Often it seems like you can’t get a forecast in English for Jeonju, the town where I live. A lot of online stuff uses only American military feeds, and the closest one here is in Kunsan, an hour away. But a few days ago I found this site, which offers weather information for Jeonju as well as several other major cities. I like how it breaks each day down into smaller periods and tells the chances of precipitation. Only problem is that for some reason the subpage for each city doesn’t seem to load in Firefox, so I have to …
Month: September 2004
How To Save the World
Usually capitalist-blogs turn me off. All that blather about how to “succeed” and not much thought about what constitutes “success”. Well, Dave Pollard’s How to Save the World is different. I was looking for an interesting article to link to, but there were so many I decided to just link to the whole blog. Go give it a look.
Ideological Teachers?
The usually somewhat more acute Kimberley Swygert at Number 2 Pencil disappoints me. Her reading of Christine Anne Inauen’s FrontPage magazine article Hijacking America’s Youth is rather blithe and uncritical. Inauen bemoans the horrors of her Catholic high school education, and concludes that: Intellectual abuse is repulsive at every level, but it is particularly outrageous when ideological teachers prey upon society’s youngest and most impressionable members. These cowards hide behind the guise of one of the most respected professions while taking advantage of their authority to stifle the curiosity of those entrusted into their care. For all that liberal teachers …
Keep Up, People!
As usual, Simon over at Simon World has another edition of Asia by Blog. It’s the easiest way to keep up with all kinds of news from all across the continent. And here’s a really interesting and well-written essay on American memory and forgetting, titled Nothing New In The World, presented by gareb in the journal The cultivation of a political Asian consciousness’. Finally, Sarong Party Girl wrote a very powerful love letter (full of bittersweetness, as the best love letters always are) to her parents that is worth reading. It made me think of what Lime told me after …
Practice Room Work
While I don’t like the fact that my Monday is chock full of holes (three one-hour classes, the first at 10:30am and the last running from 8:45-10:00pm), I do get a kick out of going to the practice room with a book of manuscript paper and chunking out chords until I’ve got a usable progression. I looked at something I attempted to write last year, and decided that, in fact, I was wrong to get angry when Seong Hwan claimed it was “a mistake”. What sounded like a sensible chord progression then suddenly sounded like a mess. But I could …
Finally Left Wing Christians in America are Doing Something
Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles is happy that there are Christians out there who are doing what he’s thought they should do for ages: in Take Action: God is Not a Republican. Or a Democrat, they’r admonishing partisan use of religion to garner votes. Good for them. I think the only deity who would approve of the Republicans would be Cthulhu, and I think even Loki would be embarrassed to get caught in some partisan battle in America. The following quote from Pat Robertson, on the main page, is painfully revealing: “I think George Bush is going to win in …
AFP, SIDS and Stillbirth
From Ritu, news on SIDS research. It seems that a study out of Cambridge is correlating high levels of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) in the mother’s blood during the second trimester with a higher chance of stillbirth or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS, also known as “crib death”). Lime and I recently had a disagreement about this, I claimed that (according to what I’d read a few years ago) it had been pretty conclusively shown that parents leaving their kids unattended contributed to most crib deaths (especially considering that SIDS is rare in a lot of countries where parents never leave infants …
Minor Update
It’s not a complete overhaul, it’s not even something I’ve applied to my subpages. The graphics aren’t even 100% up to snuff, given that one has a border and the others, save a white line on the bottom of one, don’t. But anyway, I decided to go ahead with it, and I think the concept looks good. See my departments panel in the sidebar? The old multicolored text graphic is gone and now there are photobuttons in its place, plus a minibanner for imagisme, my photoblog. I’ve also updated the RSS feeds option, and I think that’s all the minor …
What Happened To the Weekend?
The weekend’s over, waaah, I sob and whine to myself and roll over, now suddenly awake, and consult my only alarm clock: my cell phone. It’s 6:30 in the morning, and if I didn’t need to go to the bathroom so badly, I’d be asleep again in an instant; except that I do need the bathroom. Desperately. Last night, I fell asleep dizzy and weak from some kind of bad intestinal activity and, well, what do you know? It’s finally worked its way through me. So I write up the syllabuses (syllabi?) for my classes. It takes an hour. You …
Decided to upgrade
I was looking for a review on the newer version of Movable Type, trying to make up my mind about whether to upgrade my own blog software, and I found a wonderful review of MT 3.0 at Neil’s World and though it described version 3.0 (and is dated) I’m pretty much convinced. I wish I’d done this a while back. I was skeptical about it, especially because I didn’t want to have to delete one of the blogs I run (I have 4 right now, one of them a private notebook and the other three public) but since I’ve decided …