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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... )

As someone from Chicago, I find that rightwing commentators are out of line when they celibrate Chicago losing the olympics.  In fact its outright offensive.

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Its been a busy couple of months.  Last month I took a dive trip to Jeju with Casey and Josh. We really lucked out with the weather this time and we rented scooters and putzed around the island.  It was nice to go with other people this time.  The diving was good but the visiblity was a bit crap.  The same German Kyopo gal was there helping ralph ( Read more... )

30in30 this year was a lost cause. It was sort of doomed from the beginning as I was so very busy this year. Between hours and hours of overtime, trips to Dokdo, and paintball, it was never very realistic ( Read more... )

Originally I grew up around the Chicago land area.  We have a long history of gangsters, conartists, and other ne'erdowells in the city's history.  We also have a long history that features a bloat and suffocating political machine that most people usually think of as being part of New York history, Boss Tweed and all that.

Don't forget that we are ( Read more... )

I have never done well with heat. Chicago used to torture me with oppressive humidity in the summer despite winters that often reached below zero. Flagstaff was the only place I looked forward to summer with summers that never went above 80 F and almost no humidity. It was the only place that I have ever lived without air conditioning and was ( Read more... )

I made a video of my Fugu dinner from last week.  In case you were curious, this is likely how Fernandez met his untimely end.

What happened to MySpace?  I got dragged kicking and screaming onto it because all my friends from Chicago got on it while I was in Flagstaff, and now it is almost a ghost town.  Maybe everyone hs better things to do than ( Read more... )

I am going to Spain in about a week in a half. The 23rd I flyout of Phoenix for Madrid! I am very excited. It probably isnt helping that I bought a Lonely Planet book for Madrid and Andalucia and have been studying them intensively.

I am still trying to figure out what to do with that time between when the program ends (June 30th.) and when I ( Read more... )