This is one of the weirdest food/tech combinations I’ve ever heard of…
Category: PERSONAL
And I Hate His Damned Lasagna Too
Ugh. This is why I will never, ever buy another Garfield product as long as I live. I always wondered how this crappy comic survived so long. Now I know: it’s because it’s crap. From somewhere on CrazyKimchi’s page…
Whoops, I did it again…
For those who are following it for whatever reason they may be interested in doing so, I’ve posted again, in Korean, over at Let’s Learn Korean. This time I wrote about my struggle to find a comic book I could actually read in Korean, and how I finally succeeded in finding one called “순정 만화”. From what I can tell, the title is a pun on two possible meanings: “Simple comic book” and “boy-meets-girl comic book”. Lime actually recommended it to me, though in online form; I stumbled upon the hard copy version, much to my delight. It’s the first …
Seolnal Resolutions
When 2005 began, I didn’t make any resolutions for the year. To be honest, I was simply too ill and too busy to get on it. The holiday season is just so loaded with things I need to do, that I simply never got around to it. Well, since today is the Lunar New Year, and a day when almost everyone I know is busy, I had the day to myself. I decided I would do up a list of resolutions for the Lunar New Year and see how far I get with them. I don’t tend to make resolutions …
Weird Expat Romance Rumors
Over at Ahssa!, you can read a sample of the kind of story that every expat hears at least once while living abroad: the strange romance gossip story. These kinds of stories are inescapable, really. Everyone has at least heard at least one, and most of us have firsthand experience something as weird as this. I’m no exception.
Human Pride
Everyone’s favorite Big Hairy Hominid linked to this wonderful little piece about being
Some publishing hoaxes…
Some publishing hoaxes, like the Sokal Hoax (see Sokal’s own archive), are somewhat sel;f-righteous in trying to tar a whole group of disciplines by finding the weakest link in the chain and exploiting it, instead of joining with the people in the field who are doing good, worthwhile work and boosting their efforts. (Sort of like using those crackpots who believe in cold fusion to damage the credibility of all scientists.) What’s more, it’s not just humanities academics who are to blame for this state of affairs. But courtesy of Metafilter, check out this hilarious scifi hoax, Atlanta Nights. Great …
Files and Ape Love
From Marginal Revolution today, a couple of interesting posts: some thoughts about illegal file-sharing, and another case in which nice guys finish last.
Brush!
From Japundit, another good reason to brush your teeth…
Mengele’s letters and the nature of human evil
The strangest thing people can be confronted with is the banality of evil. Via EastSouthWestNorth, the news comes that several letters of Auschwitz’s Dr. Mengele have surfaced in Brazil. And they’re pathetic, boring, not the kind of thing we expect from a true mad scientist. Which is the thing, really. Evil isn’t all glittery and glamourous and magical; it’s human, it’s middle-aged and bald, it misses walking in its hometown, it relishes strudels on a Sunday afternoon. Evil doesn’t look like a devil; it just looks like a stranger.