One of the things about traveling is that it really reminds me how my personal comfort is ridiculously dependent on gizmos. Lime and I traveled up into Kangwon province, which is a pretty interesting place in some ways. We ended up spending most of our time in Sokcho, which is a town near the most northeastern point in South Korea. It was interesting because people did seem somewhat more chilled out there than in other places. They seemed more relaxed, and calmer; I wonder if the weather had anything to do with that? Perhaps… it was a lot cooler there …
Month: August 2006
Enjoyable Things…
Here I am, waiting for the travel agent to get back to me about tickets to Australia, and I’m sitting her stuck at home, and since I wrote two and a half flash pieces yesterday, I’m feeling, well, not quite like working on fiction at this moment. So I thought I’d post about some media things (books and movies) I’ve enjoyed lately, in reverse chronological order: Dil Se.., directed by Mani Ratnam and starring Shahrukh Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, and my unfathomably favorite Bollywood star, Preity Zinta. When I came back from India, I returned with a bunch of …
Heads Are To Story Ideas As Dryers Are To Socks
I went to a wedding in Saskatoon, and at the reception afterward, this guy I didn’t know, who was the apparent date of an ex-stripper in attendance, an ex-stripper I sort-of knew from way back when — she’d been in a dramatic production that I’d been in, a stage musical, before she got into striptease, and I never got along with her, partly because I found most of her friends total freaks… wait, anyway, most of that is irrelevant to the story. (And people wonder how come I churn out novellas, and tend towards long forms… It’s all about fixating …
DataHand
I’m starting to think I should start a category on this blog for gadgets I’d like to have. Tobias S. Buckell blogged about keyboard problems and a very enticing solution in the DataHand ergonomic keyboard. Check it out.
Singularity! – A Tough Guide to the Rapture of the Nerds
So Charles Stross is also sometimes a funny man. Go and see. I especially enjoyed the AD&D-styled stats.