http://enja.org I wish I could give you this feelin' Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:13:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en enj + foblander present: Over the break I pirated Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro and cut my teeth on this little skate video. Using tools like those for a project like this is kind of like using a backhoe to scoop ice-cream, but why settle for anything less than the ... http://enja.org/2008/01/14/robots-skateboards/   It must have been two years since I made this video, right before I switched from Windows to Mac (and switching the Windows machine to Linux).  I was using Adobe Premiere to edit, and apparently I was almost done subtitling this video before I made the switch and lost access to the ... http://enja.org/2007/12/31/gou-bu-li-subs/ This past weekend I went to Gainesville to attend SERCAAL, the South East Regional Conference for Asian American Leaders at the University of Florida. What I took back to Tallahassee was several interesting observations and some re-opened questions for myself. First I want to point out that I am not ... http://enja.org/2007/10/22/identify-with-culture-a-quiz/ I'm back, after two years I'm back in Tianjin. Man its good to be here, but things are different and in a lot of ways. One of the most obvious changes is my environment. Buildings have popped up everywhere, construction is underway all around the school. The small 2 story 20 ... http://enja.org/2007/07/04/china-round-2/ Check out this short essay I wrote: http://enja.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/barack-black-out/ http://enja.org/2007/02/24/barack-black-out/ This Xmas I spent a week in Ellicotville, NY with my awesome family. Among family activities and snowboarding, we also played with some clay. This post is to showcase the work of my lil sister, Laura. She has a creative mind, if not a little demented ;) You may also ... http://enja.org/2007/01/02/lmj-in-clay-2/ I made another blog? http://enja.org/2006/10/01/illathonian/ Are you for cereal? I found this hilarious and somewhat inspiring article that breaks down exactly why Chinese is hard. While several things in the article are true, and funny because they are true I think the overall tone of desperation is for comedic effect. Chinese is hard, really hard, but ... http://enja.org/2006/08/29/chinese-is-hard/ This essay was conceived after reading about the recent AOL search data leak. A comment about the tragedy of people making light of such a privacy violation lead me to think deeper on the subject. The tragedy. The comedy. If you ask any person if they care about privacy, they will ... http://enja.org/2006/08/14/ever-get-the-feeling-you-were-beingwatched/ I just posted a mini essay on slashdot in response to some poor fool's post bashing wikipedia's reliability. The poster argued on a false premise so I decided to inform them. What resulted was a rather lengthy prediction of the future and where "media" (as in all the sources of ... http://enja.org/2006/08/02/wikiwiki-wild-wild-west/