Activity in Other Places

I’m trying to get back into other side-projects of mine, and two of them I’ve tested out… (I can’t say I’ve dived in, but I did put a toe in the water to see what the temperature was like.) I’m back to scratching my head at New Sophists’ Almanac. And I’m trying to make real sentences that make real sense over at the 한국어 연습장. Trying was operative word in that sentence there.

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Is this a surprise?

I took the Blogging Personality Quiz at About Web logs and I am… The WriterWords captivate me. And, I like to capture words. Blogging enables me to write often. It also provides a place for me to share what I write with a reading public. I can be funny, inspiring, intelligent, cynical, or morbid. It doesn’t matter what I write about in my blog. It only matters that I write. via Blinger.

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The Coming Cull

It seems the biggest distraction I’ve found for myself to avoid finishing my novel is catching up on my RSS feeds. I have 300-some of them, so it’s a big job, since I let them accumulate since about last August. A lot of them, I’ve just binned, but many more I’ve decided to wade through, just to see what my favorite bloggers have been posting about in the last few months. But I’ve come to the conclusion that with that many blogs in my blogroll, I’m not going to be able to keep up with them all, and also do …

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Wong Kar-Wai rocks

I wondered what this movie was all about when I saw it advertised in the Now Playing poster racks near the theaters here in Jeonju. I’m quite sure I’d have understood nothing if I’d seen it at a cinema here, but this trailer for Won Kar-Wai’s 2046 is very, very promising. I love his work already, and I can’t wait till this is out on DVD so I can check it out at a local DVD-방.

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They’re Made out of Meat

I’m not sure which of the SF blogs in my blogroll I found this on, but anyway, it’s a good little short story that explains why we’re all alone in the universe. Well, it’s one explanation. Me, I favour the notion of galactic-scale natural disasters as a likely explanation, since very simple and not-uncommon cosmic events could wipe out life on a huge scale, and rather regularly, too. But They’re Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson is a much more amusing possibility.

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