Holy Crap!

You know, funny things happen in my family. I was just informed by my father that my Mom went on a last-minute trip…
…to UGANDA.
Yes, really. But she’ll be right back home soon.

I’ll Buy That

you are going to die of old age. you’re hardstudying payed off and you did everythingright. you had a very calm and simple life,which is good.
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That’s about the best answer I could have gotten, I think.

Evolution in the bible, says Vatican - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au

Those who like to criticize the Romish Church would do well to remember that, whatever its faults, it at least has the integrity to admit that evolution is true and that the bible does not contradict it. And they’ve been saying this for quite a while, though of course they excommunicated de Chardin for formulating [...]

Lunar New Year Reads # 29 & #30

Technically speaking, only one of the two books was a Lunar New Year read, the other was a study, and was a book I studied off-and-on for more than a year. Still, as I completed it this year, I am including it in my log of books for purposes of memory, and of interest.
한국어 1, [...]

The Critters I Loved

A comment from Mer on this post got me thinking about the cartoon characters I loved when I was a kid. Aside from the regular ones — the Disney characters, as I always hated the Warner Bros. characters — there were three that stand out: Asterix, The Moomintrolls, and the Barbapapas.

Googling Yourself

After reading how an EastSouthWestNorth: Associate Professor was angrily suing China Blog because a user had posted something bad about him, I got curious about whether any of my students had posted anything — good or bad — about me. I googled my own name using several spellings and while I discovered there are several [...]

The Viridian Design Movement

As usual, the latest Viridian Note by Bruce Sterling is worth a read. It’s mainly about a piece by Al Gore published in Salon. One very funny, but sadly necessary, link in the Note is to this article in the New Yorker, which mocks the moronic Intelligent Design hokum that is so popular in America. [...]

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