Though I’m somewhat sick today (bleah, ugh), I managed to produce a new bit of writing on the long-neglected New Sophists’ Almanac. It’s mainly about the kind of “game-playing” I think we engage in when we watch scary movies, and how I think this may relate to what the hell is going on when...
Read more →My sister just sent some more pics of my new nephew! Isn’t he adorable? But I was trying to figure out which side of the family he resembles, and got nowhere except that dark, dark hair seems a Pineault thing (ie, my mom’s side of the family, unless some branch of Troy’s family also...
Read more →Oh, a hot night of… reading books together! Yes, my honey came over and we sprawled on the floor, reading books together. Not the same book: she’s reading some kind of mystical adventure in Korean (퇴마록, it’s called, which I’d roughly translate as “The Exorcism Story” if you use the word exorcism in a...
Read more →There’s a pretty good article over at Tech Central Station about Politics and the Debate Over Stem Cell Research. Link via Instapundit.
Read more →Oh my God, I’ve got to stop submitting questions to our Friday Five: My question for this week turns to Time Travel again, but this time, it’s a Connie Willis sort. In her novels, characters often return to some time period in the past in order to do research; time travelers are very often...
Read more →I’ve been reading a lot lately, but haven’t had much of a chance to post about any of it, so this is going to be a mass posting about several books I’ve read lately. (As in, during the past few months, the ones that come to mind only.) Okay, let’s see. First in importance...
Read more →Another ESL teaching aid: A description exercise for use with lower-level students. This one’s for kids. And here’s a template for a board game. You just need to write “Start” at one end and “Finish” at the other, and then fill the squares with whatever information you want students to get from, or tell...
Read more →Today’s a rather long day. I started teaching at 8:30 am, and I will be teaching until 7pm. That’s because I took on an extra two hours on Mondays and Wednesdays, teaching English at a high school. The kids there are good, so it’s not a chore, but it does mean preparing more exercises...
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