This is old news, but I never heard it. Listen to a piece from NPR : All Things Considered for Thursday, June 19, 2003. Here’s the blurb for that show: ‘N.Y. Times’ : EPA Report Omitted Global Warming Data The New York Times reports that the Bush administration edited out information on the effects of global warming from an upcoming Environmental Protection Agency study. The tone of the edited document puts more emphasis on uncertainties about climate change. Hear New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin. Yeah, that’s what we need. Bush editing our science reports. And we trust this …
Month: October 2003
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Not having read Kafka’s The Metamorphosis is an oversight that it took me years to address. It’s probably strange that this wasn’t the first Kafka work I’d read… I think most people read The Metamorphosis first and then move on to other tales or to Kafka’s novels. Yet what I’d heard about The Trial was much more compelling to me in the past, and I read that book last year. It wasn’t until this morning that I decided to pick up the beaten old copy of The Metamorphosis that I’d picked up a few weeks ago at the Foreign Book …
The Dentist Said…
… well, a lot of things that I didn’t quite understand, but the gist was, “Look, guy, I’m not going to just pull that tooth out today. You don’t have a health card yet, and that would be expensive and painful for you to do like that. So go buy these here pills and take them for a few days and see if the swelling goes down. If it still hurts in a few days, come back and see me and we’ll yank that tooth clean outta your skull. Okay?” So, I’m assuming these are antibiotics. The three-days-run is maddening, …
이발 아프다!
내… 금요일에, 좋은 주말 보고싶었지만 금요일 아침에 일작 일어났어… 왜? 원야하면 사랑니 하나 너무 너우 아프다! 오늘은 칙과에 가야되… 아이고. 언재 재미 있는 주말 있을 수 있어요? 하지만 오재 오후 부터 밤까지 좋은 친구 만났고 공나물 국밥 먹었고 이상한 영화 봤어요. 만남는 시간에 이상한 것은 많이 봤지만 좋은 금요일 이였어요. 빨리 칙과에 가요… 안녕!
Friday Five
This week’s Friday Five question courtesy of William: Heinlein’s Number of the Beast theorizes that all realities, even ours, come from someone else’s imagination. And therefore, if you could learn to travel across dimensions it would be possible to find the worlds where every story occurred. The more fully realized story (and the better the story-teller) the more fully realized the world. So, What five fictional worlds would you like to visit once William perfects his inter-dimensional mini-van? I think I answered a question like this once on a mailing list, but the answer’s gone and anyway, I’m sure I’ll …