Well, There’s WiFi on the Eighth Floor Tonight
• October 16, 2010 • Comments Off on Well, There’s WiFi on the Eighth Floor TonightPosted in Black People, Class, Education, Fiction Writing, Holidays, Joblessness, The Economy, Who I Am, Wisconsin, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Apple, Black Women, Blacks, Boohooing, Business, Cali, California, Cisco Systems, EBT, EBT Card, Joni Mitchell, Lake Mendota, Life Goes On, Madison Metro, Madison WI, Michelangelo's Coffeehouse, People, Retraining, Self-Respect, State Street, The Bay Area, The Big One, The Eighth Floor, The Eighties, The Great American Black Woman's Novel, The Madison Children's Museum, The Yellow Brick Road, Unemployed, Unemployment Insurance, United States, Web Design, Wi-Fi, Wisconsin, YWCA, YWCA Madison
UPDATE: Der Fuhrer Don’t Like iPad and Other “Downfall” Parodies Removed by YouTube for Copyright Infringement
• April 21, 2010 • Comments Off on UPDATE: Der Fuhrer Don’t Like iPad and Other “Downfall” Parodies Removed by YouTube for Copyright InfringementPosted in Commercials, Film, Germany, History, Memoir, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, World War II
Tags: "Hogan's Heroes, "Inglourious Basterds", Adolf Hitler, Apple, Der Fuhrer, Humanizing Hitler, iPad, iPod, Jews, Kindle, Mel Brooks, Perfection, Perfectionism, Technology, The Allies, The Fuhrer, The Germans, The Nazis, The Resistance, Viral Commercials, World War II, You Tube
There’s Jim Crow in Silicon Valley
• March 12, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Education, History, India, People of Color, Race, Science, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "The San Jose Mercury-News", AMD, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Apple, Applied Materials, Caroline Simard, Chicanos, Cisco Systems, Diversity, eBay, Electrical Engineering, Freedom of Information Act, Gender, Google, Henry Alford, Hewlett-Packard, Hispanics, India, Indians, Information Technology, Intel, La Raza Unida, Latinos, Lawsuits, Mark Dean, Midwest, NAACP, Oracle, Pacific Rim, Race, Richard Ford, Roy Clay, Sanmina, Silicon Valley, Silly Con Valley, Sun Microsystems, The Department of Labor, The Great Recession, The Pacific Rim, Urban League, West Coast, Women, Yahoo