Happy New Year! Well, it seems de rigeur to post a retrospective of the year, so this post is going to be a little personal. Feel free to skip over it if you’re not that interested. In 2006, I managed to do a lot of things: My father passed away. I miss him, and...
Read more →I haven’t posted here in a distressingly long time. On Thursday, 28 December, I was finally finished grading and over the very congesting cold I’d caught, and I decided to go to the gym. I did 20 minutes of oscillating speeds on the treadmill, and about 10 minutes on the stationary bicycle. However, I’d...
Read more →I’ve been watching a lot of movies, and reading a little too. First, movies: Death of a President is just weird. Weird, and interesting, and basically all about race post-9-11. Race as in skin color, and race as in hurrying to find someone to punish. I am surprised the film has been released in...
Read more →For months now, my students have been submitting reviews of one film/book: 우리들? 행복한 시간 (Our Happy Time), which is, I’ve basically taken from their reviews and discussions, the Korean version of Dead Man Walking. The death penalty in (South) Korea exists but hasn’t been used for some time now, and this movie seems...
Read more →Wondering if the lamebrained network security is still in effect… By the way, can others comment without problem?
Read more →On my various Linux boxes, Gmail has gone all coy — meaning, I could access it but not send or save drafts — and I was poking around for a while looking for a fix. It looks like another URL thing. I banged my head against this for a while, and then found something...
Read more →Yes, if you tried to connect to my website today, and couldn’t, it’s because some kind of underwater cable in Hong Kong (where this site is being hosted) was cut. They’re working on it, but access has been sporadic for a while.
Read more →I’m ripping my way through a pile of somewhat-unimportant assignments, and the killer is, I’m not sure which students expect feedback and which don’t… but I am pretty sure that not all of them do, and I’m also pretty sure that some of them very much do want some. However, the feedback and the...
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