As promised, a few more books I’ve torn through during my holidays: Book #22: War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches edited by Kevin J. Anderson. I admit it. After seeing the horrendous Spielberg film, I wanted to reread the original novel, but of course, my HG Wells omnibus was in my apartment in Korea....
Read more →Not if being well-read counts as geekhood. I’m frankly unsurprised but now I want to go read three novels a day. Anyway: Interested Reader You have a Geek Lore rating of 67% Your knowledge of the speculative fiction field, while far from encyclopedic, is still solidly above average. You probably have a healthy interest...
Read more →There’s a musician out there, somewhere, who I used to have a little more respect for. I quite like some of his older, harder-to-get recordings, and I was researching online how I could get a copy of one when, of course, I found his website. Now, what do you think it was that made...
Read more →When I was plunking around for a link to Cory Doctorow’s wonderful story “Anda’s Game”, I found (on this page) an interesting link to the State of Play 2 conference and a very interesting talk by professor Leo Sang-Min Whang about the Korea-specific experience of gaming in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games)....
Read more →Dan asked this week’s Friday 5 question: With the recent unveiling of famed Watergate source “Deep Throat”, a great mysterious chapter of journalism has been closed. However, you now have the chance to leak some incredible secrets to a young, new reporter. What would those five secrets be, and what would your code name...
Read more →For a long time I believed what the employees at local little cell phone shops always claimed when I asked: that a foreigner cannot get a regular phone with a regular phone plan under his or her name in Korea. They always claimed that I had to have the phone under someone else’s name....
Read more →Feet on the ground, but reaching for the stars. You talk the talk, but would you know what to do in an alien invasion? You got 9/11 correct. That’s not bad, considering I don’t actually like Star Trek, Star Wars, and a lot of other stuff that the quiz’s author seems to consider SF....
Read more →This morning I was watching a very so-so movie about Quantum mechanics and “mysteries”, called What the (Bleep) Do We Know? (here’s the imdb entry)and it mentioned some Japanese fellow named Masaru Emoto. Now, during my visit home my parents had been talking about him as someone who’d done amazing research into the effects...
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