Random Stuff

Got to do my NCAA brackets…

According to NPR’s tumblr, The Fed’s on Twitter. Really? I’m  so behind on the 21st century…

Because it’s Pi Day, there are a lot of photos of pies.  See: here on NPR’s Fresh Air tumblr, over at America’s Test Kitchen tumblr  (mile high lemon meringue! ooh!), Cookie Monster ate a pie on the Sesame Street tumblr, and here’s even more pie from PBS

And, speaking of PBS, let’s get ready for the return of “Sherlock” on Masterpiece!  A trailer over at Britscene.com, for our viewing pleasure.

In case you were wondering what it’s like to be arrested in Britain (from the Slate Explainer column).

Oh, and some APA’s:

1. New York Public Library periodicals librarian Raymond Pun made it on the Library Journal’s 2012 Mover and Shakers. He thought he was going to be a bankruptcy lawyer and ended up in the library field. Awesome, I noted over on my tumblr.

2.  Linda Holmes of NPR’s Monkey See has a post on the South by Southwest (SxSW) conference/festival, as it transitions from being about the state of the Internet and stuff to a movie/music festival. I got fixated by the post’s photo of Ben Huh of I Can Haz Cheezburger playing a touch screen game with Buddy, a massively cute furry cat. Kitty!

Go enjoy spring before the official day of spring. Beware the Ides of March.

The Rise of March Madness 2012

Is it really March already?

My tumblr is having it’s 1st anniversarySee here for the 1st post here on triscribe about my tumblr experiment.

The Republican nomination process feels like a reality show that’s  not quite fun. I had more fun with the Democrats of 2008, but then again, their candidates weren’t so off the wall with trying to keep up with a tiny and weird political party base. This current Republican party would not be recognizable to Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, or even Ronald Reagan, so far as I know from studying American history back in my day in college.

More importantly: it’s been a year since the earthquake and tsunami and nuclear disasters of Japan.  Feel free to check our archives on our observations of the history making events of March 2011.

Keep hope alive.

Asians and Asian Americans are Out There…

Asians and Asian Americans and the Super Bowl, from Angry Asian Man. Yep, that was Aaron Takahashi in the Living large commercial (he was already the guy who did not resist the ketchup for his McDonald Angus burger). (see here for a previous mention on Takahashi and his Angus burger here at triscribe).

And, yes, that was freaking Voltron in the MetLife commercial, with Peanuts and every other cartoon character. Gasp.

(but the New England Patriots had Patrick Chung, who’s part Chinese and Jamaican).

Oh, and boo to the racist political ad…

(I’ll probably link more later about the ads from the Super Bowl).

Ken Jeong and Elmo on what is a deciduous tree: