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the_beaver
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:18 am Post subject: sunday night. . . |
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My feet are stinking like they haven't in years. The girlfriend was over earlier and turned on the heat so now I'm sweating worse than mudded wrestling hoe. I just finished preparing for an extra seminar class I'm giving tomorrow for my senior students who are applying to foreign companies. I'm up way past my bedtime on account of I signed up for early morning classes because the won signs overrode my "I hate early fucking mornings" critical censor and I should be in bed around 9 to get 8 hours of sleep. I'm listening to �ڿ츲, drinking Earl Grey tea, and thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the second half of the semester so the hump is topped and life is great.
Have a good night. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:52 am Post subject: |
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| But you've got your belt, right? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:40 am Post subject: |
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Sunday night.
The other side of the room.
And another wall, with flash, reduced as it's a mess. See the dust-buster on the floor? I try. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:21 am Post subject: Re: sunday night. . . |
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| the_beaver wrote: |
My feet are stinking like they haven't in years. The girlfriend was over earlier and turned on the heat so now I'm sweating worse than mudded wrestling hoe. I just finished preparing for an extra seminar class I'm giving tomorrow for my senior students who are applying to foreign companies. I'm up way past my bedtime on account of I signed up for early morning classes because the won signs overrode my "I hate early *beep* mornings" critical censor and I should be in bed around 9 to get 8 hours of sleep. I'm listening to �ڿ츲, drinking Earl Grey tea, and thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the second half of the semester so the hump is topped and life is great.
Have a good night. |
My night:
No, not exactly, no, yes (kind of), yes (new one), bit different tea but still tea, and yes life is great. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru you have a nice desk, and intimate lighting. The top two pictures make me want to drink hot chocolate and listen to Belle & Sebastian. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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and life is great.
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Yes, it is. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes indeed, it is sunday night again and a bump for this thread! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:37 am Post subject: |
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Sunday evening, night.
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This weekend.
 
Sunday afternoon. |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
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Sunday evening, night.
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This weekend.
Sunday afternoon. |
1) How's that Aiwa treating you?
2) The area which surrounds the computer is a bit unkempt this week.
3) Is that a fedora perched atop the lamppost? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Maserial wrote: |
1) How's that Aiwa treating you?
2) The area which surrounds the computer is a bit unkempt this week.
3) Is that a fedora perched atop the lamppost? |
1. I'm liking that AIWA a lot.  (AWP-ZX7, 228,000 won if anyone cares.) I know I wasn't impressed with the weak mid-range when I first tried it out. But the "i-Bass" feature has three settings (OFF, 1, 2) and after playing with that for a while, plus having the speakers at a more ideal height & position, I just don't notice the problem anymore. The room acoustics (small area, carpet) help, but it's mainly the placement of the speakers that makes the difference.
I had been using the AIWA's USB port to stream audio from the net, but that didn't work so well because I had to max out the volume on the AIWA to get a normal listening level. I'd sometimes forget to reset the volume and switch to a CD or the radio..... BLAAAAAAM!!  So what I've done instead is run the audio from the STEREO OUT on the back of the monitor to the AUX IN on the back of the AIWA. Normal volume levels there. The USB feature (on the front) is handy if you don't want to use the system as your computer speaker system, but I've done just that.
All in all, the AIWA was one of my better small purchases this year, despite my initial misgivings. It's a year since it's release in Korea, and I haven't seen anything for that price that looks better to me.
2. Yeah, that desk... Looking at it right now. Old PC speakers, old trackball mouse, old pair of headphones, old a pair of Nikon binoculars... I emptied a drawer of a piece of furniture I just took out of storage and am conducting triage right here on the desk top. I'll either finish the project before I go to bed or tell myself I'll get up early tomorrow morning and ... well, that's a joke already.
