I'm sitting in Dong-Daegu station, waiting for the train to Seoul. I see a dumpy white guy in shorts and a polo shirt with a sweater tied over his shoulders. I look around to see if
Kitchen sinks in Korea are big- a single sink the size of a double sink. And the drains are big too. They have a big drain with a deep basket in it that catches all the food bits.
April! Tax month. It's the busiest time of the year for mathematicians. Tax is about summing things up, and taking percentages. This calls for a mathematician. The calls I get from accountants at this time of
There is a professor in our college that looks like Bill Clinton. I call him the Korean Bill Clinton. A handsome man with a head full of white hair. And the similarities don't end there. He
In Korea one must use Windows. All internet banking sites have ActiveX controls, and every file anyone sends you is a proprietary .hwp format that is only viewable with a Haansoft Office Suite. There is a Linux version
It is April Fool’s day. I know it is, and I know that my wife loves jokes on April Fool’s day. Not funny jokes, mind you. Mean ones. She likes lies. To her, they are funny.
We go to have family photos taken. I am practicing my smile the whole way. It's not that I can't smile, my smile is just shy of cameras. Lucy is practicing too. "You
I break a tooth chewing on some Yat that someone has irresponsibly left in a bowl in the Faculty Lounge. I go to the dentist. I need a crown. The dentist evacuates the old filling, takes a mold,
