Career
Exciting
Ok I'm excited but I don't know why. My cash is going to be dry pretty soon so I figure I'll have to get a temp job pretty soon. Which sucks, but I figured it's better this way than be stuck in
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Twentysomething
(i)dent(i)t(i)es
I lost my passport the other day – left it in a spring garden where cupped tulips held yolky sun drops. It's a hassle to apply for a new one, but I'm sad that all my stamps are gone. They are in some ways the only signifiers
Career
Social Networks = Tattoos?
Actually, Web 2.0 is reducing the hypocrisy in society. Within a generation, the youths who today are comfortable with expressing themselves online will be in positions to scoff at the antiquated way of thinking where sharing candid images of your private life is taboo.
Career
(C)offer
Not to go all 'woe is me' but ever since I graduated, I feel like employers have just wanted to suck all my skills out before moving on. In other words, most places I've been at were too big to care or too small to have time to care.
Spirituality
Think Negative
When will people stop buying into all this pseudo-psycho-mumbo-jumbo self-help crap? I must admit, I'm the harshest of critics when it comes to these books.
Art
Broke a Mirror
I've been in a serious-reading kick lately. Just finished Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong and am starting on Immortality by Kundera. It takes a certain mood to get Kundera, and I suppose with the season changing and the opportunity to people watch, I'
Twentysomething
A community unto themselves
October 2006. YupNo and I wandered around the old walled town of Antalya and stumbled onto a shaded square with a couple of tables and a few women sitting around benches chatting. Let's stop for a coffee, she said. Ok, I said. Wearied legs whimpered their cases and
New York
In Vino
In Vino: Step away from St. Mark's and all the NYU kids. Move down a couple of blocks and over an avenue and you're on one of the quieter streets in the East Village. Tucked (if you can describe the modest location any other way) on
News & Politics
Race and VTech killer
A couple of things about the VTech media coverage: * Why the focus on the fact that the kid is a 'Korean national'? What does that have to do with it? Was McVeigh a 'US national', was Columbine by 'American nationals'? What, I don'
News & Politics
Black has no color
Asians family don't talk much, they say. He was a loner cause of the pressure to succeed they say. Did he like video games, the shooting types they say?
Art
The Metric - The Police and the Private
Ink has me hooked on the Metric, especially the song below. Listening with headphones on really makes it cool.. sound is pressed to your ears. Listening to the Metric led me to write my own trite ditty: Lord lord we need questions instead of answers Lord lord we're
Twentysomething
The Facebook Culture
Fast Company has an interesting look inside the Facebook culture. I used to work at a social networking company also, and while it was a successful venture, the pace was more risk-mitigation vs innovation-driven. Some of the stuff in the article I can relate to – like workaround solutions from talented