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- Thesis Proposal 2008, May 12, Mon
I locked myself in this weekend to try and knock out my thesis proposal. I didn't use my time very effectively spending more time downloading television off the Internet and practicing the ukulele than actually writing anything. Fortunately for me the weekend was a long one so despite my best efforts to sabotage myself it looks like I will be done by Thursday and able to turn a copy into the administration office. I will then present to my board, or the two that are present in Korea anyway as my adviser is still on sabbatical at Harvard, on May 30. Once I submit it this weekend then I will need to focus on my next adventure, a trip to the countryside with the Korea Foundation. As part of my accepting the scholarship I am supposed to do a year end write-up of my research and go on at least one field trip sponsored by the foundation. It's a three day whirlwind trip with stops in Jeonju, Gwangju, Mokpo, Boseong, Gwangyang, Namwon and Iksan. I decided to go on this trip because I really mi... - FSOT 2008, April 29, Tue
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was taking the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul a couple of months ago. I received an e-mail telling me last night that based on my test scores I had qualified for the next stage in the process. I realize there are at least two more stages in this process, but as I really hadn't done much to prepare for the exam this came as a pleasant surprise to me. I might be heading back to the D.C. area sooner than I had expected if I am invited to participate in the interview portion. - Infinite Infinitive 2008, April 29, Tue
A couple of weeks ago I began “teaching” a professor from the French literature department. I say “teach” because this professor, who is also the president of the Korean Linguistics Society, is quite good at English. He is only having these sessions with me because he is scheduled to chair a semester this June sponsored by the foundation and wanted to brush the cobwebs off his English in preparation. Our conversations have been quite stimulating. Aside from the fact that I have to walk up the hill and to the middle of campus, it has actually been something I’ve looked forward to since it started three weeks ago. Among the interesting conversations we have had was one that was instigated by a verbal slip on my part. In passing I referred to 이동사 as the Korean equivalent to the English ‘to be’ or French ‘être.’ He corrected me almost instantly citing that 이동사 was inseparable from the object to which it related. Because according to 맞춤법 (Korean rules fo...
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- quiescence 2008, April 02, Wed
The time has come, Dear Reader, to send this perverse, chaotic mass of verbiage and imagery off to its bedroom for a year(s)-long siesta. As noted before, this isn't the end of the Hairy Chasms; I'll be posting here every now and again over the course of the next year or two. But for those among you who have been dedicated readers, willing to follow me through thick and thin (or, in this case, from thick to thin as my upcoming Walk whittles me down to a less freakish size), I encourage you to keep tabs on the madness over at Kevin's Walk. The time has come to focus more acutely on what lies ahead, which means the tomfoolery has got to go. It's been fun, and it'll be fun again: this isn't adios, after all... it's merely one last, desperate French kiss and boob squeeze to tide us over until we meet again.See you at the other blog. In the meantime: may rainbows shine from your anus, may you shit gold nuggets and filthy little leprechauns, and may you never accidentally fuck anyone's... - one last ass-kicking from Alan Cook 2008, April 01, Tue
Alan Cook holds my feet to the fire again, this time in his blistering critique of my essay on philosophy of mind. While I reject some of his criticisms, I think many (and there are many!) of them are valid and deserve to be addressed, but this blog is going dormant as of tonight (dormant isn't dead-- occasional posts will appear here over the coming year or two), so I doubt I'll be responding anytime soon.Of note is one critique Alan made about my qualia/Taoism association. Sperwer made almost exactly the same critique long ago, and this is indeed a point that needs fixing. In Alan's case, the critique runs thus:Here, it seems to me that Kevin commits an elementary logical error: from the facts that a is F and b is F, it does not follow that a=b. Just because the Dao is ineffable and must be directly experienced to be known, and the same can be said about qualia, it does not follow that the two terms refer to the same thing.I don't think I actually equated the Tao with qualia, so I... - were you April fooled? 2008, April 01, Tue
I want to thank the kind commenters who thought my previous post was serious. It was indeed an April Fool's joke (a lame one, as Charles comments), but not malicious in intent.I don't know whether you tried this, but if you drag your cursor across that post and highlight the entire thing, you'll find a hidden message._...
- Forced Upgrade In Progress 2008, May 13, Tue
I may not be blogging as much as usual for the next few days... I'm working on an upgrade of Ubuntu on my computer, and I hadn't planned for it, or set aside time for it. See, I was trying to install the Linux version of HWP (the Korean wordprocessor that gets the widest use in Korea, and which everyone else hates because that program's proprietary format, .hwp, is the standard here, but other wordprocesses don't handle it very well). I'm trying to install this because I'm suddenly in a position where I can't just advise people to re-send the file in .doc or .rtf. These days, I need to be able to open, work on, and save files in .hwp format. So I found a few (slightly different) tutorials, and just what do you think happened? Oh yes, somehow it absolutely destroyed my installation of Ubuntu. I'm not even sure what got broken, but suddenly Synaptic, Firefox, and even the terminal interface wouldn't load at all! It was like all I had left working was GUI, and that was, well... not enough... - So, Then… aka Squee 2008, May 12, Mon
The subscriber issues of Asimov's July '08 issue are out, and apparently there's a review of my story in it coming in Locus... I'll be waiting a while for my copy, but the gist is here. And it's been a springboard to at least one discussion of jazz SF already at the Asimov's board. Is it impolitic to jump in on such a discussion? I would like to inform Redmarvel that the fate of the cowboys will not always be a mystery, if I get my way... but wouldn't want to make people feel like they can't bash the story if they wish! - new free music 2008, May 12, Mon
Free, and DRM-free, music: The new Nine Inch Nails album, "the slip". via BoingBoing, hip-hop/bluegrass mashup madness: Gangstagrass Worth checking out...
