Finally, only 3, no, wait, 4 months after I ordered them, the replacement shipment for my order from Cafe Press has arrived! I’m the proud new owner of… a bunch of cool t-shirts, including one of Kevin’s Dalma Daesa shirts, Adam’s Space Nazis in the Hollow Earth T-shirt, a Miskatonik University shirt (too bad nobody but me in my neighborhood gets the joke), an “I am a Rock Star in Korea” t-shirt (which, after all, was, in a very small-scale, cheesy, indie-rock way, true, though nobody will get the joke); a badly-printed Buddhabrot shirt, and a very cool Viridian T-shirt. …
Month: October 2006
Cow abductions
The truth is out there… very out there. (via Haakon from Culture List)
Research Your Choices!
I had an interesting talk with a student today, who was considering a career in a foreign country. (Go figure, she came and asked me for advice.) The thing I asked her, since she was clearly asking me for advice, was whether she’d researched either choice — the career, or the foreign country. Now, I started out just dubious about the career, because this particular career was one that has long been (and is still widely) considered a “damn good job”©right; by surprising numbers of Koreans, and a rather-not-so-good one just about everywhere else I’ve lived. But later, it turned …
Realer Down, Shoopahs Up Next
Whew! Well, I recently mentioned (warning, spoilers if ye dare follow ye linke) commencing work on this piece, and now I’ve finished (the redraft, though not all of the necessary polishing and darlings-killing) that’s one more “trunk” story totally disassembled and reassembled from the ground up… and it turns out I estimate the length within about 15 words (of actual wordcount, anyway): the current draft, which is v10.0, is 6484 words long, and I don’t anticipate much in the way of addition. There’s a minor subplot that might get axed — we’ll see whether the sprawl adds or detracts, depending …
“The Muslim Problem”
There’s an interesting post at The Cutting Edge called The Muslim Problem. The comments section gets a bit hairy, and illustrates one reason why it’s so difficult to talk about these issues — people seem to polarize very quickly and very powerfully on it — but the original post is quite interesting. (Via Ritu, and the comments section on her site is interesting too.)