Wacky Nutmeggers

I’ve been spending some time over at The Literature Network, a database of books in the public domain. I started with the first author on the list, a certain Henry Brooks Adams, who as it turns out was a descendant of former US presidents John Quincy Adams and John Adams. The book is entitled Democracy, [...]

Bible Quote of the Day 2

Psalm 58:6-11
6 Break the teeth in their mouths, O God;
tear out, O LORD, the fangs of the lions!
7 Let them vanish like water that flows away;
when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
8 Like a slug melting away as it moves along,
like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun.
9 Before your [...]

MC Paul Barman

Though many people think his voice is annoying, or that he strings together a bunch of nonsense for the sake of rhyme, I’m a pretty big fan of MC Paul Barman. He’s the best Ivy League Jewish rapper that I’ve ever heard. There’s a video over at http://www.tinkin.com, political black humour at its most psychedelic. [...]

Civil engineers say the darndest things.

Upcoming?

I’m editing the College of Engineering brochure, so the second edition should be error free! The contents are the sort of self-congratulatory, but otherwise relatively objective and descriptive pieces of writing that you’d expect from a college pamphlet. Thus, I was quite surprised to read this statement from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, [...]

우유 좋아! White Love Songs

More Korean music videos! These songs are all about Milk! I know you’re excited! More exclamation points!!!!!!!!! 앗싸!
Korean elementary school girls, 7Princess, singing about how great milk is!

A cartoon version of the same song! 앗싸! 앗싸!

Another, different milk song sung by an older, but juvenile-sounding woman, Strawberry [...]

Korean Music Videos

Asah! Youtube user Yasassin has done us all a great favor by posting some amazing Korean music videos, many of them from the 1960’s and 70’s. I haven’t made it through all of them yet but here are a few of my favorites so far:
A Korean rendition of YMCA by 조경수 (Jo Gyeong Soo) featuring [...]

Robot Cyberknife

A lot of people are scared of going to the doctor’s office. They feel apprehensive about being poked and prodded by cold hands and metal objects. Robot Cyberknife eases your fears by taking away some of the mystery. You know exactly what you’re getting: a large robot arm is going to cut you open, presumably [...]

염염 MSG

Oh man I really need to get my hands on a digital camera. I saw an advertisement in the subway yesterday for 원할모니 보쌈(Halmony-bossam) that made me laugh out loud. The ad had MSG emblazoned in bold lettering across the top along with a statement concerning the wellbeing-ness of the food. Inset is a [...]

Bar of soap is no

In the bathroom at my work there is a single bar of soap. Some people use it, many don’t. I used it twice but never again after what I saw the other night. On my way out of the building I stopped in for a number one and there he is, 아저씨 Mr. Security Guard, [...]

Korean Time 1

I’ve been studying Korean for the past week or so and one of the tips I found to help memorize vocabulary involved associating a picture, word or story with a newly learned word.
얼굴 (ul-ghoul) — face — sounds like ugly especially when Koreans say ul-ghoul-lee
Usually I find it easier to just memorize by rote [...]