes, 13.7 megs.
Posted in parenting, Podcasts, Portland
Tagged Bilingual Education, Chinese, parenting, Portland
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If No One is Present to Hear a Tree Fall…
Fedor
There was a NY Times article today about Fedor Emilianenko, where we learn among other things that we were ALL mispronouncing his name.
Fedor Emelianenko (pronounced FYO-dor yemel-YAN-enko) was born in 1976, the son of a teacher and a welder, and began as a boy to practice judo and sambo, a martial art developed in the Soviet Union.
He’s got the same first name as Dostoyevsky. So why doesn’t he spell it that way? (typical ignorant American question…)
The 44th President
Barack Obama
The day is finally here! Barack Obama just became the 44th President of the United States of America. Thank goodness for the internet; I was able to watch on MSNBC.
For fellow news junkies, here are two good links I found on the web to provide some perspective on this historical day:
NY Times interactive page on inaugural words
Washington Post article on why Obama may become one of the most powerful presidents of all time
