Well, since it's been forever and a score of days since I've really updated this, here goes. Nothing so new going on, at least not for folks that I've been talking to regularly, and to those with whom I haven't, well, it doesn't really matter then, does it ( Read more... )

My mom's in Japan now, we went to Kyoto on Sunday and Monday and she bummed around Yokohama on Tuesday, today she'll spend criticizing my apartment.

Or rather it's midnight on a Friday, no one's online, I'm not tired enough to sleep yet, so it might as well be time for yet another edition of writing-a-palooza. Make that a very short-a-palooza, or perhaps this is but the first in a series. Anyways, I'll mention something interesting that came up in conversation with a student today ( Read more... )

Watching the Colbert Report, I heard him make a joke about Chinese products all containing lead, except for their lead, which instead is cardboard, and the weird thing is while chatting with a co-worker today about China I made almost the exact same joke, nearly word for word. Whoa indeed.

I bought some books for summer vacation reading, one of them being on the military history of the Cold War. My favourite entry is the one about the battle of Dien Bien Phu, mostly because the French commander had named the various strongpoints in the complex after his mistresses, and so you get classic lines like "Moving out of Huguette and ( Read more... )

On a sub duty assignment the other day, I got to chatting with the other teacher there about how the school was really quiet (had very few students), and he told me that some students preferred the school for that reason, for they could almost always get the one-on-one lessons, and some of them are apparently quite shy. Somehow from that we got to ( Read more... )

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An odd thing that I've been mulling over a while, and that came up over beers last night: Jesus was the Son of God, right, and therefore possessed a whole bunch of power, and yet he went willingly to his death at the hand of the Romans. What I was wondering was, couldn't that be viewed as a form of suicide, given he had the power to prevent it? Not ( Read more... )

So, yeah, update. I guess it hasn't been so long since I actually posted, but quite long since I wrote anything of actual substance, so here goes nothing ( Read more... )