Zhanga: January 30, 2006

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Monday, January 30, 2006 (7 comments)

I've noticed that Linux commands have some pretty interesting names. For example:

• touch
• finger
• yum
• unzip
• mount
• fsck
• grep
• man
• gawk
• gimp

Seriously, who came up with these names? I mean, you can probably figure out what unzip does. It gets stuff out of .zip files, of course (there is a nice bash quote on this). But what on earth does gawk do? Stare at... files? And... haha, Linux is based on Unix, pronounced eunuchs. I love never growing up.

Anyways, on Saturday I went to a random Chinese party with Baishi. I'm used to going to RCPs where I know maybe 5 families out of 20, and usually there's 5-10 other kids + Charles. Usually, I know 2-3 of them + Charles. So I was expecting a fairly large party, especially because it was for Chinese New Year. I wouldn't know anybody there, but that's ok because I usually only know a few anyways.

Well, so Baishi and I got there and walked in, and there were four people in the tiny family room. There were two sisters, one looking maybe 25 and the other maybe 21 or 22, with their dad sitting there next to them. Interestingly, the older sister's white boyfriend (who by the way was huge) was also there (at an RCP??). They were all getting drunk. There was also the lady who gave us a ride to the place, who apparently was the father's girlfriend but otherwise unrelated to anybody else.

So that was it. Some guy and his son (who barely spoke English and would randomly laugh hysterically at the most inane things) showed up later, but they only ever spoke to each other and only very quietly, so they might as well have not been there. You can imagine the awkwardness... sitting around with a friend for an hour or so with four drunk people who neither of you have ever met before, plus some random guy and his kid who was probably retarded. I really wanted to get drunk so I could get my mind off of how completely weird it was.

It turns out that the younger girl was actually 15. What kind of Chinese father gets drunk with his 15 year old daughter? When my little sister is 15 and there are two completely random, strange 18 year old college guys at my house... she is not going to get drunk.

So after about an hour of complete awkwardness and really worthless smalltalk, we went to eat. We had hot pot and dumplings, which were better than any Chinese food I've had at Duke, but that doesn't say much. Alice's dumplings at her New Year's party were way better. (I know, the fact that I had dumplings on New Year's makes me a gigantic fob, but give me a break, I hadn't seen her in forever. Besides, they have this nice side effect of soaking up liquor very effectively.)

After dinner, Baishi and I sat around with the two sisters and the boyfriend for another half hour or so. We ended up leaving around 9:30, maybe 10, which is so early that most RCP dinners aren't even finished (or are barely finished) by then. Possibly the weirdest 2-3 hours of my life.

Since I have nothing else to write about, I'll just write about Ronjon since that's what I seem to do when I run out of topics.

So I was walking out of Compsci 100 today after a particularly depressing series of events occurred near the end of class (I can't write about them here). As I approached the bus stop, my pants started vibrating and my phone made a funny noise. Imagine R2D2 after too many carbonated drinks. Apparently the SIM card's text message storage thing was full again. My phone is supposed to be able to hold 100 messages in addition to the 30 on the card, but there is no button to get things off the SIM and onto the phone, making that area of memory completely useless. Great work, LG.

I think I went off topic. This was about Ronjon. So anyways, this guy never ceases to be funny. This is what I got from him... I thought I'd share. I think it made my day:

Whats an indians favorite method of transport?

brownian motion

I'm going to be really sad the day he tells me a bad science joke that I don't understand. I don't want to have to ask him to explain =(

Oh yeah, this reminds me. At the RCP, the younger drunk girl asked, "What kind of bear dissolves in water?"

As you might expect, I enthusiastically shouted out the answer. I had already heard this one from Dutter (who else?) and the answer is polar bear. I think I posted this joke here at some time in the past already. Baishi was very depressed that I actually knew the answer to this, and I can't blame him. It made me a little depressed myself.

5:26PM

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