• Archive for June, 2010

    An EMP in Lagos

    by  • June 7, 2010 • MUSIC, SF • 0 Comments

    UPDATE: More here. ORIGINAL POST: Seriously, I get this weird feeling someday people might just be willing to support something like a sequestration of Lagos from the Internet, or some sort of EMP that would knock out all the computers there, creating a hardware shortage and making it difficult for Nigerians to replace their...

    Read more →

    In Seoul? Love Jazz?

    by  • June 7, 2010 • KOREA, MUSIC • 0 Comments

    Here are two bits of news for you: This Friday and Saturday (June 11th/12th) there’s an international jazz festival on in Seoul. There are free shows in the park. Not sure if there are pay concerts also — I wish David Sanchez would have a giant 3 hour gig but I doubt it.  Maybe...

    Read more →

    Geek Out

    by  • June 7, 2010 • PERSONAL • 0 Comments

    “You know you’re with a bunch of geeks when…” was the line I said most often last night. Being among SF geeks is salutary, though; it’s normal for everyone to totally geek out over an iPad (as we did — trying out a bunch of bookreader and comic book reader applications in sequence), or...

    Read more →

    Oriental Medicine Charlatanry

    by  • June 5, 2010 • KOREA • 6 Comments

    Someone in my Facebook friendslist (whatever it’s called there) posted a thing about acupuncture and how it actually works, at least as an analgesic. And, well, yeah. Done right, it can work as an analgesic. It can work as advertised. Unless of course the practitioner is a total quack asshole who advertises that acupuncture...

    Read more →

    There You Go Again, Reality

    by  • June 5, 2010 • SF, WRITING • 0 Comments

    In the story I’m now working on (working title Capped), some software glitches (actually, algorithms in weak-AI software used on the stock exchange) causes a massive, worldwide economic crash (and especially one specific part of the world economic system) in the space of a few minutes. Ooops, then it happened in real life. Well,...

    Read more →

    GBH and Unknown Famous Koreans

    by  • June 3, 2010 • KOREA • 0 Comments

    Be warned: this tune is slightly addictive. Not because Kylie Minogue is prancing about in a space-kimono getup, which is amusing the first time through, but because it has one hell of a groove. Not bad for 20th century music (of a relatively obscure sort — it has a poor release history, this track does)....

    Read more →