Not only because Kevin’s link to thi post by C. Buddha, either? Today, I met Lime in Hong Ik and we had dinner — Vietnamese — and a coffee. She’s very much enjoying the Korean translation of the Jared Diamond book I got for her, and she returned the giftiness with some nice Korean CDs from Purple Records. After that, we went our separate ways, she to the hospital and I to Bucheon. I had considered taking the slow train to Bucheon, and just sitting and reading, but thought, oh, if I catch the Rapid train to Dongincheon, which stops …
Month: November 2006
The Resurrection of the Phone
My phone died a nasty little death a few days ago. At first, it just started dropping calls. Then it started turning itself off at random times. Finally, it wouldn’t turn on at all. This was a little distressing. Suddenly I was out of touch with Lime, who works on the other side of town. I was out of touch with the office, which is bad because there’s a tendency for news to reach me at the last minute. I was out of touch with anyone who didn’t send me an email. And, then again, in some ways, distressing wasn’t …
Heard on the Subway
I was on the subway with Lime last night — she dropped into town by chance and I just happened to get my malfunctioning phone working and call her before she gave up and left — and we heard the funniest conversation, or rather, one side of it. The young woman sitting beside her said, “… soju dubeyong…” in the most gleeful tone. Lime translated the conversation this way: “Well, if you got yourself a job, you could eat like me. I have a bunch of nice seafood for dinner, and two bottles of soju, and then some coffee, and …
Adrian On Religion
I highly recommend Adrian’s post at Mssv titled On Religion. Thoughtful thoughts from a interesting atheist point of view, one I generally agree with, and more and more as I think about it over the years. (I’ll be referencing this when I post about what I said in my Popular Cultures in English Speaking Countries class when we discussed the concept of “the White Man’s Burden” and colonialism and racism in historical and modern Australia.)
The Top 50
Ganked offa Kat Dancing. “This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put an asterisk* beside the ones you loved.” I’m also going to use the bold text markup to indicate how much of the unfinished books I’ve actually read. 1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien* — I started read this flying over the Arctic Ocean my first time coming to Korea, and finished it later that year. …