#philip wang

[nobigneil]

Neil approves of "Penis B"

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Steven Lim: Durian Defender

Worth It | Grocery Run

[watchersleuth]

Grocery Run | Philip Wang, Durian Wafers, & Being Asian On YouTube

Steven applied for an internship that he really wanted, and didn't get it, which is relatable to so many people.

Not getting that opportunity led him to work at Buzzfeed, where he ended up creating one of their most successful series of all time with Worth It. That's how he met Andrew, Adam, Ryan, and Shane (and Katie, Annie, Mark, Lizzie - plus so many more!) Those connections is what led to Watcher being founded.

Sometimes you never know how not getting an opportunity will lead you to find others that could gift you with something truly special in your life.

So a genuine thank you Philip Wang and your people for turning Steven down because it gave us so many amazing shows and connections! <3

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Everything Before Us (2015) dir. Wesley Chan, Philip Wang. 7.6/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

Ben saying Sarah's dream is a pipe dream makes him a piece of trash.

I would have the hots for Ki Hong being my TA. The mural is nice. This really is such a creative premise, and everything was done so relatably.

Lmao Sandy.

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Have you watched every video on the Watcher channel and still want more of your favorite guys - Steven, Ryan, and Shane?

Check our our Watcher Collabs playlist, which gathers every video posted on YouTube where the Watcher Founders appear on another channel.

Playlist is updated as new videos are found - but let us know if we missed any!

[dailydccomics]

Super-Man and the Justice League of China by Philip Tan

[g00se-ars0nist]

antis will blame composition

[ondasyletras]

Yuja Wang - Glass: Études: No. 6

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Nezha: Correndo Pela Vida - Filme Completo Dublado

Nezha: Correndo Pela Vida – Filme Completo Dublado – Filme de Ação | NetMovies Nome do Filme: Nezha: Correndo Pela Vida Título Original: Nezha Gênero: Ação, Aventura, Drama Sinopse: O campeão do simulador de corrida Du Jieke se une à equipe Lions e desafia os campeonatos de fórmula 1 por sua paixão pela piloto Lu Lili. Com um oponente forte e conflitos a resolver, a equipe enfrentará uma…

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So I'm annoyed at a collage of minidiscs ending up in my timeline because I follow "diskette" but that's not important...

You know how weird the etymology of "diskette" is?

So, it's a portmanteau of "disk" and "cassette".

Disk as in "a round flat thing", and it's the American spelling, because the diskette was invented by IBM, an American company. Disk (usually spelled "disc" in commonwealth countries) comes from the Greek dískos, as in "discus", the circular thing you throw for sport.

And floppy disks are primarily a circle of magnetic material. That's actually how they were first conceived, as a flexible version of the rigid metal magnetic circles used in hard drives. But they quickly realized that it was impossible to keep them clean: fingerprints and dust stick to the surface too easily, ruining them. So they were given a vinyl (and later, plastic) jacket, so they could be safely carried around.

And thus, diskette was coined. Sometimes you'll see it etymologized as "small disk", like a disk-ette, but that's wrong: it's a portmanteau with cassette. Because cassettes were made by taking reel to reel magnetic tape and putting it in a small case, so they can be quickly and reliably loaded.

And why are cassettes called that? Well, it's French. But in French it's quite simple: it's the diminutive of "casse", which means case. It's a little case. You put the tape in a little box. It's a cassette.

So similarly, diskette was made by cassettizing "disk". You put the disk in a little case. It's a disk cassette, a diskette.

This sort of thinking also explains why they're called "floppy disks" when they've been hard plastic since 1984: it's just like how we call cassettes "tapes". They're not tape, they're a little plastic box containing tape. Tape is a thin flexible thing that you wrap around a spool, not a little plastic box. But we call them "tapes"/"a tape" as synecdoche: a part is used to represent the whole. It's a "tape", fittingly because the tape is the important part. It's the part that stores the audio, the rest is just packaging to keep it safe and reliable.

