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"Science is interesting; if you don't
agree, you can fuck off."

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August 2007

Google Text Ads

The ads that just came up when I checked today were all crappy EFL recruiting sites or crappy dating sites. We definitely need to raise the improve the level of content or something.


John Bush - The Motorcycle Diarrhea

I decided I need to take the advantage of the respite between course terms to broaden my horizons, so I dropped by the bookstore the other day and picked up a copy of Che Guevara's THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES.

Language training and listening comprehension

Just had a particularly frustrating listening exam today. Both as an instructor and a student, I've given a lot of thought towards listening comprehension. How to teach it, how to test it, and so forth. There are a lot of variables which can affect student performance, although I'm not sure how the research bears out for learning efficiency.


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In case you haven't added Korean language support yet

. . . and happen to be living in a time capsule of the year 2002 . . .

Enabling Korean language support for Windows 2000. A tutorial I made years ago while I was in college Korean classes. Now, of course, since I use a Mac I have no trouble with this sort of thing. Unless Korean's send me Hangeul 2000 files.


Hey who is that guy way in the back?!

Hey who is that guy way in the back?!

You are in this one, dude!


Didja like the pictures(Question mark) (Exclamation point)

I am trying to limit my usage of unnecessary punctuation by actually writing it out so I am REALLY committed to each "exclamation point" I use (period) So (comma) didja like the pics I posted for you guys (question mark) I put a lot of thought into which ones to post (squiggly friendly tilde)(comma) especially all the gorgeous ones of John (EXCLAMATION POINT EXCLAMATION POINT EXCLAMATION POINT)


Yo, Autumn

I find it unsurprising that almost every entry you make has an exclamation mark in the title.

Maybe I need a similar gimmick, like referencing Viktor Tsoi lyrics.


Is it a him, or a her/ A madame, or a sir

For those of you following Korean drama, the place they film 커피 프링스 (Coffee Prince) is an actual coffee shop in Hongdae that you can go see. Pictures and directions later if I can ever get my photos off of my cell phone.

Also, there's an OK coffee shop with a neat gimmick. The coffee bar/kitchen is a modified VW van they parked in the middle of the shop.


bar.

bar.

jose is the only one who looks good in this picture.

jose is the only one who looks good in this picture.

pika!

pika!