Adrian Hon recently posted about a mind-bending little dice puzzle called Petals Around the Rose. It’s a damned brain-melter, for some people: he figured it out in a few minutes, but as I mentioned in the comments on his site, I gave up after half an hour and looked up a cheat. Bad me, but when I saw the cheat I knew I wouldn’t have thought of the solution for weeks, if ever, at least not using dice online. (Don’t be fooled, the straight line pattern you see on the simulators is not necesary or important.) If you want to …
Month: February 2005
Where Are Your Temples To Democracy, America?
State’s rights be damned: if the machines don’t work, the system doesn’t work. I hate to break it to you, but—even considering how difficult it is to negotiate this kind of thing between two different parties, and all—if America cannot make sure that there are decent, working machines in every county in the country, then the myth of America’s love of democracy is a goddamned sham. Put your money where your mouth is, Washington. And hey, States: quit clinging to this fake “rights” crap. It’s a pathetic excuse for all kinds of rigging, all kinds of mediocrity. I’ve written before …
Another Reason Not To Be Proud Of My Homeland
Sometimes, in Korea, Canadians get a little uppity about how wonderful Canada is. Maybe it’s a function of always being asked, “Are you American?” or hearing the Korean word for American—me-gook—at every turn, uttered by kids, college students, parents of kids, and even old folks as soon as we come into view. Personally, I find that less irking than the way that all conversations suddenly seem to hinge on the issue of English study… how suddenly everyone in the cafe is talking about the best way to study English, and what their last foreign English teacher was like, and all …
About The Bush Program
Nothing to add to this: MBLOG: Just Poor Kids Fighting A Rich Man’s War. It’s not quite a political cartoon, but it’s better than most you see anyway.
More Films
It must be some kind of overdose or something. In the last four days, I’ve seen four more films that I want to write about here. The first two were Korean movies I watched with Lime: 오!브fk더스 (Oh! Brothers) was a comedy that was, as Korean comedies go, one of the better ones I’ve seen. It was a kind of goofy version of Rain Man, but the long-lost brother had Progeria, not autism, meaning he was twelve years old but had the body of an adult, and was put to work by his brother collecting money for the mob. I …