Well, it’s 6:45 and the 닭도리탕 is finished but Lime isn’t. She’s still at the hospital doing, well, some kind of doctorey stuff. It strikes me as funny that with an anglophone accent, “D’ak Dori Tang” sounds like the word “Doctorey Tang”. Well, while I’m killing time, I’ll point out this goodie: Found magazine has tons of amusing or interesting found objects for you to browse. Maybe I’ll subscribe to the actual paper magazine someday…
Month: June 2005
Women Doctors of the East
Well, it seems that the British are losing their taste for tea, but developing a preference for female Asian doctors. Interesting…
Korean cookin’
Here are some great Korean Recipes. They look as if they’ve been modified somewhat, calling for ingredients easier to find outside of Korea, but those of you who’ve cooked Korean before can probably substitute things at will. There are literally months’ worth of recipes to explore here. I’m making 닭도리탕 (d’ak dori tang) tonight.
Five (or Six) Principles of Educational Reform For Korea’s Future
This week’s F5 question comes from the inimitable Dan: A train leaves Chicago at 3pm travelling south towards New York at 80 pounds per hour. Meanwhile, a car leaves London on Tuesday, heading towards Los Angeles at 3.5 meters per sterling pound. When the two meet, a hapless high school student will realize he’s never going to get into college. Before that happens, suggest five ways in which your local school system could be improved to better prepare students for either college or the real world or both. (Bonus points for someone who can tell me when the train and …
BoingBoingery
Look: Peter Jackson’s got an automated band in a box. Seriously! With banjos! What does it look like to be hit by a tornado? Now you can know. Enron sucks, but these social network analyzer tools can tell us in what way they got their suckage done. There’s lots of use in these things, I’m sure. Some of them scare me. Read: This article in which David Byrne considers the effect of recording on music. Some good points in there. Finally, this machine can replicate itself, they say. We SF geeks have been waiting for the big announcement for years, …
A Damned Fine Thing
It is usually with very little delay that I post about negative experiences, especially negative experiences involving bureaucracies. This is understandable because Bureacracies are the perfect hiding place for morons and passive-aggressives. Dealing with such people, when they are in a position where their “decisions” and “mistakes” can affect your life in really significant ways, is extremely frustrating. Dealing with bureaucracies in foreign countries, especially countries famed for sloppy procedure and last-minute rushing, is even more frustrating. But I decided a while back that I would also write about positive experiences, and despite the fact that my local bureaucracy—the department …
Happy Nappy
Some friends were researching possible names for a diaper club/service name, and they googled Happy Nappy. Now, if you know British English, you know that nappy means “diaper” in NorAmSpeak. Happy Nappy sounded innocent and cute enough, they thought, and I would tend to agree. A terrible rhyme but fine as a business name. Some fetishists seem to have thought so too. (Safe for work, but not for your mind.) Yes, somewhere in Kent, Southeast England, there is a nursery where you, an adult, can go and be dressed up like a baby, in a real diaper that you can …
The Angry Pedestrian
The following is angry. Cusses and such. Deal with it. If you cannot confront anger then you are a child. Go read Dr. Seuss or something. Because I’ve finally come to the conclusion that my hatred of the car is in full-bloom, pathological or not. This is a rant, and I may disagree with parts of it as soon as tomorrow. But for now, I mean it from my heart. I am an angry pedestrian, and today I figured out why. I bitch about Korean drivers, and yeah, a lot of people drive (even when stone-cold sober) as if they’re …
Things From Today
Here are some things from today: School Things My board usage isn’t that good. I mean that I often don’t organize how things will appear on the board very well, on the spot, and I don’t tend to plan it out much. This isn’t usually a problem, since I tend only to put vital information up and tend to erase a lot as we go along. I usually don’t have to put more than a couple of sentence structures and a list of words to use with them up at one time, if that. But when outlining an exam for …
Pini Blog
If the names Richard and Wendy Pini don’t ring a bell, you probably won’t need to follow this link; if the names are familiar, yes, they have a blog. And they’re still working on stories set in the same world. (Not my kind of thing, but I suppose some people liked it, and I guess I did for a short stretch as a kid.) I tell you, sooner or later everyone will have a blog. Everyone. Including you, if you don’t yet have one.