I promise that this afternoon I will write an actual entry worth reading. For now, here’s some of the stuff I was looking at this morning, in the midst of cleaning up the results of accidentally locking the cats out of the litter box room for the night. Enjoy.
1. My college friend Sonja has a post up with some incredible artwork done by her cousin. Sonja herself is also an artist of considerable talent.
2. Mountain Runner has a great entry up about American misconceptions about our foreign policy. If you’re interested in politics, this is an interesting entry to read, as it’s foreign policy as written about by a foreign service officer. Give it a read.
3. The U.S. Army has claimed it is going to stop profiling reporters who apply for an embed in the Middle East. I listened to a piece about this on the radio the other day, and it was almost hilarious how the talking head for the military denied they profile reporters even in the face of blatant evidence that they do. Depressing, but hilarious. CNN has a story up about it here.
4. I recently re-read an old entry on Korean Class about Korean attitudes toward body weight. My students and coworkers in Korea would constantly comment about my weight, despite the fact that according to BMI, I am only slightly over the line into “overweight”. The entry talks about how it’s not meant in a mean-spirited sense, and it’s an interesting cultural phenomenon. You can read it here.
5. Korea/Seoul has frequently been made fun of by expats who live there for its truly awful and nonsensical tourism ads. However, Seoul seems to have finally figured out a decent marketing strategy. You can view the ad here.
Re weight: I looked like an overweight giraffe in a herd of gazelles, when I was in Korea. When my Korean wife goes to a supermarket here in Atlanta, she looks like a gazelle in a herd of beef cattle. Genetics, pure & simple…
Americans are fatter than they were 50 years ago. That isn’t genetics.