The Highly Esteemed Peemil links to Chase me, ladies, I’m in the cavalry, where some very amusing polls can be found. Go vote on them. For the record, I think if I were trapped on a desert island with the Spice Girls and had to resort to cannibalism, Sporty Spice would be the first to go. The meat would just be a little leaner. I mean, if you gotta be a cannibal, do it the healthy way, right?
Month: October 2005
What Would You Be If You Were An RPG Character?
On seeing the static page If I Were An RPG Game Character, I’d Be…, Shawn commented that it’d be really cool if I did one up for each other person in the office. Well, the thing is, I have no time to do such a thing, nor do I have the inclination. But I do think that it’d be neat to see how others represent themselves as characters for various RPG games. There’s something about filling out a character sheet with your own statistics that is very… I don’t know, it involves some careful and honest thinking about yourself. So …
Charlie’s Still At It
Yes, Charlie has doggedly continued on his adventure around the edge of Australia. He’s currently working his way through searing hot desert, or so the email says. Look at this guy. This guy would cycle up a mountain if bikes were made to do that kind of work. He’d zoom past sherpas and mountain goats, pedaling like a madman just to say he’d crested the peak. You might think I’m exaggerating here, but I’m not. I’m really not. Charlie’s always been an exceptionally good friend to me, and now to see him succeeding in something that is, by any measurement, …
Animals in a horror world of our making – Paul Sheehan – Opinion – smh.com.au
Regular reader Mer passed on a link to this article: Animals in a horror world of our making, which deals with “Voiceless”, an Australian human-treatment-for-animals group seeking to deliver facts and implicit moral choices instead of shrill politics and condemnations common to the animal rights movement. And it also tells the story of an interesting Chef in Paris who’ve gone non-meat and whose cuisine is low-impact, organic, and as fresh as you can get anywhere.
훌연 (Hul-yeon) 훈련 (Hun-ryeon)
It’s rare that I title a post with a word I’m not necessarily sure is right, but appropriate in this case. A couple of Fridays ago, as I was preparing to leave for a conference in Seoul, I noticed that there was a lot of strange activity going on all around me. More fighter jets than usual soaring around; traffic all over the city blocked for some incomprehensible reason. When I asked one security guard what was happening, the incomprehensibly mumbled string of words ended with a couple of repeated statements of what sounded like 훌여 or 훌연… (Update: which …