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reserving rental car for BhaktiFest & Earthdance (LAS 9/7/10-9/21/10): Fox $287, Thrifty $335 - since my Acura Integra has a bad 3rd cylinder, and I need a new car.
Fox (Standard, DEAL000001 or DEAL000002 code): 211.70 + fees = 296.21 - 3% Mr. Rebates = 287.32 ($20.52/day)
- Mitchell Tsai
Thrifty (Wild Card, Mid-size or larger): 197.70 + fees = $349.20 - 4% FatWallet = 335.23 ($23.95/day) - and I would get a free day for 12 days of rental
- Mitchell Tsai
Hotwire $13.95/day + fees = $312.67
- Mitchell Tsai
[Update Thu 9/3] Thrifty dropped it's rates -$16 to $92.67 += $332.87, but Fox raised it's rates (but I've got my reserved rates locked in...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Hoopcamp Retreat 2010 [9/30/10-10/12/10, Santa Cruz] - http://www.hoopcampretreats.com/worksho...
15.4 inch Rolling Multicase, KR307, @Work, Rolling Cases - $399 [Briggs & Riley] - http://www.briggs-riley.com/categor...
2nd possible new computer bag.
- Mitchell Tsai
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15.4 inch Executive Expandable Rolling Brief, KR306X, @Work, Rolling Cases - $369 [Briggs & Riley] - http://www.briggs-riley.com/categor...
Possible new computer bag.
- Mitchell Tsai
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15.4 inch Slim Rolling Brief, KR305, @Work, Rolling Cases - $299 [Briggs & Riley] - http://www.briggs-riley.com/categor...
The computer bag which was stolen Thursday
- Mitchell Tsai
[Can't answer phone calls.] ...on my way back from Dance New England, my computer bag was stolen from my car trunk at the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas - lost iPod & phone. Hadn't checked into my hotel yet. Luckily I had hidden my computer, $1,000 cash, credit card wallet, GPS, car stereo, and passport elsewhere (or taken them with me).
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Unfortunately this universe sometimes makes it difficult to survive, and some people resort to theft. I think my car was stolen because I left a GPS mount on my dash, and I had just purchased a new tent & shade cover which were in my back seat (along with my hula-hoops). Briggs & Riley computer bag ($325) http://ff.im/pB3Vo. 2nd bag taken was a beat-up bag of car tools ($50 - socket wrenches, flat wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, etc...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Three times my car has been broken into with GPS stuff visible. I had started leaving my GPS window mount on again (after 2-3 years) since GPS's dropped to $60-80. No dice. I'm leaving the GPS window mount off...
- Mitchell Tsai
Lost about $700-$900 of stuff. However, the first thing I do when putting luggage in my trunk is scattering around the contents (based on previous thefts). The computer is shoved into a non-computer bag and buried in the bottom of the trunk under junk. Not stolen was MacBook Pro ($2,500), Cash ($1,000), Canon S-5 Camera ($350), Alpine Car Stereo ($300), US Passport ($110), Garmin GPS ($100), wallet with extra credit cards.
- Mitchell Tsai
Most importantly, I didn't lose my last 3 years of pictures (The rest is just money...) To do some picture processing at DNE, I was traveling with 2 of my backup hard drives. Ouch. I have three more backup hard drives in Ohio, but it would've been a major pain to recover my pictures from all the incremental backups & old picture archives. I'm not sure I have all of my pictures on the Ohio drives (although I'm going to check on my next visit!)
- Mitchell Tsai
P.S. I had a super-lucky day on Saturday. Not big money, but I won on 16 straight slot machines (including 4 decent jackpots on Video poker, Elvis, Wizard of Oz - 1st time, and Jaws - 1st time), and won more money than what was stolen. Whew...
- Mitchell Tsai
:( for the start and :) for the ending
- Jemm
Jemm. My angels seem to be watching out for me... I had just crushed the phone in the driver's door, so the video screen didn't work (and my sister mailed me a replacement phone already). The computer bag had a messed-up zipper & I was going to have it repaired. - I wonder if my thief will figure out that Briggs & Riley has a lifetime fix-anything guarantee... :-) Depends on if they are a professional or not.
