My New Dentist SO Rocks!

I had no idea how substandard my previous dentist, a really nice guy in Jeonju, was. My new dentist took one look at my fillings and asked my what country I’d gotten them done in. When I told him Jeonju, he tsk-tsked and showed me why he was disturbed.
Yes, he showed me my teeth. [...]

Refugees & Exiles

Ooops, it seems I forgot to post about this when my sister let me know, quite a while ago.
A couple of years ago, she approached me to write a short short story for the Refugees & Exiles teaching materials packet. It was apparently a program designed for teaching kids about what it’s like to be [...]

Do You Really Want to Know…?

How many readers are actually curious at what it’s like to have one of the more disturbing medical examinations a man can have across a language/culture barrier?
Show of hands?
And yes, it does involve the prostate.
(And I’m fine. Just wondering whether to blog this in the interests of, well, amusing people, or not.)

Junk DNA Bet! (Expiration Date: 24 August 2016.)

So, there was this story that my esteemed Clarion classmate Guy Immega (of Vancouver, B.C.) wrote, and he asked for crits. I won’t go into the story in detail since (a) it’s his and (b) I’d rather just footnote this post when the story gets published in an SF magazine, so you can all run [...]

MissIzzy on Traditional Values and Economic Status of Nations

MissIzzy always has something interesting to say, and this time, what caught my attention was her thoughts in a post titled Traditionally bad is the Contemporary Good.A sampling:
Countries that suffer from the yoke of traditional values and survival ethics are the worse off (Nigeria, Parkistan, Ghana) Countries that are extremely secular-rational but are on the [...]

BigHominid’s Mad, Man, Mad

For anyone doubting the truth of that statement, see his Konglish ravioli night post.

Nature!

Earlier in the summer, my classmate Guy sent out a couple of links (the first, the second) to webpages hosting stories that have been published in Nature’s “Futures” column, a short story section at the back of the magazine.
Well, today I didn’t get much time in the library today, but just enough to discover [...]

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