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This morning Yilin and daddy was having a little conversation while having breakfast Daddy: Who's the best? Yilin: Me Daddy: Who's smart? Yilin: Me Daddy: Who's strong? Yilin: Me Daddy: Who's funny? Yilin: Hmm.. you are funny, daddy. Daddy: You are funny too, you are a funny little girl Yilin: No, I'm not funny because I don't watch Family Guy Daddy: (Running to bedroom hysterically) Honey, did you hear what Yilin said?

Like many folks here in the building, every noon I order sandwich from Snarf's online and pick it up from store to feed my starving tummy. But today is not any day, today I received my lucky order.

There's a surprise every day.

Hotel Felix in Chicago   The building of Fix-it Felix Jr.  

Having lived in Seattle for 6 years, I thought Seattle is the one with notorious weather. Turns out I was wrong. Shopping experience Seattle Chicago Working environment Seattle Chicago Weather Seattle Chicago Living Seattle Chicago Driving to home Seattle: 2158 miles, 31 hours Chicago: 96 miles, 1 hour 39 minutes

Amazon AWS Simple Workflow AWS Simple Workflow(SWF) from Amazon is a unique workflow solution comparing to traditional workflow products such as JBPM and OSWorkflow. SWF is extremely scalable and engineer friendly(in that flow is defined with Java code) while it comes with limitations and lots of gotchas. Always use Flow Framework The very first thing to know is, it's almost impossible to build a SWF application correctly without Flow Framework . Even though the low level SWF RESTful service API is public and available in SDK, for most workflow with parallelism, timer or notification, consider all possibilities of how each event can interlace with another, it's beyond manageable to write correct code with low-level API to cover all use cases. For this matter SWF is quite unique comparing to other thin-client AWS technologies. The SWF flow framework heavily depends on AspectJ for various purposes. If you are not familiar with AspectJ in Eclipse and Maven, this article ...

Skyfall, Lincoln, Wreck-it, Flight and Argo are probably the best of the year in each of its genre. But Twilight!!! Again!!! What the hell is happening to this generation of movie audience? US box office result on Nov 18, 2012