I was explaining to Lime this evening about how I’d gone through some papers, while preparing my passport application. (I need a new passport in about six weeks and it takes three weeks for the new one to arrive, so I’m trying to get organized and get the application in as soon as possible.)...
Read more →A new user registered on my blog today. He gave the email address , and for his username and nickname, he used a freakin’ script! The hosting for uscs.us has been suspended so I couldn’t even find out what the script was supposed to do. But it definitely looks not cool to me. His...
Read more →It’s nothing fancy, and I’m not even offering an RSS feed since I can’t imagine anyone else besides me wanting to look at records of my exercise. In fact, the only reason I’ve added this thing to my site is to guilt me into going to the gym regularly. When I arrived in Saskatoon...
Read more →First day back to the gym in 8 months: treadmill (20 min); stationary bike (10 min, sort of); weights (15 min); moping (15 min). It’ll get better.
Read more →For those of you who don’t live in Korea, here’s a hilarious article explaining what an ajumma is. In the sauna, should the ajumma let out a fart and people stare at her, she will just leave without saying sorry. Ladies show respect to everyone, even their juniors. They are well aware of etiquettes...
Read more →This is an update on the Write-In post I made last night. As of 4:30pm on Sunday, I am now at 11,800 words. Of course, this is redrafting, so it’s going more quickly than original drafting. Still, the amount of complicated reworking and rethinking has my brain in knots. Lots of going for short...
Read more →This transcript explores the possibility that like most things in humans, depression has an evolutionary basis, and that it was actually selected for in our ancestral habitat. (via who knows?)
Read more →Well, this weekend the members of my Clarion West class have organized a write-in, and like many, I am participating. I’m not working on a new story, but rather, on the rather drastic rewriting of my superheroes-in-East-Asia story. The story is, on one level, a riff on the Cory Doctorow story “The Superman and...
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