For this week’s Friday Five, the increasingly well-organized transitus asks: Philip Gulley writes: “Sometimes we lose things before we??re done needing them. ” What are five things you lost before you were done needing them? Oh, there have been so many things. Let’s see: My desire to really, truly learn French. Something stupid happened,...
Read more →This is not a post about zombies with strange dietary habits. For those of you who have in email or in person asked after her, Lime is fine. She’s in the neurology department, which is the hardest one so far, it seems, and she’s been working long, long hours there. Yesterday we had dinner...
Read more →I swear, there’s a punchline to this post, but it comes right at the end. The other day at work, some people were complaining about how some Korean taxi drivers sometimes have nudie pictures (sometimes attached to a calendar) up in their cab. This is an extremely rare phenomenon, though. What I encounter far...
Read more →In the comments section of a recent post, Hiram asked what the word Bulgasari meant. I offered a few possible explanations, but I just happened on another one and it was pretty fascinating. I posted a comment there, but figured it might be missed, so I’m devoting a new post to the information. I...
Read more →I’m taking suggestions for this T-shirt idea, which I think will be the first one I get made: “Have you accepted ____ as your personal saviour?” is the quote, and I’m just wondering what to put in the blank. Should it be: “Rational discussion”? “The Enlightenment”? “Secular Humanism”? “Science”? And whose picture should I...
Read more →I have no idea why the ajeoshi needed to check with the picture in the menu. I said it very clearly, “Be Bim Man Du Han Na Chu Sae Yo.” It’s only five syllables, and then repeated the relevant syllables three times more: “Be Bim Man Du Yo.” I’ve said it many, many times...
Read more →If anyone’s wondering why I’ve been relatively quiet, it’s because I’m currently busy with the following: Reading a friend’s manuscript for criticism. Working on two (2) short stories, one of which is still the time travel story and the other of which, a tale about some kids in a futuristic international school who run...
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