An email at work today about this article generated a lot of discussion:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091116/pl_afp/japanusdiplomacyasiaobama

So much discussion about US president Obama bowing to a foreign leader. I wonder how they ought to think of the King of Kings bowing...

Reminds me of the 3rd verse of the song “Power of the Cross” by Keith and Kristyn Getty:

http://www.imeem.com/jukeboxmusic77/music/hWNtjR3L/keith-the-power-of-the-cross/

one of the best parts... an upbeat security guard who greets you every time you walk/drive by!

Her name: Shewondia Mills. She is always dressed in purple from head to toe.

She won an award of $5000 for being a super security guard!

Read more: The Purplest of them All

... is the interesting person of the day.

I first discovered her some time while at Cal. I think it might have been reading through Brian Foo or someone's website on OCF, and there was a link to music they liked, which had a link to Laura Shigihara's OCF page.

It offered a lot of MP3 downloads, so at that time, I was like "Hey, this is cool, free music." So I downloaded all of the music on her page.

Today, while organizing my music library, I came across those MP3 files so long ago, so I decided to do a search on Laura Shigihara to see what she's up to these days. Her OCF page seems to be updated, and she also has a profile on Last.fm. She has a variety of genres of music, but mostly are video game style.

From Last.fm profile:

She's pretty really good, considering that she has no professional training in music but just does it as a hobby (and now career).

I wonder what things people can accomplish if they dedicated their efforts and applied themselves to it.

Exodus 20:17 NASB
"You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

Thou Shalt Not Covet Funny post-it note found on a Bible at church. A nice pocket-size, bonded leather Bible with button flap that has been in lost-and-found for weeks.

Photoshop Fail: MS Business US Shared by a coworker. Screenshot taken from www.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/default.mspx on 2009.08.25 17:20

Photoshop Fail: MS Business Poland Shared by a coworker. Screenshot taken from www.microsoft.com/poland/businessproductivity/default.mspx on 2009.08.25 17:20

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Do you see it? The person in the middle.

Apparently, Microsoft changed the picture now to be the same on both sites.
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Found 2 other articles about this incident:

• http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/25/microsoft-sucks-at-photoshop
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

My shining moment today: 20 seconds in the hallway with Jerry Yang.
a short by Jonathan Tsai.

I said, "Jerry?" and I just froze.

He looks at me and extends his hand as I say, "I just wanted to shake your hand," with a sheepish smile.

"What's your name?" he asked.

"Jonathan," I replied. "I went to your high school, Piedmont Hills. . ." scrambling for things to say. I had not prepared a script for such a moment. Mind racing, I thought, “Maybe I should say--’You’re famous! You’re on the Physics Hall of Fame back in high school, and so was I! You’re my hero! I followed in your footsteps and came to Yahoo!’ ”

He cuts me off, asking, "Oh, really? What year were you?"

"2002," I replied, still with a sheepish look on my face.

"How are things over there now?"

I said, "They're good, it's been a while..." (I wish I said, you should donate 10 million dollars to them or something like that).

"What do you do here?"

"Fantasy sports."

"Oh, nice, I just saw the iPhone app. Good work, keep it up."

(I don't work on the iPhone app).

And he walked off like he was the President of the United States rushing off to his next meeting. I probably walked 10 feet with him from when I first said his name to when we parted.

I just crashed my motorcycle... 30 minutes ago.

• Exiting Capitol Ave South, on 680-S, right turn curve
• Before I entered the curve, I was going about... 50mph and the car behind me was catching up
• I slowed probably to 30-35 mph right before/during the curve... when it was a 25 mph curve
• As I was exiting the curve, I straightened up too early and instead of finishing the curve, I went off the side of the road into the unpaved part
• I straightened up also because I needed to slow down... a short merge with oncoming traffic.
• Fell on my right side
• My jacket got a few scratches on the right arm
• I myself did not sustain any injury or damages
• None of my clothes got ripped
• My backpack and laptop was okay
• My bike was not okay
• Front-right turn signal smashed into the fairing, and that part is cracked
• Front brake handle bent
• Right foot pedal missing
• Right foot brake bent
• Cracked windshield
• I didn't even hit my head, my helmet is unscratched
• I got to my senses and then picked up my bike, walked to the side of the road, and started it, and rode home.

The bike was $1500 used. Now I don't know what it's worth after the crash. Repair it and keep riding? Sell it as is? Repair and sell it?

Should I buy another bike? Or quit motorcycles forever? Decisions, decisions

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