Khoi Vinh

“happyhour”

2026-08-09

His blog since 2001.

“The past several weeks since the killing of George Floyd have coincided with a cultural realization—a frustratingly belated one, for many—that the stories we watch about police and the criminal justice system are…”

2020-06-22

“What we choose to watch in film and on television says so much about us because these stories offer up, in plain sight, an encoding of our values in narrative form. If you want to understand the hopes, dreams,…”

2020-06-22

“And I’ve also been complicit in racism’s perpetuation by dint of the fact that I’ve done virtually nothing about it. I’ve been complicit in racism in that I’ve done very little to effect change in a system that…”

2020-06-14

“So late last year I bought this 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Air (I custom ordered it with the faster processor that normally ships with the solid-state drive model, but I bought a normal spinning hard drive to…”

2009-10-12, hardware, uses

“For added safety, I somewhat dorkily keep the MacBook Air in a Speck SeeThru hard shell case, which I describe to people as the Internet-age equivalent of covering my couch in plastic.”

2009-10-12, hardware, uses

“When the MacBook is in the office it usually rests on a Rain Design mStand, which is a really beautiful piece of industrial design; it feels very substantial, and the laptop really looks great on it. My one complaint…”

2009-10-12, hardware, mixed