monkey nonsense

interesting cnn article about whether or not you can tell if someone is gay from the way they walk.  a grad student is doing research into this by having people walk around with red lights on them in the dark and recording their strides.  because all you see is their outline and stride, you’re not […]

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in cleaning my room at my parents’ house yesterday, i discovered a folder of old chinese school awards. straight to the trash, right? so i decided to flip through and attempt to decipher the chinese characters on it (i had been doing this all afternoon - preschool book about being happy - ~20% character […]

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i was at urban outfitters a few weeks ago and saw this cute book…

i thought of my mom and bought it for her. this week, for her birthday, i gave it to her. when i gave it to her, i asked her to take a look at it and see if she wanted […]

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our A/C is broken again. maybe i should say still broken from when we moved in. last year when we moved in july, the A/C was blowing out warm air. i actually got sick and threw up (maybe because of taco bell… maybe because of the heat). the A/C repairman came […]

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i’m a fan of stupid lawsuits. i think it’s amusing what people can think of to sue about… for example, suing (former) friends over starting a competing chinese school that will steal students (not rightfully your property) away which will reduce the amount of profit your non-profit chinese school makes. hrm…
there’s a lot […]

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i remember having discussions with roommates before about taking dumps at work. one of my roommates used to go to other floors to take dumps because she was afraid she’d run into someone she worked with in the bathroom.
today, as i was going to the bathroom (just to pee!), someone came up the stairwell […]

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the sopranos ended last night. unfortunately i didn’t watch it, but will catch up later this week. but hahah, like always, i read reviews and general summaries of the episode. it’s hard to remain spoiler free!!! i had previously written a draft of a post about the finale of veronica mars […]

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i’m starting to feel my age. i don’t stay up as late as i used to. i talk real estate… something i would laugh at when i first came out of college and saw all these people 3-5 years older than me discussing.
yet despite being older and supposedly more “mature,” i also think […]

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while at work, tina and i were chatting.  we were talking about normal stuff… what to have for lunch, possible business trips, etc etc… and then:
2:13 PM Tina: bryan has oceans 11 =)
 me: niiice!
  let’s borrow it and watch it!
2:14 PM Tina: yea
 me: i kept seeing the commericals for it when we were on vacation
 Tina: haha

17 minutes

2:31 PM Tina: […]

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the end of vacation is always sad… this past vacation is the longest i’ve gone on since 2001 when i was still in college and went to taiwan with the family.  i think being gone for so long makes me tired and by the end of the trip, i was craving my own bed.  perhaps […]

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