Mar 14 2010
No Pictures
Yeah, I totally forgot to pack that cable-plug thing that would allow me to download the pictures off my camera. So no pictures until I get my first paycheck (and take the bus to a city), or I figure out how to post the ones I've taken so far with my cellphone. Maybe that'll be next weekend's project.
Yesterday I was a little bundle of energy; today I am a puddle of lethargy. That bucket of fried chicken didn't help.
We did get to check out the market the town has every five days. Probably about a dozen stalls, mostly fruit and vegetables, but also stuff like clothes, shoes, spam, dried fish, and live fish killed while you wait. We bought spam and veggies and enough bean sprouts to feed an army.
Here are the last three books I read: Nova by Samuel R. Delaney, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, and Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah. I have to admit that reading Nova in a foreign city where I don't speak the language felt kind of cool. But that's probably 'cause I'm a dork... Of course now I have to find something else to read. All told we probably have 75 books in the house, about two dozen of which are written in Korean and about another dozen are ones I've already read. That leaves 35+ new books and since I'm averaging close to two a week that's not enough to get me through the year.
Obviously this means I have to learn Korean.
Here are a bunch of links:
Beautiful Bookbinding - I like the bat-snake-skull one of course.
Interesting interview with Franz Rottensteiner about European SF.
Secrets of making your very own Inuit thimble.
More stuff like that can be found here at Primitive Ways. I have to admit that I am fascinated by neolithic hygiene.
And here's a panegyric to the concept of libraries:
"Even more useful than the books or activities, though, is the principle behind libraries, that we and our neighbours can pool our resources and hold things in common that all of us occasionally need. Most of the Western World, however, adopted this principle for books and then stopped, never extending it to other obvious areas of life."
Yesterday I was a little bundle of energy; today I am a puddle of lethargy. That bucket of fried chicken didn't help.
We did get to check out the market the town has every five days. Probably about a dozen stalls, mostly fruit and vegetables, but also stuff like clothes, shoes, spam, dried fish, and live fish killed while you wait. We bought spam and veggies and enough bean sprouts to feed an army.
Here are the last three books I read: Nova by Samuel R. Delaney, Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini, and Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah. I have to admit that reading Nova in a foreign city where I don't speak the language felt kind of cool. But that's probably 'cause I'm a dork... Of course now I have to find something else to read. All told we probably have 75 books in the house, about two dozen of which are written in Korean and about another dozen are ones I've already read. That leaves 35+ new books and since I'm averaging close to two a week that's not enough to get me through the year.
Obviously this means I have to learn Korean.
Here are a bunch of links:
Beautiful Bookbinding - I like the bat-snake-skull one of course.
Interesting interview with Franz Rottensteiner about European SF.
Secrets of making your very own Inuit thimble.
More stuff like that can be found here at Primitive Ways. I have to admit that I am fascinated by neolithic hygiene.
And here's a panegyric to the concept of libraries:
"Even more useful than the books or activities, though, is the principle behind libraries, that we and our neighbours can pool our resources and hold things in common that all of us occasionally need. Most of the Western World, however, adopted this principle for books and then stopped, never extending it to other obvious areas of life."