About

Hello~ If you can read this, you've gathered my name by now. Call me Linda, Yang or Yang squared, whatever makes you comfortable. No, my parents were not lazy when they named me. I mispronounce all three words in my name on a daily basis.

A CAT (Chinese-American Texan) by birthplace, citizenship and hometown, these days I spend most of my time tunneling the divide between New Jersey and New York. When not in front of a computer, I am on my iPhone. My activities on a computer include counting by fives, making up rules and refreshing pages. I occasionally wish the modern web was less clean, semantic and functional and more romantic, irrational and flamboyant. But then I open Internet Explorer.

I enjoy picking things up and putting them down. I would eat anything on four legs that's not the table but alas, most of the time I just mull over my unrequited lust. I can't. stop. learning because I can't let my grandmother who's still trying to learn a new language at eighty plus show me up.

I am not too cool for idealism. But I have a low tolerance for ineffectiveness.

My DJ name is DJ golightLy. My mother survived a Cultural Revolution so that I wouldn't have to. Courage is my highest ideal, but curiosity changes the world.

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