Yes, March 4th was my birthday. I’m posting on the 5th, but only barely. I had no classes, but I hiked the mountain and the most entertaining moment was running into a crazy Christian lady who segued so suddenly to “Do you believe in Jesus? Believe in Jesus so you can go to Heaven!” than I was confused — I thought she was talking about art, as the Korean word for art sounds similar to how Koreans say the name “Jesus.” She thought I didn’t know who Jesus was, and immediately pantomimed the scouring, crown of thorns, and crucifixion. Finally, …
Month: March 2009
Project Online Grocery Ordering: Success! (#1?)
Well, I promised an update when I finally managed to make an online grocery order all on my own, and today, that was my biggest achievement. The lucky site was…. Emart. As I related a while back (first here, then here), Homeplus rapidly fixed one text field on its website when Lime ranted about how I wasn’t able to register, and then was told, “Oh, sorry, nothing can be done!” and then emailed the Korean Head Office. (Suddenly a software change was possible… but it was sloppy, and while foreigners now can register at Homeplus/Tesco, they can’t actually buy anything, …
Ugh!
Okay, turning on the Lifestream updates thing on my blog was a mistake. I can’t delete the one that was posted — even after turning the plugin off, it seems locked somewhere I cannot edit — but anyway, that won’t be happening again. Yuck!
Lifestream Update for The Day
Catch up with my various feeds, if you’re not following them already. (I won’t do this regularly, but it seems I can’t delete this now!)
Things to Post About
Last night at the launch of the Seoul Science Fiction & Fantasy Library — an amazing project I’ll post about soon — the writer/translator Jeong So-Yeon reminded me that I hadn’t yet posted about our experience at SOAO Workshop up on Sobaeksan, which has prompted me to write this post of things I need to post about soon. Not all of them are related to SF in Korea, but a few are. The KASI/SOAO workshop on Sobaeksan The Seoul Seoul Science Fiction & Fantasy Library An article idea on the social economics of reputation and the translation of genre literature …