These comments are now here very late, in repsonse to a post from September. Backlogs are like that. I’ve been reading the blog Katolik Shinja, by a Catholic fellow named Joshua who, like me, is living in Korea. Well, he’s often writing about all kinds of Catholic topics and I think he’s the most conservative Catholic I’ve ever come across, save one substitute teacher I met in high school. Well, recently he posted about gay marriage and “the Catholic perspective”, and I commented on his post and some of the comments he added to the post in response to some …
Month: October 2004
Habits, Schedule, and Like + Infinitive Activity Sheet
Yet another activity sheet, this one done up for the girls at the high school, using a bunch of common verb phrases and some question & answer patterns for expressing like or dislike of a given activity, frequency of the activity, and schedule of activity. It should take a good hour of class, and follow-up activities can be interviewing another kid in the class, making a daily schedule, (after teaching, “What do you after that/next?”) and anything else you can think up. Not pretty, but usable.
This Weekend’s Readings
The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis (1946) Towing Jehovah, by James Morrow (1994) In the last 24 hours I’ve finished these two books with rather radically different views on similar issues. I’m not sure how much I have to say about the different views except to say that I am certainly more comfortable in Morrow’s understanding of the world than Lewis’s, and that Morrow is certainly more respectful of different views than Lewis. Lewis tells a story of a visitor to Hell and Heaven. Though the traveler goes by bus from one realm to another, the mode of his writing …
And Then There Were Three
That’s what Myoung Jae said on Friday night, after I talked to the guys. Short version: I’ve left the band. Not easy, but something I felt necessary for me. No bitterness, no big fight, like the stupid way people leave bands on TV and in movies… no drama like that; just a kind of slightly sad, “See you later,” and a lot of gratitude that’s probably too unspoken, as I nonetheless turn my energies to other things. Long version follows:On Friday night the band had a practice, and I played as best I could though, with some of the new …
Aye, Robot
I didn’t get to Friday’s question on Friday because, well, I’ll write about that in my next post. For now, I’ll turn to the question, which is one of my own: Imagine that you had a robot custom-built for your home, but one of limited abilities. It is, after all, one of the first domestic bots ever built. Which five tasks, chores, or jobs would you have it configured for, if it were limited to five specific tasks? I’m assuming I’m living in an apartment basically like my own, though maybe a little bigger and with a separate room for …