My phone died a nasty little death a few days ago. At first, it just started dropping calls. Then it started turning itself off at random times. Finally, it wouldn’t turn on at all. This was a little distressing. Suddenly I was out of touch with Lime, who works on the other side of...
Read more →I was on the subway with Lime last night — she dropped into town by chance and I just happened to get my malfunctioning phone working and call her before she gave up and left — and we heard the funniest conversation, or rather, one side of it. The young woman sitting beside her...
Read more →I highly recommend Adrian’s post at Mssv titled On Religion. Thoughtful thoughts from a interesting atheist point of view, one I generally agree with, and more and more as I think about it over the years. (I’ll be referencing this when I post about what I said in my Popular Cultures in English Speaking...
Read more →Ganked offa Kat Dancing. “This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put an asterisk* beside the ones you loved.” I’m also going to...
Read more →I asked some students to compare the Korean and English languages. Stupid me, I should have know that this would provoke all kinds of weird knee-jerk claims that Korean is somehow “superior” to English. Weird because, if you know anything about language (and I’d imagine someone who majors in foreign language study would bother...
Read more →Quote from Lime tonight: Me: Yeah, Andre Kim is pretty weird. Lime: Andre Kim is full of weird. I don’t know why, but I really do like that one. (For those abroad: He’s a scary fashion designer in Korea… apparently quite a nice guy, but he looks quite strange.)
Read more →What can you do when you’re stuck in your office, too tired to think, and have another class in a few hours? Slingette.
Read more →Okay, here’s the weidest line yet, in the fifth of five dramas I’m editing for my students: (Kelly, Erin, Nurse3 are flapping their chops in a lounge.) I’m pretty sure that someone out there has a very weird idioms function in his or her dictionary.
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