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….