In the course of grading my midterms for Popular Culture in English Speaking Countries, I’ve learned the following: Bombay can also be spelled Bumbay or Bombai. “Elbiss Presly” (Preslley, Plesly, etc) was the King of Rock’n’Roll, and he died of glycosuria (and/or stress, and/or suicide) Indians love song and dance more than any other people, […]
I just watched Syriana, and found, well, entertaining enough. There were lots of plot threads running at once, and while they all kind of came together, I could see where they were headed, mostly, about halfway in. Still, some of the ideas bandied about in the movie were interesting, if a bit disturbing. How do […]
Finally got the workout tracker working… I had to give up on Miniblog, and anyway, am perhaps happier to have it just run through the same interface as all my other posts on this site. Why the heck not? It looks snazzy over in the sidebar, there, so I thought I’d mention it. Whee!
Was meeting Lime for a healthy Greek dinner in Seoul, and got to the gym a touch late, but it’s okay — trying to ease myself into this anyway. Pulled off 12 minutes actual running (7km/hr, but there were a couple of breaks in there), 10 minutes on the rowing machine at roughly 25-30 klicks, […]
I just finished reading Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. Its a graphic novel about the comic artist’s stay in Pyongyang in the mid-nineties, supervising an animation outsourcing project in Pyongyang. Fascinating.