Another Baby Cheer (continued)

Yes, more baby business. I meant to post some of this earlier but it was one of those days; lost sunglasses, messed up bike, trip to the bike shop, sleeping on a park bench for a few hours, and so on. Lime’s looking tired and I, for some strange reason, am sweating even more since the weather has cooled off. But I now have a long, long seat-post on my bike and I can cycle like the damned wind, with my legs getting full extension and not hurting when I go up hills. And as you may have noticed, the …

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Another Baby Cheer!

Myoung called me just now, this morning, to inform me that Mer had given birth to a healthy baby boy last night, whose name is Luca (or is it Luka? I’m not sure). When I heard the name, I said what people of my generation will probably ask a lot, “You mean like the song, ‘My Name Is Luca’?” Which is a stupid thing to say, but anyway, that’s what I said. They’re at the hospital and were having breakfast when Myoung called. Mer and the baby are both fine and Myoung sounded quite happy. Well, I am glad that …

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Remote Control Warfare, Personal

Wired’s reporting about Virtual warfare again. How do you create an army who, worse than being pissed off racists, are so disengaged from reality that killing civilians in as easy as shooting characters on a screen? Turn killing civilians into an exercise of killing characters on a screen, of course! This is the new way soldiers will train for battle. In September, a select group of Army infantrymen, Marine corpsmen, Navy sailors, and Air Force pilots at Fort Sill will become the first military personnel to learn the art of combat and the rules of engagement from surround sound action …

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I SHOULD have gone to a clinic, I suppose

Back during camp, when I was feeling horribly sick, everyone told me to go to a clinic. Well, wait, no. Foreigners mostly just advised the same kind of thing that we usually advise: bed rest, sleep, lots of fluids, and time. But all the Koreans who knew of how sick I was advised that I see a doctor, just in case. Of course, I said, “No, no, you don’t need to go to the doctor for every little thing, you know! In my country,”I said arrogantly, “we don’t go to the doctor for every little problem.” Turns out they were …

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