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2010 02 21 photos Comments (0)

TV 드라마

Out and about in Songtan the other day visiting a friend from college who through pure coincidence is also currently stationed in Korea, we saw a truck open on an anonymous corner near his apartment containing lots of stage gear: lights, reflectors, etc. It generated a moment’s curiosity, as there is no nearby theatre, but [...]

2010 02 01 brain flotsam Comments (0)

Driving

The roads in Korea aren’t laid out in anything I’d recognize as a rational plan. They loop and weave crazily between each other, as if there had been a huge surplus of highway construction funds divided evenly between a number of firms contractually bound not to connect to each others’ roads except at a stoplight [...]

2009 09 03 Comments (2)

SimSeoul

Seoul is beautiful to fly over at night. This is an entirely unsurprising observation.
What’s a little less obvious until you’ve actually seen for yourself is that whoever’s in charge is clearly a huge fan of SimCity. It’s a big, successful city, so there’s no question that they’re good at it. Still, it also shows some [...]

2009 08 19 what i learned at work today Comments (0)

Weather

I never thought before going to flight school that weather would be such a big part of piloting. Even in flight school, I figured that since they train us in instrument flying techniques, bad weather wouldn’t be a huge deal. Now I’m learning that I was naive. The fact of the matter is that pretty [...]

2009 08 13 2-2 ASLT Comments (1)

Apprentice Librarian

My weekend project: unboxing approximately 500 pounds of books and alphabetizing them onto their shelves. It’s finally done–allowing me to end my Amazon-fast and order new books again without guilt.
My prediction: by the time I leave here, I’ll have at least one more bookshelf, and it will be at least half full.

2009 07 06 bibliophile Comments (3)

Inprocessing: Complete

I’m finally out of inprocessing, or at least the formalized briefing portion of it. There’s still a bit more to go, but the rest takes the form of a checklist of tasks to complete. Mainly it revolves around people to meet and notify of my presence; it will hopefully not take more than a day [...]

2009 04 30 army Comments (0)

First Impressions

Incheon International Airport has nothing to distinguish it from any other major airport I have ever been to. For the first 100 yards out of the airplane, I didn’t even see a single character of Hangul–everything, including the advertisements, was purely in English.
The bus ride from the airport to the inprocessing station took us past [...]

2009 04 13 Comments (0)