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As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice exclaimed—“Almost rather I had seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!”
      “What was it, Sir?” said Flask.
      “The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld and returned to their ports to tell of it.”

Moby-Dick, 1851
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4-21-08  FURL
Uhmm, apparently archives haven't really been working since late 2006. THANX for the heads up guys! They are temporarily fixed, and will stay temporarily fixed until I migrate to new software/layout. I have said some hilarious things in the last 7 years, that future generations will feel lucky I preserved. Go check them out.


1-18-08  new iPhone icon
Woah, it's been 3 years since the last news update! Fuzzysquid now has a webclips icon for your iPhone! It'll automagically show up when you add FS to your home screen. Atom and RSS feeds have been available for a few years now, but I never made special mention of it.


1-14-05  LJ images
Since it seems to be popular, and it's been linked in a lot of different places besides here, I've decided to post the LJ Images page. At least in the news, at least for now. It's also getting some Google ads because you LiveJournal people are sucking up all my bandwidth (35% for that one page!)


4-02-04  FURL
Check out what I've been browsing: FURL.net bookmark archive. Not much commentary, relevance, or sequitur—but it's what's keeping this blog from turning into a meme dumpster.





LINKS

    SQUID STUFF

  1. TONMO - The Octopus News Magazine Online. Invaluable.
  2. Angrywhale - Meet Leonard. He's an angry sort of whale.
  3. The Squid Blog - From the Laughing Squid people.



    PEOPLE I KNOW

  4. Moxyberry - Where the cousin is at. Her bookmarks here.
  5. Cranky User - Brian's bookmarks. Updated, unlike his site.
  6. Rosenstock - Her other ride is your mom.
  7. Lauren - Wet Hot Singaporean Blogging.
  8. Universal Donor - Like the prime number shitting bear, but with terrible back pain.
  9. Olivia - Who receives special dispensation from our usual policies.
BLAG  read the archive


Monday, June 09, 2008
dannyboy 6:53 PM (0)

 
Comments:

 

 
NEWSFLASH: I am Asian! I know it's hard to tell, but not being from around here, I have strange and exotic ways. Something that just occurred to me is that some of the things I consider absolutely polite and even necessary can be seen as the complete opposite. For example, I play the Chinese modesty game—though I'm pretty sure it's pan-Asian. To play this game: if a person offers some measure of hospitality to you, you must decline at least three times before you may accept (or decline for real). So if I come by for a visit and you set out some snacks you spent all afternoon making, I may SEEMINGLY REFUSE IT! I know, it's nuts! I apologize if I made you think I saw Poppy go back to work without washing his hands, or that your culinary efforts were defective.

This is surprisingly ingrained in me at times. I don't do it all the time, but when in doubt I often subconsciously default to this. There are other customs I have adapted and am very conscious of—I will recoil in horror if you don't take your shoes off in my apartment (I have carpet and you just walked off Haight St. for fruit's sake), but I never take my shoes off in a western home unless invited to because I understand you people are very ashamed of your feet. Or something.

Anyway, in conclusion, that thing I said about your mother was not actually offensive, but me being Oriental.





 
   
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