This week Adam provided a question at the last minute. It goes a little like this: I was recently involved in an online discussion of Role Playing Games, and one participant began rhapsodizing about the latest Final Fantasy game for the Playstation 2. The rest of the participants in this discussion were old-school, pencil-and-paper...
Read more →I suggested to Lime that once the “honeymoon phase” of our relationship dwindles down, we may find that occasionally we’ll have arguments, like any couple. But, I reasoned, using either English or Korean would be unfair, as it would give one of us an unfair advantage. Given that we’re both quite smart, and both...
Read more →I’m expecting a few days of very low-content posting here. Why? I’m gonna finish writing my essay “Waxing Fanonical” on the forces that shape relationships between Koreans and white foreigners in Korea sometime this weekend or next week. I’m working on a post for New Sophists’ Almanac as well, about genre and art. If...
Read more →Myoung Jae surprised me the other day when he came into the office bearing the following tidings: “You have a letter waiting for you in the office.” I was delighted, upon retrieving it, to find it was from Men-Tsee-Khang, which is the Astrology Department of the Tibetan Government-In-Exile. While in Dharamsala, for entertainment value...
Read more →WOD (World of Darkness) was a roleplaying game I used to play back in undergrad in Canada. While I had the main books for each game in the series, I usually ran the ghost-stories game, Wraith. However, it seems that according to these quizzes I completed, I am more naturally tuned to a different...
Read more →Here are some links I’ve found in a morning of web-wide wanderings. CIA interest in blogs seems to be rising. Machine Translation is beginning to develop phrase-based systems, supposedly to help eliminate ambiguity. What’s the connection? Both seem to me to open the doors for some pretty scary stuff. The CIA monitoring blog content...
Read more →Yeah, everything’s under control. Sure. I’m wondering what’s in the water being drunk by people who still think this isn’t a madhouse mess.
Read more →Yeah, this has to be a joke. I hope. Or they’re doomed.
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