I've decided: Friday, July 10, will be the day I start looking for hagweon work in earnest. Since I've heard that Hanyang U. is hop...

I have a feeling that a few people are going to wait until the last possible moment to get on my email list for when I privatize the blog th...

You can go years and years with something sitting right under your nose, and because you didn't have the smarts or the initiative to che...

I thought I had only five readers, but thus far, nine people have thrown their names into the ring. Will they together form a community of ...

And as a comment noted, Greta Thunberg is utterly silent about China.

Dr. Gilleland quotes a fable from Aesop , one I've never heard before. It's about a shepherd who finds and raises some wolf cubs. Hm...

You've got today's warning and tomorrow's warning, and that's it! If you're a "long-time lurker" who's nev...

Victor Tangermann is, at least, a real person, and Futurism is a real publication. But something feels fake: How does a wind "blow out ...

Gave the ball to his sister with zero hesitation 🥹 pic.twitter.com/OJj4IepcLq — Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) April 19, 2026

A really good, detailed initial report about the 7.5M Venezuela earthquake is here . While fewer than 200 deaths were initially reported, es...

I think I've moved beyond Chris Cooking Nashville and his carnivore-bread recipes, but it's good to see him tackling some of the is...

A few people who are on my list of invitees do not have email accounts ending with "@gmail.com." You do not need to have a Gmail a...

This weekend, probably on Sunday, I will make the switch from having a free and open blog to having a custom-readers-only blog. The term cu...

My new Chase Amazon Visa card arrived yesterday. The information on it is all the same as what's on the previous card except for the 3-d...

I had no idea about any of this. And shouldn't it be Tippler , with two "P"s? George Washington bred his own pack of hunting...

Louisiana pastor beats up a man who allegedly threatened to r*pe and kill his wife and grandchildren. pic.twitter.com/nbbSUT73XD — Daily Lo...

Feels a bit like cultural suicide there, love. Luckily, Oz, you're defended on all sides by the ocean, so you won't feel the consequ...

The mystery to me is why this is funny. Am I missing something? This isn't like those jokes about how the tyrannosaur couldn't answe...

I found myself out in the Seoul National University neighborhood Wednesday evening, having dinner with my buddy Charles and his wife HJ. The...

Statue of Brothers (형제의 상/ Hyeongjae-ae sang ), central Seoul June 25 is remembered in South Korea as Yuk I Oh /육이오, or "six two five,...

My own dad was the son of two alcoholics, so he never touched alcohol (his little brother is a different story). I grew up in a house where ...

Sea salt, now bagged up in Ziplocs: I can't keep the bags open without letting in ambient humidity. But leaving the bags closed, even wi...

[ Post from yesterday. Today's visit number is down by 10X but still a few thousand. ] The count for the past 24 hours won't be over...

I wrote to Soonchunhyang University to find out the status of my job application. They, too, had the decency to reply, but as with UNIST in ...

He's got around 3.5 million subscribers.

Even as little as I've been paying attention to the World Cup, I've been bombarded by videos from Europeans who are currently visit...

4:42 a.m., looking left and southeast (sunrise is northeast) while heading back to my place Another good 10K walk, but there was some angina...

The count for the past 24 hours won't be over until 9 a.m. It's 5:30 a.m. as I write this, and I've had over 325,000 unique visi...