- Mitchell Tsai
Well, Karma was on your side, apparently. Good things happen to good people :)
- Jemm
Wheeled Compact Tote, U214, Baseline, Totes - $249 [Briggs & Riley] - http://www.briggs-riley.com/categor...
Mate Racism [Overcoming Bias] - lots of comments & discussion - http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010...
This Valentine’s Day … relatively few women on mainstream dating sites will bother to respond to overtures from men of Asian descent. Likewise, black women will be disproportionately snubbed by men of all races. …
- Mitchell Tsai
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Among the women, 73% stated a [racial] preference. Of these, 64% selected whites only, while fewer than 10% included East Indians, Middle Easterners, Asians or blacks. … 59% of [men] stated a racial preference. Of these, nearly half selected Asians, but fewer than 7% did for black women.
- Mitchell Tsai
Caroline - The source is...Feliciano, Cynthia, Belinda Robnett and Golnaz Komaie. 2009. “Gendered Racial Exclusion among White Internet Daters” Social Science Research 38(1): 39-54. Here's a draft http://paa2008.princeton.edu/downloa... --- Cynthia Feliciano is a recent UCLA Ph.D. (2003) who is now a professor at UCI. http://faculty.uci.edu/profile...
- Mitchell Tsai
Currently, only about 4% of white Americans marry non-whites (Qian and Lichter 2007). Gallagher (2003:251) poses the question, “[Why do] individuals… say they would marry outside of their racial group but typically do not?”
- Mitchell Tsai
Several studies support the notion that interracial mate preferences are gendered. For example, white women are more likely than white men to state a white racial preference (Sakai and Johnson 1997) and report more disapproval from family and friends than white males when they date nonwhites (Miller, Olson, and Fazio 2004). White males are also more likely to date nonwhites than their...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Intermarriage studies show that Asian women and black men are more likely to marry whites than their counterparts of the other sex (Heaton and Albrecht 1996; Farley 1999; Liang and Ito 1999; Crowder and Tolnay 2000; Jacobs and Labov 2002).
- Mitchell Tsai
Images of Asian American men as asexual and lacking masculinity are pervasive (Kim 1986; Espiritu 1997; Fong 1998:192; Chen 1999). As Fong notes, “Despite a few notable exceptions, Asian men have most often been depicted as strangely asexual characters. Asian women, in contrast, have often been depicted as almost completely sexual (192).” In her study of sexual stereotypes in the media, Kim (1986) makes a similar observation.
- Mitchell Tsai
We collected data from internet dating profiles posted on Yahoo Personals, the most popular national on-line dating website (Madden and Lenhart 2006), between September 2004 and May 2005. We randomly selected profiles from people who self-identified as black, white, Latino, and Asian living within 50 miles of four major U.S. cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. The...
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- Mitchell Tsai
We found that, even compared to a sample of internet users, the daters in our sample tend to be older, more educated (but see footnote 5), slightly more likely to be divorced, and more likely to be employed (See Appendix Table 1). Therefore, our results may not be generalizable to the population as a whole, or even the population of internet users, who tend to be younger and less educated than our sample.
- Mitchell Tsai
The daters in our sample are more educated than average Americans; over 90% state they have completed at least some college schooling and a substantial proportion have post-graduate degrees. The women in the sample appear to be somewhat less educated than the men.
- Mitchell Tsai
We see that women tend to be choosier about their dates; they express preferences for almost half of the characteristics, while men only express preferences for 36% of the items (54% vs. 42% among those who state a racial preference).
- Mitchell Tsai
72% of white women and 59% of white men express a preference for race, while only 69% of women and 44% of men express a preference for education, and only 42% of women and 23% of men express a preference for religion. Physical characteristics are also important criteria; for white women, height is especially important; 78% express a height preference, while only 54% of men express a height preference.
- Mitchell Tsai
Body type is especially important for men; 86% of white men express a body type preference, compared to 76% of white women. Relative to all other characteristics,9 ethnicity is the fourth most frequently expressed characteristic by white women (after age, height, and body type), and the third most stated preference by white men (after age and body type).
- Mitchell Tsai
Over 90% of white women who state a racial preference prefer not to date East Indians, Middle Easterners, Asians, and blacks. White men, in contrast, only prefer not to date one group at levels above 90%: black women. Thus, not only do white women and men exclude groups at different rates, the hierarchies of who they prefer to date vary considerably.