Floppy disks are similarly called such: the floppy part is the magnetic disk inside the vinyl or plastic case. We're calling the whole package by the part that actually stores the data.

And in any case, they were named as such in comparison to "hard disks": the metal or glass surfaces used by hard drives.

Anyway, three final things:

1. You ever wonder why it's Floppy Disk but optical discs? You have a DVD* disc or a CD (compact disc), not a DVD Disk or Compact Disk. I already basically explained it: floppies were invented in the US, and compact discs came from a Philips/Sony partnership: a Dutch/Japanese partnership. So they used the commonwealth spelling, thus it became a standard to refer to optical media as "discs".

2. My favorite silly floppy fact comes from this sort of thing: so the first floppies were 8", then the 5.25" model was invented, and in 1981 we got the 3.5" floppy. These are by far the three most common floppy disks, and those are their names, used nearly** universally in English.

But here's the thing: one of them is wrong.

8 inch floppy disks? They're eight inches even. 5.25 inch floppy disks? They're 5.25 inches even.

3.5" disks are actually 3.543"!

This is for the same reason why we have disk vs disc for floppy and optical media: 8" disks were invented by IBM, an American company. 5.25" disks were invented by Shugart/Wang, both American companies.

3.5" disks were invented by Sony, a Japanese company. They're not 3.5" disks... They're 90mm disks!

But it was already the standard in English that floppy disk formats get called by their size in inches, so it has always been called the 3.5" disk, because that's close enough for jazz.

3. to get back to the first point of this post: minidiscs aren't diskettes. Diskette is for disks, and minidiscs are discs. They're not flexible, they're rigid: minidiscs are actually magneto-optical discs, where there's a small plastic disc like a CD, which is read by a laser but written by a magnetic read head. Since they have to be rigid for the laser to work, they're (rigid) discs, not (flexible) disks. They are confusing, I agree: usually magnetic media is disk, while optical is disc, and disks have cases, while discs are just a plastic circle... But minidiscs are magnetic AND optical, and they're optical but inside a case. They're one of those exceptions that makes taxonomy so difficult. (they're very trans in that way, imo)

* I intentionally didn't expand out the acronym DVD, because the fun fact is about that is that DVD is not an acronym. Not anymore. It was originally supposed to be Digital Video Disc, but the later Digital Versatile Disc to better reflect the non-video uses of the disc, but apparently the official meaning of the acronym is now that it just is the name of the disc. It's a DVD: it doesn't stand for anything.

** one exception to the "universally called by their sizes in English" that I'm aware of is South Africa. For Reasons they just called the 5.25" disks "floppies", and then when 3.5" disks came around, they called them... "stiffies". Yes, this is hilarious. They know.

[dozydawn]

“Daniel Ochoa, 27, left, helps his girlfriend, Ruth Wang, 22, right, do up her skates at Nathan Philips Square in Toronto. This was her first time skating this year, and his first time since he was a child.”

Photographed by Peter Power, 2006.

[modelsof-color]

Trans Models

Valentine Alvarez

Emmanuel Adjaye

Grace Valentine

Magdaleno Delgado

Joakim Gjemmestad

Zair Cheseaux

Moses Battiest

Leyna Bloom

Aaliyah Hydes

Nadia Blocker

Ariel Nicholson

America Gonzalez

Charlie Nishimura

London Scully

Ceval Omar

Qi Han

Anjali Lama

Nico Grigley

Bin Wang

Venuz Lee

Olivia Lee

Mathias Lamin

Eleazar Ibarra

Aaron Philip

Nathan Westling

Oslo Grace

Justin Xavier

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Ich komme übrigens noch nicht über die Morgen-Szene an Colins letztem Tag hinweg. Da passierte so viel und man merkt wie gut Samuel, Johnny und Philip zu dem Zeitpunkt schon zusammen funktionierten.

- Zuerst gibts einen Colin, auf dessen Wange man noch eine Träne glitzern sieht.

