The One With Aldacron

Nearly four short years ago, on October 24th, 2006, I wrote the following in a post titled, My Religious Evolution and the Atheist Revolution. I have always entertained the possiblity that one or more supreme beings exist, much as I have believed that the existence of extra-terrestrials is possible. But my tolerance of religion has [...]

Given that I’ve been living outside of my native USA for going on 20 years, and that it was only in the last decade that I arrived at the realization that I’m politically progressive and religiously atheistic, I’ve never had to face a common dilemma that many American atheists and liberals struggle with. How do [...]

There are a lot of old TV movies and miniseries that I’d love to see because I was too young when they originally aired, or because I really enjoyed them back then. Most, if not all, I could find with a simple search on Amazon. But, unfortunately, I really need a version with Korean subtitles [...]

It seems cellphone users in the United States are finally catching up with the rest of the world. People in Asia and Europe were using the data functions of their cellphones for some time before the iPhone and similar phones came around. In Korea and Japan (and I hear some places in Europe) they’ve been [...]

My first contact with the internet was in the spring of ’95. I was a few months shy of my 24th birthday, teaching English here in Korea. There was a computer exhibition being held at the COEX in southern Seoul. I had a good chunk of time to kill, so I dropped by to check [...]

Before I started working out with a trainer, any weight training I did was just wrong. I really had no clue what I was doing. I didn’t touch any free weights, just stuck to the machines and, even then, had horrible form and technique. So any weight training I did at all, which I hadn’t [...]

I had wanted to get some work done on the computer today, but a nasty cold has gotten worse and pretty much knocked me down. On top of that the wonderfully potent Korean medicine I started taking last night has pretty much knocked me out. I did have one class today and managed to slog [...]

I’ve imported a lot of CDs with iTunes over the last few years. It usually goes well, but now and again something will get screwed. Sometimes I’ll wind up with a file that’s got several minutes of dead space on the end. Or, worse, iTunes will hang during the import process, freezing the system and [...]

When I used to teach English at institutes here in Korea, I generally was allowed only one week of vacation in a year. The worst part was that there was no choice as to when I could take it. The school would shut down for a week in the summer and all employees were then [...]

Every time that I go back to the States, I’m often amazed by the amount of food served at some restaurants. On this last trip, the wife and I visited a BBQ place for lunch. They gave us so much that we ate it for dinner also and were stuffed after both meals. We took [...]