October 2011
2 posts
10 Ways to Relieve Dry Eyes
As I was saying in my last post, I’ve been suffering from dry eyes since my LASIK surgery. They weren’t all that bad right after the surgery, but once I got back to work, it became clear that my eyes weren’t ready for 16 hours in front of the monitor.
At first, I decided I would just fight through it with a few more eye drops. Unfortunately, things worsened: my eyes hurt so much...
LASIK Experience
I recently had a LASIK operation and would like to share my thoughts on the procedure in a FAQ format.
How much was it?
About $2500 CAD for both eyes at LASIK MD. I did custom wavefront, which is more advance than normal LASIK. I think I could’ve done normal LASIK for about $2200.
Why?
Playing sports with glasses sucks. Also, I had two weeks to kill in Vancouver.
Isn’t it...
September 2011
11 posts
A Student's Chronicles (Part 6): People
This is a multi-part series summarizing my college life. Before this, there were Prelude, Mountaintop, Nadir, Formation, and Doldrums.
These posts are naturally becoming shorter and shorter. I say naturally because experiences always seem longer the first time around. By the n-th work term though, everything feels like a breeze.
That’s not to say that I didn’t learn anything. Every...
A Student's Chronicles (Part 5): Doldrums
This is a multi-part series summarizing my college life. Before this, there were Prelude, Mountaintop, Nadir, and Formation.
A number of people have asked me what I think of Amazon. My reply is this: I had a time to forget at Amazon, but their AWS teams sound amazing. Amazon, after all, is a large company: different teams have different cultures and I was just unlucky to have joined a dispiriting...
The Management Myth - Magazine - The Atlantic →
The Asian in me feels a lil more inferior every time a caucasian optometrist says, “Open your eyes nice and wide….as /wide/ as you can… just a lil bit wider…”
“Why don’t you have the balls to tell me [that I’m fired] yourself?”
– Bartz Calls Yahoo’s Board A Bunch Of “Doofuses” | TechCrunch
Flaherty weighs reducing tariffs in response to... →
I love how our conservative party is so gung ho about cutting back citizen liberties, but would only “consider” reducing tariffs.
Barca chief admits Cesc bargain | Sky Sports →
1. Spend 2+ years luring a player over. 2. Force Arsenal to sell him for cheap. 3. Brag about how you ripped Arsenal off. Very very classy, Barca.
“Stupidity is just intelligence misunderstood.”
– Me
“Imagine replacing the sequence of algebra, geometry and calculus with a sequence...”
– Teaching math with context and applications
August 2011
29 posts
Wacom’s Inkling Captures What You Draw On Paper... →
Jizz.
Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com →
2 takeaways: 1) being poor or continuously making frugal decisions saps energy 2) glucose is significant for brain; I will never work for a company that discourages food / drinks at work
“There’s just a feeling… that we should be feeling sorry for Arsenal...”
– Man Utd 3 - 0 Arsenal at HT
B.C. rejects HST in landmark referendum - The... →
Good job British Columbians; you just poured 1.6 billion dollars right back to the federal government.
Lycos Builds Web Circles | PCWorld →
LOLolololol
When you hear a old song on the radio...
mariahairam:
At first you’re like:I remember this!
As the song goes on, you’re like: I forgot how much I loved this song!
Then you start boppin to it like: THIS IS MY SHIT!
Then the song is in your head all day and you cant stop dancing to it, like:
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is...”
– Text of Jack Layton’s letter to Canadians - Winnipeg Free Press
Opposition Leader Jack Layton dead at 61 - The... →
An inspiring patriot and an incredible leader… RIP, Mr. Layton.
Why did Japan surrender? - The Boston Globe →
Hint: it wasn’t the atom bombs.
“If someone says “I Love you” to you and you really don’t feel...”
– Need Input!
Sita Sings the Blues →
Charming little animated film about the Ramayana and a contemporary American life story.
Ugh… Google+ allows people to add “e-mails” to their circles. Subsequent postings (all of them) are e-mailed to said addresses. This sounds to me like a serious loophole for spammers and a pretty desperate / annoying move on Google’s part. Wtf is this, Tagged?
Sublime Text Editor →
Will I ditch my long time partner VIM for Sublime?
What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com →
Facebook Launches Standalone iPhone/Android... →
It’s over. Kik and all similar apps have lost. The lack of blackberry support means BB users will once again rethink why they’re still carrying around an antique phone.
“Huh. Canada is now the only country in the Western Hemisphere with a AAA credit...”
– Reddit
A Student's Chronicles (Part 4): Formation
This is a multi-part series summarizing my college life. Before this, there was Prelude, Mountaintop, and Nadir.
Due to the experience from my first work term, I flew into the Bay Area with little optimism. “At least there would be free food,” I thought.
Facebook at the time was known as nothing more than a kiddish PHP shop. skeptics (i.e bloggers) claimed the company had trouble...
United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P |... →
Oh no they didn’t!
Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition | The... →
“I was painfully shy [back then]… then I thought, ‘What the hell,...”
– Larry Smith
“Dancers made about $70 an hour during their peak period of fertility, versus...”
– The Stripper’s Secret | Psychology Today
“Men socialize by insulting each other, but they don’t really mean it....”
– www.yanilavigne.net
July 2011
34 posts
I just misheard a MLB commentator say “the Jays eat (beat) the Oreos (Orioles) 8-5.”
“When the lead author of a paper in Science is not permitted to speak about her...”
– Feds silence scientist over salmon study
Sophomore Slump? One Month In, Google Sees A... →
This is very bad news for Google, given that all the initial users are as “Google fan-boyish” as can be. The worse news is that Google has committed the entire company to this war, so there’s no room to turn back. This is Google’s Vietnam / Afghanistan.
Elizabeth May wages war against WiFi - The Globe... →
Omfg… why not fear radios and TVs while we’re at it?
Jays Acquire Rasmus From Cards [for a handful of... →
Alex Anthopoulos!!!!! ORZ ORZ ORZ
WatchEnd the War in Afghanistan