Visiting friends at different companies around the Bay Area was an exercise in discovering which American Apparel cuts and sizes fit me best. For fully 17 years of my life I was an XS in everything. Then I entered the next phase of the Asian Woman’s life cycle where I’m generally an American Apparel woman’s medium.
In each photo I’m wearing some schwag I collected. Some friends are running startups out of their apartments, some work at medium sized places that had offices the size of my apartment, and some are at companies that have IPO-ed like Zynga, Facebook, and Google. Don’t listen to Yinmeng, Google has hands down the best food of our times. In fact, the first food I ate upon returning to NYC was Google food.
One of the parallel universe Nancy’s probably started Facespace in her parallel universe and looks at me with scorn, wondering why I’m spending so much time reading HPMOR while she’s out dominating the world. I have to show that chick I’m better than her! This HPMOR stuff is all part of my grand design.
The main impact of visiting the Bay area is that I am trying out all the things that have happened on the Internet in the last 5 years. When I signed up for twitter, I discovered @nancyhua was taken! The same thing just happened with tumblr. Hence @huanancy and nancythehua.tumblr.com. The inevitable conclusion is this: there can be only one. The race is on!
The possibility just occurred to me that, as long as True Names are still basically meaningless on the internet, @nancyhua etc could have been taken by people not named Nancy Hua… Probably always a good trade: buy domain and user names you think some future rich organization will pay a lot for. Maybe one day I’ll be a billionaire and pay 8 digits for nh.com like Facebook did with fb.com (Well played, Farm Bureau. Also flattering to know that the state of New Hampshire is so optimistic about my future greatness. They deserve the domain for now- what with having the best state motto of all time (Beyonce Kanye joke?)).
nice! now with fb comments boxes.
nice! now with fb comments boxes.
nice! now with fb comments boxes.
nice! if you use fb:comments and fb:like with colorscheme=”dark” instead of colorscheme=”light”, the text will be legible too!
Lol
Ray, the plugin looks like its updating the # of likes in one place but not another. Will this madness never end?
If you send me some example urls, I can look into it.
Wow we should both be sleeping!
Haha. I’m on my way to SFO -> ORD. Why’re you still up?
(I guess 8am is a reasonable hour on the east coast)
Between this WordPress and drawsomething and my cat’s many correspondences from cat admirers I am most occupied.
Will this avoid posting to facebook (I unclicked the check box, but I am suspicious: just last week they sent me a ton of spam about buying megamillions lotto tickets)? I think Hamilton or Tony Falk are less common names, but I tend to use Hamiltwan as my internets name, and as far as I know, I'm the only one (unless a real person signed up for a MySpace page using the name; I've been assuming it was a cross promotion with twitter or something).
I don't see your comment on my Facebook page, but are you sure you don't want to buy some lotto tickets from me? If you do the math sometimes it's worth it if you buy a lot! I'll make it easy for you- just give me money and I'll choose the numbers for you and tell you later what you won.
I should probably disclose that it wasn't so much "facebook" that tried to sucker me in, but Brent Goldman (a friend and roommate from Caltech who ended up sharing a desk or facepod or whatever with Ray C. He). He said something about the jackpot being so high it was positive expected value, but apparently that was a math-lie (the worst kind of lie).
So you're avoiding fb bc of 1 person?
No, I don't really avoid it, beyond not necessarily posting things publicly when there is no need to (on facebook, twitter, google plus, whatever). When they killed the social media part of Google Reader, a little bit of me died too.
Tony Falk Wait! i met Brent at a wedding with some MIT friends. So many interconnections! Nancy Hua, everyone's doing it. So jealous you got to hang out with awesomeness people
Will this avoid posting to facebook (I unclicked the check box, but I am suspicious: just last week they sent me a ton of spam about buying megamillions lotto tickets)? I think Hamilton or Tony Falk are less common names, but I tend to use Hamiltwan as my internets name, and as far as I know, I'm the only one (unless a real person signed up for a MySpace page using the name; I've been assuming it was a cross promotion with twitter or something).
I don't see your comment on my Facebook page, but are you sure you don't want to buy some lotto tickets from me? If you do the math sometimes it's worth it if you buy a lot! I'll make it easy for you- just give me money and I'll choose the numbers for you and tell you later what you won.
I should probably disclose that it wasn't so much "facebook" that tried to sucker me in, but Brent Goldman (a friend and roommate from Caltech who ended up sharing a desk or facepod or whatever with Ray C. He). He said something about the jackpot being so high it was positive expected value, but apparently that was a math-lie (the worst kind of lie).
So you're avoiding fb bc of 1 person?
No, I don't really avoid it, beyond not necessarily posting things publicly when there is no need to (on facebook, twitter, google plus, whatever). When they killed the social media part of Google Reader, a little bit of me died too.
Tony Falk Wait! i met Brent at a wedding with some MIT friends. So many interconnections! Nancy Hua, everyone's doing it. So jealous you got to hang out with awesomeness people
Will this avoid posting to facebook (I unclicked the check box, but I am suspicious: just last week they sent me a ton of spam about buying megamillions lotto tickets)? I think Hamilton or Tony Falk are less common names, but I tend to use Hamiltwan as my internets name, and as far as I know, I'm the only one (unless a real person signed up for a MySpace page using the name; I've been assuming it was a cross promotion with twitter or something).
I don't see your comment on my Facebook page, but are you sure you don't want to buy some lotto tickets from me? If you do the math sometimes it's worth it if you buy a lot! I'll make it easy for you- just give me money and I'll choose the numbers for you and tell you later what you won.
I should probably disclose that it wasn't so much "facebook" that tried to sucker me in, but Brent Goldman (a friend and roommate from Caltech who ended up sharing a desk or facepod or whatever with Ray C. He). He said something about the jackpot being so high it was positive expected value, but apparently that was a math-lie (the worst kind of lie).
So you're avoiding fb bc of 1 person?
No, I don't really avoid it, beyond not necessarily posting things publicly when there is no need to (on facebook, twitter, google plus, whatever). When they killed the social media part of Google Reader, a little bit of me died too.
Tony Falk Wait! i met Brent at a wedding with some MIT friends. So many interconnections! Nancy Hua, everyone's doing it. So jealous you got to hang out with awesomeness people
Will this avoid posting to facebook (I unclicked the check box, but I am suspicious: just last week they sent me a ton of spam about buying megamillions lotto tickets)? I think Hamilton or Tony Falk are less common names, but I tend to use Hamiltwan as my internets name, and as far as I know, I’m the only one (unless a real person signed up for a MySpace page using the name; I’ve been assuming it was a cross promotion with twitter or something).
nice! now with fb comments boxes.