republican or democrat?

those of you who know wendy and i know that i’m a pretty liberal democrat, while wendy is a somewhat confused republican. i say confused, because every now and then she breaks out with hilarious quotes like the following…

over dinner we were talking about oakland’s latest tragic shooting that left a 10 year old boy paralysed by a stray gunshot.

wendy: see?? that’s why i’m republican. because people have too many freedoms. like those fuckers who shot the poor boy. people think they deserve all these freedoms. it’s so messed up.

me: huh? republicans are the ones who think we need more “freedoms”, including the right to bear arms like those guys who shot the boy.

wendy: well. uh. there’s other stuff too.

Add comment January 16th, 2008

bananas for banana bread

val and jason were over at our place friday night for the traditional thanksgiving celebration of mahjong and drinking.

val made some zuchini bread which prompted the following exchange (i’m roughly paraphrasing since my memory isn’t 100%):

wendy (to val): this is good…. it’s like the banana bread you used to make jason: ugh. i hate that banana bread. val (to wendy): wasn’t that your recipe? wendy: yeah… jason: whoops.

Add comment November 27th, 2005

Bill Joy knocked as ‘conspiracy theorist’ by tech zealot | The Register

Bill Joy knocked as ‘conspiracy theorist’ by tech zealot | The Register

Joy, partaking in an AlwaysOn 2005 Innovation Summit panel discussion entitled “Is technology making us safer?”, went on to say global warming and pandemics like Asian bird flue can only be solved using strong public policy.

“Political constipation” and partisanship in Washington meant Non Government Organizations (NGOs) are better placed to tackle these issues, Joy said.

Interesting article at The Register. I would have liked to have heard the debate, or at least read the transcript. Gilder’s counterpoint to Joy’s push for better public-policy & NGO involvement was to say: “What worries me is people today who are worried about global warming. We have these real phobias that distract our attention. The best remedy for Bill’s threat is very fast advances in bio engineering and pharmacology, and an array of scientific advances,” Gilder observed.”

While I agree that advances in bioengineering/pharmacology/science-in-general can help some things like the avian flu/global warming/etc… it’s not the complete solution. We can’t rely on a steady stream of advances. Scientific genius and progress is not always dependable.

We need public policy to try and decrease our emissions to stop the increase in global warming. But we also need science/tech advancement. The two have to go hand in hand. We need pharmacology to help figure out exactly how the avian flu spread to humans, and we need public policy to ensure it doesn’t happen again. (okay, that’s slightly generalising the problem - but you get my picture)

1 comment July 22nd, 2005

ouch!

today’s totally-taken-out-of-context-quote is brought to you by Kami:

“fuck my groin!”

(okay, so there’s some punctuation missing somewhere there)

Add comment July 14th, 2005

it’s all about context

today’s “totally taken out of context partial quote” is brought to you by poorna:

“all we need is some long poking device….. pop the plum”

okay, so i glossed over some of the words surrounding the quote.

Add comment June 23rd, 2005

note to self: don’t become a spy

Brits abroad warned: Don’t become enemy spy

Funny story from The Register. MI5 is warning Brits abroad to avoid being inadvertendly recruited for foreign intelligence agencies (including presumably, the US).

I feel left out. Nobody has ever recruited me to be a spy.

Add comment June 17th, 2005

batman begins

Just saw the trailer for Batman Begins… wow,it looks awesome. can’t wait to see it.

On the Slashdot story about it, the following thread just absolutely cracked me up:

Anonymous Coward: “There will be lots in this movie* that doesn’t line up with the other 4 flicks, because it’s in a completely different continuity line. The director wanted everything in this movie to be believable and realistic. It’s going to be darker and more real than even the first Batman in 1989.”

Quarters (reply): “I dunno, it’s gonna be hard to be more real than a guy falling into a vat of acid, having plastic surgery done to make himself look like clown and then defacing an art museum while dancing around to Prince music….”

Anonymous Coward (reply): ” Dude, it was the late 80’s, this sort of thing happened like every day.”

Will Sargent (reply): “Seen the Michael Jackson trial recently?”

1 comment April 29th, 2005

mm…eat that shit up

helen was sharing this article with me today over IM:

(12:36:42) helen: Belgium’s interior minister Patrick Dewael, seen here, was left red-faced after it emerged that photos comparing US President George W. Bush to a chimpanzee had been used in a police training manual(AFP/File/Gerard Cerles) (12:36:47) helen: i love reading the news (12:36:55) steve: haha (12:37:05) steve: wonder if bush throws his excrement at people though (12:37:31) helen: nope, he gives it out to to his cabinet who believes in his shit (12:37:43) steve: hahahahahah

Add comment April 1st, 2005

obgyns

(warning: this uses a horribly offensive word that will undoubtedly offend someone out there in some way. i don’t care. don’t comment on it. and no, i’m not referring to kittens)

everywhere we go in Hualien with Wendy’s dad, it seems we inevitably run into someone he knows. this isn’t too surprising, since he’s one of the better known OBGYN doctors in this city. the following is an actual conversation i had with Wendy at CarreFour (a French Costco superstore, huge in Asia) tonight when it happened again, and the following conversation ensued:

steve: man, i swear your dad knows like half the people in this town. i guess that’s what happens when you deliver so many babies wendy: yeah. he sees a lot of pussy steve [marveling at mild-manner Dr. Liao]: damn. yeah. he’s a player. he’s probably seen more pussy in this town than any other man.

1 comment February 10th, 2005

there are even chinese in st. louis

(06:19:42) steve: happy chinese new year (06:19:54) erik: it’s chinese new year? (06:20:10) erik: i suppose it’s more obvious to you, in taiwan, than me, in st. louis (06:20:25) erik: but hey, happy chinese new year! (06:20:57) erik: hmm i should try and eat chinese food tonight

Add comment February 9th, 2005