Yes, more baby business. I meant to post some of this earlier but it was one of those days; lost sunglasses, messed up bike, trip to the bike shop, sleeping on a park bench for a few hours, and so on. Lime’s looking tired and I, for some strange reason, am sweating even more...
Read more →Myoung called me just now, this morning, to inform me that Mer had given birth to a healthy baby boy last night, whose name is Luca (or is it Luka? I’m not sure). When I heard the name, I said what people of my generation will probably ask a lot, “You mean like the...
Read more →Wired’s reporting about Virtual warfare again. How do you create an army who, worse than being pissed off racists, are so disengaged from reality that killing civilians in as easy as shooting characters on a screen? Turn killing civilians into an exercise of killing characters on a screen, of course! This is the new...
Read more →Back during camp, when I was feeling horribly sick, everyone told me to go to a clinic. Well, wait, no. Foreigners mostly just advised the same kind of thing that we usually advise: bed rest, sleep, lots of fluids, and time. But all the Koreans who knew of how sick I was advised that...
Read more →Prospect Magazine a worthwhile piece about Graham Greene written by Julian Evans; Greene is a novelist whose work is fairly available at the library where I work. Thanks to that fact plus the fact that my friend John Wendel sings Greene’s praises highly, I’m planning on reading what I can, while I can.
Read more →It’s a bit late, but this is worth knowing about, I think. On August 25th, people of conscience in the United States will meet genocide survivors from Darfur, Sudan. Using a satellite video link from a refugee camp on the Sudanese border, Americans in a New York studio will speak live to Darfurians facing...
Read more →In a link from RavingAtheist.com, I found an interesting artile on Tibet and the Dalai Lama. Romantic notions about the “peaceful” and “harmonious” nature of Tibetan Buddhist monastic life should be tested against reality. The Lithang Monastery in eastern Tibet was where a major rebellion against Chinese rule erupted in 1956. Beijing tried to...
Read more →I was reading this article about Walter Ong, who I knew only a little about, and I found this fascinating quotation at the end: The spoken word, as we have seen, is primary, and yet from the start it was destinedor, in another way, doomedto be supplemented with all the devices and even gadgetry...
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