Boston Globe‘s “Obama for President“:
Now it seems prescient, as the nation confronts a financial crisis of historic proportions, as well as all the other policy failures and debt-fueled excesses of the last eight years. The United States has to dig itself out. Barack Obama is the one to lead the way.
Los Angeles Times‘s “Children of Vietnam War servicemen seek U.S. citizenship” gives a bit of background story on Randy Tran, the “sen” singer who used to sing with My Huyen. I’ve been wondering where has he been all these years.
In Virginia Beach rally, McCain-Palin supporters hold up signs that read “Obama Bin Layin’.” Apparently some republican still think Obama is a terrorist.
A spoof from Jay Smooth: “I’m John McCain and I just don’t care anymore.”
A McCain-Palin supporter holds a stuffed monkey with Obama’s name wrapped around his head and refers to him as “Little Hussein.” What even more disturbing is that no one from the crowd disapproved his action.
VNCR interviewed a man who married some girl in Viet Nam and ended up in an ugly divorce over monthly remittance for her family back home.
Wlliam Kristol said it’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign:
The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.
Seriously, if you hired a douchebag like Tucker Bounds to be your spokesperson, you are doomed.
Last Friday, my boss took me to PINK magazine’s 4th annual conference, a panel discussion of with American’s most influential women. Although I was relieved that I was not the only guy at the conference, men were way out-numbered. One of the panelists stood out to me was Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of Children’s Defense Fund. Ms. Edelman was a humble, intelligent African-American woman who has her way with words. One of her advices during this crazy bailout time is to invest into the children. You simply can’t lose. I really like her advice. I am going to pull out of AIG and put my investment into my children (no punt intended).
A simple and elegant portfolio of Vitor Lourenco, the interface and visual designer behind Twitter. Gotta love the quote on the homepage: “No matter how cool your interface is, it would be better if there were less of it.” -Alan Cooper
Friday evening after work, Dana and I didn’t feel like cooking so we headed toward Eden for some Vietnamese food. We wanted to be a bit more adventurous, so we decided to check out a new place. We spotted a big yellow grand-opening banner with the words “Pho Binh Dan” and “50% off” next to it. We almost gave it a try.
As we walked toward the restaurant, we heard karaoke-singing blasting. Inside, the place was filled with cigarette smell. Although it said “Pho Binh Dan,” the restaurant felt more like a drinking (nhau) spot. We thought we went to a wrong restaurant, but the waiter already greeted us. There were only two tables filled with drinkers enjoying some sort of BBQ or hotpot. He gave us a signal that we could sit at any empty table. We tried to pick a table with minimal karaoke noise, but there was no escape. He asked us if we wanted Pho. I nodded my head while thinking isn’t this a pho place? He handed us the menu and told us that he had to check in the back and see if they still have Pho. I looked at the menu and they offered nothing but Pho. The guy went to the back to the kitchen, went back and sat at one of the drinking table without even confirming us that they still had pho or not.
Five minute went by, another waitress who would qualify for a Hooter chick come up to take our order. At this point, I couldn’t take the loud music any more so I told her we’re going to go somewhere else quieter. She said, “No problem, we ran out of Pho anyway.” Our little adventure was not a success, so we went to our usual Thanh Truc for Bun Bo Hue.
I am not sure how they could run a business under such a lousy management, but I am pretty sure if this is the way they run their business, the grand opening will turn into grand closing soon.
