I was talking with my friend Charlie, who lives on Cyprus, and he said that he has a near-death experience on his bike about every 15km. As he told me, “the Greeks are crazy.” Well, I don’t know how many kilometers pass between each of my near-death experiences, but I do know that I have a lot of them here in Jeonju.
Month: May 2004
Morning Music
So I’m listening to the soundtrack from Black Cat White Cat, a film by Emir Kusturica, a wonderful director. I really need to find his DVDs and buy them. Or something. Anyway, the lyrics to this one song are hilarious… or is it the delivery? I love the way the singer apologizes for the quality of his English, and then starts proclaiming, “All we need is a long wehicule, a long wehicule, a long wehicule, to go!” He means vehicle, but you know, accents and all. It’s hilarious and wonderful. Druggie gangsters, gypsy love (with a stunning gypsy girl of …
Some Proposed Rules for Data Etiquette
I can’t remember what caused me to begin to write this, but I gave up on it sometime last year. I’ve been digging about among my unpublished “draft” posts, and decided to fill out the ones worth finishing, and delete the rest. This one seemed like it was worth finishing. It’s simple a set of rules comprising “Dataquette”. If you think of anything I’ve left out, please do submit them via the comments function.
strauss
Read this a long time ago, but it may perhaps be of interest. It’s an article at OpenDemocracy by Danny Postel, titled Noble lies and perpetual war: Leo Strauss, the neo-cons, and Iraq. Of course, I have some thoughts on this. But first, an excerpt:
Under cover marketing
Over at Metroactive, there’s an interesting article on Undercover Marketing. I don’t know what I think about teenagers being hired to do this kind of work, to be honest. I have some qualms about whether they really understand what they’re involving themselves in. Then again, I don’t suppose most adults who do so really understand it either. In any case, it reminds me of the segment in the documentary The Corporation about undercover marketing, and I found it pretty interesting. Of course, the net may seem unruly now, but once we have a working reputation system in place (something like …