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05.09.2009

Tran­nie shame

Dinh I’ve been a lot hun­grier since I gave blood last week. Won­der how much of that is psy­cho­log­i­cal.

I’ve been a lot hun­grier since I gave blood last week. Won­der how much of that is psy­cho­log­i­cal.

@pegsie Did you find it after you went to the gro­cery store?

50% of the World Has a Mind-Bending Brain Par­a­site: Do You?


Merck Cre­ated Phony Peer-Review Med­ical Jour­nal

@ptprinze I don’t under­stand your heat and phở thing. You know how hot it gets in Viet Nam?

Miss CA Tries to Rede­fine Tra­di­tional Breasts for Every­one


@stephliu Hahaha, you, too, Steph? @pegsie and @thu­pac were all over this yes­ter­day.

Dinh At work. (G&P Sac).

At work. (G&P Sac)

China has ‘can­celed US credit card’: law­maker

Wikipedia: Men Re-Write His­tory, While Women Watch It Hap­pen


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Stomp this cake down, quick!

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Linux : 3 ways To Record Your Linux Desk­top.


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In El Sal­vador, Where Abor­tion is Ille­gal.…


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“Non-TARP” (For Now) Chrysler Bond­hold­ers Revealed

Solid­Logic GS-L10 Mini-ITX wraps itself in blan­ket of heat sinks for com­fort, fan­less exis­tence

@pegsie @thu­pac He was sup­posed to be a throw-away vil­lain in the first sea­son, but was kept on for the fan draw.

@thu­pac @pegsie Not Heroes fans?

@thu­pac I’m not a hard­core fan. Watched ran­dom episodes, but didn’t fol­low any of the series.

@pegsie You didn’t miss much. Explo­sions and happy times.

@pegsie Hahaha. I’m sure Leonard Nimoy appre­ci­ates your sen­ti­ments.

@thu­pac Over­all, I liked it. With­out spoil­ing too much, I like how non-canon mate­r­ial is explained. I don’t like the lamp­shaded end­ing.

Dinh At home. (Elk Grove).

At home. (Elk Grove)

I just crossed #66 off my bucket list. Well, I didn’t call it that at the time, but I sup­pose that it is the accepted nomen­cla­ture now, so that’s what I’ll use. Just in case you are too lazy to click through or have trou­bled with num­bered lists, #66 was a hot air bal­loon ride. Since my dad’s, Dong Ha’s, and my birth­days are bunched up together near Mother’s Day, we usu­ally do some­thing nice together as a fam­ily. (And jok­ingly call it the “Every­one But Gio Linh Party.”)

Since my par­ents will be mov­ing away this sum­mer and I’m not sure we’ll be able to do this in the future, I wanted to do some­thing spe­cial this time; prefer­ably some­thing high­light­ing Cal­i­for­nia awe­some­ness for them to remem­ber when they are in Min­nesota. At first, my sis­ters and I planned on a wine tour in Napa, since the scenery is awe­some and my par­ents enjoy wine. We checked out reviews on the best vine­yards to visit and pho­tog­ra­phers in the area who do out­door por­traits. Also looked into the Wine Train, since dad does love trains.

But then I found some­thing even bet­ter… a deal on a hot air bal­loon ride over Napa Val­ley! At first, both sis­ters were appre­hen­sive. (I did not real­ize Dong Ha has a fear of heights!) But I bit the bul­let and booked us any­way, since it would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Man, was I right to do so! The flight was awe­some. And that’s despite hav­ing to wake up at 3 to get to Napa slightly before dawn. Our pilot was really funny and enter­tain­ing, and our bal­loon was first up and (almost) last down. The scenery was amaz­ing! And we had quite an adven­ture at the end as we almost landed on a church and then almost some trees as we were try­ing to land.

After­wards, Dad said he loved it and com­pared it to rid­ing a motor­cy­cle in the sky. I men­tioned that I was excited that I could cross some­thing off my bucket list now, and Dong Ha said it was on hers, too. (Gio Linh says she hasn’t made a bucket list yet, but I’m sure it would have been on there for her to cross off now.) Mommy didn’t know what a bucket list was, but basi­cally described the same thing in Viet, so con­sider it crossed off her list, too. Score! The post title may be a bit eerie or mor­bid, but it is quite fitting.

