davidyang.net

8 Random Things About Me

January 23rd, 2008

I feel so special to have been tagged by Sarah Cooper that I’ve come out of hibernation and have decided to make a Ali-like comeback to blog posting.

From Sarah:

These are the rules of this particular meme:

1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
2. People who are tagged need to write a post on their own blog (about their eight things) and post these rules.
3. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

EIGHT random facts.

My sister and I have the same birthday, two years apart. From the first day she was born, she began mercilessly copying everything that I do - everything from television shows (Sex and the City, Flight of the Conchords, Arrested Development) to random catch-phrases.
Everytime I start a new job I create a new AIM/Yahoo username so that I can easily compartmentalize my previous lives. For people who think I’ve fallen off the face of the planet, I’m currently available at dave.yang on Yahoo.
I named my dog after a character in a comic book. I can’t even remember which comic book or the character but I liked the name. My favorite comic book as a child was Superman so it’s probably from there.
I missed a perfect score on my Math SAT by 10 points for which my friends/family have never let me live down.
After reading the top 5 books on the Modern Library’s list of great American literature, I’m still sticking with my original choice of Great Gatsby as hands-down the best book there. I also like Lolita a lot. I’m one of those people that think Atlas Shrugged should be on the list that the real “intelligentsia” mock. As a side note, Marissa Mayer reminds me of a brought-to-life modern Dagny Taggart and if I was casting the up and coming movie, I’d put her on the short list WAY above Angelina Jolie.
I probably have more clothes than most women but I end up wearing about 15 pieces in rotation and let the rest sit unloved in my closet. On the shoes front I’m probably below average.
I’ve worked at Microsoft, AMD, IBM, Ernst and Young, Deloitte and Yahoo. I even got to interview Bill Gates for my college technology magazine.
I gave up drinking soda around February of 2007 when I was at Yahoo where one of the major perks is unlimited soda. I gave up buying new stuff around September of 2007 after reading Paul Graham’s post on Stuff and having to throw away most of my belongings when moving to New York City. My credit card is going to come out of retirement to buy myself a Macbook Pro whenever the Steveness decides to release a new one.

And now I’ll tag Grace (my sister, so she can continue copying the things I do), Nimit, Brad, Sean E, Shayan, Vishesh, Dan and Dan K.

fucking fat girls
Anal Therapy CD-1
gay military studs
lowry zoo
milf sucking balls
male rape
index of voyeur
snake sex
public spankings in school
gator metal stud punches
free mature porno
ladyboy cock
whip cream in ass
paris hilton sex video for free
nude female tattooes
self hypnosis to quit smoking
lesbian moms
paris hilton mpegs
how to make penis bigger
girl wear a thong
mature lesbian women with younger women
voyeur tan
giant gay black cocks
clit orgasm
how to make a homemade sex toy
schoolgirl uniforms
xxx proposal hardcore sex deal
teen girl sex
lolita virgin
helen hunt sex video
fuck machine orgasm
amateur porn movies
lingeries office
amateur ass to mouth
strokes barely+legal
cfnm airport
sexy naked hunks
girls having orgasms
bound bondage
pregnant mom sex
naked celeberties
yaoi hunk
amateur teen orgasm
come little children
female shower
finasteride andro penis
belly button piercing procedure
cheerleader pantyhose
anal glory hole
phat ass pussy
small butt
spanking & punishment blogs
bumps on side of tongue but no pain
paris cheap apartments
erotic bdsm
hot blondes sucking cock
foot fisting
In Thru The Back Door-3 CD-1
porn paysite passwords
tattoos tribal art
Fetish Factory-2
girls peeing their pants
world sexcom
state college breast reconstruction
transvestism and bondage
banned paparazzi photos
oriental facial cumshot
backstabbing sluts
I Was Tight Yesterday-6 CD-2
foot and hand pain
paypal sexcams
sound blaster live drivers
hustler store
under age girls in thongs
clit jewlery
office stockings sex
visa accepted winston cigarettes
motorhead iron fist
free handjob in nylon
pornstar karina
gang bang sluts
teen shemale
used car grants pass
naked girl midget
cures for soar throats
lolita videos
slut of the day
pregnant mothers naked
fuck chinese vagina
girls in tight latex
candi squirting
cock in pantyhose
bushy pussy
bypass school firewall
granny pee
moms boy
reality companies in hot springs arkansas
black sex movies
lesbians sucking nipples
african tranny
free busty amateurs
hard spanked
Cum On My Hairy Pussy-4 CD-1
marc jacobs nylon bag
natural nude
free sexcam florida
outdoor pool furniture
upskirt fucking
redhead lapdance
what is a hand over mouth fetish
shemale blogs
nude preteen model
Naturally Exposed-3 CD-2
yovo olsen twins
sesame street orgy
tokyo upskirt
shower orgies
live oral typhoid vaccine fluconazole interaction
black squirt
shemale movie
Top Notch Bitches-6 CD-2
carnival cruise ship glory
milwaukee county zoo discounts
lez orgy
rent- glory mp3
vulva diagram
illegal incest porn
free bittorrent downloads
outdoor games for teens
barely legal porn
girls long tongue tricks
shemale stars
free vintage adult video
redhead bdsm
pantyhose and nylon smut
hp personal media drive
milf squirter
hairy midget fuck creampie
cute blonde girl
mature big tit thumbs
lolita porn sites
virgin photos
university of maryland university college
beaconmodels password
sore throat caused by nexium
silvia martinez reyes
smallest pussy
shit in my mouth
women peeing in toilet
twistys bree olsen movie samples
life of paparazzi
the average length of a stud horses penis
busty amateur big natural
secretary huge cock
cigarette torture
young girl drunk
stripper handjob
nj glory holes
petites annonces
perfect cameltoe
free big clit pictures
ex-girlfriend oral sluts
black chicks and white dicks
mary go round pony ride parties & petting zoo
oriental teen sluts
reality amateur sex vids
free xxx games
sm copenhagen til bdsm adgang bondage
big fat ass
14 year old average penis size
clitty tongue
taking retards to the zoo
eskimo pornstars
stripping humiliation stories school
forced shemale
post office saloon & grill redding ca
sylvia saint torrent download
do they still make self piercing earrings
wife strips
big tits oriental girls blowjob on sofa
fucking red heads
the petting zoo
vagina pussy cunt free pictures
malezia sucking cock
teacher student seduction stories
hidden vids
download corel draw 12 mac ox
free tennis upskirt
rape porn videos
make me squirt hard
daddy slut
hot housewife
nipple stretch torture
extreme tranny
bondage enemas
guys using stroker sex toy
toy teen pussy
highschool thong
sylvia mcneill ugly
drunkin whores
baltimore tattoo museum
hentai peeing
naked virgin
drunk girl videos
shark tattoo designs
black lesbians tongue kissing and licking pussies
Big Tits Round Asses-3 CD-1
girl cream pie
hot legs and feet
Maximum CD-1
handwriting recognition tablet pcs education school student
chubby fat chicks
cute lady bug tattoos
free sexcams no e-mail
ass virgin
swap cells excel
Dirty Wicked Bitches-2 CD-1
vintage travel poster
guys wear pantyhose
oral girls

