Your Inner European is French! Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything – at least, *you* think so. Who’s Your Inner European? Via Ritu, whose Inner European is Italian.
Category: PERSONAL
Some cool NPR stuff
Recommended by my co-worker Mike, this episode of American National Public Radio (NPR)’s This American Life is worth a listen. Did I ever mention I went to school with Jonathan Goldstein, who shows up on This American Life Sometimes? I did. And from my friend John, fun on NPR with Harvey Pekar. Anyone who tears into Wynton Marsalis for being uncreative, derivative, boring, uncreative, and overcelebrated—a Jazz Nazi, as an old friend of mine called him—anyone who publicly declares disgust with ol’ Wynton is alright by me.
Dixie? eh?
This is just a silly quiz I saw over at Adam’s blog, but I was curious. I REALLY don’t get the results: Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 15% Yankee 10% Dixie 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Yeah, I really don’t get that. See, I just speak Prairie Canadian English. Maybe my friends in Texas (and my Alabaman friend here in Korea) have had some effect one me? Hmmm.
Foreign Lands
I’m a thief. Yes, I am stealing an idea from Jodi’s Sex Bombs entry (though Asia Pages has moved to here, and you should update your links and go check it out). This post has a soundtrack. Open another window, or a tab in Mozilla, and then open this link. Then come back and read this. Or, watch the video, then restart the song. It’s a good video, vaguely environmentalist but also just compelling in itself. Okay… go do it. . . . . Right, you’ve back now, and you can hear that sweet music, the sound of the voices …
Gaaaa.
Yes, I know, everyone. My template sucks. I’ve been using it a long time, there are lots of little bugs in it, and I could fix it all, if I were conscientious enough. Here’s the thing: I’m not. I’m probably going to migrate over to WordPress in a couple of months, and it’s hard to convince myself to sink in all the time in would take to fix my template till then, when I could instead be developing a good one in WordPress. So, that’s what I’m going to focus on. So for every time you run into a missing …
Fighting The Influence
If you find this even remotely amusing… My name is Karl, and this is my blog. I have been fighting off the Psychic Invaders since early adolescence, and to do this I have had to mobilize my mind. My brain is criss-crossed with trenches of defence, and my soldiers are exhausted. Their numbers are running low. Many times, I have tried to get people to listen to my story, only to be rebuffed and called hurtful, hurtful names. For a long time, I have resolved myself to the fact that I am fighting this war alone. Sometimes, it seems like …
Time Paradoxes
Argh. I have this great time-travel story—very political, very much a possible tear-jerker, I think—and I’m sure once I figure out what to do with the damned time paradox problem that has stumped me, it’ll be even better for the struggle, but right now, it’s annoying the hell out of me. It doesn’t help that no book I’ve ever read has dealt with time travel and the attendant paradoxes in quite the way I mean to deal with them. Someone probably has done it before—it’s been argued that SF has been completely mined out, after all, though I don’t believe …
Argh
Damn, I woke early to get the chance to cycle to school on a Tuesday. I don’t often manage to do it when I have a morning class, but I disciplined myself to get enough sleep so that I can. But according to the service I use online for weather forecasting, the chances of rain are too high. Weather.com‘s online forecasting service is guessing 30% chance of rain, and it’s always been reliable. On horribly overcast days when it’s claimed 10% chance, the results have been borne out, usually, and it doesn’t rain all day long. So even though it …
From my sister
Yes, email from my sister brings images like this, my nephew Nate, who, like any baby, loves to use his mouth while exploring. I think the crib’s not going to be so delicious for him, though. I’m looking forward to meeting this fellow, along with the rest of my family, next time I’m in Canada. I’m hoping for summer, hoping hoping hoping! (PS: The photo is, I think, by my sister Marie, who’s become quite the photographer!)
The Thing About Technology, You See…
The Troll lumbered on over and posted again at my site. Just a little comment, I think meant as a taunt. Maybe to see if he could still post here. He managed to, but only because of a tiny mistake I’d made banning the link to his homepage. I’ve fixed it. What the Troll doesn’t know is that now his address is not only on my ban list, but is also wending its way onto a shared database (blacklist) of spammers’ web addresses. This means tons of blogs all over the world using the same blocking application will potentially, eventually, …