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Korean-American Day

My moth­­er-in-law is a Kore­an-Amer­i­­can in the sense that she immi­grat­ed to this coun­try from S. Korea as an adult. She’s a nat­u­ral­ized cit­i­zen and has now lived in the US longer than she lived in Korea (by a over a decade). My wife is a Kore­an-Amer­i­­can in the sense that, as you just read,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Kore­an-Amer­i­can Day

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Learning to Weld

Some­thing I had want­ed to learn for many years is basic weld­ing. I’m not plan­ning on switch­ing careers or any­thingTh­ough you can make an excel­lent liv­ing as a welder and I would encour­age any young per­son inter­est­ed to learn about that trade.; I just want­ed to try it myself. As a struc­tur­al engi­neer, I’ve spec’d… Con­tin­ue read­ing Learn­ing to Weld

Berry Smoothie

I real­ly dis­like bananas. I’m not brag­ging or any­thing; just stat­ing a fact. I tru­ly dis­like bananas. I always have. I know they’re very good for me and I wish I could eat one. I hon­est­ly don’t think I have ever man­aged to eat an entire banana by itself (that is, not in some oth­er food).… Con­tin­ue read­ing Berry Smooth­ie

Remembering Maggie

I was talk­ing to my dad last week and I had­n’t real­ized until he asked about Mag­gie that I had­n’t writ­ten about her here. I guess I don’t write here very often any­more, and it was­n’t the sort of thing I was real­ly look­ing for­ward to. As Har­ry had lived longer and also had a… Con­tin­ue read­ing Remem­ber­ing Maggie

My First Stomp Box Project

For my birth­day, I decid­ed to work a com­plete­ly new project: build a gui­tar effects ped­al. I pur­chased the “Con­fi­dence Boost” project kit from BuildYourOwnClone.com (as in clones of pop­u­lar gui­tar stomp box­es). It’s a great project for about $15 which comes with detailed instruc­tions and makes a pret­ty decent lit­tle boost effect. The kit… Con­tin­ue read­ing My First Stomp Box Project

In Memory of Harry

It is with sad­ness that I write that today our good friend & dog, Har­ry, died. He had begun to decline more rapid­ly over the past cou­ple of weeks. Angela and I were on either side of Har­ry when our vet put him to sleep, just as he had slept in the mid­dle of our… Con­tin­ue read­ing In Mem­o­ry of Harry

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Harvard Women’s Soccer Team

Sign me up for this team: I can offer you my for­give­ness, which is—and for­ev­er will be—the only part of me that you can ever claim as yours.

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Octavia Butler’s Oankali

Amy Deng’s Oankali for an art exer­cise “Imag­in­ing the Oankali.” A Google image search for Oankali and Ooloi does’t turn up much oth­er than a lot of rough fan art, but I liked this draw­ing a lot; as much because of its ana­lyt­i­cal approach as the rep­re­sen­ta­tion itself. For the sec­ond year now, I’ve read… Con­tin­ue read­ing Octavia Butler’s Oankali

The Real Glass Menagerie

Angela and I were able to go see a local pro­duc­tion of Ten­nessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” Sat­ur­day night. The cast and pro­duc­tion were excel­lent and the audi­ence, our­selves includ­ed, were moved by Lau­ra’s pan­ic attack as Jim arrives and with Tom’s final address of the audi­ence.: Per­haps I am walk­ing along a street at… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Real Glass Menagerie

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