Tim Brown, my former colleague at Vassar and the force behind Nice Web Type, has launched Web Font Specimen, “a handy (free) resource web designers and typographers can use to see how typefaces will look on the web.” Tim also contributed his first article, “Real Web Type in Real Web Context,” on A List Apart. Congrats on all the great works and thanks for the top-notch recommendation. You’re da type man!
I needed a simple business card that matches Visualgui.com to promote myself. Last Wednesday, I did a quick search on Google and Vistaprint came up first so I gave it a try. The site was easy to use and it provided me a template in Illustrator or Photoshop to create my own design. I picked Illustrator, put together my card and uploaded it. Everything looked good so I made the order.
The next day I realized that I didn’t want my address on the card so I called up customer service to change my order. The representative not only cancelled my order but she also walked me through the reordering process to make sure I get the credits for my new transaction.
I picked standards shipping, which listed for 14 days, yet my business cards arrived in my mailbox today. I ordered 250 cards for about $25 and the printing quality met my expectation. So if you’re looking for a simple business card without putting a hole in your pocket, Vistaprint is for you.
With two opening lines joking about politic, my review of Asia 63 turned into a political outrage. I don’t mind discussing politics, but I chose to stay out of the Vietnam-War-related argument. As I have predicted, the comments got nasty. It’s really a damn shame that we can’t agree to disagree. Just because one doesn’t share the same beefed-up, traumatizing views Asia entertainment had repeatedly put out in almost every video, he is stupid, “eating communist shit” or a communist. That’s just ridiculous and I am done with it.
Let’s move on to a different kind of politic. Just read an enlightening post from a Vietnamese-American fellow who used to hang around here during Obama’s election and had inspired me with his sharp, thoughtful and witty opinion. Here is an example:
I heard that as President Obama passed crowds of anti-abortion demonstrators in Washington DC yesterday, they chanted “Kill the Bill”, “Kill the Pelosi Bill”. I wonder how they, mostly faithful Christians who consider abortion sinful, think Jesus would have felt if he found out that his followers reacted so angrily toward a bill that was designed to take care of the underpriviledge in society? These are probably the same people who feel elated when saying “God Bless America”. What they probably meant was “God Bless America minus the Poor”. If I was Jesus, I would say “God Bless America, minus You”!
Agree or not, I sure got a kick out of that.
The video shows police standing over Ho in a hallway of his house for more than two minutes. During that time, one officer strikes Ho with a metal baton more than 10 times — at times swinging it with both hands — while another officer leans in and uses his Taser gun.
Damn!
Duke got sick, then his mom and now me. Duke is getting better so I am afraid he would catch the virus from me again so I am doing my best to stay away from him. Slept on the couch last night and tried not to hold him or kiss him. My mom coined (cao gio) my back this morning. I feel a bit better but still sneezing like crazy. Damn, I hate being sick.
I apologize for the messiness around here in the last couple of hours. Instead of tweaking the design on my laptop, I did it right on the server. I wouldn’t do this for client or GWSB sites, but Visualgui.com is my personal playground so I don’t mind letting people see what the heck I am doing with it. I made the header much bigger and took out the slideshow feature. It started to get stale after awhile with not much contents to cycle through. That’s pretty much it for now!
I still curse at myself every time I pass by the Bon-Ton department store in Lancaster. One time, back in 9th or 10th grade, my best friend and I were browsing through the Bon-Ton for like half an hour but couldn’t find what we like. Suddenly an elder white sale clerk asked us to leave the store. As we were leaving, a bunch of old white folks clapped and cheered.
From that day on I never set my foot back into the Bon-Ton again. I also realized how stupid and wimpy I was for walking away and not pressing any charges. I could have easily cashed in a couple hundred thousands. Two Asian guys were asked to leave the store. That was racist so fuck the Bon-Ton.
Despite the rain, the George Washington University community flocked to the Smith Center to listen to Jon Stewart stand-up performance and he didn’t disappoint. Stewart wasted no time getting into politics: “These are exciting times to be in Washington, D.C.! Change is in the air. Hope!… When does hope turn to change? How long does that take?” While complimented Obama as “the greatest speaker our generation has ever seen,” he swiped at Bush’s speaking skill as a “cocky six grader who tries to give a book report we know he didn’t read.”
Stewart’s supportive of gay marriage earned him the uproarious claps from the audience. He voiced his disappointment with Obama’s stand on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” His only concern with gay men serving in the military is when a Captain tells his man to shoot the enemy and the Private replies, “Oh no, he’s too gorgeous.” Of course, he was joking. Stewart also made fun of religions, diversity and Jews: “Black people made the blues. Jewish people just complain. We don’t have the rhythm to make it into music.” My favorite punch line: “Black people make beautiful jazz music. Give it to Kenny G and he fucks it up.”
Stewart connected with me the most when he talked about being a father. His biggest fear is that one day his son will find out that his daddy is not a superman but just a regular guy. He has two kids and he was glad that the boy came out first. His daughter is so advanced that if she came out first he wouldn’t know what to do with his idiotic son.
The rumors of Chinese people eating babies have been circulating on the web for a while, but I can’t bring myself to believe any of that deranged craps. The Soeul Times confirms with disturbing photos (click on the link at your own risk) that “A human baby is being made into soup for sexual power in China.” I still hope this isn’t real and people aren’t that sick for sex. I rather cut off my dick than doing such fuck-up shit for sex.
A man and a woman busted into a fight over a cup of coffee right in the nail salon. They argues back and forth. She pinned him to the wall and chased his ass around the place and no one got fired. Don’t ever fuck around with a nail chick. (via MsNguyen)