If only I’d known how easy it is to make static subpages in WordPress, I’ve have shifted over long ago. My plan is to make a new template, slightly different from the “styles” offered here, to display some (or perhaps all) of the static pages I will build. I’ll offer selections of my fiction, verse, and nonfiction, some downloads of music featuring my sax playing, lots of interesting extra content, and more. This is gonna be cool. But… uh… I gotta sleep.
Category: PERSONAL
Textbook Thoughts
UPDATE (19 Dec. 2014): Speaking of Speech is still available: in fact, in a new edition. It’s been expanded, and now there’s a teacher’s guide, but I haven’t gotten a look at it. The original book was a bit Japan-specific, and I suspect it might rub some students the wrong way, but maybe that’s been eliminated from the more recent edition. In any case, you can see the newer book here. ORIGINAL POST: Alistair asked what textbooks I’m using in new courses this semester, and I typed out a rather long comment before I realized it would probably be better to …
A National Emergency
No, not in America. In Korea. The Onion-style. I’ve often thought about an expat-focused version of The Onion, and Peemil wrote an article that would fit into that absolutely perfectly: Korean Man Dislikes Kimchi Immensely: SEOUL: A nationwide emergency intervention is being planned to force Mr Bak to eat the nations signature food after it was revealed yesterday that he doesn’t like it. The allegations came to light while Mr Bak was attending dinner with work colleagues on Saturday evening. “I couldn’t believe it,” said Mrs Lee who is a colleague. “We were all sitting around the table discussing what …
MMORPG: Eve-Online – a massive multiplayer online roleplaying space game
So I spent the afternoon blundering away at my computer, trying to figure out why I couldn’t get the client for the EVE MMORPG running. I guess, in the end, it was a video driver issue, which is weird since I had the newest driver installed. But anyway, once I finally got it going, I found myself spellbound. Now, I’m one of the guys in the office who sits there shaking his head when people get into deep conversations about strategy for what I consider cheesy online military strategy games. When I hear the clarion call of cheap-sounding fake trumpets …
Deliciousnesses
From La Vieille Europe (which may be spelled wrong), a shop on St-Laurent in Montreal, I brought back to Lime some chocolates of the most unusual sort. They are made with really good-quality chocolate, but also with something unusual, whether spicy of just flavourful, ground up and mixed in. The company that makes them is a Belgian one called Dolfin and let me tell you, they spared no imagination when coming up with these flavours to mix in with their chocolate: Pink Pepper, Hot Masala, Early Grey, Aniseed, and Fresh Ginger are just a few of the flavours. The only …
Whew
Not only did I manage to import all of my old entries from eclexys, but I also have a set of categories from there. Whew, that ported over fine. Now the only problem–and it’s not so much of a problem, really–is a huge pile of unfinished draft posts that stare at me in the face every time I log into the writing section of this blog. Maybe I’ll blog back and finish a few of those, or maybe I’ll end up deleting some. Anyway… the blog is mostly back. And I’ve started using Elvgren as my template, for now. I’ll …
RSS?
Now, I’m just fiddling around trying to figure out why there’s not an automatic RSS feed here. Hmmm.
Hot Damn!
Well, as you can see, things around here are a bit different. My Movable Type installation choked on itself and died in the night, and the support guys at my service provider said they couldn’t fix it. So I had a choice, either to go pay some money for support, or to strike out into new territory… ie., to migrate to WordPress. Now, it’s not that I’m fundamentally opposed to paying for a product I use. I mean, I blog a lot, it’s a big part of my life. But… on the other hand, why pay for something when you …
If you Haven’t Read Bruce Sterling…
Heavy Weather, then you may not need to in the future. I’ve been out of the news loop for a while now, at least since camp, but when I heard people talking about this in the office, it sounded like it was out of that novel. Disaster, flooding and looting, the climate-driven breakdown of civilized society in the southern States… it’s all just a little too SFnal for my taste in news, let me tell you.
An Impromptu Rap
Saw one of my laziest students ever barrelling down the street in his car, blasting hip-hop, and this little rap took form in my mind. It’s not nice. If you’re likely to complain, don’t read the extended section. I don’t want to hear whining, complaints, or protestations.