Though they seemed a great boon at the time when we acquired them, I’m starting to think the humungoid 3-piece wardrobe set Lime and I got for free is a bit of a millstone around our necks at the moment. I managed to move the small one into the new place alone, but the big ones are hard to move. I certainly cannot get the one inside my apartment out alone. A neighbour from down the hall helped me try to move the big one from the public lounge into the new place, and we couldn’t even get it in …
Category: ASIDES
Planetocopia
My online buddy Adam recently blogged this very cool site: PLANETOCOPIA. Tons of worldbuilding craziness, including both alternate earths and places far more removed. I’ll be delving for a while…
Seven Questions
Ganked from Canadian girl out and aboot (tho I wasn’t tagged): 1. Name a book that you want to share so much that you keep giving away copies. Um… the last book I was buying and giving away was… let’s see… Bruce Sterling’s Holy Fire, maybe? I have bought a number of different books by Greg Egan and given them away. Lately, it’s been books from the Portable Korean Library series of translations of short stories. And then of course there’s Daughters Are So Wonderful, the book I helped translate combatting the still evident preference for male children in Korean …
Sweaty Basketball Players
I don’t know who Tim Hardaway is, or why she shot off his mouth about hating gay people, but I gotta say I’m impressed by George Takei, not only for standing up and saying something, but doing it in a brilliant, funny, and empowered way.
Are YOU Ready to Leave Korea?
Honestly, I’m not — though some of that’s related to Lime — but this quiz was funny all the same, even though sometimes I had to struggle to choose an answer (for reasons similar to those of this commenter at Marmot’s). (See below the cut.)