This is the personal weblog of Raymond Yee. I'm also known as \u00e4\u00bd\u2122 \u00e4\u00bf\u0160 \u00e9\u203a\u201e<\/font>, though primarily to my Mom and Dad who gave me both my legal English name and my Chinese name. I am:<\/p>\n

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• a Canadian citizen, born and raised in Timmins, Ontario<\/li>\n
• a resident of Albany, CA (in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area)<\/li>\n
• the husband of Laura Shefler<\/a><\/li>\n
• the son of Chinese immigrants<\/li>\n
• the brother of two sisters<\/li>\n
• the uncle to two nephews and a niece<\/li>\n
• the friend of a good number of very lovely people<\/li>\n
• a Ph.D. in biophysics who doesn't work in biophysics anymore<\/li>\n
• a Christian of some type (I was going to use labels such as orthodox and evangelical but wondered whether those labels are accurate)<\/li>\n
• a member and elder of First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley<\/li>\n
• a writer, currently working on a book on web mashups<\/a><\/li>\n
• a former staff member of the University of California, Berkeley, where I was a Data Architect for IST and the Technology Architect for the Interactive University Project<\/li>\n
• an avid admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach<\/li>\n
• a geek<\/li>\n
• an intellectual or intellectual-wannabe anyhow<\/li>\n
• an independent scholar<\/li>\n
• a subscriber to too many periodicals, including The New York Review of Books<\/a> and The New Yorker<\/a>. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  About hypotyposis<\/em>:<\/p>\n

  Quite a few years ago, my former housemate Ken referred me to a wonderful line from Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose<\/em>: \"The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wonderful hypotyposis.\" Ken knew how much I love lists.<\/p>\n

  Since that day, I've wanted to use the word hypotyposis in some appropriate context. I've toyed with using the term in the name of my website but have hesitated -- largely because it sets the expectations too high. For how will I consistently provide \"lively description[s] of an action, event, person, condition, passion, etc. used for creating the illusion of reality?\" (following one particular definition of hypotyposis<\/a>)<\/p>\n

  So to manage expectations and to use that lovely word, I've chosen to temporarily christen my personal weblog \"Hypotyposis on a Good Day\" I suspect that I'll change my name quickly enough since it's going to be darn difficult to remember, not to mention a bit stuffy.<\/p>\n

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  Last updated: Sunday, June 17, 2007<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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