Thu Tu’s Blog

Anyone who works at Google know it’s the best place to work. This was the first year Google was eligible for the list, and it shot to the #1 spot on Fortune Magazine’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work for for 2007. I read the article to see if there was anything new I [...]

Stingray Pierced and killed Steve Irwin
While watching a tivo’d Grey’s Anatomy, I saw the commercial for the 11 o’clock news saying that Steve Irwin died. I couldn’t believe it so I had to rewind to make sure I wasn’t hearing things. Unfortunately, I was watching the show way past 11 so I missed the [...]

Since filling up my Honda Accord coupe costs $50+, I have had to modify my driving habits and they seem to help. With my previous tank of gas, I was getting 19/20 mpg, according to my GPS system’s trip information thingamabob. First, I tried to resist the urge to be Racer Chick, where I would [...]

CNN: U.S. is a nation of 360 million — pets
Wow, there are 60 million more pets than people. I guess it’s due in part to people like me who have more pets than humans in the household. That number probably doesn’t include the number of pets waiting for homes.
My cats are going to [...]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olypairs15feb15,1,5601607.story?coll=la-headlines-sports
I admit I hadn’t planned to watch the Winter Olympics… my Tivo queue is out of control and I didn’t need to add more to it. But when a coworker mentioned that pairs figure skating was going to be on at night, I figured I’d tune in. When I did, it was the latter part [...]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/28/house.pledge.ap/index.html
A Democratic Congressman, Rep. Jim McDermott, omitted ‘under God’ from the Pledge of Allegiance and there was an uproar.
Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, accused McDermott of
“embarrassing the House and disparaging the majority of Americans who share the values expressed in the pledge.”
“He and those like him stand more for the liberal left than they do for [...]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4609992/
From MSNBC, there’s this unconfirmed rumor that Denzel Washington…
“reportedly .. asked that love scenes between him and Mimi Rogers get cut from the 1989 flick “The Mighty Quinn” after the scenes drew howls of protests from black women during screenings.”
“Denzel Washington is concerned about the way audiences react to him in an interracial romance,” says [...]