I have been working on a translation here at the public library in Birmingham, Alabama. There are large murals painted on the interior walls of the research library where I am sitting as I write this and it struck me that I couldn’t figure out what concept united all the murals. They were painted by [...]
My father, an American born in Alabama, visits his relatives there once a year. Since I left the Boston area last week my major goal before leaving for Korea next month is to finish a translation project I’m working on, something I can do any quiet place. I decided to join my father on his [...]
Congraulations to Sayaka on finishing her comprehensive exams. Also, Sayaka has moved her weblog to a new location just as she is moving from her PhD program in Political Science at The George Washington University in Washington DC to her new History PhD program at New York’s Columbia University. The title of her new blog [...]
During the past year or so, and especially in the last few weeks, I owe a great deal of thanks to a machine I call a PDF scanner, since I don’t know what it normally called. The scanner looks like a photocopy machine with a computer screen attached to it. Like a regular photocopy machine [...]
In the past I have repeatedly complained about claims of copyright protection where no such protection exists. I have talked about this problem on Google Books, where books are not given full view when they are fully in the public domain or where public domain books republished by Kessinger Publishing are used which wrongly claim [...]