Murdza and I had a chat this morning. I’d forgotten how fast people from the Northeastern part of the U.S. talk. I misheard him say “I got an external RAID” when, in fact, he said “I got a Xserve RAID“. It’s all geek talk, I know… But the difference in the two statements are so profound (to us geeks) that I almost fell off of my chair when I finally figured out it was the Apple Xserve RAID he got!
But then, Jason and Alicia lived in NY for a while, they don’t talk quite nearly as fast… Maybe it’s just Murdza with his self-diagnosed ADHD where he ahs to get the thoughts out of his head really fast or else something else will pop up in his head and he’d forget what he was going to say just a second ago…
But it’s all good. I have been in California for too long, watching Chinese new channels* and eating Chinese food… It’s almost like I never left Taiwan! Hah! You gotta love it — America, a little piece of every country.
*The Chinese news channel actually lasts an entire hour which covers news from all over the world — unlike local news channels (or even national ones like CNN!) in 99.999% of the United States where their 4PM, 5PM, 6PM and 11PM news stories are almost all identical and cover only local and U.S.-related national news. If you want to know what happens somewhere else in the world, good luck. Unless the U.S. is in a war with them or is threatening to have one, they’d be luck to get even 1 full minute of coverage (case in point, when the President of Taiwan got shot during presidential election, our local news station in San Jose only gave it an ONE-sentence coverage and then moved on to some other petty and trivial local news).