Chicago – A Tale of Two Cities
I flew into Chicago on Wednesday evening and the cold actually wasn’t too bad. Thursday, though, was basically [Californian] winter, with a high of 50 degrees and intermittent rain. I spent the majority of...
Rants, raves, and everything in between
My uninformed view of college men’s volleyball rankings
This past weekend I went to watch then-No. 6 Stanford play No. 10 Hawaii on both Friday and Saturday. It was pretty awesome to watch. Stanford won both matches, sweeping Hawaii on Friday and...
Why Watching Stanford Men’s Volleyball is the Best Free Entertainment in the Bay Area
This past Saturday I went to watch Stanford men’s volleyball team (No. 8) play BYU (No. 4) at Maples Pavilion. Like all Stanford men’s volleyball games, it was free admission. I accidentally sat in...
I want to love Flickr but it won’t let me.
Does anybody else find Flickr really difficult to use? Maybe I’m just old, but it’s not like Flickr is all that young. Took me more than 20 minutes to figure out: 1. privacy is...
What I learned in LA
This past weekend I went to LA to see the AVP Huntington Beach Championships (which deserves a post all by itself, so stay tuned), and I realized that I am still very unfamiliar with...
Why I am no longer Chinese
Even though I was born and raised in Taiwan until the age of eight, I never understood the distinction of being Taiwanese versus Chinese until well after college. All self-proclaimed Taiwanese people came from...
Microsoft Excel is the bane of my existence.
I had an epiphany this past weekend. You know how you hear stories about battered women that can’t leave their abusive husbands for whatever reason? That’s like me and Microsoft Excel: no matter how...
I love Taiwan
I know what y’all are thinking…“is there any place that he DOESN’T love?” To which the answer is, clearly you don’t know me very well. A few weeks ago I went to Taiwan for my...
This was a heartwarming read. Thanks Ted!