3. Yeah, that's my soft wool fedora, in the colour I think they call camel. I sometimes wear it down in the city, especially if I'm doing official-type things at the gu office or the tax office. It gets reactions. A few Koreans in Taehakno came up and asked if they could have their picture taken with me.  Like I was some sort of "rent-a-waygook" sidewalk amusement. Should have charged them! One kid asked if I was Indiana Jones!! I think it was the two-day shadow as much as the hat. And there was the fine young lady at the bank who asked me if I was a poet. ("That all depends." "Depends on what?" "Depends on if you're into poets or not. What a dumb question.") |
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Maserial
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
Location: The Web
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
| 3. Yeah, that's my soft wool fedora, in the colour I think they call camel. I sometimes wear it down in the city, especially if I'm doing official-type things at the gu office or the tax office. It gets reactions. A few Koreans in Taehakno came up and asked if they could have their picture taken with me. Like I was kind of "rent-a-waygook" sidewalk amusement. Should have charged them! One kid asked if I was Indiana Jones!! I think it was the two-day shadow as much as the hat. And there was the fine young lady at the bank who asked me if I was a poet. ("That all depends." "Depends on what?" "Depends on if you're into poets or not.") |
Official-type things, indeed.
It's good to hear that the Aiwa wasn't a disaster, though. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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That mess on the desk is growing. I meant to tidy up, I really did. This is the one room the cleaning lady isn't allowed (isn't required) to touch. Or even enter. She's pretty happy with that arrangement. I do the floors, windows, surfaces... yeah, sure I do.  The problem is, I'm usually too busy fooling around in there, playing toons, checking out what my little friends here on Dave's are up to. And tinkering with all these high-tech gizmos that I never fully understand. For someone who doesn't like them very much, I've got more computers in varying states of undress and functionality than ... than I ought to. And there's the newest member of this dysfunctional family, the Mac mini. See it there, the little white box to the right of the desk area? (Don't tell the beaver or Superhero I got that or they'll come kick my latte-sipping ass.)
I rearranged things in the study and moved my Aiwa stereo with it's big bookshelf speakers off the desktop and back over to a bookshelf where they belong. I realised I just had to have that space for additional clutter.
Back again is the old armchair. You can hardly see it there under the junk. The fedora reclines on the floor lamp, below it are Vicks Chloraseptic Sore Throat Spray (I always get a sore throat in November), my new Grundig electric shaver (I don't shave in my study -- I was just reading the instructions and doing the initial 8-hour charge there), and the can of Home Killer as there are still a few die-hard mogees buzzing about.
Can't see it too well in this photo, but these stone pavers are held together by a durable rubber netting beneath. They're cut at angles such that you can add on another batch and continue on as long as you need for a walkway. A bit of grouting between the pavers and you wouldn't know they weren't expertly cut and set individually. That dark spot on the middle one is where I spat and rubbed it in with my shoe to see what a bit of sealant might look like. Really darkens & brings out the natural colour. |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Ack! it's 5:41 and I have to leave the house in a few minutes to get to work. Damn hagwon classes! Next semester I will just say "no" - sleep is more important than money. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| But you've got your belt, right? |
That's MY belt!
Mom, the beaver stole my belt! Make him give it back!
Sparkles*_* |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:42 am Post subject: |
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Sunday night.
Fffffffffrucking out. Badly wanting tomorrow to be cancelled for lack of interest. Or some sort of Divine intervention. Pray with me, people. (Mith, could you send a meteorite to take out a certain building in Chung-gu if I gave you the longitude/latitude coordinates? Pleeeeeease....  )
What's worse than taking your work home with you over the weekend? I'll tell you. It's taking your work home with you over the weekend and not being able to finish it. Staring at the clock and it says "six thirty-two". The speaking clock. Oh will it never shut up!! I'm so, so frucked.
And wired, too. I've had more W700 cans of Coke in the past 48-hour period than any man (besides myself) has ever seen. If I were any more wired, they'd have to name a magazine after me.
I want a googlefight -- Guru vs. Time. Whatever the results say, I know it would kick my ass. It already is. oooooooh SHIT !!!!!!!!!
*breathe in....and breathe out.....* |
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