This is the weirdest writing I have ever seen on computers and knowledge. The idea of memes is basically one of the materialist’s most powerful arguments against Christianity, after all – for memes claim religion is an idea-complex virus just like fashion and art and anything else. How can one use memes to defend religious ideas? I don’t get it. I hope this person got some medication or psychotherapy or something.
Category: GENERAL
Back from Seoul
I am back from Seoul and having a hard time getting my computer to behave. It’s semi-stable, but there are little functions that are not working, to my great consternation. Anyway, I’ll get it working. Gotta de-frag the drive and I am thinking about getting a new, bigger hard drive. But I’ll need to make some specifications before buying it, since my PC doesn’t have a floppy disc drive (so I will need BIOS installed on it, or on a CD-ROM anyway… which might be possible, I don’t know, to install BIOS from a CD-ROM. I shall have to ask …
Nice Things From This Week
Here are some nice things that happened this week: – I ate Tang Su Yuk (“Chinese fried pork”, Koreans claim this is) without getting ill. It was what gave me food poisoning three (3!) times last year but I worked up the courage to try it again when the school put some out after teacher training finished. I did NOT get sick. I am pleased. – I managed to get this computer working again (I think), which is nice despite the fact I lost months and months of email archives. – My friend Young Ja helped me not only to …
Teacher Training One-Liners
For now I have no photos to share, and I may not for a while (since they were taken on film and I need to get Trisha her scanner very soon), but yesterday we marked the final exam for the teacher training workshop we gave at Wonkwang University. The test consisted of a role play in which teachers were supposed to use a number of spoken-English elements from previous classes. Some amazing things happened, including a skit where one of the other teachers was lampooned with loving respect, and where I (for whatever reason) was played as a gangster killer …
Letters to Bushie
UPDATE (much later): Yeah, I never got around to scanning them, and it seems like the rest of the world figured out what these little kids knew at the time. So, whatever… ORIGINAL POST: During the recent Gulf War, I think a number of teachers had their students write letters in English to George Bush. I did, partly because kids brought it up in class, and because we were doing a section of their textbook on letter-writing, but also because I was curious to see what they would say. I still have the letters my kids wrote on my desk, …