Oh, Lime would have loved to have gone to this. Too bad Texas is too far away, even for November.
Month: September 2005
Hardass Code Monster
Okay, not really, but I did muck around with php files for the first time today. I worked for ten hours on a friend’s website. It’s going to be located at www.cahootsmagazine.com but it’s not up yet… the holding page, designed by the layout designer because I took to long to get the WordPress installation going, is what you see there now. (My page should be up by the end of the week, though, so if you dally, you may not see the holding page it replaces.) The magazine, by the way, is being launched by some old friends of …
Friggin’ Cool
Well, Lime and I had a couple of days in the country, which were really nice except for the bathroom. The number of times I say that in Korea makes me a little bit sad. If only people conceived of bathrooms as rooms that people actually use, that people should be able to stretch, move, relax, and actually clean themselves effectively in, life would be a lot more comfortable and sweet here. But anyway, we went for a couple of walks, saw some movies—the little cottage we stayed in had a TV with a cable setup—and had some good food. …
It’s Chuseok,And You Know What That Means
It means tons of hours-long traffic jams—even on the nation’s highways— grocery stores basically full of people, bank ATMs running out of money, and general craziness till sometime next Tuesday. For me, Chuseok isn’t such a special time. I mean, I can grasp how it means a lot to people here; though it’s more like Thanksgiving in North American culture in terms of the content and practices of the holiday, it’s an event that matches Christmas on the Western scale… the biggest holiday of the year. I understand that. I just don’t really feel it. For me, it’s more like, …
‘nother good link
I need to add BOOKFORUM to my list of links worth checking out even though they don’t have an RSS feed.