Got a Kick Out Of…

A few things I got a kick out of in the last few days: Seeing a drunken old man jogging in place on the express commuter train out of Seoul. He jogged for ten or fifteen minutes, stopped, rolled his head around for a while, then jogged some more. I seemed to be the only person taking any notice at all of his performance. It was amusing. Seeing my name on a few of the “Here’s who I nominated!” lists for the Hugos and Campbell Award. I didn’t see a lot of these, but I saw a few, which is …

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Super Expat Man

Ganked from an old post at Seoul Daddy. What can I say except it’s a stereotype for a reason? (Though there’s another stereotype lurking in there — the angry expat woman — which is also, well, a stereotype for a reason.) Or maybe archetype is the word I’m really thinking of? An archetype that gets taken up and roleplayed, in some cases? Hmm. Makes me think of Graham Greene novels, now…

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Various Bitlets

I’m subscribed to a couple of hundred feeds over at Newsgator, but I have been seriously, seriously behind on nearly all of them — including the feeds of some close friends. I was just overwhelmed over the past year or so, and fell behind on everything. Anyway, in the past few days I chopped the items in the feeds from over 10,000 to just about 800 at present. That’s not bad, and I’m sure I’ll have to cull some more feeds and drop things I’m not reading, but if I can get it to 200-300 items a day, I’ll be …

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