30 posts tagged “tricia wang”
dear vox friends, I feel so horrible and guilty for saying this - but I must leave vox. I am still a Movable Type User - and I know that because you made MT you udoubtably have the capacity to make vox just as excellent. Until you do, I'm going to wait out at www.triciawang.tumblr.com.
My hopes are that you invest the same kind of energy in vox as in your other amazing tools - such as typepad and movable type. I hope that your vox support start answering user's messages - I've emailed soooo many messages to the support team but I have never heard back from anyone :( I hope that you will give users the option to export their posts (not just import), fix the buggy servers, fix blog entry section - it's impossible to highlight a few words,editing, give more options to users to customize the side bar and redesign the way advertising is placed.
I love that I can make posts private, or just for friends or just for neighbors. I love that. I love that this has been my personal blog for the last 3 years. Tumblr will be my personal blog and Movable Type will continue to remain my professional blog at www.youmeiti.com. I love MT 4.25 - it's beautiful - can vox be just as well-thought out!!
Bye Vox - and vox friends i will still pull your feeds into my google RSS reader, so I will still comment and read your private posts.
Oh and since you are going to check out my new blog, check out two more blogs that I just launched!:
Cultural Bytes - where I write about my research on new technology users
::Dichos y Vida - where I write about all my favorite quotes!
::Tricia is Reading This - all the things I find interesting from my RSS reader
And i'm going to start blogging again on my movable type blog:YouMeiTI , where I write about Chinese Youth, Media and Information Technology.
To pull ONE RSS FEED of all my blogs, please cick on this soup.io link,
To pull on RSS feed of all my media - from flickr to youtube to vimeo - please use this soup.io link.
Now I went into RSS overdose a few years ago when I had over 1,000 feeds for 20 different topics and 1million unread posts that give my nightmares of being an failure in rss world.
This year, I'm RSS stronger and smarter - I was so obsessed with them when I first understood the concept of RSS in 2001 - it blew me away BUT I didn't have the right tools then that could manage this information saturation. I od'ed pretty badly and just stopped blogging on www.youmeiti.com when I couldn't handle anymore RSS feeds with grad school becoming the priority. Well now with google's rss reader I feel like I can conquer the world!
Well - I'm ready to try this again and this time I'm asking for help before I go information crazy. Before I go through my old RSS readers, I actually just want to start fresh and ask for your recommendation on 3 RSS feeds that you think I absolutely have to have in my google RSS reader. Please include your blog - I want to make sure that I have your feeds in my personal friend folder!
Thanks so much for your help!
tricia
here's my public rss shared links so far to give you an idea of things I like to read,
I think it's about time 3 months into the Western New Year of 2009 and 1 month into the Chinese Buffalo Year that I make a public declaration on the 2009 goals that I am 90% confident that I will not fail to accomplish.
- get my rss reader into shape with google's rss love without OVERLOADING myself with rss feeds
- DO NOT become anxious if I do not read all my rss links
- blog at least 1/week on culturalbytes and youmeiti
- say no to conferences and yes to writing
- master mendeley love
- keep on my journey of living a more mobile life through technology that will save me from being unrooted to any one place
- do not trick myself into believing that technology will bring me more sanity - peace is from within
- keep loving technology- be in denial that more information can make me less efficient
- understand the complex yet simple fact that I need to balance an information driven lifestyle with love - do not go crazy with information consumption
- stay true to my belief that my academic and professional work is not a reaction to the external, but a commitment to my own motivations to understand the topics I research
- resist professionalization (thank you ryan shaw for pointing to mark's post)
I travel a lot. a Lot alot alot. too much.
I think Is spent more time at airports than at my place in SD or Brooklyn combined.
This year, I would like to write bout all the wonderful things I have learned for navigating a mobile lifestyle that I get to live because I am a US citizen who can cross international borders.
Now a key thing I have learned is that I have to recover from jetlag asap or else I just can't work - much less give a presentation or do any research.
So one way I have tried to beat jetlag is to skip a meal before I get on the plane and trick my circadian clock (explanation of this process below). Now I must be honest with you, I haven't been successful yet because I LOVE FOOD SO MUCH that before I leave a country or a place, I try to stuff as much of my favorite food into my stomach as I can. So if I'm in Oaxaca, I will make sure to stuff down 5 cups of esquite and 2 caldos - or if I'm in China - I can't resist eating as much baozi as I can - or in India I think I stuffed my body full of masala dosa and pineapple salad - it's kinda pathetic that I love food so much.
so let's say one day I do research in a area that has crappy food - like ohhh anartica - then maybe I can test this out. Actually I should've tested this out when I was flying out Manchester a few years ago - the food there is horrific!!! but I didn't know about this trick then :(
".. new research from Harvard University suggests fasting before flying to a far-off land may help you avoid jet lag altogether. How? Your body knows when to eat, sleep, and wake up in response to your circadian rhythm, an internal body clock that gets its cues from daylight. When you skip meals, a second internal clock that’s food-driven kicks in as soon as you eat again—and temporarily takes over for your confused circadian clock. The scientists found that it takes 12 to 16 hours of fasting to spark this reaction, which then prompts your circadian clock to get back on track. “Your body has the ability to override and reset your primary clock to a new time zone simply by faking it out with food,” says Clifford Saper, MD, PhD, the lead researcher." From naturalheathmag
Adriene is the queen of pho decoration. I beleive that she has pioneered a new style of food photography, combining food photography + purikura design = new food aesthetic. Check out her pho designs here.
