SatireWire | Ellison to Grads: Losers: "Graduates of Yale University, I apologize if you have endured this type of prologue before, but I want you to do something for me. Please, take a good look around you. Look at the classmate on your left. Look at the classmate on your right. Now, consider this: five years from now, 10 years from now, even 30 thirty years from now, odds are the person on your left is going to be a loser. The person on your right, meanwhile, will also be a loser. And you, in the middle? What can you expect? Loser. Loserhood. Loser Cum Laude."

My graduation speech at Yale. Ellison is a very engaging speaker.

Some U.S. Chinese Wed Despite Widow Year - Yahoo! News: "A quirk in the Chinese calendar meant that the Year of the Rooster, which began in February, was missing 'lichun' � the day that traditionally marks the beginning of spring.
Folk wisdom holds that such years � called Widow Years by some � can be an unlucky time for a couple to begin a new life."


oooh no!!!!

MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search review - Disk management and compression - CNET Reviews: "8.0 Excellent
Average user rating:7.1 Very good (from 7 users)
The good:Adds tabbed browsing to Internet Explorer; includes desktop search; lets you select your own default Internet search engine; saves and updates favorite desktop searches."

I already have the google toolbar, and yahoo toolbar. Should I add one more?

Savetoby.com | Only YOU have the power to Save Toby!: "I rescued him several months ago. I found him under my porch, soaking wet, injured from what appeared to be an attack from an alley cat. I took him in, thinking he had no chance to live from his injuries, but miraculously, he recovered. I have since spent several months nursing him to health. Toby is a fighter, that.s for sure.
Unfortunately, on June 30th, 2005, Toby will die. I am going to eat him. "

please don't eat toby. Toby is just a cute bunny. eat dogs or cats instead.

Blog from chinese cafe

So the embadero is pretty packed during baseball games. The place i am at has tons of people in it... I should have brought a salad from the deli and ate it by the water. Well at least the i brought has brown rice and brocoli.

VC Adventure: Networking 101: "Make your list. Good networking starts with knowing who you want to meet � or at least what type of people you want to get in touch with"


ack! i'm a bad networker!

VC Adventure: Networking 101: "Make your list. Good networking starts with knowing who you want to meet � or at least what type of people you want to get in touch with"


ack! i'm a bad networker!

Airlines to Begin Tallying Pet Casualties - Yahoo! News: "Nobody knows how many pets are killed or injured. Lisa Weisberg, spokeswoman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, suggested 1 percent, which would mean 20,000 animals per year. The airlines say that's far too high.
But no one disputes that accidents do happen.
When Sarah Stano's husband was transferred from Portland, Ore., to Greensboro, N.C., she chose Delta Airlines to fly them there because it was the only carrier that would let her carry her three cats in the cabin.
But at the airport she discovered one of the containers was too big to fit under the seat. Hereford, a fluffy white cat with black spots, had to go in the cargo hold."


oh no! poor fluffy!

Is your laptop a pain in the neck? | CNET News.com: "When Ram Viswanadha began using a laptop at work, he decided to shelve his clunky old desktop PC for good. The notebook's size, speed and memory blew the older computer away.
What the 30-year-old Silicon Valley software engineer didn't bargain for was a severe case of repetitive strain injury--and a three-month disability leave--from hunching over his laptop day in and day out for four years. "

oooh no! this could be me!

WSJ.com - Work & Family: "When she arrived home one recent day from her job as a bank vice president, she found a dishwasher full of clean dishes needing to be put away and used cups by the sink. 'How come you didn't empty the dishwasher?' she asked Mr. Rogers, who arrives home earlier from his job as an insurance agent."

my girlfriend expects me to slave away at work then come home and do the dishes!!!

I'm convinced that technology can solve this problem. one day we'll all have robots doing our dishes for us, and putting them away.
Putting away dishes just seems silly to me, it seems we need a clean dishes dishwasher container, which we can easily swap into the dirty one. why do we need cabinets? I wonder the same thing about my dirty laundry.

Blogthings - The American Cities That Best Fit You: "


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American Cities That Best Fit You:

80% San Francisco

65% Los Angeles

65% Washington, DC

hurray sf! i wonder if you can get san jose. grrrrrr 60% New York City

55% Boston

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

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The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who have a split personality - cold as ice on the outside but hot as fire in the heart.

In love, you feel the most alive when things are straight-forward, and you're told that you're loved.

You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.

You would be forced to break up with someone who was ruthless, cold-blooded, and sarcastic.

Your ideal relationship is lasting. You want a relationship that looks to the future... one you can grow with.

Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.

You think of marriage as something precious. You'll treasure marriage and treat it as sacred.

In this moment, you think of love as something you thirst for. You'll do anything for love, but you won't fall for it easily.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

I really should be sleeping!

mobile test blog

This is a mobile test blog!

 

Tom

 

O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf - The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web: "The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web"

Currently reading. Sometimes I get lazy, and I just use BR all over the place!!!

Working Moms Tear Down Office Walls: "Not all mompreneurs feel comfortable working from home, however. Holly Bohn, for one, is a 31-year-old mother of two and founder and CEO of two separate businesses: See Jane Work, an office-supplies company, and Bohn & Associates, an accounting and office-systems outfit. When Bohn started the accounting firm in 2001, she found it disruptive to work with her two boisterous boys, now 8 and 6. So she moved to an office a five-minute drive from home in Newbury Park, Calif. "

maybe someday i'll be a mompreneur.

Meet The CIA's Venture Capitalist: "Indeed, now that In-Q-Tel is six years into its venture history, it has seen more of its companies get acquired, while only 10 of its investments have gone under -� a pretty good rate for a VC firm. Digital mapping company Keyhole Corp., for example, was bought by Google (GOOG ) in October, 2004. "

High risk VC fund! with good rates!

STRESSED OUT / Experts search for balance as students face intense parental pressure to excel: "'If Einstein's parents were alive today, poor little Albert would get a comprehensive evaluation and end up on Ritalin,' he said. 'Deprived of his daydreams, he might not discover the theory of relativity, but he certainly would focus more fully on the complex demands of fourth-grade math.'"

how stressful!

Tens of thousands stay home from LA schools amid violence rumors: "The only violence reported Thursday in the district was a scuffle between about 10 youngsters outside Narbonne High School in the Harbor City area. The lunch-hour confrontation was quickly broken up and there were no arrests, school police Sgt. F. Minutella said."

i was involved in a few scraps during my school days. kids kids!

You Are 11 Years Old

11 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

ACK I'm 11!!!!

Majority of Californians make less than half the income needed to buy a home - Yahoo! News: "California households are making less than half the income necessary to buy a median-priced home in the first quarter of 2005.
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Statewide households, with a median household income of $53,540, are $60,380 short of the $113,920 qualifying income needed to purchase a median-priced home at $488,600 in California, according to the California Association of Realtors (C.A.R.) Homebuyer Income Gap Index (HIGI) report for the first quarter of 2005."


housing prices are nuts!!!!