I have understood the basic principle surrounding RSS for some time now. I understood its promise in a rather broad way and how it works on a technical level. However, just as of yesterday, when I installed and began using an “RSS browser” have I really come to appreciate the power of RSS to provide [...]
I strolled in the door today and found Sayaka studying GRE vocabulary and watching some Japanese TV trivia show (its complicated). I watched it for a few minutes (I try to minimize brain rot), long enough to learn about Japan’s Train Timetable Proficiency Test. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me, given the amazing variety of [...]
Sayaka and I went to see Terminator 3 on the recommendation of two of our friends. It was pretty much what I expected. After the movie Sayaka had an interesting idea for a Terminator 4 (which the movie sets up nicely) which amounts to a rather unusual twist on the cult success Left Behind which [...]
On a note not altogether unrelated to the test I mentioned in my last posting, check out the world’s dullest blog and the free downloadable NaDa software. They are both very contemporary celebrations of irrelevance that border on brilliance. They also, for some reason, remind me of the stupid old joke of the Zen master [...]
Many of my friends know that sometime half way through my masters degree I found a renewed interest in history and theory. This has prompted a lot of new reading and re-thinking. Much of this reading involves areas of thought I have never had much exposure to while some of it is re-covering old ground. [...]
My study of the Korean language is progressing only slowly, especially since I’m neither enrolled in any serious program of language study here nor am I in Korea where I might use the language daily. I supplement the study of various textbooks and the use of my flashcard software with a number of language exchanges [...]