melodykim

Resolved

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:55:29 -0700

To stay grounded in the Word, truth and love.

To be a better daughter, sister and friend through Christ alone.

I still use ttyl

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:25:25 -0700

don’t judge me?

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:17:17 -0700

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

- Albert Einstein

je vous manqué beaucoup

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:19 -0700

je vous manqué beaucoup

Harbor Banquet Invitation Website | Paperman themed A parallax...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:50:00 -0700

Harbor Banquet Invitation Website | Paperman themed

A parallax site I built (not so much from scratch…) for our college ministry’s banquet this month. The backgrounds are stills from the short (I photoshopped the plane out).

The original intent was to have a paperplane with the kiss scrolling past from side to side based on the users’s scroll but alas, no time.

It was my way of overcompensating because I’m in charge of banquet planning and I had a mini panic attack thinking I wasn’t doing enough for banquet.

Et voila.

thedailywhat: Parody Ad of the Day: If The Internet was One Big...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:22:01 -0700

thedailywhat:

Parody Ad of the Day: If The Internet was One Big Toy Store

Montreal-based video art collective Dent De Cuir highlights some of the most recognizable Internet memes and websites in the style of early 90s children’s toy commercials.

Studying Abroad

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:48:24 -0700

Though it was tough while I was traveling, perhaps it’s preferable only to have to worry about tomorrow’s itinerary, housing and transportation.

Sweater Weather - Neighbourhood Too blatantly hipster for its...

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:34:41 -0700

Sweater Weather - Neighbourhood

Too blatantly hipster for its own good but I’m loving this song…

Getting scammed

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:11:00 -0700

happens often to unknowing single immigrant mothers apparently.

It’s been a huge pain throughout my life to have to deal with the consequences and aftermath (apparently speaking fluent english can get you pretty far) but it’s been a huge blessing in that it’s been a fundamental educational experience.

I’ve come to realize how scary the world is and how prepared you have to be in order to even stay afloat. But the goal isn’t just to stay afloat but to do more than that - own your own life. It’s a subtle driving force in me, striving not to be dragged by the forces of life but to stay in control of it.

Debt, fraud, scams, schemes, conniving people are all real. Don’t get owned.

(& get everything on paper… this apparently holds true in the start up world)

Everyone should have Spotify.

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:01:00 -0700

Its capabilities and potential uses cover everything a user would want when it comes to music… :)

It amazes me.

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:23:06 -0700

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

Source

Free Speech on the Internet: Silicon Valley is Making the Rules | New Republic

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:39:31 -0700

Free Speech on the Internet: Silicon Valley is Making the Rules | New Republic

"All trends are a reaction to the trend before it."

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:37:27 -0700

“All trends are a reaction to the trend before it.”

- The insightful Chris Hahn

Anti-tech movement

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:21:00 -0700

For some reason I have a feeling that there will be some sort of backlash to all this tech ie. the conservative backlash to the student activist movement of the 70s or transcendentalism as a protest against capitalism

Wouldn’t that be interesting.

I thought about this recently… what’s the shame in...

Sat, 04 May 2013 17:16:43 -0700

I thought about this recently… what’s the shame in depicting our lives as they really are? With technology seeping in every crack and crevice.

This film makes a poignant point. Really well done.

On Google Glass

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:31:00 -0700

“Google Glass, like the Segway, is what happens when Silicon Valley spends too much time talking to itself. Maybe that’s even overstating the case: The rhetoric around Google Glass is what happens when important tech people spend a little too much time congratulating each other.”
Marcus Wohlsen in the article Guys Like This Could Kill Google Glass Before It Ever Gets Off the Ground

I completely agree with this statement…

I’ve definitely been a skeptic of Google glass from the beginning. For some reason it seems to violate the fundamentals of HCI.

We’ll see where this goes.

gpoy

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:00:08 -0700

gpoy

"If I asked my customers what they want, they simply would have said a faster horse."

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:45:00 -0700

“If I asked my customers what they want, they simply would have said a faster horse.”

- Henry Ford

"When the Latin poet Horace first wrote this 2000 years ago, he wasn’t about to go skydiving..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:46:00 -0700

“

When the Latin poet Horace first wrote this 2000 years ago, he wasn’t about to go skydiving with a Vegas call-girl he just married in an Elvis-themed wedding chapel while riding a wave of some killer Ecstasy, he was basically giving advice about the dangers of trusting the future to take care of things for you and the importance of appreciating the moment.

The full phrase as written by Horace was Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero or something like “Seize the Day, trusting as little as possible in the next day”. Taken in the larger context of his writings, what this basically means is something like “don’t put off tomorrow what you can/should do today, because you never know what the future will bring”. This is the kind of advice your parents give you when they encourage you to go to college instead of pursuing your dream of being a professional competitive Legend of Zelda player, or when your accountant suggest you divert some of the money that you’re “investing” in decorative beer steins into your 401K.

”

- Chris Bland on Carpe Diem on Quora

“The Imperfectionists” taught this to me my freshman year in Muir 40.

nprfreshair: Criminologist Adrian Raine on what the fact that...

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:45:26 -0700

nprfreshair:

Criminologist Adrian Raine on what the fact that he has a brain scan similar to that of serial killer Randy Kraft (above) says to him:

It makes you wonder, you know, what put me on one side of the bars in those four years in top security prison when I was interviewing someone when maybe with a different life course and other factors in my life it could have flipped just the other way around? I’ve got a low resting heart rate. I’m a bit of a stimulation seeker and, yes, I’ve got a brain scan like a serial killer. I had poor nutrition as a kid. … What stopped me [from] becoming a killer, for example, or becoming a violent offender? I was anti-social from the age of 9 to 11. I was in a gang, smoking cigarettes, setting fire to mail, letting car tires down. …

But I’ve been intrigued: why didn’t I stay on that pathway? And it’s an area that we need to do so much more on: protective factors. What protects some people who have some of the risk factors from actually becoming an offender? I think in my life, for example, I had parents who sort of loved me. I always felt loved. There was always a roof over my head. There was always a secure environment. And I got on with my brothers and sisters. You know, and maybe that’s the critical ingredient: some love.”

image via crimesandkillers

This is good. Really good.