• Archive for December, 2003

    Really Really Dumbass Email

    by  • December 30, 2003 • teaching in Korea

    I’m working on a summary of the trip so far, but I’ve been pretty busy so I am gonna try finish that tomorrow, and maybe post some pics if there is time… … but for now… Well, now that I’ve been in India for a week, it’s begun: emails from students asking me to...

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    Christmas

    by  • December 28, 2003 • WTF

    This week’s Friday Five is a free-throw about Christmas! So I’m going to do my best to say five interesting things about that holiday in the next few paragraphs. Your first Christmas alone can be hell. Mine was. A cheap bottle of Japanese heated periodically through the day, and a lot of long-distance calls,...

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    Islamic Onion

    by  • December 27, 2003 • PERSONAL

    This is kind of a Muslim version of The Onion. Heh. For those of you who don’t know The Onion, what rathole have you been living in? Go see The Onion too.

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    Jacko X?

    by  • December 25, 2003 • PERSONAL

    Okay, what? This is just toooooooo weird. I wonder sometimes how one is supposed to write SF anymore, given how bizarre the real world is. But don’t get me started on Bushie, I won’t stop…

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    The Word From Gurgaon

    by  • December 25, 2003 • PERSONAL

    Well, finally I am updating with something more substantial than a Friday Five… not that F5 is insubstantial, of course, but… Anyway, for those who are wondering, I’m here in Gurgaon (near Delhi) at Ritu’s house. I’m well and happy to wish a Merry Christmas to all those who happen to read this sometime...

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    Life Lessons

    by  • December 23, 2003 • WTF

    This week’s Friday Five Question is answered a little late. I’ve been traveling, you see. More about that in a bit… the question, which requires a good bit of thinking to actually answer for it is quite difficult for me to put into only five points, or say clearly, comes to us courtesy of...

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