#philip wang

[nobigneil]

Neil approves of "Penis B"

[xokittydaily]

bopomofocafe: XO BOPO! New “Spill the Boba Tea” with Gia Kim and Sang Heon Lee! We had so much fun inviting this brother and sister duo to Bopomofo to make a drink inspired by XO, Kitty to celebrate the new season which just came out! This one is def for all the siblings out there! Share with your brother or sister for sure. Link to watch the episode out now!

[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

[waywardmillennial]

Steven Lim: Durian Defender

Worth It | Grocery Run

[rye-views]

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.

[cosmonautroger]

Yuja Wang, Philip Glass, Etude n°6

[watcherwiki]

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

[onenakedfarmer]

Watching

MASTER OF THE FLYING GUILLOTINE Wang Yu Hong Kong, 1975

[ondasyletras]

Yuja Wang - Glass: Études: No. 6

[watchersleuth]

October 10th: Five years since filming the first episode of Grocery Run

Today is also one month until Steven's birthday on November 10th and we're fundraising for the Asian Pacific Community Fund to wish Steven a happy birthday. When you donate you'll get an amazing fanzine full of exclusive art and stories!

Follow @watchertvzine for more details

[foone]

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.

[logarithmicpanda]

25 in 2025

@asexualbookbird tagged me and I'm gonna combine it with @bookcub's tag of "books I'm excited to read in 2025:

Let's do it by 5: 5 books carrying over from last year, 5 new releases, 5 books from my physical tbr, 5 rereads, 5 library books

Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons

God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

Starless by Jaqueline Carey

Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie

Oathbound by Tracy Deonn

The Martian Contingency by Mary Robinette Kowal

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler

The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Rebel Blade by Davinia Evans

The Fortunate Fall by Cameron Reed

Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang

Le Phare au Corbeau by Rozenn Illiano

The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Uprooted by Naomi Novik

Exordia by Seth Dickinson

Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

Thunder City by Philip Reeve

Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

I have no idea who has done the tag already so uh @blueberreads @drawnecromancy @the-lightbulb-and-the-octopus @howlsmovinglibrary @agardenandlibrary @freckles-and-books @nerdishfeels

[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.