All Spammers Must Die

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 spam [...]

Road Rage Cards

This is absolutely brilliant. I wonder if anyone will ever come out with a Korean edition?
They ought to.

Scattered Flurries

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, so [...]

Pollery

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. I [...]

Books I read this weekend

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 technology [...]

Nathaniel Update

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 other [...]

The Heater

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, that [...]

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