Well, let’s see now. I am back in Saskatoon, and I have a few interesting surprises that have come to my attention: My income tax wasn’t filed in 2001. I’ll chalk it up to a miscommunication between my parents and myself, but I do wish they’d told me when they got aan extremely threatening...
Read more →A little behind on these things, I have decided to do two in one sitting, which means terser answers than usual. Last week’s question, from Rob, was this: Five instances of you opening your mouth as wide as humanly possible and inserting your foot. No false modesty please. This shouldn’t be hard. I’m more...
Read more →Okay, my thoughts so far: Seeing Helen and Ann has been good. Victoria is a very very Aryan island. Vancouver, conversely, is a very heterogenous place. Very diverse. I’m shocked at how that culture-shocked me. (I doubt it will continue in Saskatoon.) Gay people (EDIT: or is it just young, trendy people in Vancouver?...
Read more →Blogging will be at a low ebb for a while as I’m traveling faaaaaaar. More later.
Read more →For all you guys out there who are into RPG gaming and would like to get a few of your geekiest Korean friends, students, and others into the hobby, here’s a link to GURPS Lite in Korean, sent to me by my friend Adam. Out here in Jeonju, most people think RPG means some...
Read more →A friend of mine sent me this link as the last word on Star Wars Episode III. Despite so many of my fellow SF-geek friends liking it, well, or at least liking it well-enough, I sat in the theater, yes, watching it, knowing it would be utter trash, and thinking to myself, “Why didn’t...
Read more →A student just sent me a completely garbled, incomprehensible email that had obviously been written in Korean and translated using a service like Babelfish. So here’s what I put in my response: 너가 이 원본에서 볼 수 있는다 대로, 전산화한 번역은 흔하게 아주 잘 일하지 않는다. 형은 불가해한 나오고, 기계가 사용된 독자에게 명백하다. 너가...
Read more →Walking around downtown today, picking up gifts for my upcoming visit to my family, I ran across a few scary shops. One of them had posters of all kinds of hunting rifles all over the front door and, when I glimpsed inside, there were more gun posters up on the wall. Are hunting rifles...
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