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- Korean Cancer Patient Fights for Treatment as She Faces Deportation 2008, May 13, Tue
The WaPo tells the story of Yong Sun Harvill, a 32-year resident of the United States who is now locked up in a federal deportation compound in Arizona and struggling to get the medical attention she needs for cancer: Underneath her baggy jail-issue pants, Yong Sun Harvill feels the soft lump just below her left knee. Sometimes it tingles. Sometimes it is numb. Like her cancer felt when it arrived behind the knee a few years ago. She noticed the lump under the thin, blue cotton in August, five months after federal immigration officers, to her amazement, took her into custody to try to deport her for buying stolen jewelry more than a decade ago. The lump grows slowly. It is now three inches across. And though she keeps asking, no one has done a test to see whether her sarcoma has come back. Her leg is painful and swollen from hip to foot, damaged by past surgeries and radiation treatments. Some nights, liquid seeps through cracks in her distended skin. Her left ankle is three times as b... - So, This is Probably Why English Teachers Shouldn’t Post Photos of Themselves with Club Chicks 2008, May 13, Tue
Korean netizens are a tad upset after a photo of a young English teacher with his students juxtaposed with a photo of the same teacher at a club in the embrace of three Asian -- possibly Korean -- women found their way onto the Internet. Korea's diligent netizens found the photos and posted them on Daum (under a post entitled "Two-faced Lives of Foreign English Teachers," which since has been taken down), sparking the inevitable discussion of the quality of foreign English teachers in Korea. Said Internet newspaper Dalian: Moreover, [netizens], comparing the brightly smiling face of the man in the club photo with the queer expressions on the face of the Asian women, point out that it shows the debauched personal lives some foreign English teachers here. Interestingly, though, because the faces of the individuals in the photos were not fuzzied out, some netizens pointed out that the posting of the photos amounted to a violation of privacy. Most, however, were horrified that such an indi... - Sichuan Earthquake Predicted a Week Ago? 2008, May 12, Mon
Update: Globalwatch.org has a fascinating read on the heroic story of Qinglong County and its wise and cautious officials who saved all 490,000 residents, except for one person who died of a heart attack, by heeding early warnings of the massive July 28, 1976 quake that killed 280,000 people in the Tangshan area. Read the chronology for a detailed account of all the steps taken by officials and residents to watch for signs and prepare for the expected quake. The county head himself led by example and took up residence in an emergency tent two days before the quake. At the bottom of the story is a paragraph about the more recent 1995 earthquake in Yunnan, where only 11 people died after local officials took similar precautions. Obviously, earthquakes cannot be predicted with absolute certainty. It's a matter of weighing risk against cost of preventive and precautionary measures. Qinglong's gamble paid off, saving perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives. While checking out a USGS ...
- Whoa...Ouch! 2008, May 13, Tue
Did she really just say that? Ouuuuuch. (HT to ExpatJane)... - "That Hillary Show" 2008, May 12, Mon
I'm sorry, Hillary supporters. This one's simply irresistable. - Bye, Bye Speed Racer 2008, May 11, Sun
As I predicted, Speed Racer is bombing, mainly because it apparently sucks. So far, one call down, and Ironman is still booming at the box office. My doubtful Korean friends are all now true believers. I've even got one friend going again to see it. Hehe. Ironman, baby.
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- Psst. 2007, June 15, Fri
It's a secret to everybody. I moved. Don't tell anyone. - 끝 2007, February 12, Mon
To quote the great poet lauret of my times, M.C. Hammer, "We outta here baby!" At present I am way out of South Korea for at least two years, but more likely than not, for keeps. That's right kids, I'm back in the US and A. Now I could take this time to get all misty-eyed and recap the good times, possibly with some sort of montage set to the Green Day song, "Time Of Your Life," but where would the fun in that be. So instead I'm going to report on the ten things I will not miss once I leave the country that has been my home these past four years. 1. Random people pointing at me and declaring: a) "Hello," or some other random English phrase and then laughing at however I respond. b) "Wow a foreigner!" 2. 회식. Not so much the meal itself, but the fact that they are pretty much mandatory here. Seriously I have better things to do on a Friday evening that hit up noraebang with the boss. 3. Vomit on the streets. 4. Gag Concert, 웃찾사, et. al. I could live here a tho... - Actually Searches That Lead People Here (Jan. 2006) 2007, February 01, Thu
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