Yes, it seems people out there truly want to be mocked in a public forum! On my entry here, a review of Jonathan Spence’s The Question of Hu, an entertaining little text which is also a great introduction to Spence’s approach to Chinese history, one Anthony Dawkin (let’s assume he can spell his own name, even if he cannot think) deemed to pronounce his well-considered judgment on the worthiness of the text spew his uninformed, microcephalic un-opinion onto the blogosphere to nauseate as many people as possible: Anthony Dawkin | at 2:14 AM | 2008/09/18 | 68.179.147.205 I would …
Month: September 2008
Forecast, Flash Update
UPDATE (18 Sept 2008): As Charles notes in the comments, the website now loads in Firefox, and even in Linux! I suspect this is a result of my having emailed a brief comment about it to the convention director, who emailed me just now to check if it was working for me after the fix. :) In any case, it was fixed impressively quickly, though the PDFs apparently remain inaccessible to on a Windows installation without Korean language installed. I’ll post here if and when that gets fixed, and pull my mirror file below. Forecast: scattered posting ahead. I’ve got …
Korea Herald Essay — Published?
UPDATE (17 Sept 2008): Aha, I’ve just gotten an update and the series of which my article is a part will run from the 23rd-25th of September, that is, next weekend. Keep your eyes peeled, I guess! An edited version of these posts (mostly the first one) was supposed to appear in the Korea Herald around the end of last week. I check the editions for the dates I was told, and there was nothing. Anyone seen it? If you have a copy lying around, please don’t toss it. I’d love a copy. It was supposed to be in the …
Surface-to-Troll Smackdown
If you troll my site, I will delete your comment unreplied to, unless it’s worth posting in a post of its own for a little mockery and hack’n’slash, because heaven knows on a long day, that’s a great stress reliever. Frex, the following comment that showed up on this post. Anon | 98.218.151.45 | 2008/09/16 http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/02/10/62-knowing-whats-best-for-poor-people/?cp=46 I have a couple of things to say about that.
골프 영어 학원?
(Trans. “Golf English Cram School”?) It could have happened. Responding to protests, the Ladies Professional Golf Assn. announced Friday that it would back down on suspending golfers who do not speak adequate English, reversing a controversial decision that had thrown the organization smack into the nation’s long-running culture wars. The LPGA Tour had announced last month that it would suspend golfers who could not speak English in media interviews, acceptance speeches and tournaments by 2009, saying that language fluency was critical to the sport’s promotion and marketing efforts. The action occurred as foreigners have increasingly come to dominate women’s golf, …