A new user registered on my blog today. He gave the email address , and for his username and nickname, he used a freakin’ script! The hosting for uscs.us has been suspended so I couldn’t even find out what the script was supposed to do. But it definitely looks not cool to me. His ass is BANNED.
Tag: odd
The Ajumma
For those of you who don’t live in Korea, here’s a hilarious article explaining what an ajumma is. In the sauna, should the ajumma let out a fart and people stare at her, she will just leave without saying sorry. Ladies show respect to everyone, even their juniors. They are well aware of etiquettes in public places. They tend to be strict with themselves and generous to others: with ajumma it is the other way round. Really, so very bizarre, and yet sort-of-right, one has to admit sheepishly. At least, right in terms of the Jeonbuk ajummas I encountered on …
Human species ‘may split in two’, says dimwitted British Evolutionist
Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic upper class and a dim-witted underclass to emerge. Uh, okay, along what lines? The logical outcome would be two sub-species, “gracile” and “robust” humans similar to the Eloi and Morlocks foretold by HG Wells in his 1895 novel The Time Machine. Now I am laughing. He thinks our over-dependence on technology will lead to this? Look at yourself, Mr Curry: we have no claws, no fur, no fangs. We’ve been dependent on technology since we first were human. And who’s to say, if only two clades emerged, …
Ruben’s Tube
In music school, I learned to “see” music in a different way, but nothing like this. (Via my classmate Caroline, though the link isn’t on her site, not yet anyway…)
Not Lime…
I really, really appreciate that my girlfriend isn’t crazy about shopping. (Via Julia’s Journey Among the Weird)
Okay, okay, I’m a bad person…
Yesterday, I didn’t just get T-shirts. I also got two Chuseok presents, one from Lime and one from the University. (The one from Lime was a set of high-capacity rechargeable batteries for my camera, which is a great present and which I’m charging up at the moment.) The present from the University is the one that made me think of myself as a bad person. You see, it was a gift-pack of Bertolli Olive Oil, with three bottles of the stuff — two bottles of “Original”, and one bottle of “Gentile”. Now, in Korea these days, people are thinking about …
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. …
Cow abductions
The truth is out there… very out there. (via Haakon from Culture List)
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 …
Mother Tongues Collapsing Around the World
Mutant Frog Travelogue posted about some Japanese conservative who’s trying to cut English from the curriculum in Japan. Now, what the Japanese choose to study is their own business, of course, but what I find interesting is why he has proposed the cut: The reasoning is that Ibuki (as do many conservatives) believe[s] that students’ Japanese language abilities are going down. They should work on their native language, hone that to a good level, then work on English. Studying a foreign language at such an early age a) apparently confuses the kids, and b) takes class time away from good, …