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16 Aug · Wed 2006

what people in Silicon Valley were talking about last week

I went back to Sun's headquarters in Menlo Park, California last week and talked to lots of people, both within Sun and outside. These are the topics I found one needs to be pop-culturally literate nowadays.

1) Ask a Ninja. People tend to quote the ninja - particularly after a couple of drinks.

2) One red paperclip. The first line in this guy's blog is "My name is Kyle MacDonald and I traded one red paperclip for a house."

3) The Shanghai dog-killings. I suppose people brought this up because I live in China. Still I was surprised to see what a profound impact it had on dog-lovers in the U.S.

4) Youtube.com. Kinda like "America's Funniest Home Videos", except really funny.

Finally I have to say how happy I was to hear people say, "Oh yeah, I've been keeping up with you. I read your blog." Note that my best friend, my mom and my husband are not among them but whatever. Sue, David, Xiang Xiang, thank you for reading!

Posted by melinchina @ 05:22 PM CST [ Comments [2] ]

Comments:

Yeah, I saw my name!! Seriously, your blog is juicy and nutritious, just like watermelon, oh, how I like watermelon, as a matter of fact, I am having one right now :-).

Posted by Xiang Xiang on August 19, 2006 at 02:30 PM CST #

Thanks for reading Xiang Xiang! Next time you talk to him please tell my husband I've posted a new entry, ok? ;)

Posted by melanie gao on August 21, 2006 at 06:06 PM CST #

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Blogs I like and why I like them:

Linda Skrocki, Because of "Why is this Necessary?"

Mountain Girl, Get a breath of fresh mountain air

Pam Kong's Non-Stick World, She sees significance and humor in everyday things

I18n G.A.L. Andrea Vine, Like a 3-minute vacation to England

Rob Sohigian, Good pictures of everyday life in China

Sin-Yaw Wang, He writes stuff about China that even most Chinese people don't know

Vasanth Vaidyanathan, Great links!

Eric Kozlowski, learn how we keep Solaris quality rock-solid

ThinGuy, he's hysterical AND he cooks!

Sue Weber, Nice blend of work and life

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