Today I was walking home from the Teacher Training luncheon and I ran into a couple of kids, one of whom I sort of know. She’s a student of my co-worker and friend Kimberley’s. So anyway, she knows me by name, and I know her face, because she’s the daughter of the woman who runs our apartment’s local little corner shop (“the super”). Anyway, the girl quickly greeted me, “Hi Gord!” It was odd enough because I’m used to people calling me Go-duh, the Korean pronunciation of my name. But anyway, I said to the girl, since she’s an English …
Month: July 2003
Tolkien? Racist? Uh…
Right-Wing analysis Except for the dodgy, bitchy take on Liberals, which should be directed at the extremists only, this is a good criticism of a rather idiotic article about The Lord of the Rings‘ purported racist undertones. I mean, hell, I thought the temptation for evil was something that haunted every character in the story, from Gandalf to Frodo to Boromir… of course, in the logic of fantasy, species are usually aligned with good or evil in general, the same way race used to be (and in many places still is) linked to something like good or evil in the …
A Foolish Discussion of Why Science Hasn’t Delivered What It Never Promised
kuro5hin.org || Sci-Fi Tech Coming to a Reality Near You Here’s an article that, in sad form, bitches and whines that science has not delivered what sci-fi (not to be confused with SF) has promised. Why science should deliver such things as flying cars and cold fusion is beyond me, since scientists themselves never suggested that such devices were necessary, or feasible. The flying car, for goodness sakes, is a film trope that first appeared in Fritz Lang’s 1926 sf film Metropolis. It was a damned visual effect that was simply meant to create a startling image of a futuristic …
아이들이
아이들이 때때로 어른을 닮아요. 네 교실에 보통 매 아이 반에 아저씨 같은 남자 아니면 아주마 같은 여자는 있어요. 도 어른 반에 때때로 아이같은 어른이 있어요. 아이같은 어른 학생을 싫어해요. 단, 어른 같은 아이을이 엄정 좋아해요. 여자 한명이 매 일 마다 엄정 심각해요. 철자법 시엄 써슬테 너무 조심 하고 심각해요. 개임 놀슬테 도 심각해요. 다른 반에 남자는 아저씨 너무 너무 봐닮아요. 말하기 전전히 하고 걷기 아버 같에. 때때로, 아이들이 다른 아이 한테 심술을 있어요. 오늘은 근 남자가 작은 여자를 치기 시작 했어요. John W가 남가를 잡고 사무소에 갔어요. 나줗에 나는 남자 한테 호텅챘어요 (yelled). 하지만 보통 아이가 좋아고 재미 있어요.
Finally Got The Pics
… and some of them are funny. But, since I’m still working in analog that needs to get digitized via scanning, I am screwed as far as my desire to show you the pics at top speed. I also just worked a long freaking day. This overtime business… I taught 7 hours today, and then there was listening to the introductory speeches at teacher training. Most of the teachers had enough understanding to realize that the speaker was, for a good 15 minutes or more, explaining to students where they can eat in the neighborhood. I swear talking about food …
Interview for Intro A Unit 6
This is an interview sheet with questions using the simple present with a bunch of different verbs.
Making Appointments: Any Level
This document contains a couple of conversations and then a schedule grid. The idea is to work through the sample conversations, highlighting the idioms and common expressions that are in bold, and then have students book their social life for the week solid through practice conversations. This lets students practice present continuous (what are you doing tomorrow night?) and also gets them a lot more fluid with making plans in general. Which, if you spend time with them outside of class, is a skill that’s helpful not only for them, but for you, too…
New Song, Old Song, Prison Song, True Song
I’m trying to work on a new song for the band, something to expand our sound somewhat; the song is, I’m thinking, going to be a kind of warped version of the story of Bodhi-Dharma, the famed and highly mythologized Indian monk who went abroad and reputedly spread Buddhism across Asia. So, of course, I have a nice musical sample of what I’m going for. Lately I’ve been gravitating toward older and older styles, such as the road-country of Spiritwood as I intend it to be sung, and while I flirted for a while with a somewhat warped blues form, …
Coming Soon…
Coming soon is a tenuous title for this time of the year… after all, I’m about to embark on a protracted period of overtime work, and my time will be short for a while. Still, there are a few posts I want to make.
Who Are You?
Okay, I was spelunking the stats application for my website, and I have to say, some of you people are quite odd. Someone actually found my site by searching the keywords “bob marley belly button rings” over at msn. And I also discovered hits from places like California (a massive number of hits in fact), Taiwan, Israel, and other places. Now, I know the hits misattributed as coming from “North Korea” are accounted for by my own visits to the site, and by those of some friends and students in Korea. I know of a few people in Virginia, Saskatchewan, …