Asymptomatic

There must be intelligent life down here

Li Xian and the Stack of Code

I used to work with a Chinese woman named Lucy. She was a “programmer” too, and Chinese in the way that one is born in China and speaks English as a second language. I’m just trying to visualize this for you - no prejudices here, at least not to Chinese folks or women.

After many weeks of working together on different projects, I learned that this woman’s name was not Lucy. It was, in fact, “Li”. She had been introduced to me as “Lucy”, and I was calling her that for the weeks that I had known her.

Fios Install

I stopped by the Verizon Fios page and sent in my phone number again. Instead of the usual “coming soon” message, I actually got an installation date - March 4th. And that’s not a date of when it’ll be available, that’s when the guy is going to come to the house, sometime between 8 and 5.

15mbps, here I come…