• Archive for November, 2004

    All Spammers Must Die

    by  • November 30, 2004 • PERSONAL

    I hate comment spammers. I really do think they all need to be taken off onto some desert island, if not dropped into the ocean. They’re basically taking the best positive invention of the 20th century, and coating it in feces. Okay, it’s a little personal at this point. There was so much comment...

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    Scattered Flurries

    by  • November 24, 2004 • teaching in Korea

    No, it’s not yet snowing in Jeonju. It’s just that we had a camp meeting last night and Myoung and I are preparing the documents for the camp. That means a lot of paperwork and preparations. I’m trying to make the worksheets for the kids look a little more interesting, as well as easier-to-read,...

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    Pollery

    by  • November 22, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Shawn recently informed me in no uncertain terms that it was bloody time I put up a new poll. I suggested, very seriously, that he should write one if he wanted a new poll up. So he did! It’s now up, in the right sidebar. Check it out, vote, but please only vote once....

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    Books I read this weekend

    by  • November 22, 2004 • BOOKS & AUTHORS

    I read a couple of interesting books last weekend. The first is a hardcover novel by one of my favorite SF writers of all time, Bruce Sterling. The novel, which is titled The Zenith Angle, is even closer to the mainstream than Sterling’s previous novel, Zeitgeist, which was more of a postmodernist parable about...

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    Nathaniel Update

    by  • November 21, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Well, here is another update from the home of my sister Marie and her fine husband Troy. Their son My nephew Nathaniel is now three months old. Quite a bright, active, and handsome little fellow by all accounts, though the doctor said at his last checkup that he was short and fat compared to...

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    The Heater

    by  • November 21, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Well, my water boiler (water heater, or geyser, as it’s known in India) was acting up for… well, actually, since about a week after I moved into my apartment. So it’s been off-and-on for about a year, though with a little banging I’ve generally been able to get it to start. Well, on Friday,...

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    The Things You Happen Upon

    by  • November 21, 2004 • PERSONAL

    Here are some interesting pages I ran across during a failed search for a picture of that Korean Liberation Day Cola: CorpWatch, a page that, well, watches corporations. An article about how new drink products are hurting the cola industry. It’s good news, if you ask me! An account by some guy who attended...

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