A Country Bumpkin Offering Sunshine

Michael Richards Outburst at L.A. Comedy Club

I didn’t even know the comedy Seinfeld’s Kramer’s real name is Michael Richards. Suddenly, Michael Richards is on every channel now. His outrage of shouting like a racist on last Friday night seems to bring him back in entertaining news but only in a down turning way.

What a shame!! A lot of people have enjoyed the character, Kramer in Seinfeld for so many years. Kramer’s image has been ruined. I am not sure if I would be able to laugh with Kramer when I see re-runs. After watching his apologies on Dave Letterman’s Late Show on CBS, I really cannot buy that he is not a racist. I feel sorry for him though and can understand a middle-age-fading-out comedian’s frustration. However, it scares me to think how many people in this country pretend to be open-minded but hide hatred toward particular races down to bottom hearts. It takes a lot of hate but not only alcohol to burst out like Michael Richards did.

Is it really funny to make fun of another race other than ours? I like stand-up comedies but also feel very uncomfortable when comedians tell those very stereotype stories about Asian people. I hope Michael Richards’ hard lesson can let comedians be more sensitive on joking around about the minorities.

Who says we have to be in robes or pajamas when we work at home? This Saturday morning, I woke up and decided to wear normally like I was hired by someone else. Hair had to be done nicely too. All of a sudden, a feathery scarf appeared in my closet. I knitted it last winter. Yarn was a gift from Grandma Ruth. This scarf surely makes me feel pretty good.

I have been silly since a lot “technical” blogs impress me too much. After participating groups and forums a little, there are also a bunch of blogs being personal and fun to read.

Well, I am still going to keep myself educated in many technical ways. However, the idea of writing what I feel like sets me free.

Here, it is a small corner of our bathroom. Do you see a pinkish flower? I don’t know what kind of plant this is though. They were picked from my parents-in-law’s plant in soil two months ago. I thought it would grow in the water because of those tinny nodes on stalks. Apparently, it does! This kind of joy would keep me happy a whole day long. Simple, isn’t it?

Photo resource: New York Times website
Nancy Pelosi has been the most hot and popular political celebrity since last Tuesday night, November 7, 2006. I hardly pay less attention to her than most American people even though I am only an immigrant with no right to vote. Not surprisingly, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected for his second term as the governor of California , which might interest some Californians for the better or worse. Of course, the entire Bay Area’s political attention is drawn to the first female speaker to-be of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.

Before this weekend, all I could recall about Mrs. Pelosi was she had always said something against George W. Bush and the current government. People call her a liberal congresswoman, which gives me a positive impression toward her. This Democratic Party’s perfect storm sweeping both U.S. Congress and House of Representatives does force me to educate myself more about how American Congress and House of Representatives work and what the speaker of House of Representatives does. If I would like to be a cheerleader, at least I have to know what I am cheering for, right?

Thanks to YouTube.com and lots of generous people posting those news video clips, I can browse around for Nancy Pelosi’s speech and TV interviews with her. There are two parts of a video interview produced by CBS 60 Minutes, called Two Heartbeats Away part 1 and part 2, posted by a user named NancyPelosi. There is no enough reference showing that YouTube blog was not signed up by real Nancy Pelosi. However, I suspect the blogger is just a supporter of hers. Otherwise, Mrs. Pelosi is way too cool at her age and political position. What does it mean “Two Heartbeats Away” for being the Speaker of House of Representatives? I wondered. After some reading work, I found out Nancy Pelosi could be the first female president by default if George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were dead before 2008 presidency election. Wow, it means Nancy Pelosi is the third powerful person in U.S. political field now; it is huge to women’s right movement in U.S.

Right on! Mrs. Pelosi. Although I am just a California long-term resident, I still would like to express my own opinions. Hopefully, you are not like most of politicians who get power from the voters but only care about benefits of themselves. Don’t forget most of your supporters put a lot of hope on you to stop Iraq War and some other possible wars U.S. could stir up in Middle East. Don’t forget there are many people cannot afford health insurance premiums and America is one of very few high developed countries that don’t have national universal health insurance for its own citizens and children.

After I download the Yahoo mail Beta, I have lost good amount of mails in Chinese. I don’t mean physically “lost”. Some of my mails in Chinese are not readable now. They were perfectly fine when I was using the older Yahoo mail version.

I start to regret for downloading this Yahoo Beta. New things are not necessarily better. Being able to send and receiving Chinese mails to me is critical. I though it might be the compatibility with Internet Explore, so that I installed the newest IE. 7.0, which also for fixing some missing images issue on web pages. The problem still didn’t get solved. I went to official Microsoft website and tried to summit a question. The result was I have to pay $35 per month for technical support because the XP home edition was purchased from a manufacture but not directly from giant Microsoft, neither do I find any solution through the discussion groups.

After series of frustration, I blamed to the weakness with IE language feature, so that I browsed my Yahoo mails with Opera and Firefox. The same issue maintains. Gee, give me a break. Why isn’t it friendly enough to read and write emails in Chinese through Yahoo mail under English Windows environment? For now, the Chinese version of FireFox does do better job on my Chinese mails with Yahoo. However, some of Chinese mails are not coming back to normal.


I am still struggling to encode and try to find where is “More Actions”. Maybe, I should summit a question to Yahoo.com directly.