Lazy Post Day

No post today, busy busy busy, but I would like to refer to you to these two posts on the dearly departed Shawn and Mel's blog featuring a very thorough listing of some of many the peculiarities of Korea that they have noticed in their first few months. Pretty accurate and too funny. Well, maybe only funny in a context-specific 'in-joke' kinda way, it's hard to tell.

Made in Korea!

Who knew?

Public service announcement

Ok, so while googling for the dreadful pun 'hard to swallow' which I regrettably used as the title for the previous post to check that it did actually mean 'hard to believe' as I thought, I have to admit I found myself drawn to this headline and, well, I just had to share it: Hard to Swallow: An Austrian lung specialist is encouraging better living through nose-picking. You're welcome.

Normal Service will be resumed imminently

In the meantime, go catch up on Katie's adventures. And leave her a comment, because nobody else ever does. Pity comments are better than no comments are better than no coments. The spider she refers to is a Golden Orb Weaver Nephila clavata (see picture on my previous blog) and check out the goldern-coloured silk. I don't believe it to be venomous.

Cheating

Once again, may I please refer you to Katie's blog today - we've been doing pretty much the same things, only she has much more time on her hands to be blogging than me, so enjoy...

Poor Pluto

So after all of last week's excitement, we're not getting thre new planets after all; instead, Pluto is being demoted to a 'dwarf planet':

Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. Astronomers rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club. The ninth planet will now effectively be airbrushed out of school and university textbooks.

My first meme

Here's a meme I found on kotte.org, the idea being that you go here and look through the random quotes until you find the five whch best reflect your character and beliefs. And then you post them. After much deliberation, here are my five:

Every answer asks a more beautiful question e e cummings (1894 - 1962) Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance. John Schumaker Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. Paul Valery (1871 - 1945) To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small. Author Unknown Beginning is easy - Continuing is hard. Japanese Proverb

Solar System: now with 33% more planets

Well this us utterly unrelated to anything Korea, but this is my site and I'll talk about whatever I like. Astronomers are to vote in Prague next Thursday on a new proposal concerning raising the number of planets in the solar system from nine to 12 by reclassifying the 'asteroid' Ceres, Pluto's moon Charon, and object 2003 UB313 (which hopefully will be given a catchier name soon) as planets. This would mean school textbooks having to be rewritten, and would leave the way open for further planets being discovered in the not-too-distant future. Exciting stuff. Just thought you should know.

All look Same?

I scored 10 out of 18 on this site, which tests if you can tell Chinese, Japanese and Korean faces apart. I think that just about falls within the realm of guessing.