Author Archives: Ernie

About Ernie

I'm the creator of 8 Asians and one of the editors. While I'm a regular blogger to the site as well, think of my role as Barbara Walters on "The View," except without the weird white hair. During the day, I'm a Developer for a major Internet company and live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've also been writing in my blog, littleyellowdifferent.com, for seven years.

Friendster Bought by Malaysian Company, Reveals Totally Asian Branding

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Ernie

Friendster — seriously, remember them? — is like the Coolio of social networking services; like the rapper, the website was once hip and edgy, but after a series of poor financial decisions is relegated to do desperate things to get … Continue reading →

Posted in Observations, Technology | 4 Comments

Don’t Worry, Tila Tequila is Still Batshit Crazy

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Ernie

Oh, Tila Tequila: it’s been a while since we’ve blogged about you, hasn’t it? But after your weird choking incident with ex-boyfriend Shawne Merriman, your rants involving tampons on UStream, your new engagement to an equally batshit crazy heiress, you’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), Entertainment, WTF | 6 Comments

Gaysians in Government: Alex Wan Elected to Atlanta City Council

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Ernie

Wow, maybe December is “National Get Elected to a Civic Post if You’re a Gaysian” Month: only a day after Campbell, California officially elected Evan Low as the country’s youngest Asian-American and gay mayor,  Alex Wan has become the first … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), LGBT, Politics | 3 Comments

Evan Low to Become Country’s Youngest Asian, Gay Mayor

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Ernie

Having served spent some time in the South Bay, people would know that Campbell, California is a sleepy suburb of already sleepy metropolitan San Jose, California. Not much happens in Campbell — wasn’t someone from Sugar Ray from there? — … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), LGBT, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area | 7 Comments

Gil Asakawa’s Overview of the BANANA Blogger Roundtable

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Ernie

Gil Asakawa of Nikkei View as well as visualizasian.com has a great report about BANANA, the Asian American blogger round-up at USC this weekend, and there’s not really much I can disagree with him with. Was this first-ever roundtable of … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events | 5 Comments

Yahoo! Games Writer Freaks Out Over Nintendo DS Dating Simulations

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Ernie

A writer at Yahoo! Games recently talked about an anime style Nintendo DS game, Love Plus, a “dating simulation” where you can court several girls virtually, and suggests that “dating” video game characters go too far in the world of … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), DUDE WTF ASIA, Video Games | 5 Comments

(Mostly Asian) High School Student Newspaper Runs Supremacist Ad

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Ernie

A bunch of white white supremacists pulled a fast one on the Student Newspaper staff of Lowell High School in San Francisco, pulling a bait-and-switch and redirecting a web address left in an ad to an a “campaign to inform, … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), Discrimination, San Francisco Bay Area | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Wealthy Chinese Sending More Kids to U.S. Military Schools

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Ernie

Let’s face it: at least once in your childhood you were threatened by your parents that they would take you away to military school, away from soft western luxuries like a Nintendo or drinks with High Fructose Corn Syrup to … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), Education, Family | 4 Comments

Asian Bloggers to Speak at USC for BANANA

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Ernie

Why yes, this would be fellow 8Asians bloggers Joz and Jee, and here they are in a video promotion with Steve Nguyen to promote BANANA, the FIRST-EVER gathering and round-table discussion/panel of Asian American bloggers at the USC campus on … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Lifestyles, Local, Southern California | 6 Comments

End of SF’s Energy 92.7 Brings Format Changes, Anti-Asian DJs

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Ernie

For people who are fans of seeing (hearing?) positive Asian American images on the radio, this will be a one-two punch: Energy 92.7 – the independent radio station which regularly brought BoA to San Francisco was bought by new owners … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), Discrimination, Music, San Francisco Bay Area | 1 Comment

FREE SCREENING of John Woo’s “Red Cliff” in Los Angeles

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Ernie

In modern pop culture, the Three Kingdoms period of China is kinda like the Medieval period to Americans — dramatic war stories full of people performing acts of valor and glory that have been dead of hundreds of years — … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertainment, Movies, Southern California | 2 Comments

Web Developers Outraged as Lap Dancers Hired to Yahoo! Taiwan Hack Day

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Ernie

For the non-technical: Yahoo! Hack Day is an event where web and software developers spend nights at the Yahoo! campuses around the world to develop anything they want using Yahoo! technologies. They try to make it fun (the US version … Continue reading →

Posted in (featured), Current Events, Technology | 12 Comments