- Mitchell Tsai
77% of white women with stated racial preferences prefer not to date Latinos. However, only 48% of white men exclude Latinas.
- Mitchell Tsai
Education is not a significant predictor of Asian exclusion for white men or women, but the findings suggest that college-educated females and males are more likely to exclude blacks than those with only high school degrees.
- Mitchell Tsai
Body type, political views, and religion are also related to the exclusion of blacks or Asians. Among white women, one of the most striking findings is that white women who describe themselves as slim, slender, athletic, fit or average are nearly seven times as likely to exclude black men as dates as women who describe themselves as thick, voluptuous, a few extra pounds, or large.
- Mitchell Tsai
Whites who identified as Jewish were dropped from the analysis of black exclusion because it was a perfect predictor; that is, all white men and women who identified as Jewish excluded blacks as possible dates; all white women who identified as Jewish also excluded Asian men as possible dates.
- Mitchell Tsai
White women of “other” religions are more likely to include Asian males as dates.
- Mitchell Tsai
A preference for a particular height by white women substantially increases the likelihood of excluding Asian men. These findings suggest that the idea that black women or Asian men are associated with undesirable physical and social characteristics may be part of the reason they are so highly excluded by white men and women.
- Mitchell Tsai
squint-eyeds as well as blacks,both males and females,always prefer whites sexually
- Andrei Yudin
I'm leaving Dance New England (DNE) camp today. Been getting deeper into a depressive funk for the past few days, and not having a good time... Booked a flight for Thursday to Las Vegas and grabbed some hotel rooms.
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- Spidra Webster
That sounds like a lot more fun! What is my room number? :)
- JCunwired
I'm hoping the change of scenery helps.
- Mitchell Tsai
Vestas Knocks Wind Out of Forecast [Johan Anderberg, Wall Street Journal - 8/18/10] #MyStock - http://online.wsj.com/article...
Vestas Wind Systems A/S on Wednesday cut its full-year outlook after swinging to a second-quarter net loss, driving its shares sharply lower. Shares in Vestas—the world's biggest maker of wind turbines—dropped 22% to 244 Danish kroner ($42.19), after rising around 13% in the month leading up to the earnings results Wednesday. The shares remain far below a high of 692 kroner reached in 2008, before the financial crisis hit and delayed wind-power projects world-wide.
- Mitchell Tsai
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The Greenbrier Resort Hopes to Preserve its Past. - Allegheny Mountains [Dwight Garner, New York Times - 8/12/10] - http://travel.nytimes.com/2010...
ON a humid summer afternoon, the Greenbrier looms out of the Allegheny Mountains, high above tiny White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., like an apparition — a jumbo-size White House, a place that surely must be crawling with ghosts.
- Mitchell Tsai
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Stalkers Exploiting Mobile Phones - Reviews, News, and How To Geeks [Robert Siciliano, Geeks.Pirillo - 8/13/10] - http://geeks.pirillo.com/profile...
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Mobile phone GPS can generally be activated in 2 ways. First, phone carriers offer a service to track the phone for a monthly fee. The service acts to find the phone if it’s lost or to be used by parent or a spouse to keep tabs on their families. Employers often activate GPS to locate employees. Once activated the carrier sends a text message to the phone alerting the person they are being tracked via the phones GPS. The person paying the bill who is responsible for the contract is usually the person who can turn on tracking.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Second, mobile phone spyware. Software is installed on the phone that allows for another level of “keeping tabs”. The software will locate the phone via GPS and also keep track of all the text messages and phone calls too. In this scenario spyware is most often installed manually by someone who has access to the device. Otherwise in rare instances it can be installed remotely.
- Mitchell Tsai
“Stalkers” who use the phones GPS are usually someone close to the victim like a family member or ex- boyfriend/girlfriend that has the capability of turning on tracking.
- Mitchell Tsai
If you suspect your phone’s GPS has been activated by the carrier then call to find out. If you don’t’ like the feature turned on, request it be turned off or get another phone under your own name. If you believe the phone has been compromised by spyware then call your carrier and request they walk you through the process of reinstalling the phones operating system. This will wipe away any spyware that tracks via GPS.
- Mitchell Tsai
Just posted a 2nd set of Harbin Hoop Jam 2009 photos http://facebook.com/album...
