Zhanga: September 17, 2009
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Random thoughts for today...
I just got spam in Chinese to my Duke address trying to sell me moon cake ingredients like red bean paste. Seriously. It was addressed to a bunch of other Chinese-sounding names at Duke, too.
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Apparently, Microsoft employees can drive like morons too. I was at a red light, waiting to turn right onto a road that had three lanes in the direction I was going. Behind me was some guy in his SUV which I'm sure is sportily utile for getting him to and from work in this affluent suburb of Seattle. Anyways, perpendicular traffic at the time had the green left turn arrow, which normally would be a good time for me to turn right on red. Except there's this big sign that says yield to U-turns, and about half the people in the left turn lane were making U-turns. The SUV guy was highly impatient, stomped on the gas, and went around me to my left. In the process, he almost hit somebody trying to make a U-turn and made that guy brake pretty hard. In the end, macho SUV man ended up one car in front of me in the parking garage, where we idled in line waiting to pass through the entry gates.
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Yesterday, I was in a meeting. A white guy and an Indian guy were talking while we waited for everyone else to show up. Some of the more senior white people walked in, and the Indian guy said, "Too many chiefs." At that instant, some Indian guys walked in, and the white guy observed, "Too many Indians." Clever.
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I just got an email from MS security telling me that a cougar was reportly sighted on main campus. Maybe it was actually Apple's next operating system... that's one of the few cats not yet used in their retarded names like "Snow Leopard." Or maybe the sighting was really just a 40-something lady taking advantage of young, vulnerable software developers?
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I just got a copy of my renter's insurance agreement. It covers my personal property and some other random stuff. Insured causes of property loss include "Aircraft, including self-propelled missiles and spacecraft." Well, good to know that I'm covered when aliens attack.
Wait, no... I just read a bit more and war isn't covered. They also threw this line in: "Discharge of a nuclear weapon shall be deemed a warlike act even if accidental."
9:37PM
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First!
Are you discriminated for not being white or Indian?
The cougar was likely a combination: a 40-year-old fox trying to sell the new Mac OS to young, vulnerable software developers.
I wonder how many renters try to get their nuclear weapons and spacecrafts insured?
Wendy Xuiuiui on Friday, September 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Can you get me a prototype version of the Courier?
Wendy Xuiuiui on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:24 AM
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