I highly rec­om­mend the expe­ri­ence to every­one. And if you are scared, don’t be. Dong Ha said she was scared of falling, but the bas­ket is four feet high, so you’d have to be actively try­ing to fall over­board. There is absolutely no risk if you are just stand­ing around. Also, there was no motion-sickness, either. The bas­kets do not sway in the wind at all, and the sen­sa­tion of going up and down is lighter than it is in an elevator.

I got tagged by a cou­ple of friends on Face­book with the“25 Things” chain let­ter (From Wondermark.com), so here are 25 things you should already know about me from read­ing this blog. I’ll try to throw in a new ran­dom fac­toid with each point, too.

1. I am gen­er­ally not super­sti­tious.. Actu­ally, I’ve been try­ing to rid myself of irra­tional fears and usu­ally break chain let­ters as a mat­ter of prin­ci­ple. (I’m sell­ing out this time because I think it would make an inter­est­ing post to recall some “Great­est Hits.”)
2. My great­est fear is to lose con­trol. My great­est wish is to con­trol the world. Or at least in some way change it for the better.
3. I’ve been told I will become Pres­i­dent. I hope that APhiO Pres­i­dency expe­ri­ence transfers.
4. I love my BB and my LBs. I wish I hung out with them more.
5. APhiO was the best and worst thing to hap­pen to me at Davis. I got so much out of it, but it did make me over­stay my wel­come with the university.
6. Davis has tried to get rid of me sev­eral times. They even tried to kill me.
7. I also almost died when I crashed while moun­tain bik­ing hard enough to crack my hel­met in two. Brian G got into an acci­dent the same day and had to go to the hospital.
8. I’ve fallen out of a mov­ing car while sleep­ing against the car door. Luck­ily I only scraped my chin.
9. I’ve fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed a car. As soon as I get a job with health ben­e­fits, I’m get­ting tested for narcolepsy.
10. My favorite car is the RX-7. The Wankel has its flaws, but it’s a beau­ti­ful feat of engineering.
11. I’m not as much of a techie as I used to be, but peo­ple still ask me for com­puter help like I was.
12. Speak­ing of nerdi­ness, I have a hard time mak­ing eye contact.
13. I also have a hard time mak­ing small talk.
14. I’m a hor­ri­ble liar. I can never keep a straight face. Except that one time.
15. I am eas­ily dis­tracted. I’m sur­prised my aunt and uncle had kids after that experience.
16. I was born in Texas. Maybe that’s why I talk slow and have a larger per­sonal space.
17. I did not know any Eng­lish on my first day of school, so I couldn’t use the bath­room. But I was prob­a­bly more flu­ent in Viet­namese than I am now.
18. I’ve had a stranger’s shit on me before. Appar­ently I missed a hell of a fight that hap­pened while I was tak­ing care of business.
19. I’ve had a bird shit on me. Indoors. I aced that test, by the way.
20. I used to give blood reg­u­larly. Stopped when Blood­Source moved and I was car­less for a while, but I should start again.
21. Blood­source has told me that I had CJD and syphilis. Not at the same time.
22. Despite being a strong sup­porter of the Lad­der The­ory, I con­sis­tently try to jump ladders.
23. I’ve only suc­cess­fully jumped lad­ders once. And it came at great cost.
24. Bat­man is my all-time favorite super­hero. I want to become him some­day. At least for Halloween.
25. I’ve been blog­ging on-and-off for almost a decade now. I remem­ber back when I was on Geoc­i­ties, and edited the page man­u­ally every time with a text-editor. There was no saved record at all. What a waste.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this list. I had fun mak­ing it. I’m sad about the holes in my records that it revealed, though. I can remem­ber posts I wanted to link to but couldn’t find any­more. I wish I had bet­ter luck migrat­ing all my old posts from the pre­vi­ous sites to this one. Some of the fac­toids are for miss­ing posts, so I’m going to write them in the future and link back here. I am going to break the chain in that I’m not tag­ging any­one to con­tinue it.