So, Merry Christmas to everyone out there who happens upon this. You shouldn’t be online today, you should be with people you care about, doing something else. Okay, I’m one to talk. But I just saw Lime off. Christmas, you see, is her birthday. So after a long day of running around town, I made her a dinner—she requested pasta—and opened some presents from one another and my folks. My folks sent a lot of great stuff, including wonderful girly skin creams and the like. I got her a few nice surprises, too. Lime got me the greatest presents, too: …
Month: December 2004
The Book Was Better
Marvin‘s F5, a day late and a few dollars short: “The movie isn’t as good as the book,” is a phrase we hear a lot. Describe five movie moments?in movies adapted from books, plays, or stories?that could or should have been done better, in your humble opinion. Oh boy. THis is a tough question, because, well, I usually don’t read books upon which movies have been based. You see, I’m an incredibly slow reader, and so I have a huge backlog of books I want to read. When a “classic story” shows up as a movie, I often see the …
Pictures! Go Look!
Yes, I finally got up the last batch of pictures from the last few months up over at my photogblog, imagisme. Whew! These pictures include all kinds of things, such as: the last gig I played as a member of Dabang Band (no pics of us, just the other bands), filed under Bandmates and Music Stuff photos from daily life around Jeonju, filed under Jeonju City photos from my workplace, which are filed under Office Life photos from a trip Lime and I made to check out the autumn leaves at KyeongCheon Mountain, filed under Autumn 2004 some new pics …
Mr. Nathaniel
Here’s a pic of my nephew Nathaniel, now at three and some-months. If only plane tickets were cheap. Ah well, maybe this summer I can meet him.
Over at Metanoiac
I followed a trackback to a post on my writing class (which is now history, like the rest of my classes from last semester—yay!) and discovered an interesting Foreigner-in-China Blog called Metanoiac. Among the articles were links to the following: 33 Reasons Why you shouldn’t post your picture on the internet a link to a piece about a rapping flight attendant who wants asshole passengers to know that they’re not God. I like the attitude, even if I can’t understand a word of it. Some absolutely crazy menu stuff, even better than I used to see in Iksan where the …
Today…
I received the W25,000 ($25 CDN) used bookcase that I bought last night. Delivery was free. I spent a few hours this evening rearranging stuff from the one jammed-full bookcase and the floorspace surrounding it, to the second bookcase. I have a feeling that I am correct that using a second bookshelf to store my stuff will make cleaning house regularly less of a chore… because there will be less to pick up from the floor and move when I want to sweep and mop. I rediscovered what it’s like to have a drawer for “stuff”. Until recently, I’ve had …
On Ethics, Evolution, and Crap Like That
Where do morals come from? If they’re not emanations of absolute truth that mystically arrive in human minds, well, then, where do they come from? Watch me take a stab at that question.
Know When To Quit
A couple of days late on the F5 this week, but Dan asked: Some folks don’t know to quit when they’re ahead. As such, there have been some really bad sequels, trilogies, and series installments foisted upon a soon-to-be-disillusioned fan-base. So, which are the worst five cases of N+1 when they should have stopped at N? I’m mostly thinking of books and movies, though some other form would be acceptable. Also, is there anything you would have done to fix the sequel short of erasing it from existance? Well, now, I’m not really into series in books, or perhaps in …
Philosophy, Such As Perhaps It Is…
I’ve posted a new bit of philosophical writing over at the New Sophists’s Almanac. It’s a refutation of a Catholic argument against abortion, which is funny because I myself am not all that crazy about it… but I do question the way which people choose to fight abortion. If you’re curious, go have a look…
Gaaaaaa.
I sometimes really hate provincialism in computer programmers. I finished calculating all of my students’ grades this evening, and decided to enter them into the University system using my home computer, which of course has an English OS installed. What do you know, but once I finally managed to get into the system, it’s running a script that won’t load on my OS. Why this is, I don’t know, but the way the thing is coded, it will only run on Korean-only machines. I mean, I have Korean installed on this computer, and all, it’s just that the default language …