Well, I got a chair from these guys and it turned out to be a great investment. You can glomp around on their website and see the way it works, but basically, it adjusts to your pelvis, and lets your pelvic bones adjust so that there’s less pressure on the area. It’s not only turned out to be good for the lower body, but also for the back… my posture’s a little better, and my back is loosening up, despite my still spending somewhat too much time in the chair. Worth it, if you’re spending a lot of time writing. …
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Currently Reading…
I forgot to mention, I’m taking a little break from Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee… great book, but sometimes I stop in the middle of such books to process. In the meantime, I’ve been tearing through Bruce Sterling’s Visionary In Residence (and catching up on the bits of Crystal Express I hadn’t read until now), and I also had a go at some of the early stories in Rudy Rucker’s collection Gnarl!. I have a couple of stories left unread in Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life, though I look forward to getting back to that book, and tonight, I …
Shirts Have Arrived!
Finally, only 3, no, wait, 4 months after I ordered them, the replacement shipment for my order from Cafe Press has arrived! I’m the proud new owner of… a bunch of cool t-shirts, including one of Kevin’s Dalma Daesa shirts, Adam’s Space Nazis in the Hollow Earth T-shirt, a Miskatonik University shirt (too bad nobody but me in my neighborhood gets the joke), an “I am a Rock Star in Korea” t-shirt (which, after all, was, in a very small-scale, cheesy, indie-rock way, true, though nobody will get the joke); a badly-printed Buddhabrot shirt, and a very cool Viridian T-shirt. …
More Writing Stuff
Oddly enough — or perhaps not surprisingly at all — the current political situation over here got me thinking about what exactly I was trying to say in my Northeast-Asian Superheroes story. While a lot of the plot-elements are actually remaining, there’s a slight bit of shuffling in terms of who occupies which place in relationship to the main character, a beleaguered private-sector-employed South Korean superhero. The resolution, which was eluding me for the longest time — since my return from Seattle to Korea roughly eight weeks ago — has finally, sort-of, fallen into place. I wish it were under …
Mr. Boechler
Thoughts have bubbled up in the wake of a post by Stephanie. So I had this gym teacher in middle school — I think from 7th to 8th grade — named Mr. Boechler. I heard when I was in 9th grade that he had been promoted to vice-principal at some small-town school, which seemed about right to me since in my experience, vice-principals are often mentally ill, violent assholes. Maybe the job makes them that way, but every one I’ve directly dealt with behaved like a petty Mussolini on the job. Anyway, this Boechler guy, he was this hulking thug …
whitney music box
The very cool Shawn Scarber emailed a bunch of us something too good to miss: whitney music box takes me back to the days when I studied electronic music. We had a very early synthesizer in the Electronic Music Studio, a room that had gone unmarked for years at the University of Saskatchewan. I swear, the synthesizer looked like something out of Star Trek — you controlled it with cables and pins stuck into various appropriate-sized sockets all over the front. I did nearly nothing with it, though some of the guys in years following mine spent hours in there …
Fitness and Chicken Soup
So when I attended this party here at work a few days ago, I mentioned how I couldn’t get into the campus fitness center, and it was explained to my just why. They lock up the place, and to get in, you need to borrow a key from the security guard. Nico, who lives upstairs, told me that he went with his son a fair number of times last semester, and that they were almost always alone while there. It’s accessible all week long, apparently, though Nico said it’s locked on the weekend. Showers, lockers, a lot of great gear… …
I Know What I Said But…
Until yesterday, the way I organized my writing was horrible. I had a series of finalized folders up to various dates, each one of them holding writing from different periods, each period organized in a different way. The main categories were Fiction, Poetry/Songs, and Essays & Other. But within each folder was a bewildering bunch of different folders classifying works in various different ways, and all in all, it was a horrible useless mess to track, to dig through, and to manage in general. So I sat down and rearranged most of it in a few hours yesterday afternoon. I …
Documentary on Disbelief
After a long silence, the exxcellent Marvin of The Electric Smack Shack has posted links to Jonathan Miller’s wonderful documentary A Rough History of Disbelief, which apparently is available on Google video. Highly recommended.
Cheazoid DVDs and a funny T-shirt and thoughts on an old article and airline security
So while I was in Itaewon picking up shirts — short-sleeved shirts, I’m low on them, really, and it’s still warm enough for me to want some for work — I ended up dropping by the Halal food shop, actually one of them, because there are a few, and picked up some Bollywood DVDs. One of them, “Death Walks At Midnight/Aatma”, is totally worthless: it’s two CD-Rs with about 30 minutes of video on each. Krrish/Na Tum Jaano Na Hum are both cinema-rips and when I tried to play them in Totem, the subtitles were wonky — they started at the middle …