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The Planetbreaker’s Son by Nick Mamatas gordsellar.com/2022/10/06/the…
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The Home Brewer’s Guide to Vintage Beer by Ron Pattison gordsellar.com/2022/10/04/the…
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Mammoths of the Great Plains by Eleanor Arnason gordsellar.com/2022/10/01/mam…
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To be fair, lots of Korean webpages work even badly for Koreans using them. Trust me, I’ve heard the complaints, especially about gov’t webpages. (I hear it from the next room at least once a week.)
But I’d still prefer “works badly” over “doesn’t work at all for *you* people.” I suspect it’d be very easy to make this stuff work for everyone, if anyone actually cared enough to spend the a few minutes fixing these “problems.” Nobody bothers, because nobody cares… or maybe some see this as how it should be, I don’t know. It’s aggggggggravating.
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The other day I was trying to submit a notice of address change to the government via the hikorea website. Had to call to find out that it only works with Windows. (No popup, nothing.)
The clerk admitted that this is a “big problem” but it’s not getting fixed. I thought she was joking at first: wasn’t era of Windows-only over? Nope. I visited the site and noticed that it displays really badly (broken all over) in Internet Explorer, but displays okay in Chrome.But the “application system” only works in IE. (?!?!?)
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If they would, for example, let us just have a Hangeul spelling for our names, it would fix it. But no, your ID must match your name as it is in your passport. But our system is built only to accommodate short names.
Got a long name by Korean standards? Too bad for you. You’re also constantly having to guess which browser/OS this or that site’s designer decided would be the one browser that the site works in, because they don’t even bother to detect other browsers and show a popup warning about it. Like, is that too much like hard work? Really?
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But more crucially, non-Koreans who live here have plenty of other digital divide stuff to deal with. Like how many websites don’t work with ARC numbers (when they easily could). Or how often sites are designed only to work in one browser (or one browser on one OS only). Dealing with an ARC, you’re literally having to guess how many letters of your name are in the system. SELLARGORDONA? SELLARGORDONALE? The whole thing? Spaces? No spaces? It’s never the same between sites. Keep guessing, foreigner! It’s frustrating to no end.
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Of course, as Juwon says, if you live here you should maybe get used to using local apps, even if they suck. (I use Naver Maps, but find it absurd how entering a complete address gets me nothing, while entering the right chunk of the address works, for example.) (For comparison, Google Maps doesn’t choke on full addresses. I just input the entire address from my family’s old house back home and bing, the location popped up just as easily as if I’d only given the relevant bit of the address.)
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It’s nice to see a Korean talking about what foreign nationals here have been saying for years. https://t.co/jgpvx8O7X5 (And Juwon is spot-on about the Galagosization of most apps in Korea. Anytime someone talks about Korea being a “hub of _____ in Asia” I just think about how, yeah, no, visitors can’t do ANYTHING on a global app, and the local apps are not a reasonable option for most of them.)
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@JustinHowe Honestly, it really tends to vary on a major-by-major basis. I’d take Biotech students over Mechanical Engineering any day. I’ve enjoyed Korean Lit and visual art majors, and felt like a dentist when trying to teach music or law majors. Probably varies from campus to campus too. @JustinHowe (Other places I’ve worked, sports-related majors were pretty hard to engage. Where I am now, there’s a sports-related management major where they to need passable English skills just to get into the department, so they’re less daunted and more willing to take part.)
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Modern Jazz Voicings: Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles by Ted Pease and Ken Pullig gordsellar.com/2022/09/30/mod…
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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel by Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić gordsellar.com/2022/09/28/dic…
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@tweetsbymoi @thewaegukin A big breakup, YT breakup drama, post-breakup drama, channel custody drama, pet custody drama, pet health fundraiser. I only heard of it because one day I was like, “I wonder what happened to those jackasses…” and seeing a little of it, I backed away, overwhelmed by it all. @tweetsbymoi @thewaegukin Or… this is what I remember. I literally don’t care and noped out after the first video I saw of theirs many years ago, so whatever the reality was could have morphed melded with something else in my brain. 🙂
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@jeremiahtolbert Yeah, pretty much. Though I did like Jim Baker’s The Cunning Man’s Handbook https://t.co/VLhV891u9i and Owen Davies’ book on Grimoires: https://t.co/Khp2V2mWn7
Probably the more academic approach and the historical side of it makes it more interesting. @jeremiahtolbert Or, like, Frances Yates’ The Art of Memory:press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
… which is sort of magic-adjacent with some con man nonsense and lots of weirdness all mashed together. Way more of the weirdness I look for…
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Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure& Folk Magic From Appalachia by Jake Richards gordsellar.com/2022/09/26/bac…
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Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes by Ian Brennan gordsellar.com/2022/09/24/mus…
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui gordsellar.com/2022/09/22/the…
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@Freeirony @iampaulkerry Sadly you’re probably mostly right… except that I don’t think it’s as sustainable as the people calling the shots think it is. (Long COVID estimates vary wildly, but it’s going to add up over time. And strain our medical systems in utterly crazy ways. It already is.) @Freeirony @iampaulkerry But really it’s just, for me, that hearing people say “endemic” means a bunch of things (like milder, fewer cases, under control) that it doesn’t necessarily mean at all (and is unlikely to mean with this particular virus) is driving me round the bend.
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@iampaulkerry The analogy is flawed, though, since people tend not to die of prediabetes the way they do of diabetes, whereas people die or are sickened by COVID just as much in pandemic as in endemic phases. (Endemic just does it in a slower and more protracted way, right?) @iampaulkerry I probably would feel differently if I didn’t get the sense that “endemic” is being bandied about as a reason to go back to drinking water straight from the Broad Street Pump, as Neoliberal John Snow’s parody account would put it:
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