Marmot linked to More Kim hijinks, this time, supposedly, by a network of spies in South Korea. Maybe. If this is true. It wouldn’t surprise me much, but who knows… In other news, it may have been because of mistaken analysis assuming impending collapse that non-engagement with North Korea was the main US strategy....
Read more →So the SF Gate (San Francisco, not science fiction) ran a four part-series on Korean-related sex-trafficking in America. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) and Marmot reports that some Korean-Americans are angry that, well, this doesn’t make Korea look good in the American media: Instead of educating Chronicle readers about the cultural...
Read more →I was emailed a link to a blog called Free Ali Khan, which is about a guy apparently in Daejon Prison. He was apprently tried yesterday and convicted, and from the descriptions of the trial, it all sounds sketchy. Like, beyond sketchy: someone confessed to the murder and exonerated the guy, after the trial,...
Read more →It’s getting easier, and I’m feeling less like hell after workouts now, though I’m sure my arms will be complaining soon… and my legs, tomorrow. Treadmill: 12.5 min @ 6.6km/hr (no breaks!); Stationary cycle: 10 min @ 20km/hr (no breaks!); Rowing 5 min @ who knows what (I got bored); some upper body weights....
Read more →How the heck did John Dowland actually die? Does anyone out there in Internet-land know? I can’t find a snip of data on the web — and I spent an hour googling around for the info. The best I can find is the Dowland expert Diana Poulton suggesting he took ill in January 1626...
Read more →In the course of grading my midterms for Popular Culture in English Speaking Countries, I’ve learned the following: Bombay can also be spelled Bumbay or Bombai. “Elbiss Presly” (Preslley, Plesly, etc) was the King of Rock’n'Roll, and he died of glycosuria (and/or stress, and/or suicide) Indians love song and dance more than any other...
Read more →I just watched Syriana, and found, well, entertaining enough. There were lots of plot threads running at once, and while they all kind of came together, I could see where they were headed, mostly, about halfway in. Still, some of the ideas bandied about in the movie were interesting, if a bit disturbing. How...
Read more →Finally got the workout tracker working… I had to give up on Miniblog, and anyway, am perhaps happier to have it just run through the same interface as all my other posts on this site. Why the heck not? It looks snazzy over in the sidebar, there, so I thought I’d mention it. Whee!
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