Comments on: For the Two People Interested…

By: gordsellar

gordsellar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:50:25 +0000

I didn’t know Gimpo was that close. My mental geography kind of sucks, actually — Lime often teases me about it. I’m about as useful a navigator as a blind man is a fashion coordinator.

Ha, maybe the lethargy hit me too. I watched part of Serenity and then fell asleep. I think the optimal SF movie for me hasn’t been made. And probably never will get made. (Though Primer was close… if only I were actually, you know, obsessed enough to go back and tease out exactly what was going on!)

By: bulgasari

bulgasari — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:00:48 +0000

Actually, the southernmost part of Gimpo is just 5km away from those buildings. It’s the same with the Magok fields near my house – a little bit of flat land lets you see a long way. On a clear day I can see Bukhansan or a mountain south of Bucheon.

Actually, in Serenity, only 99.9% were affected by the lethargy drug. The rest were not so lethargic. One of those moments where you realize how large or important 0.1% can be…

By: gordsellar

gordsellar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:28:09 +0000

Depends: were you interested in the pictures?

Besides, the “two” implicitly excludes me, so its still only two comments from people other than me. :)

By: roboseyo

roboseyo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:16:00 +0000

It’s funny that the title was “for the two people interested” and the post had two comments.

(until this one. will you change the post title to “for the three people interested” now?)

By: gordsellar

gordsellar — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:42:20 +0000

From Gimpo? My God.

Yeah, I haven’t watched more than a few episodes of ~~Firefox~~ Firefly (oops!)… wasn’t quite my thing. But the lethargy planet sounds familiar, I think I recently read a story about that idea or something. Golden-Agey.

In any case, yes, I think Go Home is a good idea. But, then, happily, it seems like most people have gone home. I hope they don’t get drawn out by this. There are such bigger issues that loom, just far enough off that people can take a rest first.

By: bulgasari

bulgasari — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:31:27 +0000

Regarding the shot that looks like my blog’s banner, those we’ve the state buildings can be seen at night from just south of Gimpo Airport, which surprised me the first time I noticed them while on a bus to Bucheon. At 30 stories, I suppose they’re the tallest buildings there – and well lit up.

I spent last week and this weekend watching Firefly and the film Serenity, which has a planet where a chemical put into the atmosphere processors to calm the population causes everyone to become so calm that they stop doing everything (like eating) and let themselves die. I was reminded of that with your comment about the protesters being made too tired to bother protesting anything in the future. ‘Go home’ is good advice, especially now that the Dokdo hormone looks like it will be injected into the Mad Cow protests…