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Watch the video first.  I dont know where to start.  This is THE Mountain in Flagstaff.  When I talk to my students about Flagstaff I point out that that Korea is a wave of mountains and Flagstaff is ONE mountain.  This is the mountain that I am talking about.

When I first came to Flag I had recently just came back form Japan in 2002 (more like had ( Read more... )

Everything I have always imagined getting your dive master's license would be like:


Or this could be a student doing his certification dives in Lake Eerie...

I am leaving for the Philippines next week for a SCUBA trip.  Since it is a SCUBA trip I want to take some underwater themed movies with me.  Bohol can be a bit sleepy and is probably more so in the "off season" so I will have to have some time to kill sitting on the porch 10 meters from the beach sipping San Miguel and chain smoking cigarettes.

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">website from eclexys .  It is a hoax that is meant to look a bit like the South Korean Government website.  It is hilarious because it gives over the top versions of things you hear sometimes in Korea and the bad English is a dead on imitation of the kind of stuff you can see in Youtube comments.

Here is the article on Dokdo:

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May I present this video of a sea turtle filming itself.  A member of the coastguard found a camera on a beach near Key West and found this video.  Apparently the scoundrel got hooked to camera and somehow turned it on.  Apparently they were able to find the owners of the camera with hints like a photo of a truck laden with  SCUBA gear that had -- ( Read more... )

I am posting this response to eclexys ' recent installment of a series of posts about the movie Kick Ass.  I feel the need to post comments that are long.  I am not sure why I do this.

I have to correct you on the "Superman fighting the KKK" thing.  Superman did fight the KKK in one of the radio serials.  The episode used real passwords and other inside ( Read more... )

I have been hitting the gym for three weeks.  I have also been on a half-assed diet.  The diet most revolves around better timing of meals, no simple sugars, and eating less.

I have also changed my exercise routine.  I am putting more emphasis on developing muscle tissue (bigger muscles consume more calories).  I am also  using the incline on the ( Read more... )

We had the last paintball game of the season on Sunday.  Some people came down from Uljin and we had a smallish group of 13 people.  It was a really good group and although it was the first time for many people we had some evenly match teams with skilled players.  I find that I am getting banged up less and less each day.  I also had one of my ( Read more... )

Koreans almost never have tattoos.  So I was surprised when spring rolled in and students started wearing short sleeve shirts.  I noticed one student with a tattooed peaking out from each sleeve.  I asked him to show it to me and he revealed this burley tattoo:


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