- Ein klein wenig Julia-Colin-Nostalgie mit den Challenges, die wir allerdings nur am Rande mitbekommen… aber es gibt ja auch wichtigeres zu tun (Drama!!! und Joels ganz eigenes Projekt)

- Wie Colin eigentlich aufstehen will, ihm Noah aber zuvor kommt und er sich sofort wieder hinlegt, während Noah in seine Richtung schaut und Colin sich die Tränen wegwischt 😭

- Währenddessen Joel:

- Noah ist endlich weg. Colin setzt sich auf, doch Noah kommt zurück. Also legt sich Colin im auffälligsten Move ever wieder hin und ich glaube jeder in dem Zimmer dachte sich nur „ookaaaaay“

- dann hat Noah Stress mit einem inanimate object und das ist einfach so relatable. Aber es ist Colins inanimate object und das wird dann halt irgendwie ganz schnell persönlich: TENSION! DRAMA! Ein Colin, der zurecht angepisst ist und ein Noah der einfach aus Prinzip böse zurück schaut.

- Blickkontakt zwischen Joel und Noah und dann muss wieder der arme Koffer dran glauben. Der kann ja nun wirklich am wenigsten dafür.

- Ich würde sagen das lief eher suboptimal. Joel stimmt da zu. Der Arme, schon so viel Drama und noch nicht mal Zähne geputzt.

… exakt 7 Worte wurden gesprochen und irgendwie doch ein ganzer Roman erzählt.

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Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month: Nonfiction Recommendations

Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina

Elizabeth's mother was working on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance defining their early relationship followed them to the predominantly white, upstate New York suburb where they moved to raise their daughter. There, Elizabeth grew up with the trappings of a typical American childhood, while feeling almost no connection to her mother's distant home and out of place among her peers. This account is a heartfelt exploration of identity and what it means to be an American.

Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy

Original and expansive, this volume is a nearly 200-year history of Asian migration, labor, and community formation in the U.S. Reckoning with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in anti-Asian hate and violence, historian Catherine Ceniza Choy presents an urgent social history of the fastest growing group of Americans. The book features the lived experiences and diverse voices of immigrants, refugees, US-born Asian Americans, multiracial Americans, and workers from industries spanning agriculture to healthcare.

Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

Born two years after her parents' only son died just hours after his birth, Kat Chow became unusually fixated with death. She worried constantly about her parents dying - especially her mother. Four years later when her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her two older sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. In this memoir, Kat weaves together what is part ghost story and part excavation of her family's history of loss spanning three generations and their immigration from China and Hong Kong to America and Cuba.

Rise by Jeff Yang, Phil Yu, & Philip Wang

In this intimate, eye-opening, and frequently hilarious guided tour through the pop-cultural touchstones and sociopolitical shifts of the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and beyond, authors Yang, Yu, and Wang chronicle how we’ve arrived at today’s unprecedented diversity of Asian American cultural representation through engaging, interactive graphics, charts, graphic essays from major AAPI artists, exclusive roundtables with Asian American cultural icons, and more.

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«Yugen», No. 6, Edited by LeRoi Jones (later Amiri Baraka) and Hettie Cohen, Cover art by Basil King, Yugen, New York, NY, 1960 (pdf here) [Better Read Than Dead, Brooklyn, NY. RealityStudio, New York, NY. verdant press. Unoriginal Sins, The Old Primary School, Temple, Midlothian]. Feat. Michael McClure, Charles Olson, Ron Loewinsohn, Philip Lamantia, Paul Blackburn, Robin Blaser, Hubert Selby, Jr., David Meltzer, Ray Bremser, Ed Dorn, Rochelle Owens, Paul Carroll, Robert Creeley, Tristan Tzara, Daisy Aldan, Gary Snyder, Edward Marshall, LeRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, David Wang, Kenneth Koch, Larry Eigner, Edward Dahlberg, Frank O’Hara, Basil King