• Archive for August, 2003

    The weekend…

    by  • August 31, 2003 • PERSONAL

    Well, Jeonju. I didn’t go in to the office Thursday or Friday, because all my classes were canceled and I finished all my preparations for this week by Wednesday afternoon. So I just spent time getting my apartment sorted out. Friday night I met Myoung, John Tallman and his family for beer. It was...

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    Blogs in Korea

    by  • August 31, 2003 • KOREA

    Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: Yahoo! Korea Blog Service Launched Well, one of my earlier posts was absolutely wrong, and as I’ve known for a couple of months, blogging in Korea is a rather massive phenomenon. That would explain why, as noted in the article I linked to above, Yahoo has, late as ever, launched a...

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    New Sophists

    by  • August 28, 2003 • PERSONAL

    New Sophists’ Almanac is a new website that my friend Marvin and I have created. It contains some philsophical discussion and talk, mostly right now about the nature of language and communication in relation to things like religion, science, and truth. If you are curious, please do go have a look and post comments...

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    My PC

    by  • August 28, 2003 • PERSONAL

    By the way… my PC is at the IBM/LG service centre. It’ll be there at least until Monday, and if all I need it a new hard drive, it’s okay. But if I need a new motherboard, I may just pack it in and get a new laptop at the end of the month....

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    Terminator 3

    by  • August 28, 2003 • FILMS&TV

    It’s a franchise. I just had nothing better to do, really. But… it’s a franchise. Clear setup for Terminator 4. sigh I won’t even bother to pick it apart. I’ll invoke Bill Hicks’ criticism of Basic Instinct (wasn’t it?) instead… that is, that it’s not worth criticising simply because, plain and simple, it’s a...

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    Chinese On The Moon? Indians in Orbit?

    by  • August 28, 2003 • WTF

    Sure, everyone’s heard about the Chinese Space Program and the Manned Missions they’re planning, right? And the Moon Base they want to build? Whether as the butt of jokes around the world, or the subject of excitement (mainly on the part of the Chinese), it’s hardly escaped notice. But I hadn’t heard about India’s...

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    And Now…

    by  • August 28, 2003 • PERSONAL

    And now I am in Jeonju. I am a little bit alone, as is anyone who comes to a new place full of people who have their own lives and loves and situations. I shall have to get around to making my own ones… it’s a little lonely. But not so bad. Listening to...

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    To recent commenters…

    by  • August 26, 2003 • PERSONAL

    To those people who have posted comments recently… thanks! :) I have responded in the form of more comments, so you may want to check the posts where you commented. In brief, answering the basic questions once more in general: my computer keeps crashing because I have bad luck. I am otherwise settling into...

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