What I love about our friendship is that adriene takes part in documenting my love for food. I mean just alone - we have a whole history of pho love together.
Below are some of my favorite pho designs of adriene's pho that she has made over the years. you can see how her style has evolved over the years - moving from simple experimentations to exciting splashes of tacky images to more symbolic territories. Truly, she has become a pho-natic and pho-tastic pho-tographer.
Here are some pics of other documentations she has made of pho-baby over the years. After we eat pho - my stomach extends as if I were 3 months pregnant. no kidding. not pushing it out at all.
we all have to thank leah muse-orlinoff for introducing the wonderful world of pho ca dao to us! PHO-EVER!
El naco es Chido!
I'm sorry to all the friends who have invited me on facebook to participate in this - I have learned so much about you - some wonderful and some lame - but for me - this whole process is just stressful!
First, I can't squeeze all my wonderfulness into 25 things - then I think well everyone else wrote such interesting or snarky things in their list - how can I come up with a list like that? then I think well my good friends should know many weird things about me -Then i think well why should I "try to be funny"- but ohmygod then where do I start if I even tried? And what are my friends doing out there - are any of them doing real work? Where do they find the time to compose this list and Why am I getting 10 tags a day - this is chainmail hell - this is worse than the Send This to 5 friends and Microsoft will give you a a free laptop chainmail from the late 1990's. arggg stop tagging me people!
The major problem with 25 things about me is that it has no focus Like what happened to lists in the old days that asked List Your top 5 favorite movies or what 20 things would you bring with you to a deserted island or the top 5 Celebrities you Want to Live with and why. At least those lists had a direct topic and a clear indirect point to prove about yourself - look at all the movies I know about or look at all the cool things I own or look at how much I know about pop culture! Without any specific direction, this Facebook 25 list is just too amorphous.
no more! the most important things to know about me are that I love to eat, blog and that I hate people and haters and that no one should take anything I saw or write too seriously. Bam - that's #1-infinity for you.
ciaooooo
alaina notified me that Bergdoof Goodman has caught on with my wolf trend!
This is a picture of their winter window display.
Everyone just remember that I said it was ok to be a wolf before BG!
And you know I became wolf before it was condoned haute couture.
I get asked all the time - what is it with you and canines? I've been known for my ability to speak to animals in a language that has never been deciphered by humans.
you love dog purses, you love attacking dogs, you love dancing with them, antagonizing them, you love being a wolf and you love biting other people when you're a wolf- what is it?
Luckily The Wolf Times called me for an interview! They wanted to speak to me about my amazing training abilities. They must have noticed the wonderful video ADriene made of Jack - the dog we are fostering (here's jack's blog).
Tricia, what is your methodology?: WEll I beleive that the best way to get people - I mean dogs - to listen is inspiring fear!
Why do you think you are so good at training wild dogs?: Great Question! I treat dogs the way I wish I could treat everyone - I wish I could just say sit, and everyone would listen. In dog world, I am always the master. Unfortunately, with humans - there are others who also think they are masters of the world.
How can someone learn from your methods if they are unable to hire you until the end of this recession in 10 years?: My advice is that you always maintain eye contact with your animal. Lead by the nose, as Cesar Milan says - and don't afraid to show your love through fierce wolf eyes.
Does being an unprofessional dog trainer interfere with your career?: As a sociologist, I find that my field is so professionalized that it's a mental break to come home and spend time on an unprofessionalized field, such as dog training.
What's up the dog purse obsession? I think we are tactile beings and we love touch - but part of adult socialization says that we're not supposed to enjoy simple touch of furry things. We end up buying expensive goose feather pillows and comforters that are great to lay on - but we can't feel them! Also adult socialization tells us that we can't like little playful things - well as you can see the Japanese never bought that silly value - they love their manga and anime! So you know what I decided that I could also carry around dog purses as an adult - I love to touch and pet it - it just feels wonderful. I don't carry it to meetings or work - but you will find me during the weekends with my dog purse!
And what's up the wolf hat? Well the Wolf hat just makes me happy and it makes everyone else happy. If we are at a place in our friendship where I can bite you and you find it funny, then I would say you're pretty cool and we can chill together. Children to know how to play and imagine and so much of growing up in Western and chinese culture is about replacing imagination with rationality. I don't see what the two forms of thinking can't co-exist together. I can gauge my level of worldly engagement by how often I wear my wolf hat and bite people - if I'm around people I can bite - that means I'm around close non-judgemental friends. If I can wear my wolf hat a lot - that means my imagination is running around. Life is so much more fun when you see it through the eyes of an animal.
