Archive for October, 2006

I spy a fun Halloween

30, Oct 2006

Happy Halloween everyone. There’s a huge party at English Village tonight, and Adam and I went shopping for costume pieces in Seoul with our friends Larry and Melanie. They’re going to be a butterfly and a nerdy safari guy with a net (a butterfly catcher), and Adam and I are going to [...]

Pax Romana Flashback

27, Oct 2006

Some interesting and very disturbing news about our new home away from home in oil-land today.
And here’s some more.
Have your self a read.
Now tell me, does this seem atrocious and anti-thetical to you, or am I being over-reactive? Is this really what we agreed to get in to? I was told it was about [...]

Scrybe
Originally uploaded by Adam & Jessica.
Companies like the soon-to-debut Scrybe stand to put the smackdown on the Microsuck, er, Microsoft camp. Scrybe is a suite of web-based, personal organization software that is not chained to the web like Google Docs & Spreadsheets or 37 Signal’s Backpack. Offline functionality has been one of the weakness factors [...]

Fukuoka Fiasco

25, Oct 2006

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Originally uploaded by Adam & Jessica.
Last Thursday I headed to Japan on a ‘visa run’ since I’m here in Korea on a tourist visa. Basically, I just need to go in and out of the country once every three months. Traveling to the Japanese city of Fukuoka from here by train and boat is the [...]

Africa

22, Oct 2006

We’ve been hearing a lot about Africa lately. There are a few things that we want to make sure you’re aware of, in case you have any means to help, donate or want to pray.
First, the “Invisible Children”. Nightly, there are thousands of children in Uganda that walk from their villages to the [...]

I have a new pen pal. There is a 5th grade girl named Annie who is so smart and sweet. I met her three weeks ago, and we had an in-depth discussion about Harry Potter. All of the teachers were so impressed because she speaks with almost unaccented American English, but she [...]

Early Internet

22, Oct 2006

When we were briefly living with Adam’s Granny Nita before we left Nashville, Adam found an audio tape recorded back in 1991 on which his Granddad Kenneth was speaking an audio letter to a friend of his. Adam digitized it, and right now we’re listening to it on his computer. It’s amazing. [...]

The ferry and the coup

19, Oct 2006

Adam is in Fukuoka, Japan for two days on a visa run. Since he is in Korea on a tourist visa, he has to leave every three months. He was like, “shucks. I’ve gotta go to Japan…” I told him he could only go if he promised not to have any [...]

Here we are again. What shall we talk about today? I think I’ll tell you about my love for hospitality. If you know us, or if you’re a Lofbomm.com devotee, you know I’m a bit of a junkie for having people in our home. This passion sort of snuck up on [...]

English is said to be one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. Judging by the hundreds of ways that we have seen things get a bit lost in translation in just over two months here in Korea, we tend to believe in the truth of that reputation. If you haven’t already, [...]


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