david | blogs | 4 comments

How to start a successful startup

August 25th, 2006

Digg entry

david | society and culture | 825 comments

Oreo Cookies and Milk Pressure

August 24th, 2006

Just putting this out there in case any water pressure/buoyancy experts ever are super bored and stumble upon my corner of the Internet. I, like many others out there I’m sure, love Oreo cookies with milk. If you hold the cookie down in the milk (so that the cookie is vertical) for a few seconds, when you bite on it it’s potting-soil like consistency of pure chocolate and creme is pure bliss. While this tiny amount of work for such a large payoff might seem trivial at first, multiply by a few thousand cookies and you’ve got some serious cookie-to-milk (W=FD for all you physics nerds) type work accumulating.

In an effort to minimize energy waste, I often just throw 3 or 4 cookies in the milk at the same time. As we all know, the black and white cookie doesn’t let milk hold it down.. it aggressively tries to elevate itself above the water line. You can let these suckers wade in that milk all you want… when you pull them out expecting even greater sogginess than before, you are often shocked/amazed/petrified/flabbergasted that - against all odds - the cookie has remained rather crunchy.

My only theory as to why this is is: somehow, when you actively hold down the cookie in a vertical state, the pressure at 1.2 inches below surface level is great enough to penetrate the air pockets inside the cookie whereas at surface level this is a much more gradual (perhaps almost indefinite) process. However, calcuations of water pressure at that depth measured against cookie pressure resistance proved to be difficult - mostly because I have no frickin’ clue how to measure either of those values.

So, I implore all you Oreo-in-milk lovers out there to explain this phenomenon to me. Unfortunately, I have sincere doubts that anyone will a) ever find this post, b) care enough to read the entire thing and c) have the great wisdom and understanding to know the answer… I guess that’s just how the cookie crumbles.

david | society and culture, stupid | 2 comments

Programming Contest Training

August 24th, 2006

Ever since I went to TopCoder’s 2004 Open I’ve been interested in improving my programming skills (right now I would rank my skills right above “enough to pay the bills”-level but I would like to see them reach “ain’t nothing but a google-thang”-level). Besides competing in more TopCoder events and solving old problems, I’ve discovered this other cool site (the training site for the USA Programming Team.. yes, they exist) has a curriculum of sorts to walk you through learning basic concepts all the way to advanced search/sort algorithms.

david | coding, cool things on the web | No comments

Forced Speed Reading Training with Spreeder.com

August 24th, 2006

I’ve always been interested in speed-reading (though I’m now afraid that training myself for speed reading has in fact lowered my reading comprehension) and saw a link to a cool utility called Spreeder on Lifehacker today. The basic premise of this tool is that you paste in some text and it flashes word-by-word to you at a very fast pace so you don’ t have time to do things that slow down your reading.

Several factors affect our reading speed, like subvocalization (the little voice inside our heads that reads along with us and slows us down), backtracing (rereading parts over and over again), etc. The purpose behind apps like these is to train our minds to get rid of all the other crap. So, by having a steady input of text, we erase our dependency on backtracing. By increasing the reading speed, subvocalization can’t keep up and eventually goes away… we don’t need to subvocalize to process information, as much as we may think we do.

I tried it using the text from “The Power of Now” by Steve Pavlina. I like his posts but I find them a little verbose when I’m in my blog-reading attention span mode. So I put the 2000 word post into spreeder and cranked up the text to about 900 words per minute. I was surprised that I was able to actually get a lot of the meaning out of thetext (probably about 90% understanding) in about 2 minutes (whereas previously something like that might take me 6-8 minutes at about 250 wpm. I think I might try it again with some text that is totally unfamiliar with me and see what level of comprehension I can get.

Update: Article on speed-reading techniques

Update: also tried Zapreader.com and it works a little better in my opinion cause you can use word chunks instead of just thousands of single words flying at you.

david | technology, cool things on the web | 4 comments