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Footbag Beauty - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Clip from 2003 World Footbag Championships in Prague, Czech Republic
- Mitchell Tsai
FDA approves 'ella' for use as emergency contraception (ulipristal acetate) [Rob Stein, Washington Post - 8/13/10] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
Ella can reduce the chances of becoming pregnant after unprotected sex by about two-thirds for at least 120 hours, studies have shown. The only other emergency contraceptive on the market, the so-called morning-after pill sold as Plan B, is significantly less effective, begins to lose its effectiveness almost immediately and becomes ineffective after 72 hours.
- Mitchell Tsai
from Bookmarklet
Plan B prevents a pregnancy by administering high doses of a hormone that mimics progesterone. It works primarily by inhibiting the ovaries from producing eggs.
- Mitchell Tsai
Ella, known generically as ulipristal acetate, works as a contraceptive by blocking progesterone's activity, delaying the ovaries from producing an egg. But progesterone is also needed to prepare the womb to accept a fertilized egg and to nurture a developing embryo. That's how the abortion pill RU-486 prevents a fertilized egg from implanting and dislodges growing embryos.
- Mitchell Tsai
AT&T is just bad for the wrong people in the wrong places [Dan Frommer, CNN - 8/3/10] - http://www.cnn.com/2010...
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Here's the truth about AT&T's wireless network: On the whole, despite what you've heard, it's not actually that bad. It's just bad for the wrong people in the wrong places -- mostly tech- and media-types in New York and San Francisco, California.
- Mitchell Tsai
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Those two cities in particular -- and parts of other big cities, like downtown Chicago, Illinois -- are sort of the perfect storm for AT&T. There's a huge concentration of Apple iPhones, owned by tech- and media-savvy folks who demand a ton of bandwidth, and love to complain loudly on Twitter and in the press.
- Mitchell Tsai
AT&T's performance and reliability in New York and San Francisco weren't as strong as in other cities, such as Seattle, Washington, or Baltimore, Maryland. Anecdotally, I've noticed similar things traveling around the country with an iPhone and 3G-enabled iPad. Last weekend in Maine, my 3G connection seemed much snappier than it typically does in New York. I was even able to stream a Netflix video to my iPad in a moving bus -- something I can't even do reliably when I'm stationary in Manhattan.
- Mitchell Tsai
AT&T has doubled the capacity of its network in New York over the past year, and is in the process of doubling its capacity in San Francisco. It has also installed specialized indoor systems in high-traffic areas, including Grand Central Station and Yankee Stadium in New York. As a result, mobile download speeds in New York are up 31 percent over the last six months, according to...
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- Mitchell Tsai
At a recent press event, [Steve] Jobs said that when AT&T wants to add a cell tower in Texas, it may only take three weeks. But in San Francisco, on average, it takes three years. http://www.businessinsider.com/live-ap...
- Mitchell Tsai
Malcolm Stuart Hoop Con Performance 2010 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Hoop Convergence 2010. Malcolm is so funky and creative. Check out also his "Hoop Demo #3" set to the music of "Buraka Som Sistema". http://youtube.com/watch...
- Mitchell Tsai
KaytiBunny Orgasms Comedy Improv - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Hoop Convergence 2010. Hilarious skit with KaytiBunny sharing lots of orgasm noises. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
Perseid Meteor Shower: Best Time to Watch Shooting Stars was After Midnight [Ned Potter, ABC - 8/13/10] - http://abcnews.go.com/Technol...
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Every year at this time, the Earth passes through the orbit of a comet called Swift-Tuttle, and the result is a meteor shower -- shooting stars, perhaps 50 or 60, and occasionally as many as 100 per hour.
- Mitchell Tsai
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This year happens to be a particularly good one if you'd like to wish upon a star. There was a new moon Monday night, which meant the sky would be nice and dark after midnight. In general, there are more shooting stars in the morning hours -- since that's the side of the Earth that faces forward as we orbit the Sun, so it's less shielded from orbiting junk.
- Mitchell Tsai
Had a conflict with Wanderlust (the IEA festival), but just bought BhaktiFest ticket ($250) & Shiva Rea intensive ($108). http://facebook.com/pages... http://www.westcoastkirtanyogafestival.com Price increases to $300 on Aug 16.
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