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ESL Lesson of the day – Son of of Bitch (i.e., Son of Bitch)
This video of a Korean English teacher explaining choice bits of slang and expletives had me snorting with laughter: My favorite ESL-related clip of all time, though, is Harold Ramis’s opening scene in Stripes (I can’t believe it’s almost 30 years old – I remember watching it at the drive in with my parents): Son of Bitch! Shit! – When you care enough to send the very best.
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Max stared at this almost as long as I did.
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Max is staying home from school
…all this week so we can knock out this deep cough he’s had for a couple weeks, in addition to some eye infection we’re keeping check with eye drops… It seems that nursery school is just an incubator for germs, and the kids are walking petri dishes. I’m staying home with Max all day today and Nam’s at work, so I finally have a few minutes to start looking at photos from our trip back home. Here’s one of my favorite shots from the first few days: Max with grandpa Like most of the photos on our trip, I didn’t take it and don’t know who did, but good job…
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Google Talk Plugin Crash – Windows 7 Home Premium
I bought an ASUS UL30A laptop when we were in the states to replace my trusty, crusty old Dell Latitude x300 that lasted for seven whole years and still wouldn’t quit. I decided on the X5 variant because it was black (as opposed to the silver option) and cheaper than the updated version, but still good for ten hours (actual; ASUS claims 12 hours but all of the reviews say 10+. Good enough.) It’s my first extended experience with Windows 7, and with a x64 Win OS. It kicks ass very hard. One of the few problems I’ve had with it was with Google Video Chat crashing Gmail when I’d…
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The Newspaper equivalent of the Wilhelm Scream
Check it out here and here. This, of course, is the Wilhelm Scream:
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The Making of Ulan
That’s what happens when it gets too tiresome to write about what really happened.
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Ulan
The other day, I was dozing off in the pre-dawn glow coming through the French windows in our living room when I suddenly remembered something that happened on the flight back: Having survived the thirteen hour leg from Bangkok to Incheon with two cranky babies and zero sleep (and also having taken a capital D with hyperized Max present in the aircraft lavatory – one of my proudest achievements and a story in itself), we stiff-legged it off the plane like penguins and waited around the nearest room for our stroller to be produced. An unkempt old lady with crazy eyes came up to me and started asking for help…
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Snail curry
I just came back from lunch with a bag of (aquatic) snail curry that I accidentally ordered at a new restaurant located just behind our campus. It looked like an appetizing fish or chicken curry under the glass when, but when it was served I saw it was full of snails or similar freshwater shellfish. Me hates parasites. So I munched on the other things i’d ordered and brought back the snail curry in a bag. I gave it to a group of girls I’d taught before who were hanging out outside the teacher’s lounge. They seemed happy with it. I forgot to take a photo, though. Oh, well –…
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Sticky Rice as Mortar Strengthener
This should make the builders in our area very happy: How ancient China was built on sticky rice, literally
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Half-hour improvement
The baby titans awoke at 4:00 this morning. They’re cute as hell when they wake up smiling, but I’d rather be sleeping… In other news, I’ve almost caught up with my email backlog.
