At the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco’s Japantown, my girlfriend and I expected many things. We expected to see beautiful performances of Japanese dancing. We expected to be thrilled by taiko. We expected to gorge ourselves on street food. We even expected to see odd American tourists wearing panda gear, even though [...]
I love comics. I read them for fun. I watch the movies. I am subscribed to a whole bunch of comics blogs. Heck, I even wrote my college application essay about comic books. So, how is it that I didn’t learn about the movie Kick Ass until now? (Warning, trailer below is NSFW) Won’t be [...]
A recent Dilbert cartoon pokes fun at the struggle that I’m sure many people feel between breaking off and doing something on their own versus sticking with their current job: When I sent this to a few of my startup friends, one of them replied with a set of very entertaining cartoons (from Startup Comix) [...]
My girlfriend and I were checking out the Valentine Art Fair at the New People shopping center in San Francisco’s Japan Town to see the galleries and collections of various local and Japanese craftspeople. I saw the very nerdy but cute aquatic themed creations of Amy Ng’s Mr. Dead Fish, the adorable wool creations of [...]
You will become a member of this Facebook petition to “Establish ‘Hella-’ as the SI Prefix for 10^27“. Why? “Hella” is something that is quintessential Northern California (or as we call it, Norcal), and how could you not love a place which brings you Silicon Valley and San Francisco? How awesome would it be to [...]
From my good buddy Serena’s tumblr: Like many other products/services in the technology value chain, my tag would read the same…
I don’t usually do the New Year’s resolutions thing. But this year, since I’m now publishing everything to benjamintseng.com, I think the perceived public scrutiny associated with having a public list of goals for the coming year on my own personal domain name might end up being a good motivator to achieve them. So, without [...]
As I did with 2008 and 2007, a couple of highlights from this blog for the past year: I made quite a few changes to my blog, including updating my Feedburner feed, installing Disqus and ShareThis, and moving the blog over to my own hosted site and making the jump from Blogger to WordPress Ended [...]
So I finally took the plunge. Instead of hosting my blog on Blogger, I’ve decided to move it over to a self-hosted WordPress blog which not only gives me a whole lot more control over content and styling (and has vastly more versatile plugins and themes), but allows me to start consolidating my online presence [...]
Despite not really knowing the lyrics, I’ve had a song playing on and off in the back my head since I got back from training. It was played in the background of the closing slideshow, and upon getting back, I must’ve spent at least one (frustrating) hour searching on Google combinations of words “I just [...]