Well, Jeonju. I didn’t go in to the office Thursday or Friday, because all my classes were canceled and I finished all my preparations for this week by Wednesday afternoon. So I just spent time getting my apartment sorted out. Friday night I met Myoung, John Tallman and his family for beer. It was a nice chat out on the veranda of the rather cheesy Hite Zone bar in our neighborhood. (Hite is a Korean beer company. Think of a bar called Miller Time! or This Bud’s For You and you’ll get the idea. Wait, there is a bar called …
Month: August 2003
Blogs in Korea
Jeremy Zawodny’s blog: Yahoo! Korea Blog Service Launched Well, one of my earlier posts was absolutely wrong, and as I’ve known for a couple of months, blogging in Korea is a rather massive phenomenon. That would explain why, as noted in the article I linked to above, Yahoo has, late as ever, launched a blog service in Korean. Of course, it seems to me from the fact I almost never ever see Korean computers displaying Yahoo.kr screens as the home page when Explorer starts up, that this will probably get very little attention at all. Daum and Naver and maybe …
New Sophists
New Sophists’ Almanac is a new website that my friend Marvin and I have created. It contains some philsophical discussion and talk, mostly right now about the nature of language and communication in relation to things like religion, science, and truth. If you are curious, please do go have a look and post comments too! I’ll try add a link somewhere on this page’s template once my PC is fixed. I don’t feel like digging through the templates on this site for now.
My PC
By the way… my PC is at the IBM/LG service centre. It’ll be there at least until Monday, and if all I need it a new hard drive, it’s okay. But if I need a new motherboard, I may just pack it in and get a new laptop at the end of the month. I’m not sure. We’ll see. Argh!
Terminator 3
It’s a franchise. I just had nothing better to do, really. But… it’s a franchise. Clear setup for Terminator 4. sigh I won’t even bother to pick it apart. I’ll invoke Bill Hicks’ criticism of Basic Instinct (wasn’t it?) instead… that is, that it’s not worth criticising simply because, plain and simple, it’s a piece of s__t….
Chinese On The Moon? Indians in Orbit?
Sure, everyone’s heard about the Chinese Space Program and the Manned Missions they’re planning, right? And the Moon Base they want to build? Whether as the butt of jokes around the world, or the subject of excitement (mainly on the part of the Chinese), it’s hardly escaped notice. But I hadn’t heard about India’s program until today. Indian Prime Minister Announces Mission to Moon Bangalore – Aug 20, 2003 The Chandrayan-1 mission, announced by the Prime Minister yesterday (August 15, 2003) during his Independence Day address to the nation, represents India’s foray into a planetary exploration era in the coming …
And Now…
And now I am in Jeonju. I am a little bit alone, as is anyone who comes to a new place full of people who have their own lives and loves and situations. I shall have to get around to making my own ones… it’s a little lonely. But not so bad. Listening to good music, reading good books, and the challenges of getting one’s house in order (figuratively and literally) does occupy one, at least for the present. Right now, it’s Michel Foucault’s Madness and Civilization, Beck’s Sea Change, and, well, my apartment. I’ll get to the rest of …
The Cut Between the Chapters
If it’s not romanticizing it to say so (or maybe even if it is) I shall deem this post a document of the moment where the Iksan chapter(s) of my life ended (though not the presence of Iksan and her children in my story), and where the chapter(s) of my life began. Woo Jin My last night in Iksan, I visited with a couple of old friends. First, I met with Woo Jin, as I mentioned before. I found we could actually be friends, which made me happy. She and I talked about some very important things and once again …
To recent commenters…
To those people who have posted comments recently… thanks! :) I have responded in the form of more comments, so you may want to check the posts where you commented. In brief, answering the basic questions once more in general: my computer keeps crashing because I have bad luck. I am otherwise settling into Jeonju well enough. I had a horrible time at the Jeonju Immigration office today. The particular officer I got was making issues out of everything (including how I handed him the forms… I did so with one hand, but with the other hand ceremonially drawing back …
Jeonju
I’m in Jeonju now. Computer’s dead. Not much posting for a bit. That’s all for today. Gord